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Students' Concern about Indebtedness: A Rank Based Social Norms Account
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Aldrovandi, Silvio; Wood, Alex M.; Maltby, John; Brown, Gordon D. A. – Studies in Higher Education, 2015
This paper describes a new model of students' concern about indebtedness within a rank-based social norms framework. Study 1 found that students hold highly variable beliefs about how much other students will owe at the end of their degree. Students' concern about their own anticipated debt--and their intention of taking on a part-time job during…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Debt (Financial), Student Attitudes, Context Effect
Daydreaming Style Moderates the Relation between Working Memory and Mind Wandering: Integrating Two Hypotheses
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Marcusson-Clavertz, David; Cardeña, Etzel; Terhune, Devin Blair – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2016
Mind wandering--mentation unrelated to one's current activity and surroundings--is a ubiquitous phenomenon, but seemingly competing ideas have been proposed regarding its relation to executive cognitive processes. The control-failure hypothesis postulates that executive processes prevent mind wandering, whereas the global availability hypothesis…
Descriptors: Imagination, Fantasy, Cognitive Style, Short Term Memory
Cultural Difference in Conflict Management Strategies of Children and Its Development: Comparing 3- and 5-Year-Olds across China, Japan, and Korea
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Maruyama, Hiroki; Ujiie, Tatsuo; Takai, Jiro; Takahama, Yuko; Sakagami, Hiroko; Shibayama, Makoto; Fukumoto, Mayumi; Ninomiya, Katsumi; Hyang Ah, Park; Feng, Xiaoxia; Takatsuji, Chie; Hirose, Miwa; Kudo, Rei; Shima, Yoshihiro; Nakayama, Rumiko; Hamaie, Noriko; Zhang, Feng; Moriizumi, Satoshi – Early Education and Development, 2015
Research Findings: The purpose of this study was to examine differences in the development of conflict management strategies, focusing on 3- and 5-year-olds, through a comparison of 3 neighboring Asian cultures, those of China (n = 114), Japan (n = 98), and Korea (n = 90). The dual concern model of conflict management was adopted to probe which…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Conflict Resolution, Preschool Children, Asians
Exploring the Relationship between Teaching Staff Age and Their Attitude towards Information and Communications Technologies (ICT)
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Elsaadani, Mohamed Abdelaziz – International Journal of Instruction, 2013
Current research seeks to understand the relationship between teaching staff' age and their attitude toward ICT. Survey methodology is facilitated through the use of the questionnaires. The survey domain is a random sampling of teaching staff in Egyptian HEI. The population for this study was 500 full-time Faculty staff, and only 412 returned and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Communications, Computer Mediated Communication, Information Technology
Exploring the Relationship between Teaching Staff Age and Their Attitude towards Information and Communications Technologies (ICT)
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Elsaadani, Mohamed Abdelaziz – Online Submission, 2013
Current research seeks to understand the relationship between teaching staff' age and their attitude toward ICT. Survey methodology is facilitated through the use of the questionnaires. The survey domain is a random sampling of teaching staff in Egyptian HEI. The population for this study was 500 full-time Faculty staff, and only 412 returned and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Communications, Computer Mediated Communication, Information Technology