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The Effects of Mobile Phone Use on Students' Emotional-Behavioural Functioning, and Academic and Social Competencies
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Eskandari, Hossein; Vahdani Asadi, Mohammad Reza; Khodabandelou, Rouhollah – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2023
This correlational study investigates the relationship between mobile phone use among elementary school students in Iran during the COVID-19 epidemic, and its effect on emotional-behavioural functioning and academic and social competencies. A researcher-devised questionnaire, and the Achenbach Child Behaviour Checklist (CBCL)-parental version, was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Handheld Devices, Psychological Patterns
Gifted Programming for Poor or Minority Urban Students: Issues and Lessons Learned
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Olszewski-Kubilius, Paula; Thomson, Dana L. – Gifted Child Today, 2010
Gaps in the achievement between poor and more advantaged children and minority and nonminority students of all ages continue to be the most central problem in the field of education. Achievement differences by racial/ethnic group and socioeconomic status (SES) level are especially pronounced and pervasive within the major urban school districts in…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Academically Gifted, Economically Disadvantaged, Academic Achievement
Loneliness and Social Dissatisfaction among Behaviourally At-Risk Children
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Galanaki, Evangelia P.; Polychronopoulou, Stavroula A.; Babalis, Thomas K. – School Psychology International, 2008
The aim of this study was to examine the associations between loneliness/social dissatisfaction and teacher-identified behavioural risk during late childhood. A broad range of behaviour problems, as well as academic adjustment, are assessed, in order to specify in which types of behaviour and academic problems loneliness/social dissatisfaction is…
Descriptors: Social Problems, Hyperactivity, High Risk Students, Grade 6
Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones, but Names will Make Me Feel Sick: The Psychosocial, Somatic, and Scholastic Consequences of Peer Harassment
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Nishina, Adrienne; Juvonen, Jaana; Witkow, Melissa R. – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2005
This study examined associations among peer victimization, psychosocial problems, physical symptoms, and school functioning across the 1st year in middle school. An ethnically diverse sample of urban 6th graders (N = 1,526) reported on their perceptions of peer victimization, psychosocial adjustment, and physical symptoms during fall and spring.…
Descriptors: Bullying, Grade 6, Middle School Students, Psychological Patterns
OUR BILINGUALS--SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL BARRIERS, LINGUISTIC AND PEDAGOGICAL BARRIERS (2ND ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE SOUTHWEST COUNCIL OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHERS, EL PASO, NOVEMBER 13, 1965). REPORTS.
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Southwest Council of Foreign Language Teachers. – 1965
A SERIES OF REPORTS SUBMITTED FOR THE 1965 CONFERENCE DEFINE THE VARIOUS SOCIOCULTURAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL, LINGUISTIC, AND PEDAGOGICAL BARRIERS TO ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT AMONG SPANISH-SPEAKING CHILDREN IN THE SOUTHWEST AND RECOMMEND IMPROVEMENTS TO BREAK DOWN THESE BARRIERS. INDIVIDUAL REPORTS DEAL WITH THE PROBLEMS OF PRESERVING ETHNIC IDENTITY,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Acculturation, Bilingual Students, Bilingualism