Previous research highlighted that pupils actively involved in bullying and victimization are prone to develop diverse psychological problems. The overall aim of our study was to investigate effects of different forms of bullying and victimization on coping with interpersonal stressors and psychological adjustment among children and adolescents.…

Many studies have reported teaching to be a stressful occupation. One of the most valuable coping strategies that teachers may employ is turning for help when pressed. This research is aimed at encouraging a deeper understanding of the factors related to teacher's actual turning for help to a school counsellor or to a teacher colleague. 281…

This is the 1st longitudinal examination of trajectories of resilience and resistance (rather than ill-being) among a national sample under ongoing threat of mass casualty. The authors interviewed a nationally representative sample of Jews and Arabs in Israel (N = 709) at 2 times during a period of terrorist and rocket attacks (2004?2005). The…

This qualitative study used five focus groups of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth attending public high schools to examine their experiences with school violence. Core themes focused on lack of community and empowerment leading to youth being without a sense of human agency in school. Negative attention themes were indicative…

The academic and social challenges facing public schools are enormous. For example, the pressure to meet the demands of the current high-stakes testing environment and reach adequate yearly progress (AYP) goals has arguably never been greater (Luna & Turner, 2001; Sanders, 2003). The energy devoted to academics has supplanted the little time spent…

In "Speaking of Faith," radio journalist Krista Tippett recalls the time when she began to recognize the hypocrisy and contradictions in the behavior of the people around her. Tippett's experience is not only far from unusual, it is formative. It led her to make some important decisions in her life, including the desire never to live a life of…

This qualitative case study explores one young adolescent's transitional schooling from an American context to a Chinese context. Although the student was bilingual and bicultural, she experiences multiple struggles, triumphs, and dilemmas across the two educational settings. These findings have implications for those adolescents and parents who…

Intellectually gifted 7th-grade students were surveyed approximately halfway through their 1st year of high school in order to investigate relationships between motivational and affective variables, commitment to schoolwork, and satisfaction with school. The results of the confirmatory factor analyses and structural equation modeling suggest that…

To test the differential effectiveness of preoperative instruction (factual information, emotional expression, and trust relationship), mastery modeling, and coping modeling, 100 children, aged 7-12, were studied. Subjects from two hospitals were randomly assigned to four experimental groups and one control group: alone (the control group, N=20);…

Although previous research indicates that self-concept scores of elderly people are higher than both test norms and scores for younger groups, some researchers have hypothesized that the higher self-concept scores are the result of denial and are not an indication of true self-concept. To investigate the consistency of higher test scores across…

A longitudinal study over a period of 12 months was conducted to assess the process of adjustment of adults to blindness and the factors that influence that adjustment. The visual impairment of the seven subjects took place from 5 days to 8 months prior to the study. Methods of data collection included observations in natural settings,…

Three sources of professional uncertainty have been described: uncertainty about the practitioner's mastery of knowledge; uncertainty due to gaps in the knowledge base itself; and uncertainty about the source of the uncertainty, i.e., the practitioner does not know whether his uncertainty is due to gaps in the knowledge base or to personal…

Describes the seven-stage model of personal change that can be used to help individuals and organizations recover from major change. The stages are (1) destablizing and losing focus; (2) minimizing the impact; (3) questioning self-worth; (4) letting go of the past; (5) testing the new situation; (6) searching for meaning; and (7) integrating the…

Research with 49 families identified key variables that indicate why some families assist disabled persons to reach appropriate, rehabilitation goals. With early intervention, such coping mechanisms as denial, appropriate use of information, outward-directed activities, and positive expectations improved the family's ability to facilitate the…

Bibliotherapy (use of books to help people deal with problems in their lives) can be very useful in helping blind people adjust to their loss. Criteria for material selection should address matters of reading preference, education and work history, prognosis, and nature of the adjustment problem. (CL)