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Parker, Patti C.; Perry, Raymond P.; Chipperfield, Judith G.; Hamm, Jeremy M.; Daniels, Lia M.; Dryden, Robert P. – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2022
Research suggests that when dealing with personal setbacks, secondary control (SC) adjustment and acceptance beliefs can foster psychological wellbeing. However, little research has examined these beliefs, in combination, and how they impact students in their academic development. We conducted secondary analysis using an eight-month longitudinal…
Descriptors: Student Adjustment, Well Being, Academic Achievement, Longitudinal Studies
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Filippello, Pina; Buzzai, Caterina; Costa, Sebastiano; Orecchio, Susanna; Sorrenti, Luana – Psychology in the Schools, 2020
Although several studies have investigated the roles of teaching practices during the learning process on students, the role of school learned helplessness (LH) and mastery orientation (MO) has not been deeply examined. The present study aimed to verify the dynamics between academic achievement and the perception of the students of their teacher's…
Descriptors: Teaching Styles, Academic Achievement, Helplessness, Mastery Learning
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Prihadi, Kususanto; Hui, Yen Ling; Chua, Melissa; Chang, Calvin K. W. – International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, 2019
Literature suggests that the perception of being cyber-victimized is a stronger predictor of depression symptoms than the perception of being victimized offline, and that learned-helplessness can explain the prediction of perceived cyber-victimization on perceived depression. Nevertheless, other studies suggested that the link between perceived…
Descriptors: Bullying, Victims, Depression (Psychology), Computer Mediated Communication
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Filippello, Pina; Larcan, Rosalba; Sorrenti, Luana; Buzzai, Caterina; Orecchio, Susanna; Costa, Sebastiano – Improving Schools, 2017
Despite the extensive research on parental psychological control, no study has explored the relation between parental and teacher psychological control, maladaptive perfectionism and learned helplessness (LH). The purpose of this study was to investigate (1) whether perceived teacher psychological control predicts positively LH, (2) whether…
Descriptors: Role, Personality Problems, Correlation, Parenting Styles
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Cox, Keith; McAdams, Dan P. – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2012
The study examined the extent to which a service trip to Nicaragua affected college students' narrative understanding of themselves and their commitment to volunteer service. College students who went on a spring break service trip to work with poor citizens of Nicaragua wrote narrative accounts of three important experiences on the trip shortly…
Descriptors: College Students, Service Learning, Foreign Countries, Volunteers
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Martin, Andrew J. – School Psychology Quarterly, 2011
In the context of 7,637 high school students, the present study explored an hypothesized formulation of academic courage (defined as perseverance in the face of academic difficulty and fear) and its role in predicting academic performance (literacy and arithmetic) and various academic engagement measures (planning, task management,…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Outcomes of Education, Academic Achievement, Fear