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Automatic thoughts, school success, efficiency and satisfaction of university students

Student Automatic Thoughts Questionnairy for assessment of University students’ tipical automatic thoughts during preparation for the exam and exam itself has been developed. The scale resulted with 5 intepretable 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’ sattisfaction, success and efficiency.

automatic thoughts; school success; satisfaction; efficiency; students; questionnaires; Croatia

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