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Sanberk, Ismail – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2016
The main objective of this study is to determine the personal constructs of psychological counselors (N = 60) when they characterize their colleagues, effective psychological counselors and self-psychological counseling competence through repertory grid technique. Analysis of the data gathered through repertory grid technique demonstrates that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Counselors, Case Studies, Counseling
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Carr, Deborah – Gerontologist, 2012
Purpose of the Study: I examine whether 5 aspects of a significant other's death quality (pain, decision-making capacity, location, problems with end-of life care, and preparation) affect whether one does advance care planning (ACP). I also identify specific aspects of others' deaths that respondents say triggered their own planning. Design and…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Relationship, Death, Patients, Role Models
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Gin, Deborah Hearn-Chung – Multicultural Education Review, 2013
Asian/Pacific Islanders (APIs) in the U.S. have experienced an increase in population, and higher education faculty, rates over the past two decades. However, a parallel increase among API higher education administrators is absent. To explore this disparity, this study surveyed all 180 Asian/Asian North American (AANA) faculty in graduate schools…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Administrator Role, College Faculty, College Administration
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Fritsch, Michael; Rusakova, Alina – International Journal of Developmental Science, 2012
Drawing on representative household data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we examine the role of an early precursor of entrepreneurial development--parental role models--for the individual decision to become self-employed in the post-unified Germany. The findings suggest that the socialist regime significantly damaged this mechanism of an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Employment, Social Systems, Entrepreneurship
Guclu, Timur – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study has two main areas: first, the study evaluates whether the ethical leadership style of a direct supervisor has an impact on the police officers' perception of the integrity violations; second, the study scrutinizes whether police officers' moral judgment of integrity violations makes a difference in the amount of such violations. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Police, Ethics, Leadership Styles
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Cretchley, P. C.; Edwards, S. L.; O'Shea, P.; Sheard, J.; Hurst, J.; Brookes, W. – Higher Education Research and Development, 2014
This paper presents findings from an empirical study of key aspects of the teaching and research priorities, beliefs and behaviours of 72 professorial and associate professorial academics in Science, Information Technology and Engineering across four faculties in three Australian universities. The academics ranked 16 research activities and 16…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Beliefs
Vidourek, Rebecca A.; King, Keith A.; Bernard, Amy L.; Murnan, Judy; Nabors, Laura – American Journal of Health Education, 2011
Background: School connectedness is a leading school-based protective factor against youth engagement in risky behaviors. Research on teachers' individual practices in fostering school connections with their students is currently lacking. Purpose: The purpose of the present study was to address gaps in the research by examining elementary and…
Descriptors: Student School Relationship, Risk, Elementary School Teachers, Middle School Teachers
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Belgrave, Faye Z.; Nguyen, Anh B.; Johnson, Jessica L.; Hood, Kristina – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2011
Prosocial behavior and aggression among children and adolescents are important indicators of social and interpersonal competence. The goal of this study was to investigate whether there are different prototypes among African American adolescents that can help explain prosocial and aggressive (relational and overt) behaviors. Also of interest was…
Descriptors: Prosocial Behavior, Aggression, Early Adolescents, Multivariate Analysis
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Aspy, Cheryl B.; Vesely, Sara K.; Oman, Roy F.; Rodine, Sharon; Marshall, LaDonna; McLeroy, Ken – Journal of Adolescence, 2007
The role of parental communication and instruction concerning sexual behaviour were studied in a community-based sample of 1083 youth aged 13-17 (mean age of 15 years; 51% girls, 49% White). The Youth Asset Survey was administered along with items measuring demographics and youth risk behaviours. After controlling for demographic factors,…
Descriptors: Role Models, Pregnancy, Multivariate Analysis, Risk
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Adams-Price, Carolyn; Greene, A. L. – Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, 1990
In a study examining attachments to celebrity figures, 79 male and female fifth, eighth, and eleventh graders and college sophomores described themselves and their favorite celebrities. It was found that such attachments are equally important to males and females, and that gender and age affect the nature of the attachment. (DM)
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Attachment Behavior, Children
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Kurpius, DeWayne J.; And Others – Counselor Education and Supervision, 1980
Results question the generally held contention that the impact of modeling is maximized by presentation of multiple models. Findings suggest caution in making the generalization that the potency of a single model is totally equivalent to that of multiple models. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Counselor Training, Graduate Students, Higher Education
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Baller, Robert D.; Shin, Dong-Joon; Richardson, Kelly K. – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2005
In an effort to explain the spatial patterning of violence, we expanded Sutherland's (1947) concept of differential social organization to include the level of deviance exhibited by neighboring areas. To test the value of this extension, the geographic clustering of Japanese suicide and homicide rates is assessed using 1985 and 1995 data for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Values, Social Influences, Proximity
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Kegler, Michelle Crozier; Oman, Roy F.; Vesely, Sara K.; McLeroy, Kenneth R.; Aspy, Cheryl B.; Rodine, Sharon; Marshall, LaDonna – Health Education & Behavior, 2005
Recent research suggests that a youth development framework emphasizing youth assets may be a promising intervention strategy for preventing adolescent risk behaviors. Understanding how neighborhood and community resources relate to youth assets may aid in identifying environmental strategies to complement individually oriented asset-building…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Neighborhoods, Role Models, Intervention