This study examines whether the trait and state anxiety and cursive handwriting anxiety of teachers differs according to assorted variables. The study group for this research project is composed of 381 teachers from the city of Burdur and the district centre of Bucak, Turkey. Of these participants, 44% were female and 56% were male. As for the…

Study employs a pretest/posttest control-group design and uses the Teacher's Stress Inventory (TSI), State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), and the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) to assess the effects of a five-week standardized meditation (SM) class on the perceived occupational stress of full-time teachers. Results support hypothesis that SM…

This study assesses the effectiveness of a group counseling treatment on the classroom behaviors and on the manifest anxiety levels of elementary school student teachers. The subjects were 44 volunteer student teachers, randomly assigned to three groups: 1) an experimental counseling group, 2) a Hawthorne seminar control group, and 3) a control…

Subjects were 103 ninth graders in a social science source. Neither instructional treatments varying in amount of structure and student participation nor personality alone contributed significantly to the prediction of achievement, but interactions between them did. Treatment effects depended on the student's verbal ability, manifest anxiety, and…