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Direct linkDunston, Emily R.; Messina, Emily S.; Coelho, Alan J.; Chriest, Shelby N.; Waldrip, Martin P.; Vahk, Annika; Taylor, Katrina – Journal of American College Health, 2022
Objective: To determine the independent associations among physical activity, sitting, grit, and resilience in college students. Participants: Undergraduate students (n = 244) from a regional university participated in the study in January 2018. Methods: An online survey regarding physical activity, grit, and resilience was distributed via email.…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Physical Activities, Life Style, Persistence
Livingston, Paula – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this research study was to describe and develop an understanding of how female leaders lead in the current and transitional landscape of higher education, how they perceive and have utilized an entrepreneurial mindset and leadership characteristics, and how they have worked to achieve a delicate balance between feminine and…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Beliefs, Females, Leadership
Muhawenayo, Jacqueline; Habimana, Olivier; Heshmati, Almas – Journal of Education and Work, 2022
This paper investigates the extent to which proficiency in English and French as a form of human capital individually determine earnings in Rwanda's labour market and whether it still pays to be bilingual. Using data from the nationally representative Labour Force Survey conducted in 2018, our findings show that after controlling for other human…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Wages, Human Capital, Language Proficiency
Braithwaite Stuart, Laura; Jones, Catrin Hedd; Windle, Gill – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2022
Background: Cognitive-communication difficulties are often associated with dementia and can impact a person's ability to participate in meaningful conversations. This can create challenges to families, reflecting the reality that people living with dementia rarely have just one regular conversation partner, but interact with multiple family…
Descriptors: Dementia, Alzheimers Disease, Family Involvement, Family Role
MacQuarrie, Madison; McIsaac, Jessie-Lee D.; Cawley, Jane; Kirk, Sara F. L.; Kolen, Angela M.; Rehman, Laurene; Spencer, Rebecca A.; Stone, Michelle R. – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2022
Outdoor play with its risks is necessary for optimal child development. Increasing attention is being paid to factors influencing children's opportunities for risky outdoor play, with parent/guardian (hereafter parent) perceptions being an important, under-researched topic. This research explored parents' perceptions of preschoolers' risky outdoor…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Preschool Children, Risk, Play
Jaeger, Jordan; Chang, Chia-Lin; Stupnisky, Robert – Innovative Higher Education, 2022
University faculty have many responsibilities, including teaching and research, that call for long periods of work before a significant payoff. Grit, the passion and perseverance towards long term goals, may help explain why some faculty attain their goals more frequently than others. The goal of this study was to examine the role of grit and…
Descriptors: Counseling Psychology, College Faculty, Resilience (Psychology), Persistence
Darius A. Thomas – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study assesses the impact of cognitive and noncognitive pre-characteristics on college graduation in Tennessee. The State of Tennessee has applied multiple campus-based interventions at the Tennessee Board of Regents and the University System of Tennessee to increase graduation rates. This study is driven by three concepts and investigated by…
Descriptors: Individual Characteristics, Graduation Rate, Cognitive Processes, Public Colleges
Jocelyn Fletcher Scheuch – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This grounded theory study asks, among teachers who have had transformative professional experiences, what elements emerge to explain their transformational experience? The purpose of this study is to explain the elements which may foster individual teacher professional transformation at a rural New England school district. Participants are…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Rural Areas, School Districts, Secondary School Teachers
Lamberty, Gregory J. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Grit in student learning has emerged as a popular discussion topic related to the academic achievement and performance of students. The non-cognitive features of grit are similar to personality traits such as conscientiousness, perseverance, and self-efficacy. However, grit relies on extended passion and perseverance to achieve long-term goals.…
Descriptors: High School Teachers, High School Students, Teacher Attitudes, Low Achievement
Download full textV. Paul Poteat; Michael D. O'Brien; Megan K. Yang; Sarah B. Rosenbach; Arthur Lipkin – Grantee Submission, 2022
With growing attention to youth's efforts to address sexual and gender diversity issues in Gender-Sexuality Alliances (GSAs), there remains limited research on adult advisors. Do advisor characteristics predict their youth members' advocacy? Among 58 advisors of 38 GSAs, we considered whether advisor attributes predicted greater advocacy by youth…
Descriptors: Sexual Identity, Gender Issues, Advocacy, Mentors
V. Paul Poteat; Michael D. O'Brien; Megan K. Yang; Sarah B. Rosenbach; Arthur Lipkin – Applied Developmental Science, 2022
With growing attention to youth's efforts to address sexual and gender diversity issues in gender-sexuality alliances (GSAs), there remains limited research on adult advisors. Do advisor characteristics predict their youth members' advocacy? Among 58 advisors of 38 GSAs, we considered whether advisor attributes predicted greater advocacy by youth…
Descriptors: Sexual Identity, Gender Issues, Advocacy, Mentors
Nathan W. Whitmore; Adrianna M. Bassard; Ken A. Paller – npj Science of Learning, 2022
Face memory, including the ability to recall a person's name, is of major importance in social contexts. Like many other memory functions, it may rely on sleep. We investigated whether targeted memory reactivation during sleep could improve associative and perceptual aspects of face memory. Participants studied 80 face-name pairs, and then a…
Descriptors: Memory, Naming, Sleep, Recall (Psychology)
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
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
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
