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Depuydt, Travis – Online Submission, 2021
This qualitative, phenomenological research study was designed to study the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic had on teacher interactions with students with special needs during the mandatory school closures that took place during March of 2020. This study consisted of seven interviews with special education teachers, from three different…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Teacher Student Relationship, Interaction
McVeigh, Francis – Online Submission, 2014
Purpose - This research project has investigated the "Company Programme" of the charity YE and how effective it is at increasing Life Skills in young people. Data has been obtained using student questionnaires and teacher interviews. Previous studies have been completed on "Life Skills" and "Enterprise Programmes",…
Descriptors: Daily Living Skills, Questionnaires, Interviews, Youth Programs
Curtiss, Sharon L. – 1984
Women as a group are uniquely exposed to the pressures created by multiple roles and conflicting expectations. To assess stress, health, resistance resources, and overall emotional dysphoria (anxiety, depression, hostility) of women from various occupational, marital, and parental statuses, 64 women, aged 25-45 years, completed the Scale of Stress…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Employed Women, Females, Marital Status
Raynish, Annie – Online Submission, 2007
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of divorce on student's academic achievement. Whitehead (1997) states, at the beginning of the twentieth century, there were only three divorces for every 1,000 marriages. Through the years, the divorce rate in America has rapidly increased which has affected adults and children. The…
Descriptors: Divorce, Marital Status, Academic Achievement, Researchers
McPhee, Jeffrey Thomas – 1983
This study explored factors within a child's social, familial, and intrapsychic system that mediate the effects on the child of parental separation/divorce. Using a sample of 52 children and 28 parents involved in contested divorce cases, structured interviews lasting 1.5 to 3 hours were conducted. Information about the separation, parental…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Conflict, Coping
Aust, Charles Francis – 1985
This study examined the influence of the affective nature of television news on satisfaction with an individual's own life as well as on an individual's outlook regarding good fortune and misfortune. Subjects, 30 male and 30 female undergraduates at Indiana University, viewed a variety of news stories and completed two questionnaires, one rating…
Descriptors: Audience Response, College Students, Emotional Response, Factor Analysis
Beylerian, Nvair Kadian – 1993
An 18-year old's freshman year in college is not only a test of his or her intellect, but also a test in social skills, adaptability to new living situations, and other conditions. This study examined the link of emotions to compulsive eating and its use as a coping mechanism for female college students. It explores the stresses of the transition…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Body Weight, College Environment, College Freshmen
Bassano, Sharron Kay – 1983
It is generally recognized that students' feelings about learning affect their ability to learn. One of the three strongest influencing factors on second-language learning is classroom anxiety. This paper focuses on student emotional distress in the English as a second language (ESL) classroom, and suggests that one of the primary causes of this…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Affective Behavior, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Style
Inesia-Forde, Angelina – Online Submission, 2005
One of the most significant problems in the area of learning disabilities and delinquency is failure in recognizing the characteristics of the LD (Learning Disabled) by the juvenile justice system. Therefore, a number of useful techniques, skills, and strategies are provided to help court officers, educators, mental health professionals, and…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Correctional Institutions, Juvenile Justice, Institutionalized Persons
Perry, Sally-Anne – 2000
A practitioner's model of the processes of learning and knowing was developed through a review of global, societal, individual, and personal perspectives on learning. The first phase of the model's development consisted of using a method of exploration based on determining who, what, where, when, why, and how to investigate the following 10…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Andragogy, Associative Learning