Personality is one of the important variables for predicting student academic success. The purpose of the research is to examine the Big Five personality test as a predictor on the academic achievement of State Islamic Senior High School students in Indonesia. This research used a quantitative method which used a survey of the Big Five Personality…

Every year roughly 50% of graduate students drop out of doctoral programs (Farkas, 2018). Per Farkas (2018), the top seven reasons for this include time management difficulties, conflicts with a supervisor, the student's thesis not having a "story," exhaustion or burnout, problems writing up theses (one of the main problems described is…

The purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate college students' beliefs of their parents' role in influencing their character development, and of their own character in influencing their college academic achievement. Two research questions guided the study: (1) What are college students' beliefs about how parental role modeling…

This study aimed to investigate the differential relationship between Temperament, Executive Functioning (EF) and Media Use Motivations and the frequency of two kinds of Media Multitasking (MM) in early adolescence. Results showed differential roles of temperamental Effortful Control, Negative Affectivity and Affiliativeness in predicting academic…

Research Findings: Temperament, which can be assessed as early as 3 months, is associated with school readiness and later academic achievement in children born full term. Although children born preterm demonstrate a dysregulated temperament and are at significant risk for lower school readiness, we found no studies investigating whether early…

Policies in education increasingly face ideological conflicts, with political operatives influencing radical legislative directions. While it may be more important than ever for teachers to make their voices heard, how teachers perceive themselves as advocates is unclear. This study, employing self-determination theory, analyzes teachers'…

The identification of psychological strengths that foster healthy development in youth has become a major topic of exploration in the field of positive psychology. Gratitude is a trait-like characteristic with qualities indicative of a potential psychological strength that may serve as a protective factor for early adolescents in the face of…

How and why science education scholars and practitioners might use artificial intelligence (AI) in the classroom has been a controversial agenda for decades. ChatGPT, a state-of-the-art (SOTA) AI released in November 2022, has attracted global interest for its exceptionally high performance in generating human-like natural language answers to…

Purpose: As different countries are witnessing a surge in online course enrollments, the purpose of this study is to examine the impact of different stressors and strains on the continuity of online classes for understanding learner behavior. While extroverts are more talkative, sociable and open than introverts, it is necessary to understand the…

The present study examines two self-regulation traits, grit and curiosity, in predicting creative achievement in an adult sample (N = 522). Grit has been related to achievement in various domains, and although prior empirical work failed to find associations with everyday creative activities in adolescent and young adult samples, theoretically it…

In the United States, approximately two-thirds of children will be exposed to a traumatic event by the age of 16. Experiencing trauma can impact domains of positive development that may affect functioning at school. These challenges can alter learning and lead students to require a comprehensive psychoeducational assessment to determine if…

Parents who perceive their social environment as threatening may transmit these anxieties through their parenting, by shaping the skills and beliefs that adolescents adopt to interact with their own environment. This study explores the role of hyper-parenting and two potential psychological mechanisms (i.e., youth emotion regulation and…

This study investigated the experiences of college-student mentors to gain a nuanced understanding of 'humility' in higher education (HE) and to illuminate how it operates within mentoring dyads. Seventeen mentors, comprising both undergraduate (9) and graduate (8) students, were interviewed in this exploratory qualitative research. One-on-one…

This research aims to examine the trait leaders of FUDAOYUAN on teachers' perspective at Fuzhou University of Foreign Studies and Trade, to examine the leadership effectiveness of FUDAOYUAN on teachers' perspective at Fuzhou University of Foreign Studies and Trade, and to examine the demographic variables impact on trait leader and effectiveness…

Purpose: This paper aims to explore how teaching activities can enhance the professional identity of master's students as they explore careers. Design/methodology/approach: The data were gathered through qualitative semi-structured interviews with 57 participants, 2nd-year master's program students from a Russian business school, shortly before…