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Between Home and Homeland: Jewish College Students Confront the Israel-Gaza Conflict and Campus Divides
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Jonathan Krasner; Cheryl Weiner; Meka Greenwald; Lance Rothchild – Journal of Jewish Education, 2025
This study examines the experiences of Jewish college students in the United States following the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel and the resulting Israel-Gaza conflict. Using qualitative analysis, it identifies six distinct response categories -- "Affirmed," "Aggrieved," "Retrenched," "Conflicted,"…
Descriptors: Conflict, War, Violence, Religious Factors
'I'm Caught in the Middle': Preschool Teachers' Perspectives on Their Work with Divorced Parents
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Levkovich, Inbar; Eyal, Galit – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2021
This study aimed to examine the perceptions of preschool teachers regarding their work with divorced parents. In-depth, semi-structured qualitative interviews with 15 preschool teachers were conducted. The findings show that preschool teachers devote twice as much time to communicating with divorced parents than with married parents. Furthermore,…
Descriptors: Divorce, Preschool Teachers, Conflict, Teacher Attitudes
Brief Report: Adolescents under Missile Attacks: Sense of Coherence as a Mediator between Exposure and Stress-Related Reactions
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Orna Braun-Lewensohn; Shifra Sagy; Guy Roth – Journal of Adolescence, 2011
Employing the salutogenic approach (Antonovsky, 1987), this pilot study aimed at exploring the mediation effect of Sense of Coherence (SOC) on the relationships between exposure to missile attacks and stress-related reactions among adolescents. A strong SOC means a tendency to see the world as more comprehensible, manageable and meaningful. Data…
Descriptors: Stress Management, Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Anxiety
The Psychological Well-Being of Unaccompanied Minors: A Longitudinal Study of Adolescents Immigrating from Russia and Ukraine to Israel without Parents
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Tartakovsky, Eugene – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2009
This paper examines the psychological well-being of high school adolescents immigrating from Russia and Ukraine to Israel without parents. Data were collected in a 3-year longitudinal study that covered the premigration through postmigration periods. Immigrant adolescents were compared with nonemigrating adolescents in Russia and Ukraine.…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Systems Approach, Adolescents, Foreign Countries
Aggressive Behavior among Israeli Elementary School Students and Associated Emotional/Behavioral Problems and Self-Control
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Ronen, Tammie; Rahav, Giora; Moldawsky, Ayala – School Psychology Quarterly, 2007
This study aimed to identify aggression patterns among students, compare teachers' and students' reports on aggressiveness, and examine whether emotional and behavioral problems and self-control intercorrelate with aggression and can explain it among students. The study investigated 363 students aged 8 to 11 years and their 12 homeroom teachers in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Gender Differences, Aggression
Specific Reading Impairments--Are They to Be Associated with Emotional Difficulties?
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Lamm, Oren; Epstein, Rachel – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1992
This study of the emotional status of 133 Israeli adolescents and young adults found no significant differences between subjects with dyslexia and controls. Both groups were easily differentiated from psychiatric patients. Subjects with severe deficits in ability to remember details of a text, and with concentration difficulties, exhibited high…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Anxiety, Association (Psychology), Cognitive Style