How Do Demands and Decision Latitude Predict Students' Success in Distance Education? (Poster 4)

• In Event: AERA Poster Session Fourteen
  In Poster Session: Improving Practice and College Student Success

Abstract

The present study transfers the well-established Job Demands-Resources Model (Demerouti et al., 2001) from the job to the distance learning environment. The model distinguishes a health impairment and a motivational process to explain the effects of job demands and resources like decision latitude on occupational outcomes via mediation of exhaustion and engagement.
283 psychology students of the largest German distance university completed an online questionnaire.
Mediation analyses showed a significant negative effect of study demands on all examined study outcomes which was fully mediated by exhaustion. Decision latitude had a significant positive effect on satisfaction and self-assessed expertise, partially mediated by engagement and exhaustion, but no significant effect on average grades. Implications are discussed.

Authors

• Ina Elisabeth Pumpe, Fernuniversität in Hagen
  Presenting Author

• Kathrin Jonkmann, Fernuniversität in Hagen
  Non-Presenting Author