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Skinner, Ellen A.; Belmont, Michael J. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1993
Effects of the involvement, classroom structure, and autonomy support of 14 teachers on the behavioral and emotional engagement of 144 third through fifth graders were studied across a school year. Results suggest that behaviorally disengaged students receive teacher responses that should further undermine motivation. (SLD)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Classroom Techniques, Correlation, Elementary Education
Curzon, Susan Carol – American Libraries, 2000
Describes the rebuilding efforts at the library of California State University at Northridge after the January 1994 earthquake. Discusses electronic resources; patron use of other libraries; rescuing materials that could be salvaged; staff assignments; resuming library service; fundraising; communication with staff; public relations, emotional…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Communication (Thought Transfer), Earthquakes, Educational Facilities Improvement
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Gould, Madelyn S.; Munfakh, Jimmie Lou Harris; Kleinman, Marjorie; Lubell, Keri; Provenzano, Danielle – Applied Developmental Science, 2004
The impact of the September 11th terrorist attacks on adolescents' mental health is reported. Two successive cohorts of students in 6 New York state high schools, identified from health courses, completed an in-school self-report baseline assessment of hopelessness, impairment, and help-seeking behavior. One year later, these students completed a…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Psychological Patterns, Interviews, Help Seeking
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Chen, Edith; Hanson, Margaret D. – Prevention Researcher, 2005
Stress has been related to both lower socioeconomic status and poorer health. This research tests a model which suggests that teenagers from varying socioeconomic backgrounds differ not only in terms of exposure to negative life events, but also in their interpretation of life situations. Study participants were 100 high school students (roughly…
Descriptors: Metabolism, Adolescents, Correlation, Stress Variables
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Heller, Tamar; Hsieh, Kelly; Rimmer, James H. – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 2004
Attitudinal and psychosocial outcomes of a fitness and health education program for adults with Down syndrome were examined. Participants were 53 adults with Down syndrome ages 30 years and older (29 females, 24 males, M age = 39.72 years) who were randomized into a training (n = 32) or control group (n = 21). The training group participated in a…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Life Satisfaction, Depression (Psychology), Down Syndrome
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Murray, Lynne; Woolgar, Matt; Martins, Carla; Christaki, Anna; Hipwell, Alison; Cooper, Peter – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2006
Parents are increasingly expected to supplement their children's school-based learning by providing support for children's homework. However, parents' capacities to provide such support may vary and may be limited by the experience of depression. This may have implications for child development. In the course of a prospective, longitudinal study…
Descriptors: Homework, Social Class, Mothers, Family Characteristics
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Rivers, Ian; Cowie, Helen – Journal of Gay & Lesbian Issues in Education, 2006
This article reports the results of a three-year study focusing on the experiences of a sample of lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) people in the United Kingdom who were victimized by their peers at school. Data collected from 190 LGBs suggested that experiences of victimization at school were both long-term and systematic, and were perpetrated by…
Descriptors: Sexual Orientation, Foreign Countries, Homosexuality, Victims of Crime
Norris-Shortle, Carole; Melley, Alison H.; Kiser, Laurel J.; Levey, Eric; Cosgrove, Kim; Leviton, Audrey – Zero to Three, 2006
PACT: Helping Children with Special Needs, an affiliate of the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, operates a therapeutic nursery that serves families who have at least one child from birth to 3 years of age, and who are living in a Baltimore City homeless shelter. In partnership with the Martin Luther King Early Head Start Program…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Delayed Speech, Disadvantaged Youth, Parent Child Relationship
Montalvo, Gregory P.; Roedel, Teresa DeBacker – 1995
This study explored why students attempt to please their teachers, the link between the self-reported desire to please teachers and academic performance, and the various ways students go about the task of pleasing teachers. The research focused specifically on the range of reasons students have for wanting to please teachers, what students do to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Emotional Response, Focus Groups, High School Students
McNamee, Abigail S. – 1994
Many things stretch the bonds between caregiver and child, perhaps none more than war. Children's healthy illusions of their personal safety, well-being, and control of their environment is shattered. The resulting stresses cause varying levels and types of trauma, as well as varying mechanisms of coping. This paper explores the problems war…
Descriptors: Caregiver Child Relationship, Caregiver Role, Child Caregivers, Child Health
National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC. – 1995
The wars that began in 1991 in the countries of the former Yugoslavia caused widespread child suffering. This workshop report presents the findings from the Workshop on the Impact of War on Child Health held for doctors from Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia. The workshop's goal was to address the common interest in the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Health, Child Welfare, Children
Feshbach, Norma Deitch – 1991
This paper reviews research on the assessment of parental empathy and considers data relevant to the relationship of parental empathy to other parental and family attributes. Three studies that relate parental empathy to the child's adjustment and personality characteristics, including empathy in the child, are then examined. The first study…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Affective Behavior, Child Abuse, Child Rearing
Marlett, Dana M. – 1993
The purpose of this study is to find out from transfer students exactly what they are afraid of or nervous about when they start over in a new school and examines the implications these anxieties may have for teachers. During the transition, transfer students often suffer social, academic, and emotional distress which can impede their adjustment…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Educational Research, Elementary School Students, Emotional Response
Horowitz, Sandra V. – 1991
This study investigated the stresses confronting homeless adolescents and the coping strategies that enable stressed urban minority children to achieve in school. A total of 176 homeless children ranging in age from 9 to 14 years were interviewed, and 199 control subjects who were not homeless were surveyed. Academic achievement was determined…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Coping, Elementary School Students
Biggers, Thompson; And Others – 1987
In response to the current crisis in the field of nursing, a study examined nursing students' perceived work-related stress and differences among associate degree, diploma, and baccalaureate nursing programs in their preparation of nursing students. The 171 subjects, representing the three different nursing programs, completed a questionnaire…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Affective Measures, Arousal Patterns, Burnout
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