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Hyeon Jean Yoo; David T. Marshall – Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education, 2025
Purpose: This study aims to understand the role of seeking social support in the relationship between perceived helplessness, self-efficacy and satisfaction among graduate students during the pandemic, drawing upon the transactional model of stress and coping. Graduate students are composed of nontraditional students who are considered…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Helplessness, Self Efficacy, Social Support Groups
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Musabiq, Sugiarti; Poerwandari, Elizabeth; Guritnaningsih – College Student Journal, 2022
This study examines the meaning of family support for depressed students. Data is collected by interviewing a depressed student and the parents. Depression makes individuals helpless, lonely, and empty, especially due to past injuries and their implications. The results show that people have self-motivation to survive and struggle to escape…
Descriptors: College Students, Depression (Psychology), Psychological Patterns, Self Motivation
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Oleg Legusov; Oleksandr Antonenko – Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 2024
Since the full-scale war in Ukraine began in February 2022, many Ukrainians have migrated abroad. Canada, with its tradition of welcoming refugees and other displaced persons and its large Ukrainian community, has accepted thousands of Ukrainian migrants. After arriving in Canada, some decided to enroll in community colleges to improve their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, War, Foreign Students, Refugees
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Åsebø, Eli-Karin Sjåstad; Løvoll, Helga Synnevåg – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2023
Background: Research has shown that students experience less stress in physical education (PE) than in other school subjects; some even find it stress-relieving. Nevertheless, there is a substantial group of students who regularly experience stress in PE. Knowledge of stressors and the attributes of different coping strategies to deal with those…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Coping, Stress Variables, Stress Management
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Avci, Mehmet; Güngör, Abdi – International Journal of Psychology and Educational Studies, 2023
College students face a diverse range of difficulties that risk their wellness. Therefore, understanding factors affecting college students' wellness would be important for preventing and intervening strategies. This study examined the mediating role of coping styles on the relationships between basic psychological needs and wellness in Turkish…
Descriptors: College Students, Psychological Needs, Wellness, Relationship
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Yüksel, Müge; Yildirim Kurtulus, Hacer; Uzun, Gülgün – International Journal of Psychology and Educational Studies, 2023
It is important to examine women's experiences in the infertility process, as being a woman is perceived as a concept that overlaps with motherhood, and the woman herself is exposed to physical pain during the treatment. In this research, which was carried out with a phenomenological pattern, one of the qualitative methods, the experiences of…
Descriptors: Females, Pregnancy, Phenomenology, Marriage
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Skinner, Ellen A.; Graham, Jennifer Pitzer; Brule, Heather; Rickert, Nicolette; Kindermann, Thomas A. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2020
Many subareas share a common interest in students' "motivational resilience," defined broadly as patterns of action that allow students to constructively deal with, overcome, recover, and learn from encounters with academic obstacles and failures. However, research in each of these areas often progresses in relative isolation, and…
Descriptors: Models, Resilience (Psychology), Student Motivation, Child Development
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Krafchek, Jennifer; Kronborg, Leonie – Gifted and Talented International, 2020
This qualitative study examined the social coping behaviors and strategies used by fourteen academically high-achieving females before the onset of disordered eating in high school. Ineffective social coping strategies could contribute to a feeling of helplessness, which is a risk factor for eating disorders. All participants were interviewed…
Descriptors: Coping, Females, Eating Disorders, Social Behavior
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Camfield, Eileen Kogl – Journal of Developmental Education, 2016
Building on previous studies of college students' writing self-efficacy beliefs, this article presents the empirical foundation for a reconceptualized understanding of this identity process. The study assessed 131 college freshmen enrolled in a developmental writing course who were evaluated holistically using grounded theory methodology. The…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Self Efficacy, Student Attitudes, College Freshmen
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Hooper, Nic; McHugh, Louise – Psychological Record, 2013
Recent research suggests that attempting to avoid unwanted psychological events is maladaptive. Contrastingly, cognitive defusion, which is an acceptance-based method for managing unwanted thoughts, may provide a plausible alternative. The current study was designed to compare defusion and experiential avoidance as strategies for coping with…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Coping, Helplessness, Cognitive Processes
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Eroglu, Yüksel; Akbaba, Sirri; Adigüzel, Orhan; Peker, Adem – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2014
Problem Statement: Research has indicated that some mothers can cope with stressful life conditions and continue their lives normally, whereas others are unable to overcome such challenging conditions. Recent research has shown that mothers of children with disabilities are likely to know more about why some mothers have relatively well-adjusted…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Coping, Mothers, Disabilities
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Begovac, Branka; Begovac, Ivan – Death Studies, 2012
This article presents, in the form of a clinical illustration, a therapeutic group of bereaved mothers with special reference to their dreams about their deceased children. The article presents descriptions of the emotions of these mothers and countertransference feelings, a topic that, to our knowledge, has not been frequently studied. The group…
Descriptors: Helplessness, Mothers, Psychotherapy, Group Therapy
Ollis, Cindy L. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The Coping Competence Questionnaire (CCQ), based on the reformulated learned helplessness theory, was designed to assess a general stress resistance versus a propensity towards learned helplessness with a brief, 12-item self-report questionnaire. In this study the CCQ was administered to 247 undergraduate students, who were then paired, in groups…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Helplessness, Questionnaires, Program Effectiveness
National Child Traumatic Stress Network, 2008
There are students in school who have experienced trauma. Generally, traumatic events evoke feelings of extreme fear and helplessness. Reactions to traumatic events are determined by the subjective experience of the child, which could be impacted by developmental and cultural factors. What is extremely traumatic for one student may be less so for…
Descriptors: Trauma, Elementary School Students, Coping, Anxiety
National Child Traumatic Stress Network, 2008
There are students in school who have experienced trauma. Generally traumatic events evoke feelings of extreme fear and helplessness. Reactions to traumatic events are determined by the subjective experience of the adolescent, which could be impacted by developmental and cultural factors. What is extremely traumatic for one student may be less so…
Descriptors: Coping, High School Students, Trauma, Fear
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