Student engagement in learning has well-recognized positive effects on both academic and non-academic aspects of development. However, there has been limited research on the factors that shape it. This study examined the influence of peers’ aca...
25 March 2022
Research rarely explores LGBTQ+ youth bullying in the context of culture-specific outcomes (e.g., LGBTQ+ identity development) and what can mitigate the impact of peer stressors. This study used a concurrent mixed methods design to explore how experi...
5 December 2018
Previous research found that weight-related behaviors and body weight tends to be similar between individuals and peers. Rather little is known how different domains of weight-related behaviors co-evolve in peer networks. Hence, this study explores h...
Background/Objectives: Social rejection during the latency stage is a significant risk factor for children’s emotional and social development. Whereas earlier research focused primarily on individual characteristics of rejected children, contem...
In the current study, latent growth curve modeling is used to explore growth in ethnic–racial identity (ERI) commitment from 9th to 12th grade as a function of two aspects of the school ethnic–racial environment—perceived representa...
The doctoral student experience is complex and multifaceted, and although it is increasingly examined in higher education research, there is still much to explore and understand about the topic. Despite expanding discourse, few investigations have be...
Background/Objectives: Peer motivational climate may influence how students experience collaboration and learning in group-based educational settings, but its measurement properties have not been examined in nursing students enrolled in clinical simu...
Several studies on peer assessment (PA) have highlighted significant benefits for the learning process such as increased student motivation, enhanced collaborative learning (especially in terms of EFL writing) and improved reflection skills. Research...
This study explores learners’ online peer review practices during a four-week second language writing project. The project was developed in a multi-section Spanish writing course at the college level. The study investigates how college Spanish learne...
This article presents the results of a non-experimental, quantitative cross-sectional study conducted on an adolescent group. The sample of adolescents was acquired from high schools and vocational training, where the relationship between the school...
Peer relationships are closely associated with the academic performance of adolescent students. This paper develops an integrated framework taking the peer main effect as the starting point to systematically incorporate the demonstration effect, the...
Social support is generally assumed to protect adolescents from digital risk, yet its associations may differ by source and context. Using national data from 9296 South Korean adolescents, this study examined associations among online hate exposure (...
Research has highlighted social–emotional learning (SEL) as a critical domain for 2-year-olds (2YOs), as well as the crucial role of their peers in the Early Childhood Education (ECE) context. Although strong evidence indicates that children be...
17 August 2021
Background: For digital tools to have high usability and fit service users’ health needs and socio-environmental context, it is important to explore usability with end-users and identify facilitators and barriers to uptake. Objective: To conduct user...
22 October 2021
Workplace interventions that leverage social tactics to improve health and well-being are becoming more common. As an example, peer mental health support interventions aim to reduce stigma and promote treatment seeking in first responder populations....
Background/Objectives: Child problem behaviors have been linked to immediate and long-term negative outcomes. Research has found that family and peer social capital have a strong influence on child behavioral outcomes. However, most research about so...
Peers emerge as emotionally present figures in the lives of young adults, capable of protecting them from the challenges that can cause the development of social anxiety. In the context of anxiety, self-control highlights a relevant potential, which...
17 May 2022
Peer education and peer counselling for health and wellbeing have been recognized as complementary approaches to professional intervention for over 50 years, but it is relatively recently that research into effects has become adequate. Potentially, t...
27 January 2023
Despite a growing evidence base on the effectiveness of community-based physical activity interventions for mental health, there is a lack of studies that focus on those affected by severe mental illness (SMI), who often experience poorer physical he...
In a peer-to-peer complex environment, information is permanently diffused. Such an environment can be modeled as a graph, where there are flows of information. The interest of such modeling is that (1) one can describe the exchanges through time fro...
The relative performance evaluation (RPE) hypothesis posits that executive compensation should not be influenced by uncontrollable exogenous shocks. However, prior studies often find limited empirical support for this hypothesis, partly because ident...
The Healthy Context Paradox suggests that victims of bullying struggle more with psychological adjustment in environments with low victimization norms. This study, guided by Beck’s Model of Depression, explores this phenomenon through a cogniti...
5 March 2021
Peer-support services enhance mental wellbeing and increase the knowledge and capabilities of self-help groups in various settings. To ensure that these services foster peer-support relationships as intended, it is necessary to design and assess them...
To be able to react adequately a smart environment must be aware of the context and its changes. Modeling the context allows applications to better understand it and to adapt to its changes. In order to do this an appropriate formal representation me...
Peer-to-peer car-sharing systems are an evolving branch of urban mobility, aligning with global trends focused on sustainable development and reducing congestion in cities. A research gap has been identified concerning the specific vehicle attributes...
Are people more afraid of peers living in hardship or peers driving luxury cars? Tri-Reference Point theory posits that individuals prioritize others’ minimum requirements over their goals. This suggests people should be less willing to accept...
31 May 2025
The present study investigated how the quality of teacher–student relationships and students’ social status among peers relate to bullying experiences in children with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and those with typical...
Peer assessment has been shown to be useful in a variety of educational contexts, but there is a scarcity of research on how prior experience affects university students’ perceptions of this form of assessment. This study evaluates whether expe...
In the context of exercise psychology, the mediating relationship between peer support, self-efficacy and self-regulation, and adolescents’ exercise adherence was to be explored. Methods: A questionnaire was distributed among 2200 teenagers fro...
Artificial intelligence (AI) has become increasingly embedded in technology-enhanced learning environments, where peer assessment now serves both instructional and analytic purposes. Beyond allocating feedback and grades, it also produces data that i...
The sharing economy has evolved into a promising business concept that enables individuals to share their idle resources, improving resource utilization efficiency commercially. Recently, it has gained enormous academic attention. However, little con...
Adolescence is a critical period for sociopolitical development, yet research has primarily focused on youth with explicit civic engagement, overlooking the role of community involvement in broader contexts. This mixed-methods study examines how adol...
The co-evolution of techno-economic, societal, environmental and political-institutional systems towards sustainable energy transitions is largely influencing the disruptive reconfiguration of the energy sector across the globe. At the heart of this...
As a popular strategy in collaborative learning, peer assessment has attracted keen interest in academic studies on online language learning contexts. The growing body of studies and findings necessitates the analysis of current publication trends an...
18 February 2023
For many, including military veterans and their families, support between individuals with shared lived experiences, or peer support, has long been utilized as a way to support each other through many different challenges. Building on other reviews a...
Peer effects in the context of higher education have lately received increased attention. Higher diversity in the composition of new cohorts of students, generated mainly in countries where public and institutional policies have enabled access to stu...
Parents and peers play critical roles in the socialization of children and adolescents, yet investigations on the role played by parents vs. peers have been largely separate for many years. To address this problem, we invited leading scholars in the...
10 February 2021
Perceived social support opportunities are central to successful exercise referral scheme (ERS) client experiences. However, there remains a lack of guidance on how ERSs can embed social support opportunities within their provision. This study presen...
17 December 2025
Self-harm among young women has been rising internationally and in Australia, yet many are not in contact with formal services. Peer support may play an important role in managing self-harm; however, it remains under-investigated. This qualitative st...
Background/Objectives: Autism research has often interpreted autistic sociality through neurotypical norms, limiting ecological accounts of autistic meaning-making and context-sensitive support needs. Social virtual environments (SVEs), such as VRCha...
The present study is a qualitative expansion of pre-existing quantitative research. Two groups of teenagers from a previous longitudinal study were specifically targeted, namely those who demonstrated extraordinary increases in their pro-environmenta...
Nowadays one of the main focuses of the Spanish University system is achieving the active learning paradigm in the context of its integration into the European Higher Education Area. This goal is being addressed by means of the application of novel t...
5 August 2022
Individuals with disabilities may experience higher rates of opioid/substance use disorders (OUD/SUD) than other individuals and are likely vulnerable to unmet treatment needs. Peer support may be beneficial to these individuals, given the evidence o...
Although research on the associations between COVID-19 and social relationships has garnered attention, there has been less of a focus on how COVID-19 was discussed within relationships themselves. The present study deepens the understanding of the w...
Peer support is a widely recognized approach in higher education, improving learning efficiency, facilitating the exchange of knowledge, and helping students transition into university life through mutual help and collaboration. However, the evidence...
Digital peer-assessment systems can scale performance-based evaluation, but psychometric quality depends on how rubric criteria and rating categories function under rater-mediated use. This study used Many-Facet Rasch Measurement (MFRM) to evaluate a...
21 June 2022
Although previous research has investigated the associations among family factors, school factors, peer factors, and problematic Internet use, its causal direction has not been verified, particularly in the Chinese context. Using school-based data, t...
During the pandemic, many institutions shifted to online teaching, and in some cases, this included existing peer learning programs. As the pandemic receded, some of these peer learning programs returned to face-to-face operation and others adopted a...
(1) Background: Sports participation offers vital physical, psychological, and social benefits, yet dropout rates remain high. Drawing on Self-Determination Theory, previous research has primarily analyzed dropout from an individual-centered perspect...
Learning from feedback depends not only on the feedback provided but also on how learners interpret, evaluate, and respond to it. This descriptive phenomenological study explored how preclinical medical students experienced receiving peer evaluation...
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