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Academic buoyancy protects achievement against minor academic adversities [PDF]

open access: yesLearning and Individual Differences, 2020
Academic buoyancy, the ability to respond adaptively to minor academic adversities, is positively related to achievement-related beliefs, emotions, and behaviours. No studies, however, have examined whether academic buoyancy moderates the relations between minor academic adversities and subsequent achievement.
D. Putwain   +2 more
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A Review of Academic Use of the Term “Minor Attracted Persons”

open access: yesTrauma, Violence, & Abuse
Although it originated within online pro-pedophile groups, the term “minor attracted person” (MAPs) has been adopted by some academic researchers as a neutral and non-stigmatizing alternative to the term “pedophile.” The transferral of this term from ...
Christina Farmer   +2 more
semanticscholar   +3 more sources

‘Maybe I’m a quiet activist’: Sex work scholars and negotiations of ‘minor’ academic-activism

open access: yesSexualities, 2022
With the intensification of calls for social ‘impact’ from research, there is renewed emphasis on academic-activism as a means to realize social change. But what ‘counts’ as activism in these visions of academic-activist impact?
M. Laing   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Does anyone benefit from exclusionary discipline? An exploration on the direct and vicarious links between suspensions for minor infraction and adolescents' academic achievement.

open access: yesAmerican Psychologist, 2022
The intended purpose of exclusionary discipline is to improve the learning environment by removing disruptive students; however, emerging evidence has suggested that these practices may have the opposite effect.
Ming-Te Wang   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The roles of suspensions for minor infractions and school climate in predicting academic performance among adolescents.

open access: yesAmerican Psychologist, 2021
African American adolescents are grossly overrepresented in rates of school suspensions for minor disciplinary infractions; however, the consequences associated with this disciplinary practice are unknown.
Juan Del Toro, Ming-Te Wang
semanticscholar   +1 more source

“Minor Setback, Major Comeback”: A Multilevel Approach to the Development of Academic Resilience

open access: yesJournal of Communication Pedagogy, 2021
This study examined communicative processes at multiple levels that may influence students’ academic resilience through transitions. Participant interviews (N = 23) revealed that at the individual level, students develop a resilient mindset and effective
Brandi N. Frisby, Jessalyn I. Vallade
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Minority Faculty and Academic Rank in Medicine [PDF]

open access: yesJAMA, 1998
Previous studies have found that fewer minority medical school faculty hold senior professorial ranks than do majority faculty and may not be promoted as rapidly.To determine whether minority faculty were as likely as majority faculty to have attained senior rank (associate professor or full professor) after adjusting for other factors that typically ...
Palepu, Anita   +5 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Emotional Intelligence and Personality Traits Based on Academic Performance

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
The purpose of this study was to examine the role of personality traits on academic performance. Furthermore, this study also aims at exploring the effects of virtual experience (mediator) and emotional intelligence (moderator) between personality traits
XinQi Dong   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Challenges and solutions for autism in academic geosciences [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Researcher diversity promotes research excellence. But academia is widely perceived as inaccessible to those who work in non-stereotypical ways, and disabled researchers are consequently chronically under-represented within higher education. The barriers
Johnson, Jessica H., Taylor, Nicola C.
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A university-wide survey of caregiving students in the US: Individual differences and associations with emotional and academic adjustment

open access: yesHumanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2022
The United States (US) does not formally count, recognize, or support students in higher education who are caregivers, unlike England and Australia. This mixed-methods study presents results from a new survey of caregiving undergraduate and graduate ...
Emma L. Armstrong-Carter   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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