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Amos Jeng; Hannah Valdiviejas; Michelle Perry – Grantee Submission, 2022
"Online social presence" -- the degree to which individuals project their identities and personalities into a web-based community -- plays an essential role in fostering a connected and satisfying learning environment. The present study's aim was to explore gender differences in behaviors related to social presence in an online course.…
Descriptors: Path Analysis, Gender Differences, Online Courses, Computer Mediated Communication
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Rathi, Neerpal; Lee, Kidong – International Journal of Learning and Change, 2018
The concept of core self-evaluations has been extensively investigated in Western and European countries, nonetheless its implications in Asian countries remains relatively unexplored. To void this gap, the current study investigated the association of core self-evaluations with worry, life satisfaction, and psychological well-being among South…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Life Satisfaction, Well Being
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Verhaeghen, Paul; Trani, Alexandra N.; Aikman, Shelley N. – Creativity Research Journal, 2017
This study on 138 undergraduate students used path analysis to investigate the relationship between creativity (interest, measured by a creative activities survey; and ability: fluency, originality, and elaboration) and different aspects of thought patterns presumed to influence the preparation and illumination phase of the creative process:…
Descriptors: Creativity, Path Analysis, Undergraduate Students, Correlation
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Ortega-Maldonado, Alberto; Salanova, Marisa – Teaching in Higher Education, 2018
This study explores the predictive relationships between psychological capital (PsyCap), meaning-focused coping, satisfaction and performance among undergraduate students. Six hundred and eighty two (n = 682) college students from 29 different academic programmes completed an academic well-being survey, which included measures of PsyCap, coping…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Well Being, Coping, Intervention
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Chue, Kah Loong; Nie, Youyan – Journal of International Students, 2016
Psychological factors contribute to motivation and learning for international students as much as teaching strategies. 254 international students and 144 local students enrolled in a private education institute were surveyed regarding their perception of psychological needs support, their motivation and learning approach. The results from this…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Comparative Analysis, Student Attitudes, Student Motivation
Leung, Man-Tak; Wong, Ka-Yin – Australian Association for Research in Education, 2013
The present study aims to examine the mediating effects of achievement emotions between action control and learning strategies. Two hundreds and twenty-six undergraduates (125 males and 101 females) participated to complete a questionnaire consisting of three scales. To analyze the data, path analyses and structural equation modeling were used.…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Learning Strategies, Structural Equation Models, Path Analysis
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Calogero, Rachel M.; Pina, Afroditi – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2011
Two studies investigated body guilt (i.e., feeling regret and remorse over how the body looks and a desire for reparative action to "fix" the body) within the framework of objectification theory among predominantly White British undergraduate women. In Study 1 (N = 225), participants completed self-report measures of interpersonal sexual…
Descriptors: Evidence, Females, Self Concept, Anxiety
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Papantoniou, Georgia; Moraitou, Despina; Katsadima, Effie; Dinou, Magda – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2010
Introduction: The present study examined the effect of action control (i.e., disengagement, initiative, and persistence) and dispositional hope (i.e., pathways thought, and agency thinking) on self-regulated learning strategy use (i.e., cognitive, metacognitive, and resource management) and course achievement. Method: A total of 275 undergraduate…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Academic Persistence, Learning Strategies, Measures (Individuals)
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Zalta, Alyson K.; Chambless, Dianne L. – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2008
A multivariate model was developed to examine the relative contributions of mastery, stress, interpretive bias, and coping to sex differences in worry. Rumination was incorporated as a second outcome variable to test the specificity of these associations. Participants included two samples of undergraduates totaling 302 men and 379 women. A path…
Descriptors: Females, Path Analysis, Gender Differences, Depression (Psychology)