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The role of mental toughness and academic satisfaction in suppressing first-year students’ intentions to dropout of university

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datacite.subject.fosCiências Sociais::Psicologia
datacite.subject.fosCiências Sociais::Ciências da Educação
dc.contributor.authorRodrigues, Nuno
dc.contributor.authorRebelo, Teresa
dc.contributor.authorDelgado Rodríguez, Naira
dc.contributor.authorRodrigues, Nuno
dc.date.accessioned2026-09-21T10:50:08Z
dc.date.available2026-09-21T10:50:08Z
dc.date.issued2026-02-03
dc.description.abstract<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>The urgent need to reduce the substantial and persistent incidence of higher education dropout, especially during the first academic year, calls for further research to identify the core predictors of students’ withdrawal intentions and actual behaviors. Specifically, more research is needed to assess whether and how students’ personal resources and academic attitudes interplay in shaping this phenomenon. This study addresses these questions by examining the unexplored joint role of students’ mental toughness and academic satisfaction in counteracting their intention to leave university at the end of the first year. Data from a sample of 187 first-year undergraduates at a non-residential public university, collected at three measurement points, supported the validity of both variables in predicting dropout intentions, after controlling for the effects of academic performance. The results also indicated that the effect of mental toughness in suppressing dropout intentions does not occur when students are dissatisfied with the university. The main implications of these findings are presented and discussed.</jats:p>eng
dc.identifier.citationRodrigues, N., Rebelo, T., & Rodríguez, N. D. (2026). The role of mental toughness and academic satisfaction in suppressing first-year students’ intentions to dropout of university: N. Rodrigues et al. European Journal of Psychology of Education, 41(1), 22.
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s10212-026-01069-2
dc.identifier.issn0256-2928
dc.identifier.issn1878-5174
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.13/7956
dc.language.isoeng
dc.peerreviewedyes
dc.publisherSpringer Science and Business Media LLC
dc.relationUID/06317/2023
dc.relationUIDB/05037/2025
dc.relation.ispartofEuropean Journal of Psychology of Education
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectAcademic attitudes
dc.subjectCollege dropout
dc.subjectStudent retention
dc.subjectTertiary education
dc.subjectModeration
dc.subject.
dc.subjectFaculdade de Artes e Humanidades
dc.titleThe role of mental toughness and academic satisfaction in suppressing first-year students’ intentions to dropout of universityeng
dc.typejournal article
dspace.entity.typePublication
oaire.citation.issue1
oaire.citation.titleEuropean Journal of Psychology of Education
oaire.citation.volume41
oaire.versionhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85
person.familyNameRodrigues
person.givenNameNuno
person.identifier.ciencia-id1F1E-576E-B58C
person.identifier.orcid0000-0002-3470-0887
person.identifier.scopus-author-id57198261689
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