scholarly journals Psycho-Situational Path Model of Ambidextrous Preparation for Quality Aging in College Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 841-852
Author(s):  
Nonthacha Chaitawittanun ◽  
Duangduen Bhanthumnavin ◽  
Duchduen Emma Bhanthumnavin ◽  
Kosol Meekun ◽  
Narisara Peungposop ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Latent Variable ◽  
Future Orientation ◽  
Latent Trait ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Path Model ◽  
Self Evaluation ◽  
Quality Of Living ◽  
Knowledge Usage

During the period of old age, everyone wishes to have good quality of living. However, only the ones who have been well-prepared at the younger age could make this wish comes true. This study aims at investigating the psychosocial antecedents of the preparation of quality aging based on ambidextrous approach. Samples were 489 undergraduate students. Path analysis with latent model revealed a good fit. The findings revealed that psychological latent trait (future orientation and self-control, need for achievement, mental health, and core self-evaluation) and situational latent variable (perceived modeling, social support, and social norm) directly affected the preparation for quality aging  (present quality of life, knowledge acquisition, and knowledge usage) via the psychological latent state R2 of 0.606 latent (attitude towards preparation, and locus of control of preparation) with the. Discussion and implications are offered.

scholarly journals Associativism and quality of life among undergraduate students in dentistry

Revista CEFAC ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 493-502
Author(s):  
Douglas Francisco Kovaleski ◽  
Onésio Grimm Neto ◽  
Vinícius Spieger ◽  
Fernando Mendes Massignam
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Public Health Approach ◽  
The Public ◽  
Self Evaluation ◽  
Concept Of Health ◽  
Negative Feelings ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship

ABSTRACT Objective: to analyze the relationship between student participation in associations and the way they perceive their quality of life. Methods: a study of one hundred and sixty students of Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) Dentistry course belonging to the first, fifth, eighth and tenth semesters in Florianopolis, SC, Brazil. The theoretical basis is the Public Health approach, that, under the wider concept of health, considers associations as health promoters. A sociodemographic questionnaire, a questionnaire on associativism and the WHOQOL-Bref were used for data collection. Results: the results indicate that the participation of Dentistry students in associations improves self-evaluation of quality of life, satisfaction in personal relationships and reduces the frequency of negative feelings. Conclusion: students who participate in voluntary associations are associated with a better quality of life, promoting a more adequate professional formation. In this way, the participation of students in associations should be stimulated by the University. This perspective of analysis values social aspects in the perspective of health and can be a pioneering study in a field where there is still much to be studied, and can bring substantial contributions to the field of collective health and health as a whole.

scholarly journals A Study of Psychosocial Factors Related to Preserving Thai Traditions of Undergraduate Students

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4.38) ◽  
pp. 1314
Author(s):  
Shuttawwee Sitsira-at
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Multiple Regression Analysis ◽  
Multiple Regression ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Role Model ◽  
Future Orientation ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Male Students ◽  
Psychological Traits

This correlational comparative study aimed at investigating important psychological and situational predictors of preserving Thai traditions, as well as, finding the groups at risk of not preserving Thai traditions. The sample of 1,297 undergraduate students from 10 universities in junior and senior levels was obtained. The sample consisted of 265 male students and 1,032 female students. The stratified quota random sampling was used. The hypotheses are tested by Multiple Regression analysis. Results of the research found that the positively correlation between students’ psychological traits, social situations, psychological states and preserving Thai traditions is statistically significant at .01. Results of the total sample from multiple regression analysis indicated that behavioral intention to Thai-value was the first important predictor of this behavior, followed by social norm, cultivated by families, opening for information, role model, core-self-evaluation, attitude toward Thai products, psychological immunity, perceived ease of shopping Thai products, ego identity, and Future orientation and self-control with the accuracy of 45.3%. The highest predictive percentage of 31.6% was found in male students with the same important predictors as the total group. Furthermore, the results showed that male in senior students were the groups at risk of not preserving Thai traditions.       

scholarly journals SELF-EVALUATION OF STUDENTS’ TEACHING/LEARNING PROCESS FOR QUALITY ASSURANCE

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 113
Author(s):  
Pēteris Vucenlazdans
Keyword(s):  
Work Force ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Individual Development ◽  
Quality Of Education ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Self Evaluation ◽  
Humanistic Approach ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
The University

There are students at higher school without enough study motivation. How to educate them effectively, how to guarantee high quality of education, how to correspond to the demands of the work – force market and help them to become competitive employees? And alongside with these problems there is a mutual necessity to succeed in their mental and moral spheres development, be sure that the students get ideas about the sense of life and about their place in the society and in the university. The process of democratization of our society allows us to introduce and use humanistic approach in all what concerns the content of studies, methodology and results. The student’s individual development, self – education and self – control become especially important.

scholarly journals Predictors of Attitude towards Preparation for Quality Aging in Undergraduate Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 396-404
Author(s):  
Nonthacha Chaitawittanun ◽  
Duchduen Emma Bhanthumnavin ◽  
Duangduen Bhanthumnavin ◽  
Kosol Meekun
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Multiple Regression Analysis ◽  
Multiple Regression ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Future Orientation ◽  
Total Sample ◽  
Situational Factors ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Shed Light

This correlational study aims at investigating important predictors and predictive percentage of psychological and situational factors on attitude towards preparation for quality aging. Samples were 489 undergraduate students. Results from Multiple Regression Analysis on attitude towards preparation for quality aging in total sample yielded 43.07%. The important predictors were future orientation and self-control, social support, and need for achievement.  The predictive percentage in subgroups range from 34.86% to 47.89%. The interesting findings were found in some subgroups in terms of different predictors from the total sample. The findings from this study could shed light on increasing favorable attitude towards preparation for quality aging in adolescents. Discussion and implications are presented.

scholarly journals Uma aplicação da Teoria da Resposta ao Item na avaliação do ENADE do curso de Administração

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. e34
Author(s):  
Vinícius Teodoro Scher ◽  
Fernando De Jesus Moreira Junior ◽  
Angela Cristina Corrêa
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Latent Trait ◽  
Academic Skills ◽  
National Assessment ◽  
Important Data ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Evaluative Instrument ◽  
Graduating Students ◽  
Educational Field

Traditionally considering gross or standardized scores as the result of an individual's assessment or selection is a common fact. However, the results obtained depend on the items or questions that compose the evaluation instruments. Model applications that provide a better interpretability of the evaluative instrument, the Item Response Theory (IRT) allows to measure the latent trait of individuals, that is, characteristics that cannot be directly observed. The National Assessment of Student Achievement (ENADE) aims to assess the performance of undergraduate students in relation to syllabus, their skills and competences. Its results provide important data in the educational field, building references that allow the definition of actions aimed at improving the quality of undergraduate courses. This article presents an analysis of the 2009 ENADE test that was answered by 231.531 new and graduating students of the Business Administration course of several institutions in the country through the IRT. It was possible to verify the feasibility of using the IRT as an instrument to measure ENADE items, as well as the occurrence of a latent trait gain between incoming and graduating students, showing that the graduates at the end of the academic period had average latent trait superior to newcomers and somehow built up academic skills.

Conceptualizing Protective Family Context and Its effect on Substance Use: Comparisons Across Diverse Ethnic-Racial Youth

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Constante ◽  
Edward Huntley ◽  
Emma Schillinger ◽  
Christine Wagner ◽  
Daniel Keating
Keyword(s):  
Substance Use ◽  
Measurement Invariance ◽  
Latent Variables ◽  
Latent Variable ◽  
Path Model ◽  
Family Context ◽  
Partial Metric ◽  
Racial Groups ◽  
Protective Methods ◽  
Family Variables

Background: Although family behaviors are known to be important for buffering youth against substance use, research in this area often evaluates a particular type of family interaction and how it shapes adolescents’ behaviors, when it is likely that youth experience the co-occurrence of multiple types of family behaviors that may be protective. Methods: The current study (N = 1716, 10th and 12th graders, 55% female) examined associations between protective family context, a latent variable comprised of five different measures of family behaviors, and past 12 months substance use: alcohol, cigarettes, marijuana, and e-cigarettes. Results: A multi-group measurement invariance assessment supported protective family context as a coherent latent construct with partial (metric) measurement invariance among Black, Latinx, and White youth. A multi-group path model indicated that protective family context was significantly associated with less substance use for all youth, but of varying magnitudes across ethnic-racial groups. Conclusion: These results emphasize the importance of evaluating psychometric properties of family-relevant latent variables on the basis of group membership in order to draw appropriate inferences on how such family variables relate to substance use among diverse samples.

Inhibition tasks are not associated with self-regulation outcomes in healthy college students

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Curtis David Von Gunten ◽  
Bruce D Bartholow ◽  
Jorge S. Martins
Keyword(s):  
Latent Variable ◽  
Convergent Validity ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Poor Performance ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Life Outcomes ◽  
Variable Level ◽  
Cast Doubt ◽  
The Individual

Executive functioning (EF) is defined as a set of top-down processes used in reasoning, forming goals, planning, concentrating, and inhibition. It is widely believed that these processes are critical to self-regulation and, therefore, that performance on behavioral task measures of EF should be associated with individual differences in everyday life outcomes. The purpose of the present study was to test this core assumption, focusing on the EF facet of inhibition. A sample of 463 undergraduates completed five laboratory inhibition tasks, along with three self-report measures of self-control and 28 self-report measures of life outcomes. Results showed that although most of the life outcome measures were associated with self-reported self-control, none of the life outcomes were associated with inhibition task performance at the latent-variable level, and few associations were found at the individual task level. These findings challenge the criterion validity of lab-based inhibition tasks. More generally, when considered alongside the known lack of convergent validity between inhibition tasks and self-report measures of self-control, the findings cast doubt on the task’s construct validity as measures of self-control processes. Potential methodological and theoretical reasons for the poor performance of laboratory-based inhibition tasks are discussed.

The Four Branches of the Mabinogi, ed. and trans. by Matthieu Boyd, with the modernization assistance of Stacie Lents. Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview Press, 2017, 119 pp., 5 b/w ill, 1 map.

Mediaevistik ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 401-401
Author(s):  
Albrecht Classen
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Twelfth Century ◽  
English Translation ◽  
English Version ◽  
Personal Names ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
Link Type ◽  
Welsh Literature

Welsh medievalists have long recognized the canonical quality of The Four Branches of the Mabinogi (late eleventh or early twelfth century), resulting in a long series of editions and translations. William Owen Pughe was the first to offer a modern English translation in 1795. The <?page nr="402"?>recent translation by Will Parker (2005) is available now online at: <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://www.mabinogi.net/translations.htm">http://www.mabinogi.net/translations.htm</ext-link>, and I suspect that many university teachers happily rely on this one because of its easy accessibility and clarity of the English version. Now, Matthieu Boyd, who teaches at Fairleigh Dickinson University (Florham Campus, Madison, MD), offers a new rendering, which is specifically targeting undergraduate students. This explains his strategy to modernize the medieval Welsh as much as possible, and to turn this marvelous text into an enjoyable read even for contemporary students, without moving too far away from the original. This modernization was carried out with the assistance of his colleague, the playwright Stacie Lents. This entails, for instance, that even some of the medieval names are adapted. Many times the conservative reader might feel uncomfortable when words and phrases such as “to shit,” “to egg on,” “to nip at the heels,” or “Manawydan & Co” (60–61) appear. The adaptation of personal names is not carried out systematically, but the overall impression of this translation is certainly positive, making the study of this masterpiece of medieval Welsh literature to a real pleasure.

Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility Volume 6

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Moral Responsibility ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
Moral Agency ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Moral Testimony ◽  
Quality Of Will ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Standing To Blame

This is the sixth volume of Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility. The papers were drawn from the fourth biennial New Orleans Workshop in Agency and Responsibility (NOWAR), held November 2–4, 2017. The essays cover a wide range of topics relevant to agency and responsibility: the threat of neuroscience to free will; the relevance of resentment and guilt to responsibility; how control and self-control pertain to moral agency, oppression, and poverty; responsibility for joint agency; the role and conditions of shame in theories of attributability; how one might take responsibility without blameworthy quality of will; what it means to have standing to blame others; the relevance of moral testimony to moral responsibility; how to build a theory of attributabiity that captures all the relevant cases; and how thinking about blame better enables us to dissolve a dispute in moral philosophy between actualists and possibilists.

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