Updating and Not Shifting Predicts Learning Performance in Young and Middle‐Aged Adults

Gijselaers, Hieronymus J.M.; Meijs, Celeste; Neroni, Joyce; Kirschner, Paul A.; Groot, Renate H. M. de

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“…The ALOUD study is an investigation of biological and psychological determinants of study success possibly affecting academic performance in adult students participating in adult distance education, the Open University of the Netherlands (OUNL; Neroni et al, 2015 ). Previous publications on the ALOUD study can be found here ( Gijselaers et al, 2015 , 2016a , b , c , 2017 ; Meijs et al, 2019 ). All new students attending the OUNL registered in the period of August 2012 to August 2013 ( N = 4,945) were approached to participate in ALOUD.…”

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“…This is an important indicator of study progress because more than 50% of the responders in the investigated population did not complete any course after 14 months, and many of them reported not having started studying. This is normal at such universities (Gijselaers et al, 2017). Since a course grade can only be obtained after a successful exam attempt, it is highly relevant to investigate whether grit is related to exam attempt.…”

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Measuring Perseverance and Passion in Distance Education Students: Psychometric Properties of the Grit Questionnaire and Associations With Academic Performance

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Gijselaers

et al. 2020

Front. Psychol.

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With modern technological advances, distance education has become an increasingly important education delivery medium for, for example, the higher education provided by open universities. Among predictive factors of successful learning in distance education, the effects of non-cognitive skills are less explored. Grit, the dispositional tendency to sustain trait-level passion and long-term goals, has raised much research interest and gained importance for predicting academic achievement. The Grit Questionnaire, measuring Perseverance of Effort and Consistency of Interests, has been shown to be a reliable instrument in traditional university student populations. However, the measurement and predictive validity of this questionnaire is still unknown for adult distance education university students who differ from traditional students in various ways (e.g., having a wider range of student ages). Based on a sample of 2,027 students from a distance education university, this study assessed the psychometric properties of the two-factor structure grit measured by the Grit Questionnaire. The findings suggest that the short form of the Grit Questionnaire is a potentially useful assessment tool for measuring the grit construct for distance learning higher education and that the Consistency of Interests factor is especially relevant to consider the improvement of learning performance for distance education in terms of courses credit and exam attempts. The measurement precision of the Perseverance of Effort factor, however, should be improved in future research to provide higher measurement accuracy and broader item coverage.

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Measuring Perseverance and Passion in Distance Education Students: Psychometric Properties of the Grit Questionnaire and Associations With Academic Performance

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“…However, since WD is so costly for society (OECD 2010 ) and burdensome for the disabled individuals themselves, prevention of permanent WD is important. Moreover, as the working population is ageing, and at the same time working life is becoming increasingly demanding cognitively and psychosocially (Gijselaers et al 2017 ; Singh-Manoux et al 2012 ), it is important to identify the psychosocial predictors of WD to determine how to prevent ill health and subsequent WD among professional/managerial employees. One of the primary tasks of OHS in Finland includes protection of employees’ work ability, for which purpose early identification of WD risk would be desirable and therefore instruments to tap risks are developed in OHS.…”

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Subjective cognitive complaints and permanent work disability: a prospective cohort study

Pihlajamäki

Arola

Ahveninen

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Int Arch Occup Environ Health

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Purpose Work disability (WD) is a medico-legal concept that refers to disability benefits (DB) granted due to diseases. We assessed whether subjective cognitive complaints (SCC)—presenting as self-rated difficulties of concentration, memory, clear thinking, and decision making—predict permanent WD in knowledge-intensive occupations. Methods In this prospective cohort study with up to 7-year follow-up, we combined the SCC questionnaire results with reliable registry data on the DBs of 7161 professional/managerial employees (46% females). We excluded employees who were on long-term sickness absence (SA) or had received a DB at baseline. The exposure variable was the presence of SCC. Age and SA before the questionnaire as a proxy measure of general health were treated as confounders and the analyses were conducted by gender. The outcome variable was a granted DB. The cumulative incidence function illustrates the difference between SCC categories, and the Fine-Gray model estimates the predictors of WD during the 8-year follow-up. Results The annual incidence of DB was 0.15% in the entire cohort: 0.18% among the females, and 0.12% among the males (p = 0.795). The most common primary reasons for permanent WD were mental (36%) and musculoskeletal (20%) disorders. SCC predicted DB in both genders when controlling for age and prior SA. Hazard ratios were 2.9 with a 95% confidence interval 1.4–6.0 for the females and 3.7 (1.8–7.9) for the males. Conclusion Subjective cognitive complaints predict permanent WD in knowledge-intensive occupations. This finding has implications for supporting work ability and preventing work disability among employees with cognitively demanding tasks.

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“…Moreover, as the working population is ageing, and at the same time working life is becoming increasingly demanding cognitively and psychosocially (57,58), it is important to identify the psychosocial predictors of WD to determine how to prevent ill health and subsequent WD among professional/managerial employees. Further research is needed to understand the causal pathways between psychosocial risks, cognitive impairment, illnesses, work productivity, and WD.…”

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Subjective Cognitive Complaints and Permanent Work Disability: A Prospective Cohort Study of 7,161 Employees in Primarily Knowledge-intensive Occupations with an up to Eight-Year Follow-up

Pihlajamäki¹,

Arola²,

Ahveninen³

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Background: Work disability (WD) is a medico-legal concept that refers to disability benefits (DB) granted due to diseases. We assessed whether subjective cognitive complaints (SCC) – presenting as self-rated difficulties of concentration, memory, clear thinking and decision making – predict permanent WD in knowledge-intensive occupations. Methods: We combined the SCC questionnaire results with reliable registry data on the DBs of 7,161 professional/managerial employees (46% females). We excluded employees who were on long-term sickness absence (SA) or had received a DB at baseline. The exposure variable was the presence of SCC. Age and SA before the questionnaire as a proxy measure of general health were treated as confounders and the analyses were conducted by gender. The outcome variable was a granted DB. The cumulative incidence function illustrates the difference between SCC categories, and the Fine-Gray model estimates the predictors of WD during the eight-year follow-up. Results: The most common primary reasons for permanent WD were mental (36%) and musculoskeletal (20%) disorders. SCC predicted DB in both genders when controlling for age and prior SA. Hazard ratios were 2.9 with a 95% confidence interval 1.4-6.0 for the females and 3.7 (1.8-7.9) for the males. After eight years, 3.1% of the females and 2.8% of the males in the abnormal SCC category had received a DB, while the respective figures in the reference category were 1.9% and 1.0%. Conclusion: Subjective cognitive complaints predict permanent WD in knowledge-intensive occupations among professional/managerial employees. This finding has implications for supporting work ability among employees with cognitively demanding tasks.

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Updating and Not Shifting Predicts Learning Performance in Young and Middle‐Aged Adults

Cited by 12 publications

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Measuring Perseverance and Passion in Distance Education Students: Psychometric Properties of the Grit Questionnaire and Associations With Academic Performance

Measuring Perseverance and Passion in Distance Education Students: Psychometric Properties of the Grit Questionnaire and Associations With Academic Performance

Subjective cognitive complaints and permanent work disability: a prospective cohort study

Subjective Cognitive Complaints and Permanent Work Disability: A Prospective Cohort Study of 7,161 Employees in Primarily Knowledge-intensive Occupations with an up to Eight-Year Follow-up

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