A significant factor in a faculty member's accepting or maintaining an academic appointment is the work environment. Assessing the work environment to identify characteristics that could increase faculty retention and recruitment could be valuable to an educational institution. This study assessed the academic dental work environment to identify positive and negative areas affecting career sati...

<p><span lang="EN-US">This study was conducted to determine the relationship between academic stress and life satisfaction among university students in Sabah, Malaysia. A total of 400 were selected as respondents data collected using questionnaires. Academic measured Perception Stress Scale (PAS), which has four subscales: i) Performance stress; ii) Workload perception workload exam...

From the Office of Faculty Development (M.F., V.S.), Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute, Philadelphia, PA; the Department of FamilyMedicine and Community Health (F.B.) and the Department of Pediatrics (V.S.), University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA; and the Department of Anthropology (F.B.), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA G iven the incr...

The impact of physician burnout on the quality of patient care is unclear. This cross-sectional study aimed to investigate the prevalence of burnout in family physicians in Croatia and its association with physician and practice characteristics, and patient enablement as a consultation outcome measure. Hundred and twenty-five out of 350 family physicians responded to our invitation to participa...

One goal of this research was to analyze problematic Internet use in university students according to such variables as gender, grade point average, satisfaction with one’s department, mother’s/father’s education level, smoking, alcohol consumption, gambling behavior, relationship between parents, length of Internet use, amount of time spent on the Internet daily, and using the Internet for aca...

INTRODUCTION Recently, medical education has made significant progress, and medical teachers are trying to find methods that have most impressive effects on learning. One of the useful learning methods is student active participation. One of the helpful teaching aids in this method is mobile technology. The present study aimed to determine the effect of sending educational questions through sho...

The focus of this study was to investigate the effects of student-question generation with online prompts on student academic achievement, question-generation performance, learning satisfaction and learning anxiety. This study adopted a quasi-experimental research design. Two classes of eighth grade students (N = 64) from one middle school participated in weekly 45-minute online question-genera...

This study seeks to investigate the relationship between locus of control with the academic performance of the M.A. students by considering the role of life quality and life satisfaction. This is an applied correlation research in which the samples are selected according to the stratified sampling. This sample includes 267 students in the second semester of the academic year in Islamic Azad uni...

The current study tests a model of academic satisfaction in engineering based on Lent, Brown, and Hackett's (1994, 2000) social cognitive career theory among a sample of 527 engineering majors attending a Hispanic serving institution. The findings indicated that (a) an alternative bidirectional model fit the data for the full sample; (b) all of the hypothesized relations were significant for th...