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Liu, Jie; Jiang, Zixi; Luo, Junlong; He, Wen – Psychology in the Schools, 2023
Although quarantine is an effective measure for containing the spread of COVID-19 and reducing the number of infected individuals, it has had negative consequences on the emotional well-being and academic performance of university students. To explore the influence mechanism of school quarantine time on academic procrastination among students, a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Abdulaziz Alshahrani – AILA Review, 2023
The aim of this paper was to evaluate gender differences in the language used in United Nations (UN) General Assembly debates by one male and one female representative each from India, China, the USA, and Indonesia. The critical discourse analysis (CDA) framework of van Dijk (2015) was used along with the 25 discursive devices in this framework.…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Gender Differences, International Organizations, Language Usage
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Halamová, Júlia; Kanovský, Martin; Petrocchi, Nicola; Moreira, Helena; López, Angélica; Barnett, Michael D.; Yang, Eunjoo; Benda, Jan; Brähler, Elmar; Zeng, Xianglong; Zenger, Markus – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2021
In this study, different factor analysis models were employed to test the Self-Compassion Scale (SCS) in 11 distinct populations (n = 15,266) in different countries. The results strongly suggest that the most appropriate use of the SCS is to measure levels of Self-Compassionate responding (positive items) and Self-Uncompassionate responding…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Psychometrics, Psychological Patterns, Self Concept
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Jinghan Sun – SAGE Open, 2024
This paper aims to report on Chinese college students' emotions in English as a foreign language (EFL) speaking classrooms, including the trajectory of their emotions, and their perceived impacts of these emotions on their performances in class. Through conducting a case study among 12 Chinese college students and qualitatively analyzing the…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Yang Hansen, Kajsa; Radišic, Jeléna; Ding, Yi; Liu, Xin – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2022
Background: The current study investigates school contextual effects on students' academic self-concept and achievement, that is, peer socioeconomic effect and big-fish-little-pond effect (BFLPE), in four Nordic education systems (i.e., Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden) and selected Chinese education systems (Hong Kong and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, Student Attitudes, Self Concept
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Jackson, Todd; Chen, Hong – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2008
This 18-month prospective study investigated factors that contributed to changes in eating disorder symptoms among adolescents living in the People's Republic of China. Five hundred forty-one Chinese middle school and high school students (182 boys, 359 girls) completed measures of eating disorder symptoms; body dissatisfaction; appearance ideal…
Descriptors: Females, Eating Disorders, Adolescents, Foreign Countries