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Ismail, Nik Ahmad Hisham; Tekke, Mustafa – International Education Studies, 2016
Secularism as central to society and human life may bring undesired negative consequences in Muslim societies. Increasing social problems among juveniles in Turkey raised questions regarding the right personality development and education of young people. In extending further analysis, we conducted semi-structured interview with experts to assess…
Descriptors: Islam, Social Behavior, Muslims, Personality Measures
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Maydeu-Olivares, Albert – Multivariate Behavioral Research, 2005
Chernyshenko, Stark, Chan, Drasgow, and Williams (2001) investigated the fit of Samejima's logistic graded model and Levine's non-parametric MFS model to the scales of two personality questionnaires and found that the graded model did not fit well. We attribute the poor fit of the graded model to small amounts of multidimensionality present in…
Descriptors: Models, Social Problems, Problem Solving, Personality Traits
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Kohn, Paul M.; Annis, Helen M. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1978
Evaluates a multivariate model of youthful marijuana use. The model includes the symbolic-protest function and the peer-acceptance function, marijuana use for gaining acceptance from permissive peers. Support for the model comes from close correspondence between observed and predicted correlations and the low, nonsignificant value of the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Drug Use, Marihuana, Peer Acceptance
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Russell, William Benedict, III, Ed. – International Society for the Social Studies, 2009
The "International Society for the Social Studies Annual Conference Proceedings" is a peer-reviewed professional publication published once a year following the annual conference. It contains the following papers: (1) Teacher Perceptions of Authentic Pedagogy: A Case Study of Professional Development in an African American High School's…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Conferences (Gatherings), Teacher Attitudes, Case Studies