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Noona Kiuru; Dawn DeLay; Katja Tervahartiala; Juho Polet; Riikka Hirvonen – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2024
Background and Aims: Peer relationships during adolescence play an important role in shaping academic outcomes. The present study examined friend influences on emotions towards math, as well as the role of temperament in these influences. Sample: The sample consisted of 350 Finnish students (mean age 13.29 years; 64% girls) who were involved in…
Descriptors: Friendship, Peer Influence, Psychological Patterns, Student Attitudes
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Roemer, Lena; Lechner, Clemens M.; Rammstedt, Beatrice – Journal of Intelligence, 2022
The Big Five personality traits are established predictors of school grades. However, the mechanisms underlying these associations are not yet well understood. Effects of personality on grades might arise because behavioral tendencies facilitate learning and increase subject-specific competencies. Alternatively, personality effects on grades might…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 7, Grade 9, Personality Traits
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Kostas A. Fanti; Ioannis Mavrommatis; Andraya Whittaker – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2024
The objective of the study was to examine how distinct psychopathic traits, including callous-unemotional (CU) traits, impulsivity and narcissism, as well as family, school and friend social support are longitudinally associated with cyberbullying and cyber-victimization. Associations were investigated by employing a four-year longitudinal design…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Individual Characteristics, Correlation, Bullying
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Lane, Julie; Therriault, Danyka; Dupuis, Audrey; Gosselin, Patrick; Smith, Jonathan; Ziam, Saliha; Roy, Mathieu; Roberge, Pasquale; Drapeau, Marti; Morin, Pascale; Berrigan, Felix; Thibault, Isabelle; Dufour, Magali – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2022
Background: Several studies conducted since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic have shown its harmful effects on young people's mental health. In Québec and Canada, few studies have focussed on adolescents, and even fewer of these studies have examined this subject using a methodology that involved comparisons of data obtained before and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Adolescents
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Semra Ayata; Gorkem Oylumluoglu; Muhammet M. Alpaslan – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2024
Energy literacy has become acritical issue in recent years. The purpose of this study was to examine the contributions of epistemological beliefs to energy literacy in lower-secondary school students in Turkey. Data were collected via self-report questionnaires from 656 lower-secondary school students in the Aegean Region of Turkey. To address the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Energy, Student Attitudes
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Sundberg, Bodil; Andersson, Magdalena – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2023
Learning about evolution can be challenging for students, as a full understanding may require them to see the world in new ways, to master a disciplinary language and to understand complex processes. Drawing on a long line of theoretically grounded arguments of philosophers and researchers for including wonder in science teaching, we report on the…
Descriptors: Evolution, Science Education, Student Interests, Scientific Concepts
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Xiaoyong Hu; Wanyi Li; Xingyu Geng; Li Zhao – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2024
Background: Creativity is one of the key competencies for the talent of the 21st century to meet future challenges in a complex world. It is also an innovative basis for students to discover and pose questions. Purpose: This study aimed to explore which two interventions of the problem-oriented teaching model, teacher-guided problem finding (TGPF)…
Descriptors: Intervention, Instructional Effectiveness, Teaching Methods, Creativity
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Therriault, Danyka; Lane, Julie; Houle, Andrée-Anne; Dupuis, Audrey; Gosselin, Patrick; Thibault, Isabelle; Dionne, Patricia; Morin, Pascale; Dufour, Magali – Psychology in the Schools, 2023
Anxiety disorders are among the most prevalent psychopathologies in Western adolescents and have been on the rise in recent years. Not only does anxiety disrupt the daily lives of the young people who suffer from it, it can also have harmful behavioral, psychological, social, and academic effects. Given this, there is a pressing need to implement…
Descriptors: Anxiety Disorders, Prevention, Adolescents, Program Effectiveness
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Wang, Ying; Hawk, Skyler T.; Wong, Natalie; Zhang, Yan – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2023
Narcissistic youth use social media to engage in a variety of self-promotional behaviors, which have either antisocial or prosocial characteristics. Differing views exist to explain the processes underlying narcissistic self-promotion, either characterizing these actions as intentional, or as impulsive. This study compared intentional…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Prosocial Behavior, Social Media, Bullying
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Graham, Steve; Harbaugh-Schattenkirk, Allen G.; Aitken, A. Angelique; Harris, Karen R.; Ng, Clarence; Wilson, John M.; Wdowin, Jeanne – Educational Psychology Review, 2023
This study examined the factorial and construct validity of a multi-dimensional measure of motives for writing with middle school students. The Writing Motivation Questionnaire included 28 items assessing seven motives for writing. Two motives assessed intrinsic reasons for writing (curiosity, involvement); three motives addressed extrinsic…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Questionnaires, Factor Structure, Test Validity
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Lavrijsen, Jeroen; Vansteenkiste, Maarten; Boncquet, Michiel; Verschueren, Karine – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2022
While bivariate associations between motivation and academic achievement have been soundly established, only a few studies have documented evidence for its incremental predictive role above and beyond other student features related to student achievement, such as intelligence and personality. Moreover, it is not yet clear which motivational…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Intelligence, Independent Study, Correlation
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Mofield, Emily L.; Parker Peters, Megan – Roeper Review, 2022
The study examined the relationship between implicit theories of intelligence and psychosocial competencies (measured as adaptability, general mood, intrapersonal skills, interpersonal skills, and stress management), the differences in these competencies between gifted students and nonidentified gifted students, and typologies of these variables…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Adjustment (to Environment), Personality Traits, Psychological Patterns
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Desmet, Ophélie Allyssa; van Weerdenburg, Marjolijn; Poelman, Mariska; Hoogeveen, Lianne; Yang, Yao – Journal of Advanced Academics, 2021
We examined the divergent validity and utility of the "Test for Creative Thinking--Drawing Production" (TCT-DP) in an identification protocol for high-ability students that included measures of intelligence, school motivation, inquisitiveness, creativity, and academic achievement. Data were collected from seventh-grade students across 6…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Test Validity, Test Use, Grade 7
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Vuorinen, Kaisa; Hietajärvi, Lauri; Uusitalo, Lotta – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2021
Previous research has shown that there is a link between usage of strengths and various positive outcomes, such as finding meaning and happiness in life. In our present study, we aimed to find out how usage of strengths is connected to general happiness with school-related factors as mediating variables. 418 Finnish students aged 10-16 filled a…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Psychological Patterns, Correlation, Models
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Shi, Aili; Wang, Yamin; Ding, Nan – Interactive Learning Environments, 2022
As an emerging learning platform, game-based immersive virtual reality learning environments (GIVRLEs) have the potential to solve difficult teaching problems. This study designed a GIVRLE by integrating knowledge of quadratic functions into gameplay. Forty seventh graders who had never acquired that knowledge played the game and took pre- and…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Computer Simulation, Educational Games, Foreign Countries
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