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Friendship Dimensions in Diverse Greek Primary Education Classrooms: Roma Students and Their Non-Roma Peers
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Lito E. Michalopoulou; Constantinos Vouyoukas – Intercultural Education, 2024
For children, friends play an important role in their socio-emotional development and psychological well-being. Friendships may hold additional value for students who come from minoritized backgrounds. This study aimed to examine representations and themes of friendship in diverse Greek classrooms in which Roma and non-Roma elementary-age students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Peer Relationship, Friendship, Student Diversity
Assessing School Community Needs during the Initial Outbreak of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Teacher, Parent and Student Perceptions
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Hatzichristou, Chryse; Georgakakou-Koutsonikou, Niki; Lianos, Panayiotis; Lampropoulou, Aikaterini; Yfanti, Theodora – School Psychology International, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on the lives of adults and children worldwide. Schools were among the first settings to be influenced by this crisis. Home confinement and school closure were implemented as necessary preventive measures creating a new way of living based on web-based communication. The aim of the study is to…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Foreign Countries, Pandemics, School Closing
From the Fear of Death to the Fear of "Dissimilar Other": A Research in Elementary School Classrooms
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Leondari, A.; Magos, K.; Oikonomou, A. – Education 3-13, 2014
Social stereotyping and prejudice constitute pressing societal problems and have many causes. Terror Management Theory offers a compelling and heavily researched account of individuals' reactions towards "dissimilar others" when faced with thoughts of mortality. Building from previous research with adult samples, the present study aimed…
Descriptors: Fear, Ethnic Groups, Social Bias, Ethnic Stereotypes
Exploring Time Perspective in Greek Young Adults: Validation of the Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory and Relationships with Mental Health Indicators
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Anagnostopoulos, Fotios; Griva, Fay – Social Indicators Research, 2012
In this article we examine the factorial structure of the Greek version of the Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory (ZTPI; Zimbardo and Boyd in "J Personal Soc Psychol" 77:1271-1288, 1999), in a sample of 337 university students, using principal axis factoring (PAF) with oblique rotation, and its dimensionality using parallel analysis.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mental Health, Test Validity, Factor Structure
Mature Student Teachers in Initial Teacher Education in Greece: Personal and Academic Identities
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Kaldi, Stavroula – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2009
This qualitative study examined mature student teachers in initial teacher preparation for primary schools in Greece. More specifically it sought to identify the profile of mature student teachers, their intentions to become primary school teachers, their academic needs, concerns and expectations as well as their coping strategies across private…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Maturity (Individuals), Ethnography, Coping
Greek University Students with Dyslexia: An Interview Study
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Stampoltzis, Aglaia; Polychronopoulou, Stavroula – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2009
This paper reports a study exploring the personal and educational experiences of Greek students with dyslexia in higher education. Interviews with 16 students with dyslexia (11 male and five female) were conducted to investigate how they experienced school, peer relations, labelling, family support, university, self-esteem and how they made their…
Descriptors: Family Influence, Family Environment, Elementary Schools, Secondary Schools