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Milková, Eva; Kaliba, Martin; Ambrožová, Petra – Journal on Efficiency and Responsibility in Education and Science, 2022
The main purpose of the presented study is to explore the existing risk of Internet addiction for undergraduate students of Czech universities. The research was conducted as quantitative research; a CIAS-R questionnaire was applied. The data were collected in the years just before the Covid-19 pandemic (between October 2019 and March 2020). 3,366…
Descriptors: Internet, Addictive Behavior, Risk, Undergraduate Students
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Mills, Lindsey – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2020
Recent data reveal that nearly half of all full-time undergraduate students in the U.S. are employed, which means balancing competing responsibilities related to work, school, family, and social lives. The purpose of this pilot interview study was to understand the experiences of full-time college students who work at least 30 h per week. Four…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Student Responsibility, Student Employment, Full Time Students
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Amponsah, Samuel; Kumi-Yeboah, Alex; Adjapong, Stephen O.; Omorogie, Chris Olusola – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2020
There are full-time employed graduate students who undertake full-time studies at universities in other countries but there is minimal documentation of such engagements in Ghana. This study explored the coping experiences of full-time workers who are pursuing full-time graduate studies in a Ghana higher institution. Purposeful sampling was…
Descriptors: Coping, Graduate Students, Full Time Students, Student Employment
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Peterson, Sally – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2016
This study of community college student-parents used interpretive phenomenological analysis of interview data contributed by 15 participants from three Mountain West Community Colleges. The participants qualified by the following criteria: had delayed college entrance by 2 years or more, had a child not yet in kindergarten, were full-time students…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Academic Persistence, Phenomenology, Nontraditional Students
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Mercer, Jenny; Clay, James; Etheridge, Leanne – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2016
Engaging in term-time employment appears to be becoming a common feature of contemporary UK student life. This study examined the ways in which a cohort of full-time non-traditional aged students negotiated paid employment whilst pursuing a full-time higher education course in Wales. Taking a qualitative approach to explore this further,…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Students, Student Employment, Full Time Students, Qualitative Research
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MacCann, Carolyn; Fogarty, Gerard J.; Roberts, Richard D. – Learning and Individual Differences, 2012
This paper examines relationships between the Big Five personality factors, time management, and grade-point-average in 556 community colleges students. A path model controlling for vocabulary, gender, and demographic covariates demonstrated that time management mediates the relationship between conscientiousness and students' academic achievement…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Time Management, Personality
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Hui-fen, Zhou; Zhen-shan, Li; Dong-qian, Xue; Yang, Lei – Social Indicators Research, 2012
The Chinese government conducted its first time use survey of the activities of Chinese individuals in 2008. Activities were classified into three broad types, maintenance activities, subsistence activities and leisure activities. Time use patterns were defined by an individuals' time spent on maintenance, subsistence and leisure activities each…
Descriptors: Employment Level, Maintenance, Leisure Time, Income
Babcock, Philip S.; Marks, Mindy – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2010
Using multiple datasets from different time periods, we document declines in academic time investment by full-time college students in the United States between 1961 and 2003. Full-time students allocated 40 hours per week toward class and studying in 1961, whereas by 2003 they were investing about 27 hours per week. Declines were extremely…
Descriptors: College Students, Full Time Students, Time Management, Change