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Zilka, Gila Cohen – International Education Studies, 2022
These days, children are exposed to a variety of information sources and channels, which create more complex interactions than ever before. It is important, therefore, to develop and reinforce children's self-leadership. The present work is a narrative qualitative study focusing on the story of Lile, a 14-year-old Israeli girl who was assessed as…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Females, Foreign Countries, Interaction
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Ella Ofek-Geva; David Fortus – International Journal of Science Education, 2024
While students tend to enjoy their science learning at a young age, as they mature, they tend to distance themselves from science, becoming less motivated to engage with science and holding negative attitudes towards science. In parallel, a career choice in science often begins to develop during early adolescence. To understand how the environment…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Grade 5
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Goldner, Limor; Berenshtein-Dagan, Tal – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2016
Associations between security within the family, satisfaction of basic psychological needs, true-self behavior, and knowledge of true self, as well as levels of adjustment, were explored in a sample of early adolescents and midadolescents in Israel (N = 302, mean age = 14.19 years). Both security within the family and needs satisfaction were found…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Security (Psychology), Social Adjustment, Emotional Adjustment
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Bar-Joseph, Hanna; Tzuriel, David – Adolescence, 1990
Investigated relationship between ego identity development and suicidal inclinations at adolescence. Results from suicidal (N=10) and normative (N=30) adolescents revealed that most of the ego identity factors examined differentiated between the two groups. Findings support hypothesis that ego identity formation at adolescence may serve as…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Foreign Countries
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Apter, Alan; And Others – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1981
Adolescents with varying combinations of pubertal delay and growth retardation were given the Offer Self-Image Questionnaire. Delay in sexual maturation by itself had no deleterious effect on self-image but growth retardation did. (Author/GK)
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Physical Development
Fisherman, Shraga – Gifted Education International, 2001
Eighty-five adolescent boys studying at an Israeli school for the academically talented and 27 adolescent boys studying at a regular school filled out ego identity questionnaires and cognitive complexity questionnaires. Talented boys scored higher on cognitive complexity and on two dimensions of ego identity: (1) meaningfulness versus alienation…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Adolescent Development, Cognitive Development, Foreign Countries
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Levy, Amihay; And Others – Adolescence, 1987
Asserts that inadequate attention has been paid to the problems of the young soldier entering army life in Israel. Delineates some areas of friction and vulnerability between the worlds of the youth and the military. Describes the systematization of these encounters into groups, creating the "Binary Model," which helps in locating and…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Armed Forces, Coping
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Isralowitz, Richard E. – Adolescence, 1989
Examined family unemployment in terms of its effects on adolescent work values and self-concept. Findings from 344 high school students from Israeli development town showed no significant differences among youth from families where father was employed or unemployed. Findings suggest that father's work status has little impact on adolescent family…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Family Life, Fathers
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Seginer, Rachel – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1985
This study investigated six differences in the effects of parents' educational expectations and relationship with parents on 105 young Israeli adolescents. Results showed differences in both aspects of family learning environment, including a negative relation for females and a positive relation for males between realistic expectations and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescent Development, Expectation, Females
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Fisherman, Shraga – Religious Education, 2002
Based on Herbert's (1987) theory of ego identity development and on interviews of hundreds of Israeli religious male adolescents and young adults who were raised and educated in religious society and later left the fold, this article presents a model of development of religious identity. Three levels of religious identity development--healthy,…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Substance Abuse, Social Isolation, Delinquency