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Xie, Jianling; Xu, Jianzhong; Wei, Tianlan; Gallo, Katarzyna; Giles, Mary Everett; Zhan, Yan; Zeng, Yan; Huang, Xiang; Liu, Xia – Adult Learning, 2022
This exploratory qualitative case study investigates how graduate students in education experience, attribute, and combat academic boredom. Three areas of concern are addressed: (a) the contributing factors to boredom, (b) how attributional style (internal vs. external) relates to coping with boredom, and (c) the differences between combating…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Education Majors, Psychological Patterns, Learner Engagement
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Page, Randy M.; Park, Sunhee; Suwanteerangkul, Jiraporn; Park, Hyunju; Kemeny, Maria; Philips, Lynn – Journal of School Health, 2012
Background: Understanding the cognitive attributions of smoking has the potential to advance youth smoking prevention efforts; however, research on this subject is limited in Asian countries. We attempted to determine the degree to which cognitive attributions of smoking differ among adolescents in 2 Asian countries, Thailand and South Korea.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Attribution Theory, Smoking, Prevention
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Pizzolato, Jane Elizabeth; Hicklen, Sherrell T.; Brown, Elizabeth Levine; Chaudhari, Prema – Journal of College Student Development, 2009
Within the college student development literature, epistemologic development has been studied in the context of academic learning and outside of this context. However, investigation into if and how epistemologic development relates to academic behaviors and outcomes rarely has been studied. This study uses quantitative measures to explore the…
Descriptors: Student Development, College Students, At Risk Students, Learning