Maximizing tendency predicts university adjustment and academic performance
IntroductionDecision-making characteristics that contribute to university adjustment and academic performance have been important topics in the research on success in higher education. This study proposes a new perspective that maximizing tendency, as a decision-making style, influences adaptive out...
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| description | IntroductionDecision-making characteristics that contribute to university adjustment and academic performance have been important topics in the research on success in higher education. This study proposes a new perspective that maximizing tendency, as a decision-making style, influences adaptive outcomes in college life.Materials and methodsTwo studies were performed to investigate the positive effects of maximizing tendency on university adjustment and academic performance. In Study 1, we engaged in multistage data collection and surveyed 552 students in four universities. In over a span of 4 years, Study 2 was designed as a time-lagged survey with 309 students.ResultsThe results revealed that maximizers among students have better university adjustment after their first year at school and achieve higher GPAs when they finished their bachelor’s degree. Furthermore, eudaimonic well-being mediated the relationship between maximizing tendency and university adjustment (Study 1), whereas university adjustment mediated the relationship between maximizing tendency and college student’s academic performance (Study 2).ConclusionThese consistent results imply that maximizing tendency as a predictor of university adjustment and academic performance, showing its long-term positive impacts on adaptability and wellbeing. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-42a1580add214fc9960481855a34b6942023-06-07T05:03:28ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782023-06-011410.3389/fpsyg.2023.11884101188410Maximizing tendency predicts university adjustment and academic performanceMushi Li0Huiyuan Jia1Haixia Wang2School of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences and Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Health, Peking University, Beijing, ChinaCollege of Business Administration, Capital University of Economics and Business, Beijing, ChinaSchool of Journalism & Communication, Jinan University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, ChinaIntroductionDecision-making characteristics that contribute to university adjustment and academic performance have been important topics in the research on success in higher education. This study proposes a new perspective that maximizing tendency, as a decision-making style, influences adaptive outcomes in college life.Materials and methodsTwo studies were performed to investigate the positive effects of maximizing tendency on university adjustment and academic performance. In Study 1, we engaged in multistage data collection and surveyed 552 students in four universities. In over a span of 4 years, Study 2 was designed as a time-lagged survey with 309 students.ResultsThe results revealed that maximizers among students have better university adjustment after their first year at school and achieve higher GPAs when they finished their bachelor’s degree. Furthermore, eudaimonic well-being mediated the relationship between maximizing tendency and university adjustment (Study 1), whereas university adjustment mediated the relationship between maximizing tendency and college student’s academic performance (Study 2).ConclusionThese consistent results imply that maximizing tendency as a predictor of university adjustment and academic performance, showing its long-term positive impacts on adaptability and wellbeing.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1188410/fullmaximizing tendencyuniversity adjustmentacademic performanceeudaimonic well-beingGrade Point Average (GPA) |
| spellingShingle | Mushi Li Huiyuan Jia Haixia Wang Maximizing tendency predicts university adjustment and academic performance Frontiers in Psychology maximizing tendency university adjustment academic performance eudaimonic well-being Grade Point Average (GPA) |
| title | Maximizing tendency predicts university adjustment and academic performance |
| title_full | Maximizing tendency predicts university adjustment and academic performance |
| title_fullStr | Maximizing tendency predicts university adjustment and academic performance |
| title_full_unstemmed | Maximizing tendency predicts university adjustment and academic performance |
| title_short | Maximizing tendency predicts university adjustment and academic performance |
| title_sort | maximizing tendency predicts university adjustment and academic performance |
| topic | maximizing tendency university adjustment academic performance eudaimonic well-being Grade Point Average (GPA) |
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