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Interpersonal Conflicts and Styles of Managing Conflicts among Students at Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia
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Bazezew, Arega; Neka, Mulugeta – Journal of Student Affairs in Africa, 2017
Interpersonal conflict happens everywhere and at any time and is inherent in all societies. However, the methods of managing such conflict are quite different from one organisation to the other. The general objective of the study was to assess interpersonal conflicts and styles of managing conflicts among students at Bahir Dar University.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Conflict, Interpersonal Relationship, Peer Relationship
Physical Activity Play and Preschool Children's Peer Acceptance: Distinctions between Rough-and-Tumble and Exercise Play
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Lindsey, Eric W. – Early Education and Development, 2014
Research Findings: Two forms of exercise play (toy mediated and non-mediated) and 2 forms of rough-and-tumble (R&T) play (chase and fighting) were examined in relation to preschoolers' peer competence. A total of 148 preschoolers (78 boys, 89 Euro-Americans) were observed during free play at their university-sponsored child care center. The…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Play, Toys, Child Care Centers
Longitudinal Associations between Other-Sex Friendships and Substance Use in Adolescence
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Poulin, Francois; Denault, Anne-Sophie; Pedersen, Sara – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2011
The impact of the changes in the gender composition of friendship networks during early adolescence on substance use in late adolescence was examined. The hypothesis was that initial level and increase in the proportion of other-sex friends in the network would be associated with higher levels of substance use among girls, but not among boys.…
Descriptors: Females, Drug Abuse, Drinking, Late Adolescents
The Division of Labor in Lesbian, Gay, and Heterosexual New Adoptive Parents
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Goldberg, Abbie E.; Smith, JuliAnna Z.; Perry-Jenkins, Maureen – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2012
Little research has investigated the division of child care and housework in adoptive or lesbian/gay parent families, yet these contexts "control for" family characteristics such as biological relatedness and parental gender differences known to be linked to family work. This study examined predictors (measured preadoption) of the division of…
Descriptors: Adoption, Homosexuality, Housework, Family Characteristics
The Learning Environment Associated with Information Technology Education in Taiwan: Combining Psychosocial and Physical Aspects
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Liu, Chia-Ju; Zandvliet, David B.; Hou, I.-Ling – Learning Environments Research, 2012
This study investigated perceptions of senior high school students towards the Taiwanese information technology (IT) classroom with the What Is Happening in this Class? (WIHIC) survey and explored the physical learning environment of the IT classroom using the Computerised Classroom Environment Inventory (CCEI). The participants included 2,869…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technology Education, Vocational High Schools, Information Technology
Revisiting Gender in Open and Distance Learning--An Independent Variable or a Mediated Reality?
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Sen, Rekha Sharma; Samdup, Pema Eden – Open Learning, 2009
The ideological moorings of distance education, both as a discipline and as a mode, rest on cognisance of multiple and varying contexts of learners, which it aims to address through responsive course content creation and delivery strategies. One of the frames through which the context needs to be understood is gender. There is research stating…
Descriptors: Open Universities, Females, Distance Education, Predictor Variables