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Ashley R. Moore – Applied Linguistics, 2023
Across diverse yet largely unconnected reports, including language-focused research studies, psychotherapeutic case studies, literary biographies, and journalism, evidence exists of people distancing themselves from previously acquired linguistic resources, such as accents, dialects, and even named languages. In this article, I begin by discussing…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Defense Mechanisms, Behavior, Individual Development
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Puchalska-Wasyl, Malgorzata M. – Youth & Society, 2023
The Circumplex of Identity Formation Modes (CIFM) is the latest approach designed to integrate the various concepts describing identity formation in the Erikson--Marcia tradition. The CIFM assumes the relationships between identity modes and personality traits. The process of identity formation emerges as a result of the interaction between…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Personality Traits, Identification (Psychology), Inner Speech (Subvocal)
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Zogmaister, Cristina; Maricutoiu, Laurentiu P. – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2022
Students face frequent formal and informal tests, both in the academic context and social life. On each of these occasions, they risk falling short of their own or others' expectations. Facing failure is a psychological challenge, and people can react with defensive strategies, which may have negative consequences. Here we investigated the role of…
Descriptors: College Students, Self Esteem, Defense Mechanisms, Failure
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Alexandra A. M. Zuiker; Marise Ph. Born; Jan W. Van Strien – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2025
Stimulating outperformance has been increasingly emphasized in educational policies. Although personally satisfying, outperformance can also lead to interpersonal strain, which is often overlooked in the educational excellence discourse. Exline and Lobel (1999, "Psychological Bulletin, 125"(3), 307-337) coined Sensitivity about being the…
Descriptors: Preadolescents, Fear of Success, Interpersonal Relationship, Emotional Response
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Fackler, Ayça – Science & Education, 2021
Science denial has a long history of causing harm in contemporary society when ignored. Recent discussions of science denial suggest that correcting people's false beliefs rarely has an impact on eliminating the adherence to false beliefs and assumptions, which is called the backfire effect. This paper brings the backfire effect within the context…
Descriptors: Science Education, Epistemology, Scientific Attitudes, Defense Mechanisms
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Ying Shan Doris Zhang; Kimberly A. Noels – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Despite the inherently meaningful nature of Chinese names, Chinese international students often adopt an English name, particularly when they pursue education in English-speaking countries. Most empirical research on name anglicisation has examined the psychological impact of name change among ethnolinguistic minorities, as well as their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Chinese, Labeling (of Persons)
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Lieve Gies – Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 2023
This research project set out to study how Chinese international students in the United Kingdom understand human rights principles. The principal method involved semi-structured interviews which were primarily intended as a listening exercise in which participants were able to voice their views on human rights. The discussions were explicitly…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, COVID-19, Pandemics, Barriers
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Dodge, Kenneth A.; Bai, Yu; Godwin, Jennifer; Lansford, Jennifer E.; Bates, John E.; Pettit, Gregory S.; Jones, Damon – Child Development, 2022
The hypothesis was tested that some children develop a defensive mindset that subsumes individual social information processing (SIP) steps, grows from early experiences, and guides long-term outcomes. In Study 1 (Fast Track [FT]), 463 age-5 children (45% girls; 43% Black) were first assessed in 1991 and followed through age 32 (83% retention). In…
Descriptors: Defense Mechanisms, Personality Traits, Emotional Response, Social Cognition
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Tricia R. Shalka; Fatima Abou Nassif Mourad – Journal of College Student Development, 2024
This hermeneutic and post-intentional phenomenological study explored how trauma experiences affected sense of belonging for undergraduate students. Results suggest five salient textures of belonging after trauma, including silence, validation, isolation, compassion, and betrayal. Implications for student affairs practice are presented to frame…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Graduates, Trauma, Trauma Informed Approach
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Damene Matsana Malado – Discover Education, 2024
This study examined deaf learners' academic and social difficulties as well as their coping mechanisms in Ethiopian elementary schools. To do this, the study adopted a phenomenological design from qualitative research methodology. Purposive sampling methods were used to choose nine deaf students for semi-structured interviews. Using word-by-word…
Descriptors: Deafness, Foreign Countries, Students with Disabilities, Elementary School Students
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Jamie C. Atkinson – Educational Foundations, 2023
Students in teacher education programs are often faced with perceived threats to their epistemological heritages. According to System Justification Theory, when faced with these perceived threats, individuals may become more defensive, epistemically resistant, and cognitively rigid. More specifically, due to a palliative psychological need,…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Resistance (Psychology), Defense Mechanisms
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Romeo, Tameka; Otgaar, Henry; Smeets, Tom; Landström, Sara; Jelicic, Marko – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2019
The present study examined whether mock offenders, who were instructed to falsely deny crime details or to simulate amnesia, would consequently experience impaired memory. Ninety-three university students were first asked to commit a mock crime and were then assigned to three different conditions (i.e., false denial, simulated amnesia, and truth…
Descriptors: Memory, Neurological Impairments, Recall (Psychology), Defense Mechanisms
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Humes, Larry E.; Dubno, Judy R. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: This study aimed to compare the perceived hearing difficulties of a community sample of older adults to two clinical samples of older adults, one with no hearing aid experience and the other with hearing aid experience. Method: Scale scores from the Communication Profile for the Hearing Impaired (CPHI) were analyzed for a community sample…
Descriptors: Hearing Impairments, Older Adults, Assistive Technology, Severity (of Disability)
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Kienhues, Dorothe; Jucks, Regina; Bromme, Rainer – Educational Psychologist, 2020
Science's role in society is being threatened, as misinterpretation and denial of scientific evidence and the rejection or ignorance of scientific expertise are gaining prominence. This endangered role of science in society is characteristic of post-truthism. To deconstruct this process, we analyze how three potential gateways allow people to…
Descriptors: Ethics, Epistemology, Science Education, Science and Society
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Watts, Elizabeth – American Biology Teacher, 2019
Only about half of Americans are convinced that human activity is the major cause of climate change. This statistic highlights the increased need for high-quality climate science education but also highlights the fact that lessons on this subject are often complicated as denial argumentation abounds in classrooms. In order to achieve greater…
Descriptors: Climate, Ecology, Science Education, Beliefs
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