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Sherman Vernon – ProQuest LLC, 2021
In my journey of teen and young adult growth (junior high up to college) I have always had a vision and a plan to achieve goals. The reason I had goals is because I had an awareness of who I was and what I wanted to do with my life. When I started having children, I taught to them the things that I was taught to understand, recognize, and…
Descriptors: Self Esteem, Goal Orientation, Objectives, Ability
Fawn Gordon – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between perceived social support and collective self-esteem among women. To carry out this study, a national sample of 329 women completed the Multidimensional Social Support Scale (containing three subscales), the Collective Self-esteem Scale (containing four subscales), and a demographic…
Descriptors: Females, Social Support Groups, Self Esteem, Individual Characteristics
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Shurtz, Logan; Schwartz, Chloe; DiStefano, Charlotte; McPartland, James C.; Levin, April R.; Dawson, Geraldine; Kleinhans, Natalia M.; Faja, Susan; Webb, Sara J.; Shic, Frederick; Naples, Adam J.; Seow, Helen; Bernier, Raphael A.; Chawarska, Katarzyna; Sugar, Catherine A.; Dziura, James; Senturk, Damla; Santhosh, Megha; Jeste, Shafali S. – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2023
Children with autism spectrum disorder are prescribed various medications to address behavior and mood. In clinical trials, individuals taking concomitant psychotropic medications often are excluded to maintain homogeneity and prevent contamination of clinical endpoints. However, this choice may compromise the representativeness of the sample. In…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Drug Therapy, Incidence, Child Behavior
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Guilfoyle, Janna; Winston, Molly; Sideris, John; Martin, Gary E.; Nayar, Kritika; Bush, Lauren; Wassink, Tom; Losh, Molly – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2023
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD), a heritable neurodevelopmental disorder, confers genetic liability that is often expressed among relatives through subclinical, genetically-meaningful traits, or endophenotypes. For instance, relative to controls, parents of individuals with ASD differ in language-related skills, with differences emerging in…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Genetic Disorders, Siblings, Individual Characteristics
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Jung, Yunkyung; Choi, Sunha – Health Education & Behavior, 2023
Background: Receiving timely health screening is associated with important public health benefits among older adults. By focusing on the role of social relationships, the present study was aimed at examining longitudinal trajectories of health screening use among older adults in Korea, whose universal health care system provides free-of-charge…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Older Adults, Interpersonal Relationship, Social Influences
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Walstad, William B.; Wagner, Jamie – Journal of Economic Education, 2023
The authors of this study investigate the likely influence of required or voluntary financial education on the saving behaviors of U.S. adults. They compare the results for three groups defined by different life experiences with financial education (required, voluntary, and none). Probit models estimate the effects of financial education on four…
Descriptors: Money Management, Financial Education, Adults, Behavior
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Feraco, Tommaso; Casali, Nicole; Meneghetti, Chiara – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2023
Adaptability (adjustment to new and uncertain situations) and grit (perseverance and passion for long-term goals) both sustain students, but their joint contribution has never been explored, and recent studies propose they could compose a single factor. In this study we aim to test whether (1) they actually belong to a single overarching factor as…
Descriptors: Students, Young Adults, Adolescents, Resilience (Psychology)
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Yang, Lixin; Yang, Guang – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2023
Farmer education and learning have traditionally focused on developing practical farming skills and techniques. Meanwhile, studies on farmer learning and education have not adequately considered its social cognitive dimension. Hence, this study empirically examines farmers' perceptions of and interest in distance learning, involving 1284…
Descriptors: Prediction, Disadvantaged, Agricultural Occupations, Intention
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Rahman, Asif Ali; Bockarie, Abu – International Journal of Training Research, 2023
Most organizations view training and development as a fundamental part of human resource development. While training and development aim at changing the knowledge, skills and attitudes of a trainee resulting in a positive change in behaviour, transfer of training is deemed as a major problem in the transfer of knowledge, skills and attitudes from…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Employees, Job Training, Individual Characteristics
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Giannouchos, Theodoros V.; Beverly, Judith; Christodoulou, Ilias; Callaghan, Timothy – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2023
We analyzed the Healthcare Cost and Utilization State Emergency Department (ED) Databases and State Inpatient Databases for all individuals who were 2 years of age or older with at least one ED visit from 2011 to 2016 in New York to estimate the association between suicide and non-fatal injury-related ED visits and autism spectrum disorder (ASD).…
Descriptors: Suicide, Self Destructive Behavior, Hospitals, Autism Spectrum Disorders
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Harwell, Todd A.; Low, Russanne; Mattheis, Allison; Riedinger, Kelly; Fischer, Heather – International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 2023
Citizen science, a field and practice that commonly involves 'non experts' engaging in scientific activities, is an avenue of science engagement that commonly results in increased scientific knowledge, literacy, and skills for the volunteers that participate. In recent years there have been increasing efforts to better understand the myriad…
Descriptors: LGBTQ People, Citizen Participation, Volunteers, Self Concept
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Schwertner, Carolina; Silva, Caroline Dias da; Grando, Débora; Hilgert, Juliana Balbinot; Hashizume, Lina Naomi – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2023
The aim of this study was to investigate the oral health status and quality of life (QOL) of the parental caregivers of individuals with Down syndrome (DS), and to evaluate whether there is an association between these variables. The sample of this cross-sectional study was composed by parental caregivers of children with DS (CCDS) and parental…
Descriptors: Dental Health, Quality of Life, Parents, Down Syndrome
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Yildiz Durak, Hatice; Saritepeci, Mustafa; Durak, Aykut – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2023
Computational thinking skill is one of the basic skills required for every individual, such as reading and writing. For the development of CT, programming education is seen as the key. In the context of programming and CT relationship, it is very important to model individual characteristics and various affective variables with a holistic approach…
Descriptors: Computation, Thinking Skills, Programming, Individual Characteristics
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Hankerson, Shenika; Williams, Olivia – International Journal of Mentoring and Coaching in Education, 2023
Purpose: This study examined the characteristics of research mentors that successfully support underrepresented racially minoritized undergraduate (URMU) students in education research. Design/methodology/approach: An exploratory case study approach was employed to gain insight into the characteristics. The data sources used to inform this study…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Minority Group Students, Race, Disproportionate Representation
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Sternberg, Robert J.; Ghahremani, Mehdi; Ehsan, Hoda – Roeper Review, 2023
Myside bias, a form of confirmation bias, is a major impediment to scientific thinking. It results in scientists, potential scientists, and consumers of science drawing conclusions that do not follow from data but rather that follow from prior scientific, ideological beliefs. Gifted people are at least as susceptible to these biases as are other…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Ideology, Bias, Gifted
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