This study aimed to examine the interplay between personality traits (online disinhibition, moral disengagement, narcissism and aggression) and cyber bullying perpetration motives (entertainment, revenge, harm and dominance). A structural equation model which was built in accordance with the "Uses and Gratifications Theory" was tested.…

The purpose of this study was to study Organizational Behavior of Colleges of Education of Maharashtra state in India. Organizational behavior was studied at three process level i.e. individual process level, team process level and organizational process level. The differences were found out if any, in the Organizational Behavior, in between the…

In this study, reading textbooks were analyzed for moral content. From the findings of this analysis the extent of the use of Lawrence Kohlberg's stages of moral development in the textbooks was determined. The greatest amount of attention in one series was given to the category of helpfulness, while little attention was given to the categories of…

The primary concern of this study was the observable aspects of the valuing process as that process becomes apparent in adolescents' expressed responses to short stories. A secondary concern was to determine to what degree the reading of fiction facilitates the valuing process and to conjecture about the benefit of value strategies for teaching…

The study focused on the conflict between good and evil as it was portrayed in selected examples of fantasy and realistic fiction appropriate for children in the 8-to-12-year-old range. Newbery Award books from 1945 to 1972 and the Newbery Honor books from alternate years within the same period were analyzed. In addition, children's literature…

This study was designed to determine what effect knowledge of value clarification would have on the reading comprehension of eighth graders. The use of value clarification involves students in decision making, identification with characters or situations, evaluative judgments, appreciations, and so forth. In this study reading comprehension was…

The effect of the use of selected values clarification strategies on self-concept, school sentiment, and reading achievement was investigated in a sample of 240 pupils in grades four, five, and six, of two elementary schools. Teachers in the experimental school were trained in values clarification through a series of workshops; teachers in the…

The purpose of this study was to apply a schema to adolescent novels, to determine what lessons the authors teach and what techniques they employ in their teaching. A historical review of literary criticism established a background for interpreting the educational function of literature. A schema of questions based on the historical background was…

This qualitative study provides a phenomenological perspective and comparative analysis of character education within the Christian school and home education milieu. The study is based on semi-structured interviews of fifty-two individuals (N = 52) representative of a sampling of Christian educators from four private, evangelical Christian Schools…

The purpose of this study was to examine the socializing effect the viewing of adult-oriented commercials has on young children of differing socioeconomic backgrounds. The subjects, 227 children in the first, second, and third grades, included 109 lower-socioeconomic-level black children and 118 white children representing upper-middle-income…

This study describes one component of a teacher education program designed to generate in the prospective teacher of English an awareness of values and the valuing process and of his own role in facilitating the process. Chapter 1 defines the scope, purposes, and procedures of the study; chapter 2 examines the historical and continuing connection…

This research was directed toward uncovering and documenting relationships that exist between language and ideology in multilingual subjects. It is reported as a study complete in itself, though it was originally conceived as the first phase of a research effort whose purpose was to demonstrate that the experimental manipulation of belief systems…

Basic objectives of this research were to compare the personal values and career objectives of Air Force women to Air Force men. The research used a personal values questionnaire to establish which values and objectives were most likely to be translated into behavior. Values and objectives of 307 women officers and a control sample of 323 men were…

This study was designed to examine the relationship between values and listening comprehension. Subjects were 146 freshman and sophomore basic speech students at Eastern Michigan University during the 1971 summer session. The listening sub-test of the Sequential Tests of Educational Progress (STEP) and the Allport, Vernon, and Lindzey Study of…

The place of moral education in the curriculum of Black Hawk College (Illinois) is considered in terms of a review of the literature and the results of a questionnaire survey assessing faculty opinion on the topic. The rationale for moral education is seen in three current trends: (l) change from a small, stable, traditional society to a complex,…