This study examined the impact of psychological capital--comprising hope, optimism, resilience, and self-efficacy--on comprehensive mental health, defined by the dual criteria of the absence of psychopathological symptoms and the presence of positive functioning. The participants of the study included 429 (65.5% female) Turkish adolescents,…

Positive emotions and effective classroom management are indispensable components of successful teaching. However, the role of teachers' mindsets about their teaching abilities in their emotions and classroom management has remained understudied. This study investigated whether and how language teachers' beliefs about the stability and…

Studies on enjoyment of school recess rarely differentiate between gender or the indoor and outdoor settings (and especially not the eating portion of recess or lunch), so the aim of this study was to qualitatively increase understanding about what students specifically like and dislike about recess relative to gender and outside, inside, and…

Emotional reactivity and emotion regulation play key roles in adolescent mental health. Positive parenting behavior has been shown to facilitate positive adolescent emotional development; however, relationships between parenting and adolescent neural emotion reactivity have not been thoroughly examined. The present study employed whole-brain…

The aim of this study was to differentiate professional dancers from two different Spanish dance companies with regard to the effects of emotional intelligence, mood and coping strategies, by analysing the existing interrelationship between them. The sample was composed of 36 dancers: 16 women and 20 men aged 19 to 40. Twenty of them came from the…

This collaborative autoethnography explores the intersection of heritage language (HL) maintenance, emotion, and identity from the perspectives of a mother and her 15-year-old daughter learning and maintaining Korean in the United States. The analysis of their narratives concerning critical emotional experiences relevant to HL maintenance reveals…

During emerging adulthood, family relationships remain salient. This study examined, from a gender perspective, continuity/discontinuity and stability/instability in family relationships, in a two-time repeated-measures study with Spanish emerging adult college students. It also analyzed the implications of the quality of parent--child…

The successful move to a new generation of technologies that provide students with personalised e-learning environments is connected to their ability to facilitate flow experiences -- through which e-learners feel fully engaged in the educational activities at hand. However, little is known about the heterogeneous influence of subjective and…

Emotions are essential for the development of professional competence and identity of pre-service teachers. Thus, they can also be seen as an inherent part of teachers' professional competence and identity. They also influence teachers' later emotional experience when teaching at school. Mathematics, especially, triggers activating emotions in…

Objective: This study aims to explore the moderating role of affinity for aloneness and gender in the relationship between loneliness and depression. Methods: The University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) loneliness scale, the Loneliness and Aloneness Scale for Children and Adolescents (LACA), and the Centre for Epidemiologic Studies…

The study is aimed at exploring, through lexical analysis, the courageous actions performed by elementary school students. Five hundred ninety-two Italian children were interviewed about the most courageous action that they had ever performed during their life. Exploratory cluster analysis with Iramuteq was run to analyse the children's answers…

The present study focuses on understanding the online aggression in adolescent couples from a gender-sensitive perspective. Specifically, the aims were: (1) to analyze the direct relationship between online jealousy and online control among adolescent boys and girls and (2) to explore the moderating role of moral disengagement and socio-emotional…

Purpose: The objective of the study was to evaluate the relationships among the achievement emotions experienced during physical education classes, the intention to be physically active, and academic achievement. Methods: The sample consisted of 764 Spanish secondary education students (348 boys and 416 girls). Results: Pride, enjoyment, and…

There is an opinion about puberty that has some negative aspects. According to this view, he mentions that adolescence includes intense stress, pessimistic thoughts and inner turmoil. The aim of this study is to examine the methods of coping with physical and mental problems encountered in adolescence. It was applied to 8 high school students…

How does the emotional tone (happy or sad) and gender (male or female) of the instructor's computer-generated voice in a multimedia lesson affect learning processes and outcomes for female learners (Experiment 1) and male learners (Experiment 2)? In two experiments, college students viewed a 2.5 min narrated slideshow on the formation of lightning…