The transition to university appears to be a complex and delicate time in students' lives, involving a sequence of changes regarding both the personal/affective and social/professional spheres, facilitating students' ability to adapt to a new life context. It represents a challenging time that requires students to use adaptive resources to face…

The aim of this study is to determine whether the Happiness Fear Scale (FHS) developed by Joshanloo and Weijers (2014) is suitable for Turkish culture. For this purpose, validity and reliability of the scale were examined. The study consisted of 180 university students, 87 male and 23 female. The linguistic equivalence of the scale was made by…

Although it has been suggested that social network site (SNS) use motives are one of important determinants of SNS addiction, there has not been yet a scale to assess them. The aim of this study was to examine psychological properties of a newly developed Social Network Site Use Motives Scale (SUMS) in a college student sample. The SUMS was…

This research is conducted for the purpose of determining the effect of mobbing perceptions of physical education and sports teachers on the organizational commitments within the province Agri and its counties. In the research, a method for descriptive survey and relational survey intended to find out the present state, was used. The group of the…

The purpose of this study was the effectiveness of social stories intervention on aggressive behavior of aggressive preschool children. The preschool aggression scale was distributed among the teachers to complete it for all 4-5 year old children in 2 kindergartens. Based on teachers' ratings of children's aggressive behavior, those who scored…

It is well established that visual working memory (WM) for face identity is enhanced when faces display threatening versus nonthreatening expressions. During social interaction, it is also important to bind person identity with location information in WM to remember who was where, but we lack a clear understanding of how emotional expression…

The use of e-textbooks has become popular in certain countries, yet there is debate in the literature about whether it is advantageous to adopt e-textbooks and if they positively influence students' learning and performance. Prior studies on the acceptance of e-textbooks were mainly based on one theoretical perspective, and did not differentiate…

Virtual reality (VR) is projected to play an important role in education by increasing student engagement and motivation. However, little is known about the impact and utility of immersive VR for administering e-learning tools, or the underlying mechanisms that impact learners' emotional processes while learning. This paper explores whether…

Up to now, very few studies investigated the influence of gender on the depiction of emotions in children's drawings. However, the literature on emotions reveals differences between boys and girls in various kinds of tasks (e.g. recognising emotional facial expressions, understanding an emotional situation, etc.). Therefore, we examined the impact…

Research demonstrates that parents' emotion-related discourse during reminiscing shapes children's psychosocial outcomes, yet little is known about how different forms of parental emotion-related discourse work in combination. The present study takes a person-centered approach to better understand the relation of multiple forms of parental emotion…

The aim of this study is to determine diverse problems of undergraduate Syrian students at Yüzüncü Yil University, Turkey. The study was conducted with 82 students using both quantitative and qualitative data collection tools. Descriptive statistics, t-test and descriptive analysis technique were used for data analysis. As a result of the study,…

The purpose of this research is to examine which factors of personal meaning profile explain mental well-being in different age stage. Although personal meaning has many different definitions, this research approaches it in seven factors; achievement, relationship, religion, self-transcendence, self-acceptance, intimacy, and fair treatment. The…

A teacher's behavior management style has particular implications for those students who encounter difficulties due to social-emotional concerns. This study explored the relationship between teacher candidates' perceived psychological wellness, behavior management skills, and mental health literacy. Four previously developed surveys were used to…

The purpose of this qualitative descriptive existential-phenomenological study is to explore what it is like for public school special education teachers to experience professional marginalization and how it shapes their work-world, in the Eastern region of the United States. A purposive sampling was utilized for recruiting five special education…

This research examined the increased tendency towards suicidality in cisgender LGB college students as compared to their cisgender heterosexual counterparts. The responses of 1,503 LGB college students to a survey distributed by the National Research Consortium of Counseling Centers in Higher Education (RC) in 2011 were analyzed. Given the…