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Heng, Shupeng; Yang, Ming; Zou, Bing; Li, Yongzhan; Castaño, Gloria – Psychology in the Schools, 2020
This study examined the relationship between teaching-research conflict and job burnout among university teachers and the moderating role of perceived supervisor support (PSS) and psychological capital (PsyCap) in this relationship. Using a cross-sectional design, data were collected from a convenience sample of 488 university teachers in China.…
Descriptors: Teacher Researchers, Teacher Burnout, College Faculty, Supervisor Supervisee Relationship
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Hastings, Lindsay J.; McElravy, L. J. – Journal of Leadership Education, 2020
Considering the substantial upcoming transfer of leadership to younger generations, it is critical to study the unique trait, skill, and behavioral associations of youth leaders. The purpose of this two-phase study was to quantitatively examine the relationship between positive psychological capacities (PsyCap), personality, and empathy with…
Descriptors: Leadership, Skills, Predictor Variables, Youth
Tyler James Fowler – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this study was to examine military mobility as it relates to the education and academic performance of elementary school children of active-duty military service members. There are an estimated 1.5 million military dependents from ages 0-18. Nearly 35% of these dependents (521,930) are elementary-aged students between six and eleven…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Military Personnel, Psychological Characteristics, Academic Achievement
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Gwendoline Desquenne Godfrey; Naomi Downes; Emilie Cappe – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
This article aims to review the literature on family functioning in the field of autism. The search was conducted in August 2021 in PubMed, PsycINFO, and PubPsy and sixty-two articles were included. Studies were published in English between 1980 and 2021 and provided quantitative data from validated measures of family functioning in families with…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Family Relationship, Children, Autism Spectrum Disorders
Brennan, Aislinn; O'Grady, Maeve – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2022
The funding model for further education and training (FET) in the Republic of Ireland currently describes provider and learner success in narrow quantifiable terms as captured on the national Programme Learner Support System (PLSS). FET practitioners have grappled with the restrictive rigidity of these outcomes and measures of success for adult…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Psychological Characteristics, Educational Policy
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Morris, Roseanne; Hoelterhoff, Mark; Argyros, Georgios – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2023
Background: Studies show that student mental health has continued to deteriorate over the years. Developing strengths-based approaches could aid educators in the development of Psychological Capital (PsyCap) and positive protective factors in students to support their mental well-being and aid in their success; however, little is known of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, College Students, COVID-19
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Kimathi, Eric; Nilsen, Ann Christin Eklund – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2023
Early intervention and integration are highly valued ideals in kindergartens in Norway. Building on two research projects informed by institutional ethnography, the authors address how kindergarten teachers 'do' early intervention and integration in their everyday work. They argue that this work largely revolves around managing categories, whether…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Intervention, Integrated Curriculum, At Risk Students
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Martínez, Isabel M.; Youssef-Morgan, Carolyn M.; Chambel, Maria J.; Marques-Pinto, Alexandra – Educational Psychology, 2019
This study investigates the relationship between academic engagement, psychological capital (PsyCap) resources (efficacy, hope, optimism, resilience) and academic performance. Data were collected in two different universities, one in Spain (N = 389) and another in Portugal (N = 243). Undergraduate students completed self-report questionnaires…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Predictor Variables, Psychological Patterns, Correlation
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Luthans, Kyle W.; Luthans, Brett C.; Chaffin, T. Daniel – Journal of Management Education, 2019
Recent popular and academic attention is being given to the role that grit plays in important student outcomes. While gritty individuals are more likely to engage in deliberate practice and maintain commitment in the face of setbacks, what remains unclear are the cognitive processes linking grit and academic performance. Identifying the cognitive…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Academic Achievement, Psychological Patterns, Grade Point Average
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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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Stoet, Gijsbert – Teaching of Psychology, 2017
This article reviews PsyToolkit, a free web-based service designed for setting up, running, and analyzing online questionnaires and reaction-time (RT) experiments. It comes with extensive documentation, videos, lessons, and libraries of free-to-use psychological scales and RT experiments. It provides an elaborate interactive environment to use (or…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Reaction Time, Experiments, Psychological Studies
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Nielsen, Ingrid; Newman, Alexander; Smyth, Russell; Hirst, Giles; Heilemann, Barbara – Studies in Higher Education, 2017
The influence of instructor support, family support and psychological capital (PsyCap) on the subjective well-being of postgraduate business students, including whether PsyCap mediates the proposed support--well-being relationship were examined in this study. It was further investigated whether family support moderates this proposed mediated…
Descriptors: Family Influence, Teacher Influence, Psychological Characteristics, Social Capital
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Almahaireh, Abdallah Salem Farhan; Aldalaeen, Anas Saleh Rabi; Takhaineh, Suhib Khaled Ahmad – International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling, 2018
The purpose of this study was to investigate the efficacy of a preventive counseling program for improving psychological hardiness (PsyH) and the positive use of social network sites (SNSs). The sample consisted of 30 students from Mu'tah University in Jordan who were randomly assigned into either an experimental group (15) or a control group…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Counseling, Prevention, Resilience (Psychology)
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Prasath, Priscilla Rose; Lim, Alex Lian Sheng; Steen, Sam – Journal for Specialists in Group Work, 2022
The United States remains the top host of international college students globally. Within the counseling literature, international college students' acculturative experiences and characteristics are often studied through the lens of the medical model. This gap lends itself to opportunities for a paradigm shift in group counseling practice to…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, College Students, Social Support Groups, Group Counseling
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Hsu, Michael L. A.; Chen, Forrence Hsinhung – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2017
Organizational innovation climates have been found to be effective predictors of employee creativity and organizational innovation. As such, climate assessments provide a basis for useful organizational interventions in enhancing creativity and innovation. Researchers now call for better articulation of the motivational mechanisms that link social…
Descriptors: Psychological Characteristics, Human Capital, Innovation, Employees
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