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Hossain, Bushra; Chen, Yingtong; Bent, Stephen; Parenteau, China; Widjaja, Felicia; Haft, Stephanie L.; Hoeft, Fumiko; Hendren, Robert L. – Annals of Dyslexia, 2022
Prior studies have suggested that grit and resilience predict both academic and career success. However, these qualities have not been examined in children with reading disorder (RD). We therefore investigated whether grit and resilience were associated with anxiety, depression, academic performance, and quality of life (QOL) in these students.…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Persistence, Individual Characteristics, Reading Difficulties
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Anne Marie Garvey; Inmaculada Jimeno García; Carlos Mir Fernández – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2023
This study looks at the effect that the compulsory COVID-19 lockdown restrictions introduced by the Spanish government had on the quality of life of teachers working in the Spanish education system, i.e. those teaching at early years, primary, secondary, tertiary vocational training and university education levels. Participants completed a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing
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Giroux, Catherine M.; Carter, Lorraine; Corkett, Julie – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2020
Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS) is a connective tissue disorder that results in negative health events. It also holds potential for periodic or permanent disability and psychosocial stress. While a diagnosis of EDS can occur at any age, the psychosocial effects of an EDS diagnosis can be especially challenging when symptoms present during…
Descriptors: Quality of Life, Postsecondary Education, Chronic Illness, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
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Tambling, Rachel B.; Reckert, Ashley – American Journal of Sexuality Education, 2014
Researchers who have studied sexual functioning concerns do not often focus their research on undergraduate populations, perhaps due to perceptions of universal sexual health among this population. The current study examined prevalence and type of sexual functioning concerns in a sample of 347 male and female undergraduate students. Sexual…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Sexuality, Sex Education, Incidence
Sax, Linda J.; And Others – 1996
This report summarizes the highlights of a national survey, part of the Cooperative Institutional Research Program, which examined college faculty demographic and biographic information, how faculty members spend their time, how they interact with students, their preferred methods of teaching and examining students, their perceptions of the…
Descriptors: Aging in Academia, Anxiety, Biographical Inventories, Church Related Colleges