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Samodejne misli, študijski uspeh, učinkovitost in zadovoljstvo pri univerzitetnih študentih
Ivanka Živčić-Bećirević & Nada Anić
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Written in English. | Published: March 1, 2001
Abstract: Student Automatic Thoughts Questionnaire for assessment of University students' typical automatic thoughts during studying and taking an exam has been developed. The scale resulted with 5 interpretable subscales: negative expectations and discouragement regarding exam; negative attitude toward the subject; fear of disappointing parents; lack of motivation; and positive (encouraging) automatic thoughts. Successful and efficient students, as well as students who are satisfied with their achievements, have more positive, and less negative automatic thoughts focused on failure, parents' disappointment and motivation. Automatic thoughts better differentiate students by their satisfaction, than by their success and efficiency. Negative automatic thoughts related to fear of disappointing parents are the best predictor while negative automatic thoughts related to negative attitude toward the subject are the worst predictor of students' satisfaction, success and efficiency.
Keywords: automatic thoughts, school success, satisfaction, efficiency, students, questionnaires, Croatia
