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Evans, Paul; Martin, Andrew J.; Ivcevic, Zorana – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2018
With a growing interest in well-being as an outcome of schooling, there is an increased need for research on how to enable it in students' academic lives. This study examined personality and coping strategies as predictors of students' well-being outcomes at school using structural equation modelling. Students (N = 328) completed measures of…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Coping, Well Being, Stress Variables
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Martin, Andrew J. – School Psychology Quarterly, 2014
Students with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) experience significant academic difficulties that can lead to numerous negative academic consequences. With a focus on adverse academic outcomes, this study seeks to disentangle variance attributable to ADHD from variance attributable to salient personal and contextual covariates.…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, School Size, Socioeconomic Status, Academic Achievement
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Ginns, Paul; Martin, Andrew J.; Marsh, Herbert W. – Educational Psychology Review, 2013
This article reviews research on the effects of conversational style on learning. Studies of conversational style have variously investigated "personalization" through changing instances of first-person address to second or third person, including sentences that directly address the learner; including more polite forms of address; and…
Descriptors: Language Styles, Meta Analysis, Models, Learning Processes
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Martin, Andrew J.; Marsh, Herbert W. – Oxford Review of Education, 2009
"Academic resilience" refers to a student's capacity to overcome acute or chronic adversities that are seen as major assaults on educational processes. Although intersecting with highly vulnerable and important populations, academic resilience does not map onto the many students who are faced with setbacks, challenges and pressures that are part…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Learning Processes, Academic Achievement, Guidelines
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Martin, Andrew J.; Marsh, Herbert W. – Psychology in the Schools, 2006
This study examines educational and psychological correlates of academic resilience using within-network and between-network validity approaches. Based on a sample of 402 Australian high-school students, a newly developed unidimensional academic resilience construct found within-network validity by way of sound item and factor properties. In terms…
Descriptors: Psychology, Academic Persistence, Validity, Self Efficacy