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Morera, Yurena; León, José A.; Escudero, Inmaculada; de Vega, Manuel – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2017
Continuity and discontinuity are sometimes marked in discourse by means of connectives. This study tested for the first time whether causal and concessive connectives induce expectations of emotional continuity and discontinuity, respectively. Using a novel double-task paradigm, participants first listened to an antecedent clause with a causal or…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Psychology, Visual Stimuli
Çelik, Özkan; Bozdemir, Hafife; Uyanik, Gökhan – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2016
The purpose of this study is to develop an attitude scale for pre-service teachers towards drama lesson. Survey model was used in study. The sample of study consisted of 258 pre-service teachers. "Attitude scale towards drama lesson for pre-service teachers" was developed and used as data collection tool. Exploratory and confirmatory…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Drama, Factor Analysis, Statistical Analysis
Leslie, Celine; Hutchinson, Amanda D. – Higher Education Research and Development, 2018
This observational, cross-sectional study examined students' retrospective recall of emotional distress when studying sensitive topics in psychology, and whether hardiness had a mediated pathway to emotional distress through a mental health condition (MHC). Psychology undergraduates (155 women, 34 men) from South Australian universities completed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Stress Variables, Psychological Patterns
Soenens, Bart; Berzonsky, Michael D.; Papini, Dennis R. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2016
Although research suggests an interplay between identity development and self-esteem, most studies focused on the role of identity commitment and measured only level of self-esteem. This study examined longitudinal associations between Berzonsky's (2011) styles of identity exploration and two distinct features of self-esteem: level of self-esteem…
Descriptors: Self Esteem, Individual Development, Longitudinal Studies, Questionnaires
Goedert, Kelly M.; Ellefson, Michelle R.; Rehder, Bob – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2014
Individuals have difficulty changing their causal beliefs in light of contradictory evidence. We hypothesized that this difficulty arises because people facing implausible causes give greater consideration to causal alternatives, which, because of their use of a positive test strategy, leads to differential weighting of contingency evidence.…
Descriptors: Causal Models, Inferences, Beliefs, Attitude Change
Dasinger, Jacob Arthur – Journal of Developmental Education, 2013
This research examined differences in causal attributions and an exam score in a developmental mathematics course based on student classification: traditional, minimally nontraditional, moderately nontraditional, and highly nontraditional as well as grade and gender among nontraditional students. Statistical analysis revealed significant…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Remedial Mathematics, Student Characteristics, Gender Differences
Zohri, Abdelaziz – English Language Teaching, 2011
This paper reports a study that sought to investigate Moroccan university learners' perceptions of failure. 333 subjects studying English at university ranked their perceptions of failure in a Causal Attribution Scale of University Failure (CASUF). The results show that Moroccan learners attribute their failure to teachers' attitude, effort,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Academic Failure, Gender Differences
Robinson, A. Emanuel; Sloman, Steven A.; Hagmayer, York; Hertzog, Christopher K. – Journal of Problem Solving, 2010
The role of causal beliefs in people's decisions when faced with economic problems was investigated. Two experiments are reported that vary the causal structure in prisoner's dilemma-like economic situations. We measured willingness to cooperate or defect and collected justifications and think-aloud protocols to examine the strategies that people…
Descriptors: Causal Models, Beliefs, Problem Solving, Economics