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Valence and Motivation as Predictors of Student Time Use in Everyday Life: An Experience Sampling Study

Popular descriptions of studying frequency show remarkable discrepancies: students complain about their workload, and alumni describe freedom and pleasure. Unfortunately, empirical evidence on student time use is sparse. To investigate time use and reveal contributing psychological factors, we condu...

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Autores principales: Koudela-Hamila, Susanne, Grund, Axel, Santangelo, Philip, Ebner-Priemer, Ulrich W.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6593110/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31275217
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01430
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author Koudela-Hamila, Susanne
Grund, Axel
Santangelo, Philip
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description Popular descriptions of studying frequency show remarkable discrepancies: students complain about their workload, and alumni describe freedom and pleasure. Unfortunately, empirical evidence on student time use is sparse. To investigate time use and reveal contributing psychological factors, we conducted an e-diary study. One hundred fifty-four students reported their time use and valence hourly over 7 days, both at the start of the semester and during their examination period. Motivational problems, social support and self-control were assessed once via questionnaires. Whereas the mean academic time use was in the expected range, the between-subject differences were substantial. We used multilevel modeling to separately analyze the within- and between-subject associations of valence as within factor and time use and social support, self-control, and motivation as between factors and time use. The analyses revealed the importance of affective factors on a within-subject level. Before studying, valence was already low, and it deteriorated further during studying. As expected at the between-subject level, motivational problems were related to less time studying, whereas surprisingly, self-control had no effect. The findings at the start of the semester were replicated in the examination period.
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spelling pubmed-65931102019-07-03 Valence and Motivation as Predictors of Student Time Use in Everyday Life: An Experience Sampling Study Koudela-Hamila, Susanne Grund, Axel Santangelo, Philip Ebner-Priemer, Ulrich W. Front Psychol Psychology Popular descriptions of studying frequency show remarkable discrepancies: students complain about their workload, and alumni describe freedom and pleasure. Unfortunately, empirical evidence on student time use is sparse. To investigate time use and reveal contributing psychological factors, we conducted an e-diary study. One hundred fifty-four students reported their time use and valence hourly over 7 days, both at the start of the semester and during their examination period. Motivational problems, social support and self-control were assessed once via questionnaires. Whereas the mean academic time use was in the expected range, the between-subject differences were substantial. We used multilevel modeling to separately analyze the within- and between-subject associations of valence as within factor and time use and social support, self-control, and motivation as between factors and time use. The analyses revealed the importance of affective factors on a within-subject level. Before studying, valence was already low, and it deteriorated further during studying. As expected at the between-subject level, motivational problems were related to less time studying, whereas surprisingly, self-control had no effect. The findings at the start of the semester were replicated in the examination period. Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-06-19 /pmc/articles/PMC6593110/ /pubmed/31275217 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01430 Text en Copyright © 2019 Koudela-Hamila, Grund, Santangelo and Ebner-Priemer. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Valence and Motivation as Predictors of Student Time Use in Everyday Life: An Experience Sampling Study
title Valence and Motivation as Predictors of Student Time Use in Everyday Life: An Experience Sampling Study
title_full Valence and Motivation as Predictors of Student Time Use in Everyday Life: An Experience Sampling Study
title_fullStr Valence and Motivation as Predictors of Student Time Use in Everyday Life: An Experience Sampling Study
title_full_unstemmed Valence and Motivation as Predictors of Student Time Use in Everyday Life: An Experience Sampling Study
title_short Valence and Motivation as Predictors of Student Time Use in Everyday Life: An Experience Sampling Study
title_sort valence and motivation as predictors of student time use in everyday life: an experience sampling study
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6593110/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31275217
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01430
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