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Anxiety and academic burnout in migrant children: a chain mediation model of positive psychology and self-concept

Frontiers in Psychology
BackgroundThis study examined the impact of anxiety on academic burnout among migrant children who changed schools during the middle-to-upper primary grades. It further investigated the independent and sequential mediating roles of positive psychological
Xiang Ji, Tao Wei, Yu Zuo, Miaomiao Wang
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Hong Kong's non‐local undergraduate recruitment: Policies, institutional practices and student perspectives

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Beneath the Hong Kong government's enthusiasm for recruiting non‐local undergraduates—including students from the Chinese Mainland and other international regions—lies a longstanding gap in understanding the core meanings and drivers shaping the territory's expanding focus on inward international student mobility (ISM).
Fang Gao, Wei Yan Xiong, Hei‐hang Hayes Tang, Xiao Han   +3 more
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Contrasting roles of school and public libraries in lower primary pupils' reading

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Libraries represent an important institutional component of children's reading socialisation, yet their role is often treated as uniform despite substantial differences between school and public libraries. This study examines how visits to school and public libraries relate to pupils' reading attitudes, practices and self‐assessed reading ...
Kateřina Balcarová, Jiří Balcar
wiley   +1 more source

Online networks and subjective well-being [PDF]

, 2014
We argue that the use of online networks may threaten subjective well-being in several ways, due to the inherent attributes of Internet-mediated interaction and through its effects on social trust and sociability.
Sabatini, Fabio, Sarracino, Francesco
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Beyond standardisation, subjects and syllabi: How primary schools organise for arts richness in an era of curriculum reform

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract As England embarks on its first comprehensive curriculum review in fifteen years, this paper offers critical insights from schools that sustained arts‐rich provision despite a policy landscape hostile to creative subjects. Drawing on data from the Researching Arts‐rich Primary Schools (RAPS) project—a mixed‐methods study of 76 arts‐rich ...
Pat Thomson, Christine Hall
wiley   +1 more source

Realising the benefits of sports and physical activity : the human capital model [PDF]

, 2015
Despite the fact that physical activity is universally acknowledged to be an important part of healthy functioning and well being, the full scope of its value is rarely appreciated.
Cope, Ed, Parnell, Daniel
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Beyond the phonics debate: Blending code and context in classroom reading instruction

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This mixed‐methods study adds to the body of knowledge around current reported practices of teachers of reading in the early years of schooling in Australia. It provides a comprehensive analysis of 254 teachers' practices and perspectives as reported by the study participants.
Rachelle Naidu, Stacey Campbell, Sue Walker   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

From Shop floor to top floor. An exploratory study of sustainable progression in the retial sector: the case of Morrisons [PDF]

, 2010
There has been increasing political and media attention given to the issue of social mobility in recent times. The interest has been sparked by research which suggests that social mobility may have stalled or even declined in the UK during the post-war ...
Devins, DM, Iles, P, Stewart, J
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Sensing Subjective Well-being from Social Media

, 2014
Subjective Well-being(SWB), which refers to how people experience the quality of their lives, is of great use to public policy-makers as well as economic, sociological research, etc.
A.J. Oswald, A.L. Duckworth, C.D. Ryff, D. Watson, E. Diener, E. Diener, J. Bollen, J.W. Pennebaker, M. Kosinskia, M.A. Brackett, R. Gao   +10 more
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The Effect of Positive Psychological Capital on Emotional Labor

International Journal of Research in Business and Social Science (2147- 4478), 2015
In modern age, positive psychological capital is as important as financial capital for organizational development and sustainability. Efficacy, hope, optimism, and resilience are the dimensions of positive psychological capital. Emotional labor is defined by Hochschild as control of self emotions at work by workers who have a high degree of contact ...
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