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Educational and Psychosocial Support for Conflict-Affected Youths: The Effectiveness of a School-Based Intervention Targeting Academic Underachievement
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Forsberg, June T.; Schultz, Jon-Håkon – International Journal of School & Educational Psychology, 2023
This study investigated the effect of a school-based and teacher-led psychosocial intervention that targeted academic underachievement among conflict-affected youths. We hypothesized that participants in the intervention would experience improved school functioning and reduced levels of stress-related symptoms after the intervention, in comparison…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students, Intervention
Workplace Incivility and Bullying in the Library: Perception or Reality?
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Freedman, Shin; Vreven, Dawn – College & Research Libraries, 2016
Recent media reports have increased awareness of workplace incivility and bullying. However, the literature regarding workplace incivility and bullying in academic libraries is under reported and under researched. This study examines the current state of librarians' perceptions on workplace incivility and bullying and evaluates the effects of…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Bullying, Conflict, Work Environment
Antecedents of Norwegian Beginning Teachers' Turnover Intentions
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Tiplic, Dijana; Brandmo, Christian; Elstad, Eyvind – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2015
This study aims at exploring several individual, organizational, and contextual factors that may affect beginning teachers' turnover intentions during their first years of practice. The sample consists of 227 beginning teachers (69% female and 31% male) from 133 schools in Norway. The results show four important antecedents of beginning teachers'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Beginning Teachers, Faculty Mobility, Role Conflict
Factors Affecting University Teaching Team Effectiveness in Detached Working Environments
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Bennett, Roger; Kane, Suzanne – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2014
This paper presents the outcomes of a study of the factors that contribute to teaching team effectiveness in situations where team members rarely meet face to face. Academic faculty within a university Business School were asked to report the degrees to which they believed that the module teaching teams to which they belonged contained members who…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Team Teaching, College Faculty, Business Administration Education
Role Stress Revisited: Job Structuring Antecedents, Work Outcomes, and Moderating Effects of Locus of Control
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Conley, Sharon; You, Sukkyung – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2014
A previous study examined role stress in relation to work outcomes; in this study, we added job structuring antecedents to a model of role stress and examined the moderating effects of locus of control. Structural equation modeling was used to assess the plausibility of our conceptual model, which specified hypothesized linkages among teachers'…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Locus of Control, Stress Variables, Teacher Attitudes
Increasing Student Interpersonal Relationships.
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Williams, Linda – 1995
A program for increasing the social skills development of fourth grade students is described. The targeted population consisted of fourth grade students in a growing, low socio-economic status, urban community including a public housing development. The problems of poor social skills and disruptive behavior were documented through observations,…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Classroom Techniques, Conflict Resolution