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Zhan Shu; Shenli Peng; Zhihua Li – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2025
This study explored the association between cumulative ecological risk and academic achievement among adolescents from economically disadvantaged families and the mediating role of coping style and moderating effect of grit on this relationship. We recruited a sample of 509 students from economically disadvantaged families (classified as below the…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Adolescents, Academic Achievement, Ecological Factors
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Dieu Hack-Polay; Dannie Brown – Christian Higher Education, 2025
This research aims to examine the experiences of international students taking courses during the COVID-19 pandemic amidst lockdowns, self-isolation, and the closure of international borders. We interviewed 15 students, mainly from South Asia, attending university in Atlantic Canada who could not return to their countries of origin before the…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Social Isolation, Pandemics, COVID-19
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Xiaoyi Zhang; M. Obaidul Hamid – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2025
Many studies have reported language problems faced by international students in cross-cultural study-abroad settings. The present study investigated Chinese international students' linguistic insecurity during their study-abroad in Australia, and the strategies that they deployed to manage this. Based on interviews with ten students from two…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Student Attitudes, Study Abroad, Second Language Learning
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Jing Li; Yadong Ding – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2025
In the wake of China's "Double Reduction" policy, the prohibition of after-school tutoring centers has led to a rise in parental assistance in their children's homework, concurrently elevating parental anxiety as homework assistant. This research aims to explore the effect of parental self-efficacy on the parental anxiety as homework…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Parents, Parent Attitudes, Anxiety