Background: Achievement emotions (e.g., enjoyment, pride, anxiety, boredom) critically influence students' academic engagement and performance. Teachers foster intrinsic motivation and positive achievement emotions by providing autonomy support that fulfills students' psychological needs. In contrast, emotionally abusive teacher behaviors (e.g.,…

Menstruation is an inevitable but significant process in the life of adolescent girls that requires the support of both school and family for a successful navigation. Around the age of 12 when girls start menstruating, they are preparing to begin secondary education. Unfortunately, research shows a direct link between the onset of menstruation and…

Educational reforms often precipitate teacher tensions that subsequently impact teacher identity (re)construction. Adopting a community of practice (CoP) framework to examine identity-, belief- and emotion-inflected tensions, and drawing on data from five rounds of interviews, our longitudinal case study traced the identity reformation of an…

This article is a celebration of the pleasure inherent in the teaching of mathematics, with a particular focus on a university undergraduate context, and a taught course in the Theory of Numbers. The paper describes a conscious effort by one lecturer to respect the 'genetic sequence', whereby students are encouraged and enabled to investigate the…

We report 3 empirical studies that represent the first systematic attempt to explore the relationship between emotional and decisional forgiveness and intentional forgetting. On this basis, we propose a model that provides a credible explanation for the relationship between forgiveness and forgetting. Specifically, we propose that engaging in…

Teaching music can be a stressful endeavor. Decades of research findings indicate that music teachers are especially prone to professional burnout. The purpose of this research-to-resource article is to equip music teachers and other educational stakeholders with research-informed definitions, warning signs, and potential remedies for burnout.…

The interplay between sense of entitlement and hope might have a unique contribution to mothers of children with developmental disabilities (DD) life satisfaction. Seventy-three mothers of children with DD and 47 mothers of children without DD participated in the study. Mothers of children with DD (vs. without DD) experienced low levels of life…

A wealth of research suggests that emotion enhances memory. Yet, this enhancement is not uniform. While some theories posit that emotion enhances memory for sensory/perceptual information, such an enhancement has not been observed in mnemonic detail production. However, a focus on remote events (often more semanticized) may be masking an effect.…

People with learning disabilities have historically been overlooked in research investigating the efficacy of therapeutic interventions, despite the increased prevalence of mental health difficulties among this population. As it is not uncommon for individuals with learning disabilities to be part of different relational systems (including access…

Emotional labor is the effort and emotions needed "when personal emotion runs counter to those expected and required. It is emotional labor because there is emotional dissonance, (i.e., a mismatch between expected and felt emotions)" (Tunguz, 2020). Emotional labor also refers to the actions taken by employees to meet company standards…

Only a few studies have investigated how college students who have limited exposure to other cultures (i.e., no traveling experiences, little cross-cultural social interaction) understand and define culture. The current study was intended to capture college students' voices about culture. Three focus groups were conducted with undergraduate…

Although recent studies have attempted to clarify the daily dynamics between moods and creativity, relatively limited studies have explored how daily positive and negative activating moods influence "changes" in daily creativity (i.e., controlling for the effects of prior daily creativity) in real organizations. Furthermore, although the…

The relevance of the work is justified by the situation when the art of plastics, choreography becomes the mean of expressing the author's intention. Art of plastic can afford author to express emotions and appeal to the spectator's emotions through choreography. The purpose of this article is to show abilities of researching the plastic art, as…

Nowadays, the significance of leisure time is increasing in our daily life. In addition to entertainment and relaxation, individuals can make use of their leisure time as self-developed and productive. This study aims to reveal the leisure time trends of university students. The population of the research consists of students studying at Girne…

Purpose Volunteer activities play an important role in shaping students with various skills including self-identity and soft skills. This study aimed to explore the attitudes of outstanding students at the Arabic Academic College for Education in Israel and Students at Other Colleges in Israel towards voluntarism Methodology: There were two…