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Supporting Healthy Affect and Coping after Perceived Failure in College Students in Christian Higher Education
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Laura Phillips; Jennifer Shewmaker – Christian Higher Education, 2025
Perceived failure in academic performance can lead to differing outcomes for students. Depending on the coping strategies that they choose, students may improve or worsen their performance. This study examined the relationship between affective components and coping strategies in college students' responses to perceived academic failure and their…
Descriptors: Coping, Academic Failure, Christianity, Religious Colleges
Associating Student Self-Discipline and Parental Involvement in Students' Academic Activities with Student Academic Performance
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Mbaluka, Susan N.; Brand, Jay L.; Henry Saturne, Bordes – Journal of Research on Christian Education, 2021
Academic performance of K-12 students in North America could be improved in that the majority of students produce undistinguished results in every international assessment of academic proficiency. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether student's self-discipline and parental involvement in student's academic activities have any impact…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Grade Point Average, Academic Achievement, Scores
College-Bound Students: A Study of the Relationship between Religiosity/Spirituality, and Achievement in Christian Schools
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Wright, William S. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The achievement gap between private and public school college-bound students has continued to widen each year since 1972. The researcher studied the relationship of Christian school college-bound students' religiosity/spirituality using a validated survey instrument and their achievement as measured on the Scholastic Aptitude Test. The literature…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Christianity, Private Schools, College Bound Students
Admission Officers' Impressions of Homeschooled Applicants in Evangelical and Nonevangelical Colleges and Universities
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McCulloch, Donald S.; Savage, Alexandra; Schmal, Liz – Christian Higher Education, 2013
Impressions of admission officers toward homeschooled applicants were examined. Specifically, this study sought to ascertain whether the perceptions of admission officers adhered to the common stereotype that homeschoolers are brighter and yet socially less well-adjusted than average. The responses of 121 admission officers were analyzed across…
Descriptors: College Admission, Admissions Officers, Administrator Attitudes, Church Related Colleges
A Study of the Relationship between Parenting Stress and Spirituality among Mothers of Elementary Children in Selected Korean Churches
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Choi, Seong Ji – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Problem: The problem of this study was to determine the relationship between parenting stress and six specified predictor variables of spirituality among mothers of elementary children attending selected Korean Baptist churches located in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. The specified predictor variables of spirituality were awareness, instability,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parents, Stress Variables, Child Rearing
A Study of Baccalaureate Social Work Students' Beliefs about the Inclusion of Religious and Spiritual Content in Social Work
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Graff, Dorothy L. – Journal of Social Work Education, 2007
This exploratory quantitative study employs a 4-page Religion/Spirituality and Social Work Questionnaire that focuses on the beliefs and perceptions of 324 undergraduate social work students in 7 Council on Social Work Education-accredited schools of social work in the state of Texas about the role of religion and spirituality in social work…
Descriptors: Religion, Role of Religion, Social Work, Religious Factors