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Direct linkAlberto Barea Vera; Fernando Gordillo Leon; Miguel Angel Perez Nieto – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2024
Introduction: In the educational context, emotional and personality factors have been related to students' academic performance and quality of life; however, few studies have studied this relationship in depth in educational contexts where students have a high level of demand and competitiveness, as is the case of the students of the National…
Descriptors: Police Education, Police, Student Attitudes, Academic Achievement
Download full textBaker, Norma J. – 1969
To determine whether there has been a deterioration of idealism and a growth of anxiety and cynicism in college students, seven of the ten freshman classes entering the same college between 1959 and 1968 were administered either the Philosophies of Human Nature Scale (PHN), the Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale (TMA), or both during the first week on…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Attitudes, College Freshmen, Competitive Selection
Hackman, Judith D.; And Others – 1978
How the pressure of a stiff competition for admission to medical school affects undergraduates at Yale University is examined. Results of questionnaires completed by 317 Yale undergraduates including 101 premedical students, in 1977, are presented. It was found that students do hold a fairly strong negative stereotype of the premedical student who…
Descriptors: Competitive Selection, Higher Education, Interpersonal Competence, Majors (Students)
Sax, Linda J.; And Others – 1995
This publication presents national norms for 240,082 college freshmen in Fall, 1995 based on the 30th annual survey of incoming students at 473 two-year and four-year colleges and universities. Three major tables present the norms for type of institutional control for all freshmen and by sex; for universities by selectivity level and by sex; and…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Competitive Selection, Educational Trends, Enrollment Trends
Astin, Alexander W.; And Others – 1994
This publication presents national norms for 237,777 college freshmen in fall 1994 based on the 29th annual survey of incoming students at 461 two-year and four-year colleges and universities. Three major tables present the norms for type of institutional control for all freshmen and by sex; for universities by selectivity level and by sex; and…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Competitive Selection, Educational Trends, Enrollment Trends
Astin, Alexander W.; And Others – 1993
This publication presents national norms for college freshmen in fall 1993 based on the 28th annual survey of 220,757 incoming students at 427 two- and four-year colleges and universities. Three major tables present the norms for type of institution and control for all freshmen, for men, for women; for universities by selectivity level and by sex;…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Competitive Selection, Educational Trends, Enrollment Trends
