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Guttman, Joseph; And Others – Journal of Moral Education, 1981
This study compared Israeli adolescents of Eastern (African-Asiatic) and Western (European-American) descent. Results confirmed the hypothesis that more internal locus of control (LOC) orientation and more relativistic moral judgment would be associated with Western patterns of socialization. No within-group relationship between LOC and moral…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Locus of Control
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Bar-Tal, Daniel; Darom, Efraim – Child Development, 1979
Using an open-ended questionnaire, 236 fifth- and sixth-grade pupils attributed their success or failure on a test given in their classroom to eight different causes. Results indicated that the pupils tended to attribute success mainly to external causes and failure mainly to internal causes. (JMB)
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Failure
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Milgram, Roberta M.; Milgram, Norman A. – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 1976
Two groups of Israeli boys and girls in Grades 4-8, one group of 182 intellectually gifted with a mean WISC IQ of 140, and one group of 310 nongifted, were compared on several indices of personal-social adjustment. (MS)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Anxiety, Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted
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Klingman, Avigdor; Goldstein, Zehava – Death Studies, 1994
Examined Israeli adolescents' responses to impending unconventional warfare by administering Nuclear Threat Index to 269 junior high school students 2 months prior to Persian Gulf War. Younger adolescents and females reported more activity, pessimistic thoughts, and concerns than older adolescents and males, respectively; and "internal"…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Foreign Countries, Junior High School Students, Junior High Schools
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Hertz-Lazarowitz, Rachel – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1979
Israeli children responded to a questionnaire assessing self-esteem, locus-of-control, and classroom social climate. Data were compared according to school grades, socioeconomic status, and sex. Affective personality variables and children's perception of the school social environment followed divergent patterns of development according to social…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Class Attitudes, Classroom Environment, Cognitive Style