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Vega-Gómez, Francisco I.; Miranda González, Francisco J.; Chamorro Mera, Antonio; Pérez-Mayo, Jesus – SAGE Open, 2020
The promotion of academic entrepreneurship through the creation of university spin-offs (USOs) as a transfer system has been enhanced during the last two decades. This commitment of universities and public policy makers has been based mainly on the use of investments of public funds in universities and the capacity for such investments to create…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Intention, College Faculty, Personality Traits
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Ofole, Ndidi Mercy – Open Learning, 2022
A descriptive survey design was adopted to investigate the relationship that exists amongst locus of control, work engagement, organisational reward system, job satisfaction and social loafing among the staff of distance learning programme in South-western Nigeria. Four hundred and forty-seven (males = 184; females = 263) learners support staff…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Open Universities, Gender Differences
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Jaber, Lindsey S.; Rinaldi, Christina M.; Saunders, Cory D.; Scott, Jesse – Contemporary School Psychology, 2023
An expanded Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB; Ajzen, "Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes" 50:179-211, 1991, Ajzen, "Journal of Applied Social Psychology" 32:665-683, 2002) which incorporates affective, moral, and personal belief variables with Ajzen's original social, behavioural, and cognitive factors has not…
Descriptors: Bullying, Junior High School Students, Student Behavior, Victims
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Cameron A. Hecht; Mary C. Murphy; Carol S. Dweck; Christopher J. Bryan; Kali H. Trzesniewski; Fortunato N. Medrano; Matt Giani; Pratik Mhatre; David S. Yeager – npj Science of Learning, 2023
Educational outcomes remain highly unequal within and across nations. Students' mindsets--their beliefs about whether intellectual abilities can be developed--have been identified as a potential lever for making adolescents' academic outcomes more equitable. Recent research, however, suggests that intervention programs aimed at changing students'…
Descriptors: Adolescents, World Views, Equal Education, Global Approach
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Orom, Heather; Schofield, Elizabeth; Kiviniemi, Marc T.; Waters, Erika A.; Hay, Jennifer L. – Health Education Journal, 2021
Background: Avoiding health information is relatively common and is associated with lower knowledge of health risks and lower engagement in protective health behaviour. Health information avoidance likely limits the effectiveness of health communication interventions. Objective: To identify beliefs associated with avoiding health information.…
Descriptors: Risk, Health Behavior, Information Sources, Communications
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Nastasa, Monica; Golu, Florinda; Buruiana, Diana; Oprea, Bogdan – Educational Psychology, 2021
The first objective of this study was to investigate the association between work-home interaction (a process in which functioning in one of the two domains is positively or negatively influenced by the other domain) and teachers' life satisfaction. The second objective was to test the moderating role of teachers' core-self evaluations…
Descriptors: Family Work Relationship, Correlation, Life Satisfaction, Well Being
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Saclarides, Evthokia Stephanie – Journal of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, 2021
This interview study employs a distributed leadership perspective to explore three coach-principal dyads' perspectives on: (1) the strategies coaches use to gain entry to teachers' classrooms; (2) the barriers that impede coaches' access; and (3) the supports that facilitate coaches' access. Results indicate that the principals were largely…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Barriers, School Districts
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Waseem, Javeria; Asim, Muhammad – Journal of Education and Educational Development, 2020
This research computed the combined effects of self-esteem, self-efficacy, and locus of control as predictors of academic performance of students in different universities of Karachi by using the Regression model. Previous researches were correlational studies in nature and reported the moderate positive correlations between the variables…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Locus of Control, Predictor Variables, Academic Achievement
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Tentama, Fatwa; Abdussalam, Fakhri – Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2020
Internal locus of control is one of the factors related to vocational high school students' entrepreneurial intention. This study aimed to empirically test the relationship between internal locus of control and entrepreneurial intention on vocational high school students. The population in this study was all students of class XII at Vocational…
Descriptors: Locus of Control, Entrepreneurship, Intention, Vocational High Schools
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Fromuth, Mary Ellen; Bass, Jeffery E.; Kelly, David B.; Davis, Teresa L.; Chan, Kin Leong – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2019
The current study examined the relationship of academic entitlement with student attitudes (e.g., locus of control, motivation) and academic behavior. Participants were 272 (96 men, 176 women) undergraduate students enrolled in general psychology and recruited from a psychology research pool. In groups, participants individually completed a…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Expectation, Student Behavior, Correlation
Bates, Morris L. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Locus of control is a psychological attribute not often discussed in the community college setting. The purpose of this study sought to investigate the impact Locus of control and co-variates age, gender, ethnicity, enrollment status, and employment status had on community college student persistence. Study participants were First-year community…
Descriptors: Locus of Control, Academic Persistence, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students
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Cincera, Jan; Kroufek, Roman; Bogner, Franz X. – Environmental Education Research, 2023
The article presents findings from a Czech environmental literacy survey conducted in 2020 on a sample of 6th (N = 3773), 8th (N = 21518), and 9th graders (N = 4368). Specifically, the effect of environmental and sustainability education (ESE) as well as the effect of gender and age on environmental knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, place attachment,…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Sustainability, Multiple Literacies, Foreign Countries
Jack Webb, Beverly Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Nationwide, achievement data show an ongoing discrepancy between students based on race and ethnicity, with students of poverty at greatest risk. Research shows risk factors extend to students from low and high socioeconomic status but can be mitigated by protective factors. Review of literature supports studies that are asset-based and include…
Descriptors: African Americans, High School Graduates, High Achievement, Experience
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Katie Burke; Melissa Fanshawe – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2024
Higher education has seen a significant shift in the last two decades, with contemporary students representing more diverse cohorts who are increasingly balancing study alongside competing life-roles and responsibilities. Given the rise in student attrition and concerns regarding engagement, we saw a visible need to consider how our students could…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Locus of Control, College Students, Student Diversity
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Koops, Lisa Huisman; Kuebel, Christa R. – Research Studies in Music Education, 2021
The purpose of this exploratory study was to investigate the self-reported mental health state of US music majors. The participants (n = 252) completed a researcher-designed online survey, including questions regarding mental health literacy and the DASS-21 (Depression Anxiety Stress Scale). The survey also included three open-ended questions…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Mental Disorders, College Students, Music Education
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