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Ratner, Kaylin; Burrow, Anthony L.; Burd, Kayla A.; Hill, Patrick L. – Applied Developmental Science, 2021
A minimal amount of information is known about how adolescents and emerging adults construe purpose and meaning in life, leaving many researchers to assume youth think about these constructs consistent with scientific understandings. In this preregistered study, we compared adolescent and emerging adult conceptions of purpose and meaning using…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Content Analysis, High School Students, College Students
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Karadag, Mehmet; Altinay Aksal, Fahriye; Altinay Gazi, Zehra; Dagli, Gökmen – SAGE Open, 2020
The basic objective of this study is to examine whether there is a relationship between spiritual leadership, school culture, and academic success. The data were collected by mixed method from teachers working in seven high schools and five achievement low level high schools in Sanliurfa in 2018. The data obtained from the teachers were analyzed…
Descriptors: School Culture, Spiritual Development, Correlation, Academic Achievement
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Pandya, Samta P. – Psychology in the Schools, 2022
High schoolers' creative thinking and complex problem-solving abilities are important for determining achievement. There is a need to investigate whether spiritual training delivered via a microblogging social networking platform would be effective. This article reports a study that examines the impact of Twitter-based spiritual posts on high…
Descriptors: High School Students, Creative Thinking, Problem Solving, Spiritual Development
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Francis, Leslie J.; Casson, Ann; McKenna, Ursula – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2018
This study argues that it is the collective worldview of the students which is crucial in reflecting and shaping the ethos of schools. In order to understand the potential distinctiveness of Christian ethos schools two analyses were undertaken. The collective worldview of 2942 students attending 10 Christian ethos schools was compared with the…
Descriptors: Christianity, Foreign Countries, Values, Secondary Schools
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Kaplowitz, Tracy – Journal of Jewish Education, 2015
The context for this study is the increased focus on school-community partnerships in the United States. With limited research having been conducted on high-achieving schools, this is a case study of one of America's top 100 high schools, a Jewish day school; this article reports on its school-synagogue partnership. Like most research on…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Jews, Judaism, Day Schools