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Direct linkRodrigo Moreta-Herrera; Xavier Oriol-Granado; Mònica González; Jose A. Rodas – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2025
This study investigates the role of Positive Affect as a predictor of Psychological Well-Being in 43,653 12-year-old children from 29 countries, using a Structural Equation Model. The model's potential gender and nationality equivalences were also examined. Data was sourced from the International Child Well-Being Survey. The 'happy' item was found…
Descriptors: Well Being, Early Adolescents, Correlation, Predictor Variables
Junzhe Li; Linda Tsung – SAGE Open, 2025
The successful launch of the One Belt and One Road Initiative in 2013, coupled with China's growing international influence, has stimulated global interest in learning Chinese as a Second Language (CSL). However, recent studies reveal several problems relating to international students' adaptation and adjustment in the distinct Chinese study…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Foreign Students, Study Abroad, Student Attitudes
Yung, Shun Ting; Chen, Yaoyu; Zawadzki, Matthew J. – Journal of American College Health, 2023
Objective: Changes in surroundings and social relationships may heighten feelings of loneliness, suggesting the need to measure as a state. This study tested whether loneliness fluctuates within and across days and the resultant associations with psychological distress. Further it tested familism as a moderator as endorsing this cultural value may…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Undergraduate Students, Hispanic American Students, Predictor Variables
Kho, Carmen; White, Rebecca M. B.; Zhao, Chang; Knight, George P.; Roche, Kathleen M. – Developmental Psychology, 2023
This study examined the relations between normative developmental changes of familism values and later internalizing and externalizing behaviors in Latinx adolescents from an emerging immigrant community. The sample included 547 Latinx adolescents (55.4% female; baseline M[subscript age] = 12.80; SD = 1.03) residing in the Southeastern United…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Latin Americans, Hispanic American Students, Emotional Adjustment
Holt, Laura J.; Anselmi, Dina; Gasataya, Skye A. – American Journal of Health Education, 2022
Background: Emerging adults (ages 18-29) have the highest COVID-19 infection rates and the lowest vaccination rates. With vaccine distribution underway, understanding characteristics of this population that predict hesitation to get vaccinated can inform public health outreach. Purpose: In the current study, we sought to identify demographic,…
Descriptors: Late Adolescents, Young Adults, Undergraduate Students, COVID-19
Piña-Watson, Brandy; Cox, Kassidy; Neduvelil, Ashley – Journal of American College Health, 2021
Objective: This study investigates cultural and general coping strategies as potential protective or risk factors to risky sexual behaviors (RSBs) and alcohol use in the face of discrimination for Mexican descent college students. Participants: Data collection was conducted from September 2016 to May 2017 and included 796 Mexican descent emerging…
Descriptors: Mexican Americans, Hispanic American Students, Student Behavior, Health Behavior
Jaspal, Rusi; Lopes, Barbara; Wignall, Liam; Bloxsom, Claire – American Journal of Sexuality Education, 2021
Drawing on the Health Adversity Risk Model, this study examines the relationship between mental health and sexual risk behaviors in British and European Union (EU) university students in the United Kingdom. Four hundred and thirty-one undergraduate students completed a cross-sectional survey. Data were analyzed using independent samples t-tests,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Predictor Variables, Sexuality, At Risk Students
Hsieh, Yi-Ping; Yen, Lee-Lan – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2019
This study examines three parenting behaviors (support, involvement, and harsh control) in predicting children's loneliness and aggression across developmental transitions to adolescence in a Taiwanese sample. Two cohorts (n = 4,990) were followed for 5 years: a younger cohort (first-graders, 51.5%) and an older cohort (fourth-graders). Multilevel…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Child Rearing, Predictor Variables, Psychological Patterns
Nourollah Zarrinabadi, Editor; Miroslaw Pawlak, Editor – Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2021
This edited collection provides a state-of-the art overview of research on willingness to communicate (WTC) in a second and foreign language. In particular, it includes innovative studies seeking to demonstrate the ways in which WTC can be examined within the framework of complex dynamic systems, how the construct is related to self-assessment,…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Student Attitudes, Immigrants, Second Language Learning
Download full textErden, Seval; Akbag, Müge – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2015
Problem Statement: Feelings of shame and guilt as negative social emotions have a deep and continuous impact throughout our lives, particularly on our behaviors in both intrapersonal and interpersonal relationships. It was widely accepted that these feelings originate from a person's early period of life's interpersonal experiences in the family…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Emotional Response, Personality Traits, Cultural Influences
Vela, Javier Cavazos; Guerra, Federico; Garcia, Christian; Hinojosa, Yvette – Journal of School Counseling, 2018
A quantitative, predictive design was used to explore how positive psychology, mental health, and cultural factors influenced Latina/o adolescents' college-going beliefs. By using multiple regression analysis, findings indicated that hope and life satisfaction were significant predictors of college-going beliefs. We provide a discussion regarding…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Adolescents, College Attendance, Predictor Variables
Adelman, Robert Mark; Herrmann, Sarah D.; Bodford, Jessica E.; Barbour, Joseph E.; Graudejus, Oliver; Okun, Morris A.; Kwan, Virginia S. Y. – Grantee Submission, 2017
This research examined the function of future self-continuity and its potential downstream consequences for academic performance through relations with other temporal psychological factors and self-control. We also addressed the influence of cultural factors by testing whether these relations differed by college generation status. Undergraduate…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Undergraduate Students, Psychological Patterns, Academic Achievement
Piña-Watson, Brandy; López, Belem; Ojeda, Lizette; Rodriguez, Kimberly M. – Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, 2015
This study examined the role of cognitive (i.e., grit, hope, and academic skepticism) and cultural variables (i.e., generational status, familismo, ethnic identity, and bicultural stress) on academic motivation among 181 Mexican American adolescents. Results indicated that hope, grit, and familismo positively predicted academic motivation.…
Descriptors: Mexican Americans, Adolescents, Cognitive Processes, Cultural Influences
Langdon, Jody; Rukavina, Paul; Greenleaf, Christy – Advances in Physiology Education, 2016
The purpose of the present study was to investigate particular psychosocial predictors of obesity bias in prehealth professionals, which include the internalization of athletic and general body ideals, perceived media pressure and information, and achievement goal orientations. Exercise science undergraduate students (n = 242) filled out a survey…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Obesity, Exercise, Psychological Patterns
Mesman, Judi; van IJzendoorn, Marinus; Behrens, Kazuko; Carbonell, Olga Alicia; Cárcamo, Rodrigo; Cohen-Paraira, Inbar; de la Harpe, Christian; Ekmekçi, Hatice; Emmen, Rosanneke; Heidar, Jailan; Kondo-Ikemura, Kiyomi; Mels, Cindy; Mooya, Haatembo; Murtisari, Sylvia; Nóblega, Magaly; Ortiz, Jenny Amanda; Sagi-Schwartz, Abraham; Sichimba, Francis; Soares, Isabel; Steele, Howard; Steele, Miriam; Pape, Marloes; van Ginkel, Joost; van der Veer, René; Wang, Lamei; Selcuk, Bilge; Yavuz, Melis; Zreik, Ghadir – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2016
In this article, we test the hypothesis that beliefs about the ideal mother are convergent across cultures and that these beliefs overlap considerably with attachment theory's notion of the sensitive mother. In a sample including 26 cultural groups from 15 countries around the globe, 751 mothers sorted the Maternal Behavior Q-Set to reflect their…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Child Rearing, Young Children
