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Scharf, Miri; Kerns, Kathryn A.; Rousseau, Sofie; Kivenson-Baron, Inbal – School Psychology International, 2016
The goal of the study was to examine the joint and distinct contribution of attachment security and social anxiety to Arab children's peer competence in middle childhood. We focused on Arab children as very little research has examined close relationships for this group. A sample of 404 third-, fourth- and fifth-grade Arabic students (203 boys and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Arabs, Parent Child Relationship, Mothers
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Peleg-Popko, Ora; Klingman, Avigdor – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2002
Examines relationships between family environment, discrepancies between the "actual" and the "desirable" environment, and children's test and trait anxiety. Main findings reveal that children's levels of anxiety were negatively correlated with dimensions of family environment and positively correlated with discrepancy between…
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Children, Family Environment, Foreign Countries
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Klingman, Avigdor – School Psychology International, 2000
Examines the response of children in the Golan Heights to the ambiguous situation during the continuing peace talks between Israel and Syria concerning a possible evacuation of the region's settlers. Results suggest that social support, defensiveness, religion, and living in smaller settlements predicted better coping, whereas less social support…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Anxiety, Children, Collective Settlements
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Zuzovsky, Ruth; And Others – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 1990
Test data from 1,305 Israeli fifth graders involved in the Second International Science Study were analyzed to assess the role of in-school versus out-of-school activities on scientific knowledge. Most of the knowledge that children master within the school is the same as that which they master outside the school. (TJH)
Descriptors: Children, Elementary School Science, Elementary School Students, Extracurricular Activities