Growth and fixed mindsets (i.e., beliefs about whether people's abilities can be developed) shape how people interpret and respond to events in their social worlds. The present work examines how these mindsets relate to individuals' likelihood of legitimizing racial and socioeconomic inequities in education. Meta-analyses of 20 original studies…

Purpose: This study aims to explore the influence of Mutqen programmes on university students' personality and skills development. It evaluates the cognitive attitudes of university student participants in Mutqen training programmes. The research was analysed thematically, and this paper reports on the roles businesses and universities play in…

This research aims to explore the association between personality traits, character strength, and flourishing in university students (N=384). In the study, Three-dimensional Character Strengths Scale was adapted to Turkish. As a result of confirmatory factor analysis, the Three-dimensional Character Strengths Scale was acceptable for the goodness…

Academic self-efficacy, self-esteem, and grit (i.e., perseverance of effort and consistency of interests) have all separately shown to predict academic success within traditional education. In higher online education, information on these relationships is lacking, while this group of learners is growing in size and importance. We therefore…

Given the applied nature of business disciplines, simulations are useful in helping students bridge theory learned in the classroom and practical skills needed to succeed in industry. Much of the learning that occurs in simulations comes from working in teams as students work together to solve problems and defend their ideas. Thus, while marketing…

The aim of this research is to examine the individual social responsibility and social entrepreneurship levels of university students in terms of some variables and to examine the effects of individual social responsibility levels on their social entrepreneurship orientations. Relational survey model, one of the quantitative research methods, was…

Sleep is a vital human function, critical to health across the lifespan. However, college students report significant disturbances in sleep quality and sleep hygiene (ACHA, 2019; Moulin & Chung, 2016). The consequences of poor sleep include lower cognitive and executive functioning abilities (Honn et al., 2019; Whitney et al., 2015) and poorer…

This study examines the determinants influencing students' decisions to drop out or stop out (i.e., withdraw temporarily) from colleges in South Korea. Using Korean Education and Employment Panel II survey data (2016-2019), the determinants of students' college discontinuance of 8,485 students were analyzed and categorized as personal, college…

Purpose: What is happening in the perceived world of young people who have non-suicidal self-injury? The answer to this question explains many quantitative research findings in the field of NSSI. The current qualitative research design is Husserl's descriptive phenomenology. Design/methodology/approach: The participants included 17-29-year-old…

International student mobility (ISM) prepares young people for the challenges of global and multicultural environments. However, disadvantaged students have lower participation rates in mobility schemes and, hence, benefit less from their positive impacts on career progression. Therefore, policymakers aim to make mobility programs more inclusive.…

This quantitative study examines the impact that selected academic and personal demographic characteristics had on the successful completion of online coursework during the COVID-19 pandemic. Focused on a high-research university in the Southeastern United States during the Fall of 2020, this research looked the potential influence that prior…

Purpose: Studies of college and university student suicide have identified predictors only of suicide ideation and attempts and have relied solely on self-report data. This study explores risk factors observed in the last 30 days of life of college and university students who died by suicide, compared to those of high school and middle school…

Online education is the fastest growing segment of higher education. Unfortunately, many students attending college online fail to successfully earn their college degrees. The high attrition rate among online students proves costly for both the student and the university and is a multifaceted problem. This study investigated whether academic…

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship among precalculus self-efficacy, grit, and achievement in university Precalculus classes taught with an Online Flipped Model (OFM). The researcher developed the "Precalculus Self-Efficacy Survey" (PCSES) to measure precalculus self-efficacy. For the purposes of validating the…

The overwhelming majority of scholarship about collegiate sexual violence centers experiences of white, cisgender, heterosexual women (Harris et al., 2020; Linder et al., 2020), although LGBTQ students experience even higher rates of sexual violence than their cisgender and heterosexual peers (Cantor et al., 2019). The exclusion of asexual…