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Manor-Binyamini, Iris; Benatov, Joy; Abu-Kaf, Sarah – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2020
Background: This study compared Bedouin mothers of adolescents with developmental disabilities (DD) and Bedouin mothers of typically developing adolescents using measures of social support, depression, and somatisation. It further examined whether social support and raising a child with DD would predict maternal depression and somatisation beyond…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Arabs, Mothers, Adolescents
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Magnezi, Racheli; Bergman, Lisa Carroll; Urowitz, Sara – Health Education & Behavior, 2015
Objectives. To understand how patient preferences and perceptions of their relationship with their doctor (as patient, friend, partner, client, consumer, or insured) affects confidence in care provided and participation in health care. Methods. Telephone questionnaire to 2,135 households, representative of the population in Israel. Results. A…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physician Patient Relationship, Patients, Physicians
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Aharony, Noa – College & Research Libraries, 2014
This study seeks to investigate whether information professionals, as well as LIS students, are ready to assimilate Facebook in their work and educational environments. The study uses the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) as well as some characteristics of the "Big Five" model of personality as a theoretical base from which to predict…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Web Sites, Adoption (Ideas), Graduate Students
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Ganayem, Asmaa N. – Journal of Educational Technology, 2012
This study aims to explore the nature of Internet access and use within Arab-Palestinian society in Israel. The research focuses on two points: (i) examining the pace of Internet growth during the last decade and studying the nature of the digital gaps within the studied society in a specific time, (ii) studying the extend of the effect of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Internet, Arabs, Access to Computers
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Sharabi, Adi; Margalit, Malka – International Journal for Research in Learning Disabilities, 2014
Positive and negative mood have often been considered indicators of wellbeing, affecting behavior and adjustment. This study evaluated the personal and familial predictors of positive and negative mood among 1,024 Israeli students (children with learning disabilities [LD]: 302 boys, 198 girls; children without LD: 308 boys, 216 girls). They were…
Descriptors: Positive Attitudes, Negative Attitudes, Well Being, Behavior Problems
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Shlomo, Shirley Ben; Ben-Ari, Orit Taubman; Findler, Liora; Sivan, Eyal; Dolizki, Mordechay – Social Work Research, 2010
Although becoming a grandmother represents an important transition in a woman's life, it has received scant research attention. This study used the model of growth developed by Schaefer and Moos in an attempt to identify personal and environmental resources that may contribute to a first-time maternal grandmother's mental health and her…
Descriptors: Daughters, Physical Health, Pregnancy, Intimacy
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Sharabi, Adi; Margalit, Malka – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2011
Many adolescents spend time online, communicating with friends, family members and strangers, and these social activities have been often related with their loneliness experience. The goals of this study were to examine the social distress expressed by adolescents with and without learning disabilities (LD) and to distinguish between unique…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Friendship, Adolescents, Psychological Patterns
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Aharony, Noa – Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 2009
This research set out to explore the attitudes of school, academic and public librarians towards marketing libraries. The main question that was examined is whether personality characteristics such as empowerment, extroversion and resistance to change influence librarians' attitudes towards the marketing of libraries. One hundred and fifty-six…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Public Libraries, Correlation, Library Services
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Somech, Anit; Ron, Ifat – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2007
Purpose: The success of schools fundamentally depends on teachers' willingness to go above and beyond the call of duty, namely, to exhibit organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs). Attempts to understand the causes of OCB frequently focus on individual characteristics; only recently have researchers begun to direct their attention to more…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Citizenship, Individual Characteristics
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Iecovich, Esther – Family Relations, 2005
The present study investigated differences between the general elderly population and elderly new immigrants from former Soviet Union countries in regard to the incidence of elder abuse and neglect, victims' characteristics, and perpetrators' characteristics. In addition, the study sought to examine predictors of various types of abuse and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Older Adults, Individual Characteristics, Victims of Crime
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Levy-Shiff, Rachel; Israelashvili, Ruth – Developmental Psychology, 1988
Using data from Israeli first-time fathers and mothers collected during pregnancy and while the infants were nine months old, regression analyses showed that personal and contextual sources were almost equally influential in determining the various aspects of fathering. Suggests that personal variables influence transfer of quality from the…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Ethnicity, Fathers, Foreign Countries
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Orbach, Israel; And Others – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 1981
Investigated latency-age children (N=11) who attempted or threatened suicide. Discovered common characteristics including: (1) suicidal parents; (2) a major family crisis; (3) excessive parental demands; (4) lack of satisfying relationships; (5) paradoxical death attitudes; and (6) positive strivings to stay alive. Developed a model for predicting…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Childhood Attitudes, Children, Death
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Schwartz, Chaya – Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 2003
A study involving 247 adults with intellectual disability living in group homes, and semi-independent and independent apartments, found residents' personal and behavioral characteristics explained more of the variance of total lifestyle satisfaction than the living arrangement. Participants who did not need mobility assistance or has less problem…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Behavior Problems, Foreign Countries