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  1. Full article: Persisting students' explanations of and emotional

    ABSTRACT. Academic failure is an important and personal event in the lives of university students, and the ways they make sense of experiences of failure matters for their persistence and future success. Academic failure contributes to attrition, yet the extent of this contribution and precipitating factors of failure are not well understood.

  2. Academic Failure in Secondary School: The Inter-Related Role of Health

    Academic failure, therefore, is an aspect of the individual life course that has implications for larger social problems and, as such, merits further attention. In this study, then, we draw on the classic epidemiological framework to examine the association between adolescent academic failure and both physical and mental health.

  3. PDF Prediction of Academic Procrastination by Fear of Failure and Self

    Many students in higher education are not successful and encounter academic failure (Vossensteyn et al., 2015). One of the factors associated with academic failure is academic procrastination (Kim & Seo, 2015; Steel, 2007). Procrastination, usually occurs when one activity is unnecessarily delayed, and individuals experience extremely severe ...

  4. The Impact of Mental Health Issues on Academic Achievement in High

    THE IMPACT OF MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES ON ...

  5. Academic procrastination and fear of failure: The role of irrational

    This cross-sectional study aims to fill that gap by investigating the relationship between irrational/rational academic beliefs, fear of failure, and academic procrastination in a sample of undergraduate students (N = 354). The current findings suggest that irrational academic beliefs are indirectly associated with academic procrastination ...

  6. How Do Students Perceive Academic Failure?

    What are persisting students' emotional responses to academic failure? (p. 188) For the study, Ajjawi et al. (2020) collected institutional data about enrollment status and course completion from over 9,000 students in an Australian college. To answer these questions, the researchers focused on the data of approximately 200 students, who had ...

  7. Self-compassion, Achievement Goals, and Coping with Academic Failure

    Two studies examined the relationship between self-compassion, academic achievement goals, and coping with perceived academic failure among undergraduates. Self-compassion entails being kind to oneself in instances of failure, perceiving one's experiences as part of the larger human experience, and holding painful feelings in mindful awareness. Study 1 (N = 222) found that self-compassion was ...

  8. PDF The Relationship between Fear of Failure, Academic Motivation and

    The Relationship between Fear of Failure, Academic Motivation and Student Engagement in Higher Education: A General Linear Model Nakhla, MA, BSc (Hons.) August, 2019. This thesis is submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Department of Educational Research, Lancaster University, UK.

  9. Academic Stress and Honors Students: A Phenomenological Study of

    Academic Stress and Honors Students

  10. Determinants of poor academic performance among undergraduate students

    Determinants of poor academic performance among ...

  11. Full article: Facing the fear of failure: An explorative qualitative

    The participants' descriptions of their performance anxiety and prior efforts to avoid academic failure may illustrate such maladaptive attempts to master the process of academic learning. The themes of staying focused when facing distractions (theme 3) and moving from fear to curiosity in academic learning (theme 4) may illustrate how moving ...

  12. Why Do Students Fail? Students' Perspective

    As reported by the University of Alabama's Center for Academic Success, "The impact of college failure can cause lasting damage to self-esteem, and the consequences can influence an entire ...

  13. Family and Academic Stress and Their Impact on Students' Depression

    Family and Academic Stress and Their Impact on Students ...

  14. Academic failure and students' viewpoint: The influence of individual

    Academic failure and students' viewpoint: The influence ...

  15. Self-compassion, Achievement Goals, and Coping with Academic Failure

    Two studies examined the relationship between self-compassion, academic achievement goals, and coping with perceived academic failure among undergraduates. Self-compassion entails being kind to oneself in instances of failure, perceiving one's experiences as part of the larger human experience, and holding painful feelings in mindful awareness. ...

  16. (PDF) Academic Failure: Unspoken Experiences by International

    Academic failure experiences were faced by international postgraduate students as a result of two major challenges: supervision issues, and faculty mismanagement.

  17. Understanding academic dishonesty during the thesis-writing process: A

    In conclusion, the lack of autonomy, coupled with the pressure to complete the thesis, the fear of failure, and the diminished interest in the field, emerge as significant motivational factors that lead students to engage in academic dishonesty during the thesis-writing process. 4.3. Lack of relatedness

  18. HOW STUDENTS RESPOND TO FAILURE

    Self-compassion, achievement goals, and coping with academic failure. Self and Identity, (3), 263-287. [Google Scholar] Nichols M. K. (2017). An examination of differences in Division I FBS student-athlete academic and athletic performance (Doctoral dissertation, University of Nevada-Las Vegas).

  19. Dealing with failure as a PhD student

    Understanding the nature of academic work means understanding that there is not a single academic who never experiences failure. #2. Celebrate your courage to take risks. Celebrating successes is great. However, when it comes to long-term resilience building, it draws attention to the wrong outcome.

  20. HOW STUDENTS RESPOND TO FAILURE

    Navigating scientific challenges, persevering through difficulties, and coping with failure are considered hallmarks of a successful scientist. However, relatively few studies investigate how undergraduate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) students develop these skills and dispositions or how instructors can facilitate this development in undergraduate STEM learning ...

  21. How to Deal With Academic Failure in Eight Steps (Starting By Not

    How to Deal With Academic Failure in Eight Steps (Starting ...

  22. Literature Review: Academic Dishonesty

    Failure to understand academic conventions. ... Beyond simply cutting-and-pasting from webpages, an entire Internet economy has sprung up that offers essays for students to purchase and pass off as their own. Students may also use wireless technology such as Bluetooth to share answers during exams, take pictures of exams with their smartphones ...