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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"College Undergraduates"”.
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Self-Appraisals, Perfectionism, and Academics in College Undergraduates
The influences on perfectionism and procrastination of race, gender, cognitive-affective and academic self-appraisals, and academic performance expectations were studied. The sample consisted of 155 Introductory Psychology students (57 African Americans, 41 Asian Americans, and 57 European …
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Determining Deviance: An Examination of Stress and Antisocial Coping among College Undergraduates
… process better, this study uses a survey of undergraduates in order to 1) identify types of stressful experiences, 2) understand the mediating role of negative emotions, 3) evaluate how stress and emotions are related to student involvement in alcohol and drug use and self injury. In addition …
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Understanding the relationship between self-esteem and current grade point average of college undergraduates
The author investigated the relationship between undergraduates' self-esteem (current and retrospective) and their current grade point average. Specifically, the author investigated the relationship between students' self-esteem (fifth grade, eleventh grade, and undergraduate) and their current …
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Field Dependent/independent College Undergraduates and the Usage of a Computer -Assisted Instruction Program in a Horticulture Class
… qualitative and quantitative methods to explore college undergraduates' field dependence/independence and their usage of a computer assisted instruction program (CAI). Learning preference differences and similarities of field dependent/independent students were qualitatively investigated with an …
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The Influence of Social Norms on Attitudes Toward Help Seeking Behavior of College Undergraduates at a Major Midwestern University
Research has shown that college student wellness is a priority among administrators and mental health professionals on college campuses. There is mounting concern surrounding the emerging mental health issues that plague college age individuals. Researchers have made effort to provide explanation …
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Perception of emotions in drawings of faces: A developmental study
… (4th graders and 7th graders) and young adults' (college undergraduates) ability to perceive the emotions of happy, sad, angry, and surprised contained in portrait drawings from art history. Differences in responses of the fourth graders, seventh graders, and college undergraduates were measured …
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Applying the Golden Rule towards Recruitment Effectiveness
… retail recruiting organizations attractive to college undergraduates and examine what attributes recruiting organizations believe students are attracted to; (2) to examine the differences in these perceptions with particular interest in the role of the recruiters themselves and (3) to test …
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The Effects of Multicultural College Courses on Intercultural Experiences and Attitudes.
This study examined college undergraduates' intercultural experiences and attitudes at the beginning and the end of a semester-long course on multicultural issues. Participants were 290 undergraduate college students at the University of North Texas , 202 of whom were enrolled in one of the …
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Midpoint estimation applied to the vertical-horizontal illusion
Eighty-three college undergraduates estimated midpoints of vertical lines presented in cued (a letter or figure presented below the line), uncued, and inverted T conditions. Subject's mean estimates were near the geometric midpoint in the two cued conditions, and significantly above the midpoint in …
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Defining, Exploring, and Measuring Metacognitive Social Justice
… of the metacognitive social justice survey for college undergraduates, a psychometric instrument designed to measure the metacognitive social justice attributes in individuals described in the theoretical manuscript. The instrument was found to be increasing in quantitative validity through two …
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Equivalence-based instruction for a critical thinking skill
… critical thinking skills and compared across 30 college undergraduates who received either equivalence-based instruction, self-instruction, or no instruction in a pretest-train-posttest group design. Equivalence-based instruction resulted in greater mean score increases with shorter instructional …
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INTERRUPTING THE SILENCE: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF A PILOT SEMINAR ON RACISM, INTERSECTIONALITY, AND WHITE PRIVILEGE
… design and implementation of a pilot seminar for college undergraduates on the topics of racism, intersectionality, and white privilege. Utilizing Critical Communication Pedagogy as a theoretical and methodological approach, the author discusses the learning competencies, activities, and achieved …
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The Impact of Normative Beliefs, Religion, and Personality on College Drinking Behavior
… of alcohol consumption seen across many American college campuses, alcohol related problems continue to be an issue for several students ages 18-24. Past research has indicated that several factors may play a role in influencing one’s decision of whether or not to drink alcohol. Among these …
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The Relationship of Sociological, Psychological and Sociocultural Factors to The Career Motivation of Iranian Students
… ages 17 to 24, were high school seniors and college undergraduates from varying socioeconomic backgrounds. Survey instruments were administered to the subjects in their native language in Mashhad, Iran. The score on the career motivation measure served as the dependent variable. The …
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Communication and attributions: The interrelations of parent and peer support, disclosure, and learned helpless attributions
… maternal, and peer support in sample of college undergraduates enrolled in psychology classes. In two online data collection points, participants completed measures on peer, paternal, and maternal support, disclosure, and negative attributions. In order to examine associations among these …
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Order effects of variability-contingent and variability-independent point delivery: Effects on operant variability and target sequence acquisition.
… of variability (ANY conditions). Two groups of college undergraduates experienced different orders of conditions. One group began the experiment under VAR conditions, and the variability requirement was later removed. The other group began the experiment under ANY conditions, and the variability …
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Identification of Anxiety Endophenotypes Using Multidimensional Measures of Attention
… anxiety symptoms. In a final sample of 149 college undergraduates, who either completed the computer tasks in-lab (N = 28) or online (N = 121), we used an unsupervised clustering approach (k-means clustering) to assign individual cases to clusters, depending upon their performance on …
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Comparing Dispositional and Episodic Assessment of Drug Use Motives among College Students: Prediction of Use and Use-Related Consequences
… current study was conducted with a sample of 253 college undergraduates to extend the findings in the existing research on motivational models of alcohol and marijuana use. Specifically it was intended to evaluate the relative benefits of assessing motives for using these drugs during a specific …
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