Social cognitive and self-construal predictors of well-being among African college students in the US
| Autor: | Robert W. Lent, Ijeoma Ezeofor |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Self construal media_common.quotation_subject Variance (accounting) Education Academic satisfaction Feeling Well-being Relevance (law) Life-span and Life-course Studies Psychology Social psychology Applied Psychology Social cognitive theory media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Vocational Behavior. 85:413-421 |
| ISSN: | 0001-8791 |
| Popis: | We examined social cognitive and cultural predictors of academic satisfaction in African students studying at American universities. In addition to predictors drawn directly from the social cognitive model of work and educational well-being (Lent, 2004; Lent & Brown, 2006, 2008), self-construal was included in the predictive model as a culture-specific variable with potential relevance to academic satisfaction. Self-construal refers to the way in which one's thoughts, behaviors, and feelings are guided by one's relationship to self and others (Markus & Kitayama, 1991). The findings indicated that the model, with some modification, fit the data well and accounted for 59% of the variance in academic satisfaction. The findings also suggested that the three indicators of self-construal (personal, relational, and collective) do not relate directly to academic satisfaction but rather operate through mediated pathways. Implications of the findings for research and practice are discussed. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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