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Maxwell, Elizabeth – Roeper Review, 1998
Looks at early traits of self-efficacy in young gifted children in terms of a self that is aware and actively evaluative and seeks its own actualization. Three areas of expression of self-efficacy are depicted: the intellectual, the emotional, and the volitional. Parenting issues with regard to early self-efficacy are explored. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Rearing, Creative Expression, Gifted
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Dobruskin, M. E. – Russian Education and Society, 1996
Paints a discouraging picture of the teaching conditions in higher education in the Ukraine. Salaries are about one-quarter of their previous levels, and often are not paid for months at a time, workers in science and education rank forty-fifth out of forty-eight pay categories, and publishing opportunities have declined. (MJP)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Faculty, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Yates, Alayne; Brodkin, Adele M. – Instructor, 1994
When early adolescents equate body image with self-image, they risk eating and exercise disorders, with dangerous results. Interviews with two experts present information to help middle school teachers understand the problem and intervene with students whose preoccupation with appearance or prowess can, taken to the extreme, be fatal. (SM)
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Body Image, Eating Disorders
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Seita, John R. – Reclaiming Children and Youth, 2001
A former youth at risk who is now an expert on youth development introduces the reader to the concept of Family Privilege. Individuals who grow up with this unearned advantage may fail to recognize the degree to which stable families set the stage for their success in life. (Author)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescent Development, Affective Behavior, At Risk Persons
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Valas, Harald – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2001
Data for 1,833 Norwegian students in grades 4, 7, and 9 show that learning disabled (LD) (n=214) and low achieving (not diagnosed as LD; n=156) attributed success in mathematics and language to ability to a greater extent than other students. LD students showed more helplessness than other low achieving students, although these students showed…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Helplessness
Moran, Christy D. – College Student Affairs Journal, 2005
This qualitative study investigated contextual influences involved in college student identity development. It examined events, experiences, and relationships that alumni suggest either nourished or thwarted their perceptions of multiple dimensions of their identity during college. Findings suggest that self-perceptions of identity often change as…
Descriptors: College Students, Self Concept, Qualitative Research, Context Effect
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Nasim, Aashir; Roberts, Albert; Harrell, Jules P.; Young, Hollie – Journal of Negro Education, 2005
Two hundred-fifty African American college students from two predominantly White institutions (PWIs) and two historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) were administered the Non-Cognitive Questionnaire-Revised (NCQ-R) and the Multidimensional Inventory of Black Identity (MIBI) to determine which psychosocial indices best predicted…
Descriptors: African American Achievement, Cultural Context, College Students, Black Colleges
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Kokkinos, Constantinos M.; Panayiotou, Georgia; Davazoglou, Aggeliki M. – Psychology in the Schools, 2005
The purpose of this study was to assess whether burnout and personality were linked to the perceived severity of 24 undesirable student behaviors among experienced and trainee teachers. Results indicated that teaching experience, student gender, and type of behavior were important determinants of their perceptions. Burnout had a significant effect…
Descriptors: Severity (of Disability), Teaching Experience, Personality Traits, Teacher Burnout
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Repacholi, Betty; Trapolini, Tania – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2004
There is growing evidence that insecurely attached children are less advanced in their social understanding than their secure counterparts. However, attachment may also predict how individual children use their social understanding across different relationships. For instance, the insecure child's social-cognitive difficulties may be more…
Descriptors: Social Development, Preschool Children, Attachment Behavior, Verbal Ability
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Bradlyn, Andrew S.; Beale, Ivan L.; Kato, Pamela M. – Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2003
We present a systematic review of published research on psychoeducational interventions for children with cancer. The current lack of an organizational model for this literature makes it difficult to form a coherent picture of the scattered literature and draw nomothetic conclusions. A model is described that is based on functional concepts from…
Descriptors: Information Needs, Instructional Design, Intervention, Video Games
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Zachopoulou, Evridiki; Trevlas, Efthimios; Tsikriki, Georgia – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2004
There is a distinction between girls and boys regarding the manifestation of sex-appropriate behaviour from an early age. There is evidence that boys and girls play and are reared differently, and also are reinforced differently to manifest behaviours regarded as playful. The purpose of this study was to identify if there were differences between…
Descriptors: Play, Females, Multivariate Analysis, Kindergarten
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LaGasse, Linda L.; Neal, A. Rebecca; Lester, Barry M. – Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews, 2005
Infant crying signals distress to potential caretakers who can alleviate the aversive conditions that gave rise to the cry. The cry signal results from coordination among several brain regions that control respiration and vocal cord vibration from which the cry sounds are produced. Previous work has shown a relationship between acoustic…
Descriptors: Crying, Pregnancy, Infants, Acoustics
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Gover, Angela R. – Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 2005
A sample of 302 juveniles confined in two separate correctional facilities in a Western plains state was assessed to examine the relationship between child maltreatment and other delinquency risk factors, and Native American ethnicity on perceptions of the institutional environments and psychological adjustment in a boot camp and traditional…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Correctional Institutions, American Indians, At Risk Persons
Maney, Dolores W.; Mortensen, Sharon; Powell, M. Paige; Lozinska-Lee, Monika; Kennedy, Susan; Moore, Betty – American Journal of Health Education, 2002
An exploration of the linear relationships among alcohol use, participation in late-night alcohol-free entertainment options, perceived drinking norms, social identity, perception of university policy, and demographics was conducted. The sample was 1,074 college students enrolled in introductory psychology courses. Alcohol use was measured using…
Descriptors: Drinking, Prevention, Program Development, Social Attitudes
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Astleitner, Hermann – E-Journal of Instructional Science and Technology, 2004
There are theoretical models concerning Multimedia and cognitive and motivational processes. However, such models are missing for emotional processes. In order to develop such a model, studies from literary text research were analyzed. Literary text research was chosen as a starting point because Multimedia environments often contain texts (or…
Descriptors: Story Grammar, Models, Learning Strategies, Cognitive Processes
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