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Bembenutty, Hefer – College Student Journal, 2009
The present study examined the relationship between college students' willingness to delay gratification, motivation, self-regulation of learning, and their level of test anxiety (N = 364). Academic delay of gratification refers to students' postponement of immediately available opportunities to satisfy impulses in favor of pursuing academic…
Descriptors: Delay of Gratification, Self Efficacy, Incentives, Student Motivation
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Bembenutty, Hefer – Teaching of Psychology, 2008
Wilbert J. McKeachie has been the president of the American Psychological Association (APA), the American Association of Higher Education, the American Psychological Foundation, the Division of Educational and School Psychology of the International Association of Applied Psychology, and APA's Divisions 2 and 15. He received his PhD at the…
Descriptors: Discovery Processes, Learning Strategies, Teacher Educators, Educational Psychology
Bembenutty, Hefer; McKeachie, Wilbert J.; Karabenick, Stuart A.; Lin, Yi-Guang – 1998
The detrimental effects of test anxiety on knowledge acquisition as well as performance can occur by interfering with students' motivational tendencies and the use of effective cognitive and learning strategies. A promising conceptual approach to the constellation of student characteristics that may moderate the effects of test anxiety is…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Learning, Learning Strategies
Bembenutty, Hefer; McKeachie, Wilbert J.; Lin, Yi-Guang – 2000
The ability to delay gratification among learners could serve as an effective learning strategy useful to diminish the detrimental effect of test anxiety. Academic delay of gratification refers to students' postponement of immediately available opportunities to satisfy impulses in favor of pursuing chosen important academic rewards or goals that…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Delay of Gratification, Higher Education