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You, Sukkyung; Furlong, Michael J.; Felix, Erika; Sharkey, Jill D.; Tanigawa, Diane; Green, Jennifer Greif – Psychology in the Schools, 2008
This study investigates the role of school connectedness in mediating the relation between students' sense of hope and life satisfaction for three groups: Bullied Victims, Peer Victims, and Nonvictims. Students in grades 5 to 12 (N = 866) completed the California Bully/Victim Scale, School Connectedness Scale, Children's Hope Scale, and Students'…
Descriptors: Life Satisfaction, Measures (Individuals), Student Attitudes, Bullying
Holdaway, Edward A.; Johnson, Neil A. – 1990
Learned opinion supports the relevance of satisfaction with job facets in studies of job satisfaction, but an analysis of the perceived importance of these facets concerning overall job satisfaction in education has largely been ignored. The relationships among Alberta (Canada) elementary and junior high school principals' job facet perceptions…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Job Satisfaction, Motivation
Jacobs, Gaby C. – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2008
Public health is a major focus of government policy worldwide and an expanding area of practice that includes an array of professionals and disciplines. Since the 1980s "empowerment" of individuals and communities to gain greater control over the factors that influence their health has become the focus of many national and local policies…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Health Promotion, Public Health, Experiential Learning

Staw, Barry M.; And Others – Administrative Science Quarterly, 1986
Reviews the debate between job enrichment and social-information-processing perspectives in organizational research. Posits a dispositional approach emphasizing the individual's role. Presents longitudinal study results showing that personality measures significantly predicted job attitudes over a 50-year period and that job and life satisfaction…
Descriptors: Employee Attitudes, Job Enrichment, Job Satisfaction, Life Satisfaction
Townsend, Barbara K.; Twombly, Susan B. – ASHE Higher Education Report, 2007
To increase understanding about community college faculty members and an appreciation of what they do, the authors of this monograph focus on five major topics. "A Profile of Community College Faculty" relies on data from the various iterations of the National Survey of Postsecondary Faculty and other sources to paint a demographic profile of…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Community Colleges, Job Satisfaction, Profiles

Baker, Merl – Innovative Higher Education, 1991
A major barrier to the exploitation of college faculty renewal programs has been a lack of tangible measurements of achievement in academic functions. Functional productivity indices can be used as tools to motivate both individuals and institutions to take advantage of renewal opportunities and assess their renewal experiences. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: College Role, Faculty Development, Higher Education, Job Satisfaction
Sullo, Robert A. – 1993
This book is for professional educators, parents, and other adults who wish to teach young children (three years old through third grade) ways to enjoy greater happiness. Its ideas come from control theory (the idea that all behavior is internally motivated) and reality therapy (the application of control theory principles). In contrast to…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Child Welfare, Children, Happiness
McWayne, Christine; Campos, Rodrigo; Owsianik, Marissa – Journal of School Psychology, 2008
In this study we examined the relationships between family demographics and level of satisfaction with school contact as possible determinants of multiple dimensions of family involvement in early childhood education. Participants included 171 urban, Head Start parents (108 mothers and 63 fathers). Results revealed that for mothers, having less…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Mothers, Family Involvement
Peleg-Oren, Neta; Aran, Ofra; Even-Zahav, Ronit; Macgowan, Mark J.; Stanger, Varda – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2007
This paper is a report of an innovative program in social work education to enrich field supervisors and students with the latest theories and practices related to social work practice in health care settings. This program consists of a study day organized jointly by academic faculty, field supervisors, and students, conducted once a year between…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Foreign Countries, Social Work, Instructional Innovation
Pollicino, Elizabeth B. – 1996
This paper assesses public and private, four-year college or university faculty satisfaction in the context of the complexity of satisfaction and the importance of the interaction between faculty professional values or expectations and institutional values. Satisfaction is defined as the extent to which faculty perceive that the institution…
Descriptors: Collegiality, Faculty College Relationship, Faculty Workload, Higher Education

Wine, Eugene – Community & Junior College Libraries, 1983
Describes the library instruction program at Miami-Dade Community College, a self-instructional library skills program consisting of a two-part manual, review exercises, "hands-on" assignments, and computer-scored tests. Reports on faculty and student responses to the program. (DMM)
Descriptors: College Libraries, Community Colleges, Independent Study, Library Guides

Hill, Joe E. – Business Education Forum, 1979
Suggested for use as a classroom resource, this article encourages students to decide what they expect and want from a job, set specific career goals, be aware of the risks in changing jobs, recognize when a dead-end is reached in the present job, and evaluate job satisfaction and advancement opportunities. (CT)
Descriptors: Career Change, Career Planning, Decision Making, Job Satisfaction
Marsh, D. T. – 1982
People who have reached a career plateau may have become demotivated. The career plateau often coincides with the so-called midlife crisis. The midlife and midcareer crisis is a time of reassessment, self-evaluation, and reflection; awareness of aging and of the limitations of the future produces such problems as depression, discouragement and…
Descriptors: Burnout, Career Change, Foreign Countries, Incentives

Zetlin, Andrea G.; Hosseini, Ashraf – Exceptional Children, 1989
Six mildly learning-handicapped young adults were observed for one year following graduation from high school. All six floundered from job to job and from class to class at a community college. They expressed discontent and frustration with their present situation, but were unable to plan realistically for the future. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Students, Employment, High School Graduates
Nation's Schools and Colleges, 1975
A four-day work week for maintenance workers in the Jefferson County Public Schools in Lakewood, Colorado, reduces absenteeism and increases productivity; a basic manual for physical plant directors is reviewed. (Author/MLF)
Descriptors: Building Operation, Guides, Job Satisfaction, School Maintenance