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Batel Hazan-Liran; Ofra Walter – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2025
The objective of our study was to examine whether students with LD who receive support from an academic support centre exhibit higher levels of PsyCap and academic adjustment compared to those who do not receive such support. We also examined whether PsyCap mediates the relationship between receiving academic support and the level of academic…
Descriptors: Academic Support Services, Students with Disabilities, Learning Disabilities, Psychological Characteristics
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Batel Hazan-Liran; Nirit Karni-Vizer – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2024
Teaching is a stressful profession, and rates of departure are high. We examined whether teachers' levels of psychological capital (PsyCap), a concept integrating four positive psychological resources (hope, self-efficacy, resilience, optimism), affects their job satisfaction and burnout. Israeli schools are now required to be inclusive;…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, Teacher Burnout, Special Education Teachers, Correlation
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Tannenbaum, Michal – L2 Journal, 2015
The work of immigrant writers, whose professional identity is built around language, can deepen understandings of sociolinguistic and psychological issues, including aspects of the immigration experience; the position of language in the ideological and emotional value systems, and the significance of language for individual development. This paper…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Sociolinguistics, Psychological Characteristics, Immigration
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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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Ruscio, John; Walters, Glenn D. – Psychological Assessment, 2011
Taxometric analyses have proven helpful for distinguishing categorical and dimensional data. Many taxometric procedures require at least 3 variables for analysis. What if a construct is defined by only 2 conceptually nonredundant characteristics or a data set contains only 2 empirically nonredundant variables? In Study 1, we performed extensive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Classification, Child Behavior, Elementary School Students
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Orna Braun-Lewensohn; Shifra Sagy – International Journal of Children's Spirituality, 2010
This study aimed to explore measures of spirituality--sense of coherence (SOC), hope and values--among adolescents living in a violent political area and experiencing missile attacks. The three variables represent attributes of spirituality, such as searching for meaning and purpose in life, hope and feelings about the future, as well as values…
Descriptors: Violence, Adolescents, Religious Factors, Developmental Stages
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Schonmann, Shifra – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2009
This paper is the result of an explorative study, based on the in-depth meta-analysis of a corpus of contemporary pieces of research in which there was found clear references to veteran theatre teachers talking about their work. Following that, extracts from interviews of experienced theatre teachers were analyzed. The major aim of this study is…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Educational History, Foreign Countries, Experienced Teachers
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Eilam, Billie – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2009
Voices of veteran junior high and high school biology teachers are seldom heard. Yet, the unique characteristics of this subject-matter may shed some light on veteran teachers' lives in school and their possible contribution to educational systems anywhere. Eight teachers were interviewed, aiming to arrive at their self-perceptions as veteran…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Biology, Science Teachers, Junior High Schools
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Nadler, Arie; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1985
Interviewed 38 sons and daughters of holocaust survivors and 19 controls to evaluate their psychological characteristics. Results showed survivors' children were less likely than controls to externalize aggression. (BH)
Descriptors: Aggression, Daughters, Foreign Countries, Parent Child Relationship
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Gilbar, Ora; Florian, Victor – Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, 1991
Compared psychological variables of 30 patients with inoperable breast cancer to matched group of 30 operable breast cancer patients. Found that women with inoperable breast cancer had higher scores in denial, exhaustion, hopelessness, worthlessness, depression, somatization, hostility, and psychoticism. Profile of inoperable cancer patients did…
Descriptors: Cancer, Coping, Depression (Psychology), Emotional Response
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Kremer, Liya; Moore, Michael – International Review of Education, 1978
This study, conducted with 125 female student teachers in Israel, attempted to determine if one year of teacher training altered subjects' attitudes toward traditionalism/progressivism in education and if this change was influenced by the subjects' initial open or closed belief system, as measured by Rokeach's Dogmatism Scale. (SJL)
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Correlation, Dogmatism, Educational Attitudes
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Zeidner, Moshe; Schleyer, Esther Jane – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 1999
Studied the psychological adjustment of 743 gifted Israeli junior high school students from special classes for the gifted or from pull-out programs from mainstream education. Gifted classes appear to emphasize the negative aspects of giftedness for this sample. Discusses implications for instruction of the gifted. (SLD)
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Foreign Countries, Gifted, Instructional Effectiveness
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Krau, Edgar – Personnel Psychology, 1981
Demographic and psychological characteristics of 479 job leavers from two plants were processed, and work stability of 110 previously tested subjects was followed up for up to eight years. Results revealed that quitting a job is a career decision that depends on career type, career stage, and characteristics of the organization. (Author)
Descriptors: Career Change, Career Development, Demography, Employee Attitudes
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Gillis (Carlebach), Miriam – B.C. Journal of Special Education, 1991
This paper describes the efforts of a psychological consultation center in Israel to develop a psychological profile, a reading profile, and a learning method profile for students with dyslexia. The three profiles are described, and involvement of the regular classroom teacher in the consultation process is emphasized. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Consultation Programs, Diagnostic Teaching, Dyslexia
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Guttmann, Joseph – Journal of Educational Research, 1982
Pupils at an elementary school in Israel, their mothers, and their teachers were studied to determine how each group would attribute the causes of children's problem behavior. Pupils and teachers were apt to blame external factors. Parents tended to distribute responsibility for problems more evenly. (Author/PP)
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems, Congruence (Psychology)
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