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Direct linkMalin, Heather – Applied Developmental Science, 2023
Purpose is an indicator of healthy human development and believed by some theorists and educators to be an important outcome of college. The aim of this study was to test the potential for assessing purpose using a person-centered analysis, thereby providing more individual-specific understanding of students' purpose development, and second by…
Descriptors: College Students, Educational Experience, Student Experience, Goal Orientation
Download full textFurlong, Michael J.; Nylund-Gibson, K.; Dowdy, E.; Wagle, R.; Hinton, T.; Carter, D. – Grantee Submission, 2020
Our UC Santa Barbara research team engages in ongoing efforts to enhance and validate the Social Emotional Health Surveys (Primary, Secondary, and Higher Education). The initiative to enhance the secondary version is supported by an Institute of Education Sciences grant (#R305A160157, 2016-2020), which provides funding to refine, standardize, and…
Descriptors: Surveys, Psychometrics, Test Validity, Mental Health
McAbee, Emilee R.; Drasgow, Erik; Lowrey, K. Alisa – American Annals of the Deaf, 2017
Six deaf adults defined quality of life (QOL) in personal interviews. Questions were based on an eight-domain QOL framework: physical well-being, emotional well-being, interpersonal relations, social inclusion, personal development, material well-being, self-determination, and rights (Schalock & Alonso, 2002). The interview process had three…
Descriptors: Adults, Deafness, Quality of Life, Definitions
Meriläinen, Matti – Quality in Higher Education, 2014
This study of a large sample (n = 3035) examined relationships between study-related burnout and components of the teaching-learning environment, achievement motivation and the perceived meaning of life. The overall model, tested with structural equation modelling, revealed that the factor of the teaching-learning environment correlated with both…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Burnout, Educational Environment, Correlation
Helmes, Edward; Chapman, Joanne – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2012
Education about sexuality is one method of reducing common negative stereotypes about this aspect of the life of older people. Knowledge and attitudes toward sexuality are therefore particularly important in those who educate healthcare professionals. We surveyed schools of medicine, nursing, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, psychology, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Older Adults, Quality of Life, Stereotypes
Westerhof, Gerben J.; Bohlmeijer, Ernst; Valenkamp, Marije W. – Educational Gerontology, 2004
A pilot evaluation is reported of a reminiscence program aimed at increasing personal meaning. Fifty-seven older persons completed both a sentence completion questionnaire measuring personal meaning and a depression scale administered before and after the program. In comparison to a group from a representative survey that was matched on life…
Descriptors: Recall (Psychology), Depression (Psychology), Older Adults, Foreign Countries
