Predicting College Success: The Relative Contributions of Five Social/Personality Factors, Five Cognitive/Learning Factors, and SAT Scores.

To-date, studies have examined simultaneously the relative predictive powers of two or three factors on GPA. The present study examines the relative powers of five social/personality factors, five cognitive/learning factors, and SAT scores to predict freshmen and non-freshmen (sophomores, juniors, seniors) academic success (i.e., GPA). The results revealed many significant predictors of GPA for both freshmen and non-freshmen. However, subsequent regressions showed that only academic self-efficacy, epistemic belief of learning, and high-knowledge integration explained unique variance in GPA (19%-freshmen, 23.2%-non-freshmen). Further for freshmen, SAT scores explained an additional unique 10.6% variance after the influences attributed to these three predictors was removed whereas for non-freshmen, SAT scores failed to explain any additional variance. These results highlight the unique and important contributions of academic self-efficacy, epistemic belief of learning and high-knowledge integration to GPA beyond other previously-identified predictors.

Study on relationships among psychiatric nurses' job burnout, self concept, serf-efficacy and social support / 中国实用护理杂志

Objective To investigate the job burnout of the psychiatric nurses and to explore the relationship between job burnout and self concept,self-efficacy,social support for the psychiatric nurses.Methods A total of 130 psychiatric nurses who worked in Wuhan were investigated with Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI),Tennessee Self-Concept Scale (TSCS),General Self-Efficacy Scale (GSES) and Social Support Scale (SSRS).The SPSS17.0 software was used for statistical analysis.We employed the job burnout dimensions as the dependent variable,while the self concept,self-efficacy and social support as the independent variable to establish the regression model.Results The job burnout of psychiatric nurses in terms of gender,marital status,education and professional tides had significant differences.Emotion exhaustion had negative correlation with self concept,self-efficacy and social support,depersonalization also had negative correlation with these three dimensions,while personal achievement had positive correlation with these three dimensions.Conclusions There is job burnout in emotion exhaustion,depersonalization,and personal achievement among psychiatric nurses.Nursing managers in psychiatric departments should pay more attention to enhance nurses' own ability and improve the level of nurses’self-concept,self-efficacy and social support,in order to reduce the job burnout.