Differences in social communication and interaction styles between autistic and typically developing have been studied in isolation and not in the context of real-world social interaction. The current study addresses this "blind spot" by examining whether real-world social interaction quality for autistic adults differs when interacting…

This paper looks at a specific set of corporate images, namely photographs of apprentices of the Luxembourg steel conglomerate ARBED, and analyses how young workers are depicted in these images. The paper draws on a collection of 2251 glass-plate negatives (re)presenting ARBED's industrial cosmos, including its vocational school the Institut Emile…

Black male youth are poorly represented in the counseling literature. There is a focus on development from a deficit model and lack of attention to their complex and multidimensional identities. In addition, popular media invariably portray Black male youth through a myopic lens as needing to overcome a litany of challenges and struggles. The…

The aim of this study is to analyze whether the national athletes' perceptions of hopelessness and their self-esteem levels differ in terms of different variables (age, marital status, and income status, place of residence, educational status, and active national career). The study group of the research consists of 200 active male national rowing…

Marriage is a bond between a man and a woman that is supposed to produce a satisfactory relationship whereby the married couple experience marital satisfaction that brings about mental and physical health of the individuals. This study determined the relationship between emotional intelligence and marital satisfaction of married teachers in…

This article reports on the influence of counselling for self- and career construction on the career counselling needs of an adolescent boy with Tourette's disorder. Purposeful sampling was used. The study adopted an explanatory, single-participant study design. A qualitative paradigm was employed and an integrative, QUALITATIVE-quantitative…

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of intraverbal prompts on response diversity and novelty in intraverbals posed to children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The intraverbal prompts involving function, feature, and class (FFC) of an item were used in the training of three questions requiring multiple responses. Two Chinese…

Academic work demands behavioural ambidexterity: the ability to simultaneously demonstrate exploration (creativity in research and/or in innovative teaching and learning practice) and exploitation (compliance with quality assurance). However, little is known about the effects of behavioural ambidexterity on the well-being of individual employees.…

Futsal is a team game with high physical demands of players. Agility, aerobic and anaerobic power outputs of the players support the success in the game. 24 male players attending the Kafkas University having played futsal in the school team for at least one year participated in the study. The players were separated into two groups. The…

The current study reports on a reading intervention method titled Read Like Me. The intervention utilizes a stacked approach of research-based methods, including reading aloud, assisted reading, and repeated reading. The student involved was a second-grade boy reading below grade level who was identified as dyslexic and diagnosed with attention…

Bystander intervention has been identified as an effective strategy to resolve bullying incidents. Research suggests that student willingness to intervene (WTI) is a robust predictor of bystander intervention. Toxic masculinity is "the constellation of socially regressive male traits that serve to foster domination, the devaluation of women,…

The academic outcomes for high-profile Black Athletes (HPBAs), the young men participating in men's basketball and football, continue to trail those of their peers, especially in college. Researchers have uncovered ample evidence that dispels beliefs about reduced intellect, instead pointing to systemic injustices that result in academic…

Many previous studies have focused on the aggressive homophobic discrimination and harassment that LGBTQ students face on college campuses, as well as measures taken to improve their situation. However, few studies have explored the unique forms of sexual and racial discrimination encountered by Black male homosexual and bisexual college students…

Perceptions and expectations of masculinity in the United States create difficult conditions for men to discuss the pressures they feel around performing masculinity practices. By remaining relatively silent about these pressures, men secure greater access to material and ideological benefits promised through the patriarchal dividend. The…

The purpose of this quantitative causal comparative study was to determine if a statistically significant difference exists between two geographically-similar, demographically-different universities in terms of their White American male students' perceptions of (a) Whiteness as epistemologies of ignorance, (b) Whiteness as ontological…