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Cambra, Cristina – Deafness and Education International, 2005
The objective of this study is to explore the feelings and emotions of deaf adolescents. The study examines the emotional domain of 34 prelingual severely and profoundly deaf adolescents, matched by sex and age with hearing class peers. A sentence completion task (Loeb and Sarigiani, 1986) is employed to assess such feelings as happiness, sadness,…
Descriptors: Hearing (Physiology), Deafness, Adolescents, Social Environment
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Lewis, Eilene; Kritzinger, Alta – Down Syndrome Research and Practice, 2004
Although feeding difficulties in infants with Down syndrome are described in the literature, the experiences of parents regarding the feeding problems of their infants are largely omitted. In order to promote closer collaboration with families and speech-language therapists in early communication intervention, the study investigated some…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Down Syndrome, Infants, Nutrition
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Dawson, Geraldine; Webb, Sara J.; Carver, Leslie; Panagiotides, Heracles; McPartland, James – Developmental Science, 2004
Evidence suggests that autism is associated with impaired emotion perception, but it is unknown how early such impairments are evident. Furthermore, most studies that have assessed emotion perception in children with autism have required verbal responses, making results difficult to interpret. This study utilized high-density event-related…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Age, Autism, Brain
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Manderson, J.; McCune, N. – Child Care in Practice, 2004
The objective of this study is to assess whether children's needs are taken into consideration in female patients who are admitted to an adult psychiatric hospital. A retrospective case note audit of 100 female inpatients aged between 18 and 55 years over a 6-month period were randomly selected. The medical and nursing case notes of patients with…
Descriptors: Mothers, Psychiatric Hospitals, Mental Disorders, Patients
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Thomas, Mary – Health Education, 2005
Purpose: Workplace bullying has been a subject of increasing study in recent years, particularly in the UK, Scandinavia and Australia. Health effects of workplace bullying are often cited as an undesirable outcome of being bullied, yet these health effects have not been studied systematically. This study was small and exploratory. The overall aims…
Descriptors: Bullying, Foreign Countries, Work Environment, Interviews
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O'Brien, Maeve – Irish Educational Studies, 2005
This paper investigates the phenomenon of mothers' emotional labour in relation to children's transfer from first- to second-level schooling: a time that has been shown to pose significant challenges for students and their families. It seeks to break the silence that surrounds the recognition and production of emotional labour in general, and…
Descriptors: Mothers, Emotional Response, Case Studies, Elementary Education
Wiginton, Kristin; Rhea, Deborah J.; Oomen, Jody – American Journal of Health Education, 2004
Promoting the development of positive interpersonal communication skills has been identified as one of the National Health Education Standards. The propensity to feel shame has been linked to ineffective conflict resolution and is a key component in the development of certain destructive behavioral patterns. This study sought to determine the…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Health Education, Conflict Resolution, Communication Skills
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Claes, Michel; Lacourse, Eric; Ercolani, Anna-Paula; Pierro, Antonio; Leone, Luigi; Presaghi, Fabio – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2005
The objective of this study was to investigate the links between maternal and paternal bonding, parental practices, orientation toward peers, and the prevalence of drug use and antisocial behavior during late adolescence. A model was tested using structural equation modeling in order to verify the robustness of the investigated links across 3…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Antisocial Behavior, Drug Use, Child Rearing
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Rieger, Alicja – Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities (RPSD), 2004
This article presents a qualitative study of six families of children with disabilities and their perspectives on humor. The findings revealed that the families had an understanding of humor that went beyond the generalized humor construct. They embraced both the concept of humor and "other types of fun." Furthermore, the families' attempts at…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Humor, Emotional Response, Interpersonal Communication
Ramanathan, Hema – Multicultural Education, 2006
Emerging literature on Asian Americans shows that perceptions about the community are often at odds with reality. Asian Americans desire to be "normal," to fit in. Whether it is to be accepted as "honorary Whites" so as not to remain "forever foreigners," or to get by in a racist society by staying quiet and behaving so that nobody would bother…
Descriptors: Minority Group Teachers, Asian Americans, Social Influences, Social Bias
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Burry, Caroline Long; Wright, Lois – Child Welfare, 2006
Permanency planning for infants with prenatal substance exposure is challenging due to characteristics of the infants and the ongoing substance use or relapse of the parents. Visitation is a primary mechanism through which child welfare workers determine and support permanency planning. Productive use of visitation for permanency planning for…
Descriptors: Infants, Child Welfare, Prenatal Influences, Drug Use
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Lagace-Seguin, Daniel G.; d'Entremont, Marc-Robert L. – Early Child Development and Care, 2006
The relationship between less than optimal parenting styles, child transgressions and maternal depression were examined. It was predicted that variations in parenting styles would predict maternal depression over and above child transgressions. The present study involved approximately 68 children, their mothers and their preschool teachers.…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Preschool Teachers, Child Behavior, Interpersonal Competence
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Van Veen, Klaas; Sleegers, Peter – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2006
This exploratory study examines how teachers perceive their work within the current context of educational reform. A cognitive social-psychological approach to emotions offers the theoretical framework for understanding what teachers have at stake within the context of the reforms. Six Dutch secondary school teachers with strongly differing…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Educational Change, Psychological Patterns, Social Psychology
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Bornstein, Marc H.; Hendricks, Charlene; Haynes, O. Maurice; Painter, Kathleen M. – Infancy, 2007
This study examined unique associations of multiple distal context variables (family socioeconomic status [SES], maternal employment, and paternal parenting) and proximal maternal (personality, intelligence, and knowledge; behavior, self-perceptions, and attributions) and child (age, gender, representation, language, and sociability)…
Descriptors: Mothers, Child Rearing, Parent Child Relationship, Multivariate Analysis
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Weston, Rebecca; Marshall, Linda L.; Coker, Ann L. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2007
Drawing from past research on women's motives for intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetration, correlates of women's perpetration, and correlates of nonviolent conflict, we created a scale containing 125 possible motives, representing 14 broad domains (e.g., self-defense, retaliation). Participants were an ethnically diverse sample of women who…
Descriptors: Females, Intimacy, Ethnicity, Factor Analysis
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