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Pilar Aguilera; Mayte Navarro-Gil; Adrián Pérez-Aranda; Carilene Armas-Landaeta; María Beltrán-Ruiz; Carla Rodríguez-Freire; Loreto Camarero-Grados; Javier García-Campayo; Jesús Montero-Marín – School Mental Health, 2025
Adolescents present high risk of developing mental health problems. Different school-based programs have been designed to prevent and treat the psychological distress that they often experience with disparate results. In this study, we tested the efficacy of a school-based program framed into the "Escuelas Despiertas" initiative that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Adolescents, Mental Health
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Clara Margaça; José Carlos Sánchez-García; Brizeida Hernández Sánchez; Susana Lucas Mangas – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: To protect the environment and society, research on responsible behavior and personal values has increased. Values have been identified as important for understanding and predicting environmental preservation behaviors. The purpose of this study is to analyze the validity and reliability of the Environmental Portrait Value Questionnaire…
Descriptors: Universities, Conservation (Environment), Altruism, Self Concept
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Persico, Donatella; Passarelli, Marcello; Manganello, Flavio; Gewerc Barujel, Adriana; Rodríguez Groba, Ana – Professional Development in Education, 2023
This study reports the outcomes of a survey investigating the beliefs and self-reported behaviours of a sample of 238 in-service school teachers in Italy and Spain concerning their self-regulated professional learning about the design of learning interventions, an activity generally referred to as Learning Design (LD). The study adopts the lens of…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Metacognition, Cross Cultural Studies, Teacher Attitudes
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Lluis Oviedo; Lorenzo Magarelli; Piotr Roszak; Josefa Torralba Albaladej; Berenika Seryczynska; Valentina Baldas; Jan Wólkowski – British Journal of Religious Education, 2024
Many questions arise regarding the compatibility between scientific and religious education. While some voices have pointed to issues that stem from a traditional model in which science becomes a factor or religious crisis and doubt, other views reveal surprising forms of collaboration and complementarity between both dimensions in the educational…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Attitudes, Scientific Attitudes, Science Education
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Gordon, Rhyall – Policy Futures in Education, 2019
A significant section of the alternative food initiative (AFI) literature has expressed concerns about the predisposition of some research to assume neoliberal outcomes from particular AFI practices. As a counterpoint to this, there has been a call for analysis tools that will allow for a more nuanced understanding of the complexities and…
Descriptors: Food, Ethics, Correlation, Eating Habits
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Sánchez-Hernández, Óscar; Canales, Ana; Peinado, Ana; Enright, Robert D. – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2021
Introduction: Two pioneering studies in Spain are presented on the Learning to Forgive program inspired by the research of Robert Enright and his team, pioneers in the education of forgiveness. Study 1 aims to analyze whether teacher training in the Learning to Forgive Program increases their knowledge of forgiveness and Study 2 evaluates the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bullying, Prevention, Faculty Development
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Miralles-Armenteros, Sandra; Chiva-Gómez, Ricardo; Rodríguez-Sánchez, Alma; Barghouti, Zina – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2021
What effects does mindfulness have on university students' academic performance? Our aim in this empirical study is to analyse the relationship between mindfulness and academic performance, and how it might be explained by the role of compassion and engagement. We hypothesise that mindfulness positively relates to academic performance, and that…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Academic Achievement, Altruism, Learner Engagement
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Ruiz-Montero, Pedro Jesús; Corral-Robles, Silvia; García-Carmona, Marina; Leiva-Olivencia, Juan José – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2023
Background: The development of prosocial competencies in university students can be attained through the implementation of Service-Learning (S-L) methodology by carrying out a community service to groups of foreign unaccompanied minors (FUM). Physical Education Teacher Education (PETE) and Sport Science (SS) students involved in an S-L experience…
Descriptors: Prosocial Behavior, College Students, Physical Education, Athletics
Briole, Simon; Gurgand, Marc; Maurin, Éric; McNally, Sandra; Ruiz-Valenzuela, Jenifer; Santín, Daniel – Centre for Economic Performance, 2022
With the rise of polarization and extremism, the question of how best to transmit civic virtues across generations is more acute than ever. In this paper, we test the hypothesis that schools can be the place for this transmission by empowering students and gathering them around concrete and democratically chosen objectives. We draw on an RCT…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Values Education, Middle School Students, Student Centered Learning
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Altman, Yochanan; Baruch, Yehuda; Zoghbi Manrique-de-Lara, Pablo; Viera Armas, Maria Mercedes – Studies in Higher Education, 2020
The purpose of this paper is to find out what academics do when approaching retirement, and why; as well as to reflect on the process and consequences of reaching a retirement decision -- for themselves, the university system, and the wider community. Our study concentrates on baby boomers, as this large cohort starts to retire or become eligible…
Descriptors: Baby Boomers, Generational Differences, College Faculty, Career Development
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Fuertes, Ana María de Caso; Blanco Fernández, Jana; García Mata, Ma de los Ángeles; Rebaque Gómez, Alfredo; Pascual, Rocío García – Education Sciences, 2020
The present study aims to understand the relationship between the big five factors of personality and academic motivation. In addition, the following variables are taken into consideration; sex, age and type of educational studies. A quantitative methodology is used, in base to a not experimental, correlational study. The sample is composed of 514…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Achievement Need, Academic Achievement, Student Motivation
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Albert, Cecilia; Davia, María A.; Legazpe, Nuria – European Journal of Education, 2016
This article aims to widen the empirical evidence about the determinants of Spanish academics' publication productivity across fields of study. We use the Spanish Survey on Human Resources in Science and Technology addressed to Spanish resident PhDs employed in Spanish universities as academics. Productivity is measured as the total number of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Faculty Publishing, Productivity
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Amengual Pizarro, Marian; García Laborda, Jesús – Online Submission, 2017
The main aim of this study was to examine the most relevant motivating factors (i.e. intrinsic, extrinsic and altruistic) influencing pre-service English school teachers to choose teaching as their profession. A small questionnaire was administered to 73 third-year student teachers at the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB). Results indicate…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Sisask, Merike; Värnik, Peeter; Värnik, Airi; Apter, Alan; Balazs, Judit; Balint, Maria; Bobes, Julio; Brunner, Romuald; Corcoran, Paul; Cosman, Doina; Feldman, Dana; Haring, Christian; Kahn, Jean-Pierre; Poštuvan, Vita; Tubiana, Alexandra; Sarchiapone, Marco; Wasserman, Camilla; Carli, Vladimir; Hoven, Christina W.; Wasserman, Danuta – Health Education Journal, 2014
Objective: In support of a whole-school approach to mental health promotion, this study was conducted to find out whether and how significantly teachers' satisfaction with school and their subjective psychological well-being are related to the belief that they can help pupils with mental health problems. Design: Cross-sectional data were collected…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Teacher Attitudes, Job Satisfaction, Well Being
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Berenguer, Jaime – Environment and Behavior, 2007
Previous studies have pointed out the importance of empathy in improving attitudes toward stigmatized groups and toward the environment. In the present article, it is argued that environmental behaviors and attitudes can be improved using empathic perspective-taking for inducing empathy. Based on Batson's Model of Altruism, it was predicted that…
Descriptors: Path Analysis, Empathy, Causal Models, Animals
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