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Educational Optimism among Parents: A Pilot Study
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Räty, Hannu; Kasanen, Kati – Educational Studies, 2016
This study explored parents' (N = 351) educational optimism in terms of their trust in the possibilities of school to develop children's intelligence. It was found that educational optimism could be depicted as a bipolar factor with optimism and pessimism on the opposing ends of the same dimension. Optimistic parents indicated more satisfaction…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, Parent Attitudes, Positive Attitudes, Negative Attitudes
Investigating the Relationship among Internet Addiction, Positive and Negative Affects, and Life Satisfaction in Turkish Adolescents
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Telef, Bülent Baki – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2016
This study investigates the relationships between Internet addiction and the areas of life satisfaction and positive or negative affects in Turkish adolescents. The research sample comprised 358 students studying in the sixth, seventh and eighth grades at four different middle schools in Canakkale city centre during the 2012-2013 academic year, of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Correlation, Internet, Addictive Behavior
The Counterintuitive Psychological Benefits of Intergenerational Discrepancies in Family Prioritization for Jamaican Adolescent-Parent Dyads
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Ferguson, Gail M. – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2013
The current study tests a prediction of Relational Discrepancy Theory (RDT; i.e., emotional distress will not accompany discrepancies in hierarchical relationships) for family obligations discrepancies among adolescent-parent dyads in Jamaica, a moderately collectivistic and hierarchical society. Ninety-five dyads reported psychological adjustment…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Parent Child Relationship, Parents, Family Relationship