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  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
12,657 Views
21 Pages

18 August 2020

Isolated teachers in stand-alone American schools are expected to engage diverse students in the quest to facilitate their academic learning and achievement. This strategy assumes that all students will come to school ready and able to learn, and edu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,085 Views
13 Pages

Higher education (HE) in developing countries like Vietnam has shown to be a growing sector even under the worldwide impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, due to the typical characteristics of education in general and HE in particular, there is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,774 Views
13 Pages

There are various ways that teachers manage student disengagement levels during their class lessons, and managing disengagement can be both stressful and challenging, especially since each student is unique. Methods and techniques utilised are specif...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,503 Views
13 Pages

In the virtual environment, hostile and aggressive comments that could negatively affect university students who often use different digital platforms are frequently observed, more than other age groups who have little or no supervision. In this sens...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,267 Views
13 Pages

24 June 2024

Moral disengagement in sports refers to the psychological process through which individuals distance themselves from the ethical implications of their actions within the sporting context. This study aims to examine the role of religious commitment be...

  • Concept Paper
  • Open Access
12 Citations
8,795 Views
13 Pages

10 October 2020

It is well-recognised that disengagement is a growing problem in schools across the globe. Furthermore, statistics show that nearly 60% of all gifted students are not actualising their potential, exposing the loss of potential for both the individual...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,138 Views
13 Pages

31 August 2023

According to previous theories of aggression, positive outcome expectancy for aggression can predict aggression, while moral disengagement and negative outcome expectancy for aggression may, respectively, serve as mediators and moderators in this pre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,438 Views
12 Pages

“I Am on Top!”: An Interactive Intervention Program to Promote Self-Regulation Processes in the Prevention of the Use of Doping in Sports High Schools

  • Federica Galli,
  • Andrea Chirico,
  • Roberto Codella,
  • Thomas Zandonai,
  • Vindice Deplano,
  • Alessandra De Maria,
  • Tommaso Palombi,
  • Daniel Gotti,
  • Fabio Alivernini and
  • Fabio Lucidi
  • + 1 author

The use of substances to improve sports performance is a widespread phenomenon among adolescents. Several anti-doping programs have been developed, mainly based on knowledge-based evidence. The main aim of the present study was to implement an anti-d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,596 Views
24 Pages

In educational settings, students rely on metacognitive processes to determine whether or not to exert effort. We investigated ways to minimize cognitively disengaged responses (i.e., not-fully-effortful responses) during a low-stakes mathematics ass...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,374 Views
14 Pages

Sustaining Learning Interest Among Disengaged Students: Impacts of Constructive Feedback

  • Rapee Kanchana,
  • Panitnan Techanan,
  • Kongkiti Phusavat,
  • Adhi Kusumastuti and
  • Dusan Lesjak

24 April 2025

This research explores the role of external feedback (provided by a foreign business community or FBC) in students’ learning. The aim is to determine whether indirect constructive feedback can sustain learning interest among disengaged students...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
10,019 Views
16 Pages

4 February 2017

There are media and research reports of international students from the People’s Republic of China as being deficient in the capabilities for thinking critically. This paper argues for a shift in the frame for researching their critical thinking, mov...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,532 Views
12 Pages

5 February 2020

Engaging each student in learning comprises a continuous challenge and concern for the contemporary teacher. Educational research confirms the alarming increase of the disengaged students, relating student disaffection to adverse effects on students&...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,625 Views
14 Pages

This paper forms part of a larger study that examined the effectiveness of a targeted social and emotional program to re-engage early adolescents who were already showing signs of disengaging from schooling. Using qualitative methodology, data for th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,643 Views
14 Pages

13 October 2021

Attempts to understand the patterns behind student disengagement and early school leaving have traditionally focussed on early school leavers’ individual characteristics. More recently, however, studies have begun to focus on the extent to which earl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,768 Views
15 Pages

Online deviant behavior is a series of maladaptive behaviors that may have adverse effects on the physical and mental health of others and adolescents in the Internet environment. Previous studies have paid more attention to the risk factors of adole...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,556 Views
11 Pages

31 August 2021

Background/Aims: When people hone their emotional skills, they become better at manipulating others. They use their emotional skills for coping with the demands of life. This study investigated the mediating role of moral disengagement between emotio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,961 Views
18 Pages

11 February 2023

Civilisation changes affect the attitudes and behaviour of consumers related to food waste. Most food is wasted by households. The purpose of this study was to assess the behaviour and attitudes of Polish students related to food waste and to determi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
8,459 Views
15 Pages

A Real-Time Learning Analytics Dashboard for Automatic Detection of Online Learners’ Affective States

  • Mohammad Nehal Hasnine,
  • Ho Tan Nguyen,
  • Thuy Thi Thu Tran,
  • Huyen T. T. Bui,
  • Gökhan Akçapınar and
  • Hiroshi Ueda

24 April 2023

Students’ affective states describe their engagement, concentration, attitude, motivation, happiness, sadness, frustration, off-task behavior, and confusion level in learning. In online learning, students’ affective states are determinati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,661 Views
13 Pages

Exploring Burnout among Nursing Students in Bangalore: A t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding Analysis and Hierarchical Clustering in Cross-Sectional Data

  • Michael Sebastian,
  • Maddalena De Maria,
  • Rosario Caruso,
  • Gennaro Rocco,
  • Cristina Di Pasquale,
  • Arianna Magon,
  • Gianluca Conte and
  • Alessandro Stievano

16 July 2024

This study explores burnout among nursing students in Bangalore, India, focusing on Exhaustion and Disengagement scores. A cross-sectional design was applied using the Oldenburg Burnout Inventory modified for nursing students, collecting data using a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
1,977 Views
14 Pages

Analyzing Latent Burnout Profiles in a Sample of Spanish Nursing and Psychology Undergraduates

  • Raimundo Aguayo-Estremera,
  • María José Membrive-Jiménez,
  • Luis Albendín-García,
  • José L. Gómez-Urquiza,
  • José Luis Romero-Bejar,
  • Emilia Inmaculada De la Fuente-Solana and
  • Gustavo R. Cañadas

8 February 2024

There is abundant literature suggesting that university students in helping professions experience high levels of stress, leading to an increased risk of developing burnout. The objective of this study was to identify burnout profiles in a sample of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,140 Views
12 Pages

Moral Disengagement Mechanisms and Personality Dimensions Implicit to Homophobia

  • José Antonio González-Fuentes,
  • Juan Manuel Moreno-Manso,
  • Mónica Guerrero-Molina,
  • Eloísa Guerrero-Barona and
  • María Elena García-Baamonde

Recent advances in sexual equality and diversity have not been able to mitigate the serious problem of discrimination suffered by sexual minorities. The most serious cases involve violence and physical or psychological aggression towards sexual orien...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,488 Views
23 Pages

Development and Validation of a Scale to Assess Moral Disengagement in High-Carbon Behavior

  • Susanne Stoll-Kleemann,
  • Philipp Franikowski and
  • Susanne Nicolai

21 January 2023

The reduction of individual carbon consumption could make an important contribution to the worldwide effort to limit global warming. Based on Bandura’s theory of moral disengagement, we hypothesized that the propensity to morally disengage conc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,051 Views
22 Pages

Exploring How Implicit and Explicit Attitudes Relate to Pro-Environmental Behaviors: The Mediating Role of Environmental Moral Disengagement

  • Marinella Paciello,
  • Raffaele Barresi,
  • Giuseppe Corbelli,
  • Alessandro Pollini and
  • Alessandro Caforio

9 November 2025

The present study aims to contribute to a better understanding of the attitude–behavior link in the sphere of environmental issues by taking into account the role of moral disengagement. Pro-environmental attitudes, at both the implicit and exp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,330 Views
15 Pages

28 April 2023

The present study predicts teacher burnout from previous experiences, efficacious beliefs, student achievement, and parental engagement. Data came from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science study (TIMSS 2019) and utilized a random sampl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,066 Views
15 Pages

Disengagement of students during online learning significantly impacts the effectiveness of online education. Thus, accurately estimating when students are not engaged is a critical aspect of online-learning research. However, the inherent characteri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
86 Citations
81,971 Views
12 Pages

21 April 2023

The success or failure of a student depends on several factors, including self-esteem, academic engagement, and motivation. Self-esteem and motivation have been found to influence academic engagement, which, in turn, contributes to academic performan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,625 Views
11 Pages

The Role of Emotions, Moral Disengagement and Gender in Supporting Victims of Bullying

  • Maria Carmen Cabrera,
  • Elisa Larrañaga and
  • Santiago Yubero

3 December 2020

Previous research shows that classmates supporting victims’ defence is fundamental to combat bullying. To find a suitable response for the bullying problem, we must bear in mind how all the victim’s classmates respond and what variables c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,011 Views
15 Pages

Predictors of Students’ Mental Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Impact of Coping Strategies, Sense of Coherence, and Social Support

  • Charlotte Torinomi,
  • Katajun Lindenberg,
  • Andreas Möltner,
  • Sabine C. Herpertz and
  • Rainer M. Holm-Hadulla

Young people and women seem to suffer more from social restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic than do others. Findings from pre-pandemic surveys identified students as a specific risk group for developing anxiety and depressive symptoms. Recent st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
171 Views
21 Pages

12 January 2026

Background/Objectives: Cyber bystanders can choose from several different strategies during cyberbullying incidents and have a significant effect on the situation. Hence, cyber bystanders are specifically targeted by prevention programmes and researc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
7,553 Views
11 Pages

Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a public health issue worldwide and a serious violation of human rights. Recognizing IPV as a form of violence is essential for both victims who need help and offenders who can join treatment programs. Furthermore,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
10,114 Views
24 Pages

“Helping Nemo!”—Using Augmented Reality and Alternate Reality Games in the Context of Universal Design for Learning

  • Nayia Stylianidou,
  • Angelos Sofianidis,
  • Elpiniki Manoli and
  • Maria Meletiou-Mavrotheris

This article reports on the main experiences gained from a teaching intervention which utilised the alternate reality game ‘Helping Nemo’ in an augmented reality environment for formative assessment. The purpose of the study was to explor...

  • Commentary
  • Open Access
1,225 Views
11 Pages

11 August 2025

This commentary addresses a problem of practice related to student disengagement in technology-rich classrooms, where learners are digitally connected but socially and academically disconnected. Although not an empirical study, the commentary draws o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Views
25 Pages
Educ. Sci.2026, 16(1), 142;https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci16010142 
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16 January 2026

Tutoring has played a significant role in pandemic-related learning recovery, supporting student learning and engagement. This paper follows up on a recent randomized controlled trial (RCT) estimating that one-on-one virtual early literacy tutoring w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,176 Views
25 Pages

12 September 2025

Providing educators with equity-focused professional development (PD) is an evidence-based strategy for ameliorating inequitable student outcomes (e.g., racial achievement gaps). However, growing fatigue with—and backlash against—equity e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,052 Views
16 Pages

Environmental Justice Pedagogies and Self-Efficacy for Climate Action

  • M’Lis Bartlett,
  • Jordan Larson and
  • Seneca Lee

14 November 2022

As institutions of knowledge and innovation, colleges and universities have a responsibility to prepare students to lead in a world impacted by climate change. While sustainability and climate change have been increasingly addressed on campuses, seve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,397 Views
15 Pages

10 September 2023

Formal education in high school focuses primarily on knowledge acquisition via traditional classroom teaching. Younger generations of students tend to lose interest and to disengage from the process. Gamification, the use of gaming elements in the tr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,662 Views
11 Pages

Coping with COVID-19: The Strategies Adapted by Pakistani Students to Overcome Implications

  • Gul Muhammad Baloch,
  • Kamilah Kamaludin,
  • Karuthan Chinna,
  • Sheela Sundarasen,
  • Mohammad Nurunnabi,
  • Heba Bakr Khoshaim,
  • Syed Far Abid Hossain,
  • Areej Al Sukayt and
  • Laareb Gul Baloch

COVID-19 has speedily immersed the globe with 72+ million cases and 1.64 million deaths, in a span of around one year, disturbing and deteriorating almost every sphere of life. This study investigates how students in Pakistan have coped with the COVI...

  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
9,794 Views
13 Pages

10 August 2020

Higher education is experiencing a paradigm shift from passive learning towards active learning. The COVID-19 pandemic has further presented an opportunity for education providers to enhance teaching that includes non-campus modes. However, concerns...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,103 Views
10 Pages

Individual and Contextual Factors Associated with Adolescents’ Self-Perceived Need for Treatment

  • Roanny Torres Lopes,
  • Érick Tássio Barbosa Neves,
  • Laio da Costa Dutra,
  • Ramon Targino Firmino,
  • Larissa Chaves Morais de Lima,
  • Saul Martins Paiva,
  • Fernanda Morais Ferreira and
  • Ana Flávia Granville-Garcia

The present study aimed to investigate associations between the self-perceived dental treatment need and clinical factors, familial characteristics, and school context in adolescents. A cross-sectional study was conducted with a representative sample...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,596 Views
25 Pages

8 May 2025

This study explores the complex relationships among student cynicism, student–university identification, academic self-efficacy, and academic performance within the context of Turkish higher education. Drawing on social identity and social cogn...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,188 Views
14 Pages

1 December 2025

In this study, we examined the interrelations between motivation and self-regulated learning (SRL) strategies in the context of online English language instruction among Chinese university students. Data were collected from 1100 first-year undergradu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
11,833 Views
13 Pages

How Students’ Inspirations and Aspirations Impact Motivation and Engagement in the First Year of Study

  • Melissa M. Lacey,
  • Hollie Shaw,
  • Nikki Abbott,
  • Caroline J. Dalton and
  • David P. Smith

2 December 2022

Within this study, we aim to better understand the inspirations and aspirations of first year Biosciences and Chemistry undergraduates, how these change over the first year of study and their impact on motivation and engagement. Participants were ask...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
7,146 Views
11 Pages

Emotional Intelligence, Sense of Coherence, Engagement and Coping: A Cross-Sectional Study of University Students’ Health

  • Elena Fernández-Martínez,
  • Ana I. López-Alonso,
  • Pilar Marqués-Sánchez,
  • María Cristina Martínez-Fernández,
  • Leticia Sánchez-Valdeón and
  • Cristina Liébana-Presa

6 December 2019

It is important to consider university settings as sustainable environments that promote student well-being. Our aim in this study was to determine how the variables of engagement, emotional intelligence, sense of coherence, and coping influence the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,559 Views
43 Pages

19 June 2025

Political polarization in the United States has made conversations across ideological divides increasingly difficult to navigate. This study explores how students at a regional university in the southern U.S. experience and manage these challenges. B...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,773 Views
16 Pages

Deep Analysis of Student Body Activities to Detect Engagement State in E-Learning Sessions

  • Shoroog Ghazee Khenkar,
  • Salma Kammoun Jarraya,
  • Arwa Allinjawi,
  • Samar Alkhuraiji,
  • Nihal Abuzinadah and
  • Faris A. Kateb

17 February 2023

In this paper, we propose new 3D CNN prediction models for detecting student engagement levels in an e-learning environment. The first generated model classifies students’ engagement to high positive engagement or low positive engagement. The s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
7,258 Views
23 Pages

3 July 2025

Contemporary educational literature suggests that academic emotions and emotion regulation should be explored in tandem, while academic motivation has been discussed both as a self-regulation metacognitive construct and as a construct inherently tied...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,326 Views
22 Pages

Cyberbullying behaviours begin at primary school, so the actions taken by pre-teachers will play a key role in achieving the goals in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. More specifically, active coping strategies are essential in reducing v...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,070 Views
13 Pages

27 November 2020

The nexus between digital technologies, engagement and learning is often cited as being correlational, but is widely misunderstood. Research is clear that engagement can lead to better academic outcomes and improved learning, but less clear about the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,004 Views
24 Pages

4 January 2023

Recent research into Arabic learning at Australian Islamic schools presented evidence of non-Arab Muslim learners’ dissatisfaction with Arabic learning. This article explores the Arabic learning experiences of non-Arab Muslim learners of Arabic...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
8,080 Views
19 Pages

“Church” in Black and White: The Organizational Lives of Young Adults

  • Rhys H. Williams,
  • Courtney Ann Irby and
  • R. Stephen Warner

12 July 2016

The religious lives of young adults have generally been investigated by examining what young people believe and their self-reported religious practices. Far less is known about young adults’ organizational involvement and its impact on religious iden...

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