Achievement Goals and Engagement With Academic Work in Early High School: Does Seeking Help From Teachers Matter?

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 222-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stéphane Duchesne ◽  
Simon Larose ◽  
Bei Feng
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Achievement Goals ◽  
Help Seeking ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Cognitive Engagement ◽  
Academic Work ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Seeking Help

The aim of this longitudinal study was to examine seeking help from teachers as a mechanism mediating the relationship between achievement goals adopted by students early in the school year and their degree of behavioral and cognitive engagement in academic work almost 2 years later. A sample of 456 French Canadian students (215 boys; 240 girls; one unspecified) in Grade 7 (61%) and Grade 8 (39%) participated in the study. Results of structural equation modeling showed that mastery goals (approach and avoidance) were indirect predictors of both behavioral and cognitive engagement through seeking help from teachers. Performance goals (avoidance, but not approach orientation) were associated with cognitive engagement through help-seeking behaviors. Overall, these results suggest that achievement goals are key drivers of changes in academic engagement in early high school and that their contribution is explained by seeking help from teachers. Practical implications, limitations, and future research directions are discussed.

College Women’s Subjective Femininity Stress, Gender Solidarity, and Psychological Help-Seeking Intentions

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 438-461 ◽  
Author(s):  
Munyi Shea ◽  
Y. Joel Wong ◽  
Kimmy K. Nguyen ◽  
Serani Baghdasarian
Keyword(s):  
Help Seeking ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Reasoned Action ◽  
Social Stigma ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Female Gender ◽  
Psychological Help ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Help Seeking Attitudes

Female gender has been consistently associated with positive psychological help-seeking attitudes and behaviors; however, surprisingly few empirical studies have examined how femininity-related variables impact women’s help-seeking decision making. Informed by the theory of reasoned action (Ajzen & Fishbein, 1980), the purpose of this study was (a) to investigate the associations between two femininity constructs—subjective femininity stress and gender solidarity—and psychological help-seeking intention, and (b) to explore the mediating roles of help-seeking attitudes and social stigma using structural equation modeling. Participants were 451 college-enrolled women in Southern California. Results revealed that all the mediation relationships involving help-seeking attitudes and stigma were significant. Subjective femininity stress was positively related to help-seeking intention via help-seeking attitudes, but was negatively related to intention via social stigma. Gender solidarity was positively related to help-seeking intention via positive attitudes and reduced social stigma. Implications for future research, prevention programs, and practice are discussed.

Effects of Social Capital in Multiple Contexts on the Psychosocial Adjustment of Chinese Migrant Children

2016 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 150-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiaobing Wu
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Psychosocial Adjustment ◽  
Latent Variables ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Migrant Children ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Study Results

Drawing upon a sample of 772 migrant children and their parents in Shanghai, China, this study used an ecological framework to investigate how social capital embedded in a range of social contexts (i.e., family, school, peer, and community) influenced the psychosocial adjustment of Chinese migrant children. Using structural equation modeling with latent variables, the study results suggested that higher levels of family, school, and peer social capital were all associated with better psychosocial adjustment of migrant children, with school social capital showing the strongest effect. In addition, these three dimensions of social capital also mediated the effect of community social capital on children’s psychosocial adjustment. Implications of these findings for theory, practice, and future research were discussed.

scholarly journals A look at the bright side of dance: Analysis of the relationship between dance experience, experience quality, satisfaction and word of mouth

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-104
Author(s):  
METIN ARGAN ◽  
SABRI KAYA ◽  
CANER OZGEN ◽  
GOZDE YETIM ◽  
ALIKHAN GUSEYNO
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Word Of Mouth ◽  
Practical Implication ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Significant Relationships ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Managerial Implications ◽  
The Relationship

Background: Leisure experience, including dance motivation, is one of the key factors for participation in dance events or festivals. Therefore, the experience quality that facilitates individual relationships is likely to influence the dancers’ participation. The purpose of this study is to determine and to analyze dance experience motivations, experience quality, satisfaction and word-of-mouth. Material and methods: The sample of this study consisted of 201 persons who attended the Turkey Dance Festival and who were selected by the convenience sampling method. In this study, the theoretical principles of structural equation modeling (SEM) were applied with the Amos 20 program to analyze the data. Results: The results showed that there were significant relationships (<0.05) between dance experience motivations, experience quality, satisfaction and WOM. This study results are important both as significant and practical implication for leisure managers’ strategies regarding their leisure and experience motivation, and contribution to the leisure literature. Conclusions: The findings of this study can help event managers contribute to increased participation in sustainable dance practices, and the participant-based experience value can be used as a planning tool to attract the attention of event organizers. The findings of this study also give useful insights into theoretical, practical and managerial implications for dance event organization and provide suggestions for future research.

Grit is Associated with Lower Depression via Meaning in Life among Filipino High School Students

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (6) ◽  
pp. 865-876 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesus Alfonso D. Datu ◽  
Ronnel B. King ◽  
Jana Patricia M. Valdez ◽  
Maria Socorro M. Eala
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
Meaning In Life ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
School Students ◽  
Presence Of Meaning ◽  
Study Results

Grit—passion and perseverance for long-term goals—has been linked to a wide array of positive academic and psychological outcomes. However, limited research has been conducted to explore the association of grit with different indicators of well-being and psychological health. The primary objective of this study was to assess the associations among grit, meaning in life, and depression. There were 447 Filipino high school students who participated in the study. Results of structural equation modeling showed that grit was linked to higher levels of meaning in life dimensions (i.e., presence of meaning and search for meaning in life) and presence of meaning was associated with lower depression. Bias-corrected bootstrapping revealed that grit had an indirect negative influence on depression through the intermediate variable—presence of meaning in life. Theoretical and practical implications are elucidated.

Student Participation Behaviour outside the Classroom

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamer H. Elsharnouby
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Student Participation ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Gulf Region ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Managerial Implications ◽  
University Services ◽  
University Brand

Drawing on literature pertaining to services marketing, branding and higher education, this study empirically identifies the antecedents of student attitude towards university brand and examines the influence of brand attitude on student participation behaviour in the university services provision. With data collected from 379 students from a leading university in the Gulf region and using structural equation modeling, the study identifies three key antecedents of students' attitude — namely, perceived faculty competency, quality of interactions among students and quality of student–administrative/IT staff interaction. The study results also suggest that a favourable evaluation of university brand in students' minds will enhance their propensity to participate actively in university services provision. The paper concludes by discussing the managerial implications of the findings, and some directions for future research are suggested.

An investigation of the internal environment and its effect on the sustainability of social enterprises in Pakistan

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Asad Sarfaraz Khan ◽  
Qadar Bakhsh Baloch ◽  
Syed Naseeb Ullah Shah
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Structural Model ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Internal Environment ◽  
Study Results

This study aims to examine how factors related to internal environment (i.e. human resource skills, organizational culture and funding) affect the sustainability of social enterprises in Pakistan. The three internal factors i.e. human resource skills; organizational culture and funding were hypothesized to have a positive impact on the sustainability of social enterprises in Pakistan. The study employed questionnaire survey to collect data from a total of 300 respondents using convenient sampling. The theoretical model proposed in the current study was tested using structural equation modeling. The structural model supports all hypotheses proposed in the current study. Results suggest that human resource skills, organizational culture and funding have significant positive impact on the sustainability of social enterprises in Pakistan. The study also demonstrates implications for researchers and practitioners with avenues for future research. Keywords: Social enterprises, sustainability, organization culture, funding, human resource skills.

How School Leadership Influences Student Learning: A Test of “The Four Paths Model”

2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 570-599 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth Leithwood ◽  
Jingping Sun ◽  
Randall Schumacker
Keyword(s):  
School Improvement ◽  
Student Learning ◽  
School Leadership ◽  
Latent Variables ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Future Research ◽  
State Tests ◽  
Achievement Data ◽  
Study Results

Purpose: This study tested a set of variables mediating school leadership’s influence on students referred to as “The four paths model.” Each path in the model includes variables with significant direct effects on student learning and which are malleable to practices included in an integrated model of effective school leadership. Research Design: Evidence for the study were responses to a survey by 1,779 teachers in 81 Texas elementary schools about the status of school leadership and all 13 variables on the four paths. Student achievement data were provided by results of state tests combining all subjects and all grades, while the count and percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch was used to estimate socioeconomic status. Confirmatory factor analysis, regression analysis, and structural equation modeling were used to analyze the data. Findings: Results uncovered a more nuanced and complex set of relationships among the four paths and their component variables than was specified in the original version of the model. School leadership significantly influenced student learning only through variables on one path, while variables on the other three paths influenced student learning only through their contribution to variables on that one path. Conclusions: Results point to the value of future research about the relationships among variables on the four paths, as well as efforts to identify latent variables among the observed variables in the study. Results of the study can be used by school leaders to more productively focus their school improvement efforts.

scholarly journals Seeing destinations through vlogs: implications for leveraging customer engagement behavior to increase travel intention

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (10) ◽  
pp. 3227-3248
Author(s):  
Yusi Cheng ◽  
Wei Wei ◽  
Lu Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Source Credibility ◽  
Customer Engagement ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Media Consumption ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Engagement Behavior

Purpose This study aims to understand customers’ watching experience with travel vlogs and its impacts on one of the most prominent manifestations of customer engagement behaviors (CEBs) – word-of-mouth (WOM) – and their travel intention. Drawing upon the theory of resonance, this study incorporated both cognitive and emotional aspects of travel vlog watching experience. Design/methodology/approach Online survey data were collected from 352 participants who have watched travel vlogs over the past 12 months. Partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) was performed for hypotheses testing. Findings The study results reveal positive impacts of source credibility, inspiration, escapism and self-congruence on WOM, which further leads to travel intention. While source credibility is the strongest predictor of WOM, more factors representing the emotional resonance turn out to be the driving factors of WOM. Research limitations/implications This study pinpoints the value of investigating audiences’ vlogs watching experience from a CEB perspective within the tourism setting. Future research is encouraged to explore more types of CEBs in the intersection of social media consumption and travel behaviors. Practical implications Travel vloggers need to convey their intrinsic passion and enthusiasm to create an emotional connection with the audiences. Hospitality and tourism marketers are recommended to promote products and services by incentivizing audiences to engage with the travel vlogs. Originality/value No prior research integrated vlogs watching experiences, engagement behavior and future travel intention in a tourism setting. This study fills this gap and contributes to the literature on customer engagement, media consumption and marketing.

scholarly journals Modeling Corporate Environmental Responsibility Perceptions and Job-Seeking Intentions: Examining the Underlying Mechanism

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 6270
Author(s):  
Md Sohel Chowdhury ◽  
Dae-seok Kang
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Organizational Trust ◽  
Underlying Mechanism ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Environmental Responsibility ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Corporate Environmental Responsibility ◽  
Job Seeking ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Research Findings

This study aims to propose and empirically test a research model to examine the relationship between prospective employees’ corporate environmental responsibility (CER) perceptions and their attraction to an organization based on social theories. This may be the first study to elucidate how CER perceptions can influence prospective employees’ job-seeking intentions by exploring the sequential mediating mechanism of organizational trust and job-seeking attitudes in a prehire context. Collecting data from a sample of 357 young prospective employees, the research hypotheses were tested using path analysis with AMOS (version 24), a structural equation modeling (SEM) program. The study results revealed direct association of CER perceptions and job-seeking attitudes with job-seeking intentions. Observably, the organizational trust could not predict job-seeking intentions. However, organizational trust and job-seeking attitudes together sequentially and partially mediated the direct effects of CER perceptions on job-seeking intentions. In line with the research findings, some notable theoretical contributions and practical implications for HR professionals have been discussed. The paper concludes by presenting some limitations and future research directions.

scholarly journals Fear of Terror and Psychological Well-Being: The Moderating Role of Emotional Intelligence

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (11) ◽  
pp. 2554 ◽  
Author(s):  
Syed Asad Ali Shah ◽  
Tian Yezhuang ◽  
Adnan Muhammad Shah ◽  
Dilawar Khan Durrani ◽  
Syed Jamal Shah
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Significant Negative Relationship ◽  
Study Results

The purpose of this study was to empirically explore whether or not the level of emotional intelligence of adolescents mitigates the potential adverse effects of the fear of terror on their psychological well-being. Data for this study were collected through a voluntary survey from a sample of 385 adolescents residing in the terrorism-affected provinces of Pakistan: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) and Balochistan. The results from the structural equation modeling revealed that fear of terrorism had a significant negative relationship with the psychological well-being of adolescents. The study results further revealed that emotional intelligence significantly moderated the relationship between the fear of terrorism and the psychological well-being of the adolescents. Therefore, the negative relationship was stronger for those with low emotional intelligence and weaker for those with high emotional intelligence. This study also discusses several practical implications along with suggestions for future research.

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