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Direct linkRezaei-Moghaddam, Kurosh; Badzaban, Fatemeh; Fatemi, Mahsa – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2023
Purpose: The present study aimed to analyze the entrepreneurial resilience of small and medium-sized businesses among rural women. Design/Methodology: The study was conducted using a survey, and 269 individuals were selected through stratified random sampling. This research was conducted in three stages. First, the Lifespan Resilience…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Rural Population, Small Businesses
Download full textBostanci, Aynur B. – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2020
The purpose of the present study is to ascertain the relationship between teachers' political skills and work engagement. Correlational design is employed to complete the process of this research. The population of this study is composed of 4494 teachers working in Usak Province of Turkey. Convenience sampling was used in this study. The sample…
Descriptors: Correlation, Measures (Individuals), Work Environment, Teacher Attitudes
Alshalawi, Abdullah S. – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2022
Statistics indicated that social media applications are not being utilised by many faculties for teaching purposes. The purpose of this study was to investigate factors that influence the adoption of social media applications for teaching purposes in higher education and present the current status of this adoption. The Theory of Planned Behaviour…
Descriptors: Social Media, Teaching Methods, Higher Education, Technology Uses in Education
Ursavas, Omer Faruk; Reisoglu, Ilknur – International Journal of Information and Learning Technology, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the validity of extended technology acceptance model (TAM) in explaining pre-service teachers' Edmodo acceptance and the variation of variables related to TAM among pre-service teachers having different cognitive styles. Design/methodology/approach: Structural equation modeling approach was used to…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Structural Equation Models, Models, Validity
Fearon, Colm; Nachmias, Stefanos; McLaughlin, Heather; Jackson, Stephen – Studies in Higher Education, 2018
This study investigates the role of personal values as motivational antecedents for understanding higher education (HE) student career decidedness among university business school (UBS) students. We propose a new "protean"-informed HE student career decidedness model for theorizing how both personal values and social capital mediators…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Career Choice, Higher Education, Focus Groups
Balakrishnan, Vimala; Teoh, Kung Keat; Pourshafie, Tahereh; Liew, Teik Kooi – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2017
This study is an investigation into factors that encourage and/or inhibit the use of social media in the academic learning process between Australian and Malaysian students at higher learning institutions. Push-pull-mooring theory was used as a guide, resulting in seven independent variables ("convenience", "social influence",…
Descriptors: Social Media, Cross Cultural Studies, Path Analysis, Foreign Countries
Jo, Il-Hyun; Kang, Stephanie; Yoon, Meehyun – Educational Technology & Society, 2014
Collaborative learning has become a dominant learning apparatus for higher level learning objectives. Much of the psychological and social mechanisms operating under this complex group activity, however, is not yet well understood. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of college students' communication competence and degree…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Interpersonal Competence, College Students, Cooperative Learning
Woldeab, Daniel – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to investigate Internet usage and its relationship with the acculturation of the Horn of Africa immigrants residing in urban Minnesota. Technology has and continues to be a cultural amplifier; in just two decades from its initial availability to the general public, the Internet has made geographical differences…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Social Networks, Acculturation, Urban Areas
Jicha, Karl A.; Thompson, Gretchen H.; Fulkerson, Gregory M.; May, Jonathan E. – Rural Sociology, 2011
This article presents the findings of a case study examining the relationship between social capital and individual participation in collective action on a Caribbean island recovering from devastation inflicted by Hurricanes Ivan and Emily. Using data drawn from 114 residential surveys on the island of Carriacou, Grenada, over the summer of 2006,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Capital, Citizen Participation, Case Studies
Eynon, R.; Malmberg, L.-E. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2012
Information seeking is one of the most popular online activities for young people and can provide an additional information channel, which may enhance learning. In this study, we propose and test a model that adds to the existing literature by examining the ways in which parents, schools, and friends (what we call networks of support) effect young…
Descriptors: Information Seeking, Individual Characteristics, Internet, Path Analysis
Bourque, Paul; Pushkar, Dolores; Bonneville, Lucie; Beland, Francois – Canadian Journal on Aging, 2005
Differences occur in the demographic, health, and social network contexts of men and women, all of which are associated with successful aging. The objectives of this study were to determine whether differences exist in satisfaction in specific domains, in general life satisfaction and in the paths for life satisfaction for men and women. A…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Individual Characteristics, Income, Physical Activities
Uhlendorff, Harald – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2004
In the years following German reunification, East and West German parents (282 mothers and 207 fathers) were interviewed about attitudes to the rearing of their 7- to 13-year-old children and about their social networks. Path analyses show that East German parents engage in more protective and less permissive parenting, and that East German…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Parent Child Relationship, Foreign Countries, Social Networks
