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Emotional Exhaustion in German Preschool Teachers: The Role of Personal, Structural, and Social Conditions at the Workplace
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Mareike Trauernicht; Yvonne Anders; Elisa Oppermann; Uta Klusmann – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2025
Research has demonstrated that preschool teachers are particularly prone to develop burnout symptoms, such as emotional exhaustion. However, which workplace conditions are particularly related to burnout symptoms in preschool teachers remains widely unknown. Hence, this study aims to disentangle personal characteristics (e.g. educational degree,…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Work Attitudes, Work Environment, Foreign Countries
Using Sociometers to Advance Small Group Research
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Parker, John N.; Cardenas, Edgar; Dorr, Alexander N.; Hackett, Edward J. – Sociological Methods & Research, 2020
New technologies transform research specialties and potentiate new fields. Sociometers--wearable electronic sensors collecting quantitative, dynamic data about embodied social interactions at hyperfine scales--represent such a possibility for small group research. This article introduces this new method and its distinctive qualities and…
Descriptors: Measurement Equipment, Data Collection, Group Structure, Group Dynamics
Emotions in Group Work: Insights from an Appraisal-Oriented Perspective
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Zschocke, Karen; Wosnitza, Marold; Bürger, Kathrin – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2016
Small group work is common practice in higher education. However, empirical research on students' emotions related to group work is still relatively scarce. Particularly, little is known about students' appraisals of a group task as antecedents of emotions arising in the context of group work. This paper provides a first attempt to systematically…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Preservice Teachers, College Students, Small Group Instruction
Sense of Belonging: Implications for Latino Students' Academic Achievement in U.S. Schools
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Casillas, Rhonda Soledad – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this study was to examine the degree to which academic achievement in U.S. schools could be explained by several indicators of belongingness (i.e., close teacher-student relationships, peer acceptance, school liking, low levels of loneliness in school and positive perceptions of peers) and school engagement. For this study, data…
Descriptors: Caring, Academic Achievement, Group Structure, Grade 3
Group Structure and Group Process: Personal Construct Theory and Group Development.
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Neimeyer, Greg J.; Merluzzi, Thomas V. – Small Group Behavior, 1982
Presents literature relevant to initial group structure and advances a model of group development based upon personal construct theory. The proposed model illuminates the relationship between initial structure and the psychological processes underlying group development. Research questions are posited to advance empirical tests of the model. (RC)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Processes, Contracts, Group Dynamics
Ego Development and Social Network Structure.
Hansell, Stephen – 1979
This research investigated the relationship between ego development and social network structure in grades 9 through 12 in a private school. Students filled out a sentence completion test for ego development and named friends with whom they spent the most time in school on a sociometric questionnaire. Popularity, mutuality in dyads, and choices…
Descriptors: Group Status, Group Structure, High School Students, Interpersonal Relationship