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Internet addiction among Greek university students : demographic associations with the phenomenon, using the Greek version of young's Internet addiction rest
Frangos, Christos C.; Frangos, Constantinos C.; Kiohos, … - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 3 (2010) 1, pp. 49-74
Internet addiction (IA) is a new disorder described in 1996 by the psychologist Kimberly Young. The aim of this paper is to estimate the percentage of IA among Greek university students. Results of a sample survey among 1876 Greek university students, 18-27 years old, are presented. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009009824
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Internet Addiction among Greek University Students : Demographic Associations with the Phenomenon, Using the Greek Version of Young's Internet Addiction Test
Frangos, Christos C. - 2010
Internet addiction (IA) is a new disorder described in 1996 by the psychologist Kimberly Young. The aim of this paper is to estimate the percentage of IA among Greek university students. Results of a sample survey among 1876 Greek university students, 18-27 years old, are presented. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138907
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School-based healthcare and absenteeism : evidence from telemedicine
Komisarow, Sarah; Hemelt, Steven W. - 2023
The prevalence of school-based healthcare has increased markedly over the past decade. We study a modern mode of school-based healthcare, telemedicine, that offers the potential to reach places and populations with historically low access to such care. School-based telemedicine clinics (SBTCs)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013499181
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The impact of peer personality on academic achievement
Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; Non, Jan Adrianus; Zölitz, Ulf - 2017
This paper provides evidence of a novel facet of peer effects by showing how peer personality affects educational … persistence of their peers. The personality peer effects that we document are distinct from other observable peer characteristics … and suggest that the personality traits of peers causally affect human capital accumulation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011752330
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Who is sitting next to you? : peer effects inside the classroom
Sok Chul Hong; Lee, Jungmin - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 8 (2017) 1, pp. 239-275
We examine college students’ interaction within classrooms and estimate peer effects on their academic performance. We exploit a unique seating rule at a university in South Korea, known as the fixed-seat system. We propose a novel identification strategy based on students’ repeated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011801501
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Own motivation, peer motivation, and educational success
Bietenbeck, Jan - 2020
I study how motivation shapes own and peers' educational success. Using data from Project STAR, I find that academic motivation in early elementary school, as measured by a standardized psychological test, predicts contemporaneous and future test scores, high school GPA, and college-test taking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012316054
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Own motivation, peer motivation, and educational success
Bietenbeck, Jan - 2020
I study how motivation shapes own and peers' educational success. Using data from Project STAR, I find that academic motivation in early elementary school, as measured by a standardized psychological test, predicts contemporaneous and future test scores, high school GPA, and college-test taking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012313572
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Peers affect personality development
Shan, Xiaoque; Zölitz, Ulf - 2022
Do the people around us influence our personality? To answer this question, we conduct an experiment with 543 … of peers' extraversion, agreeableness, or neuroticism. To explain these results, we propose a simple model of personality … development under the influence of peers. Consistent with the model's prediction, personality spillovers are concentrated in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013186792
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Peers affect personality development
Shan, Xiaoyue; Zölitz, Ulf - 2022
Do the people around us influence our personality? To answer this question, we conduct an experiment with 543 … personality development under the influence of peers. Consistent with the model - prediction, personality spillovers are … concentrated in traits predictive of performance. Students adopt personality traits that are productive in the university context …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013187857
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Entrepreneurs' expectations and students' competencies according to the first stage of the Synergy project evaluation
Wiechetek, Lukasz; S̆irca, Nada Trunk - In: International journal of management, knowledge and … 3 (2014) 1, pp. 101-123
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010527457