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John, Nicholas; Joeckel, Sven; Epstein, Dmitry; Dogruel, Leyla – Learning, Media and Technology, 2023
The social distancing and lockdown measures enacted to address the COVID-19 pandemic entailed an unprecedented shift to digitally-mediated communication. The move to remote learning at schools was one of such important changes. Drawing on privacy and STS literature, we investigate the role of different privacy cultures during the initial moment of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Distance Education
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Biberman-Shalev, Liat; Tur, Gemma; Buchem, Ilona – Open Praxis, 2020
National culture has been an influential framework for comparative and international research. However, current theories suggest that people and societies are rather more complex constructs than their cultural layer. This work is based on a previous study in which, when students from Spain were compared to German students, the former showed higher…
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Cross Cultural Studies, Self Concept, Correlation
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Da'as, Rima'a – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2017
Despite substantial interest and research in measuring leader's skills, little is known about the measurement equivalence and mean differences in the scores measuring principals' skills (cognitive, interpersonal, strategic) across cultures (collectivism versus individualism). The aim of the present study was to assess measurement…
Descriptors: Principals, Leadership Qualities, Measurement Techniques, Cross Cultural Studies
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Arar, Khalid; Beycioglu, Kadir; Oplatka, Izhar – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2017
The research compares principals in Israel (Jewish and Arab) and Turkey and how they perceive and practice their role in promoting social justice (SJ) in their schools in order to bridge socioeconomic and pedagogic gaps. It poses three questions: (1) How do Turkish and Israeli SJ leaders make sense of SJ? (2) What do SJ leaders do in both…
Descriptors: Principals, Comparative Education, Social Justice, Foreign Countries
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Diesendruck, Gil; Goldfein-Elbaz, Rebecca; Rhodes, Marjorie; Gelman, Susan; Neumark, Noam – Child Development, 2013
The present study compared 5-and 10-year-old North American and Israeli children's beliefs about the objectivity of different categories (n = 109). Children saw picture triads composed of two exemplars of the same category (e.g., two women) and an exemplar of a contrasting category (e.g., a man). Children were asked whether it would be acceptable…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Differences, Comparative Analysis, Children
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Mesman, Judi; van IJzendoorn, Marinus; Behrens, Kazuko; Carbonell, Olga Alicia; Cárcamo, Rodrigo; Cohen-Paraira, Inbar; de la Harpe, Christian; Ekmekçi, Hatice; Emmen, Rosanneke; Heidar, Jailan; Kondo-Ikemura, Kiyomi; Mels, Cindy; Mooya, Haatembo; Murtisari, Sylvia; Nóblega, Magaly; Ortiz, Jenny Amanda; Sagi-Schwartz, Abraham; Sichimba, Francis; Soares, Isabel; Steele, Howard; Steele, Miriam; Pape, Marloes; van Ginkel, Joost; van der Veer, René; Wang, Lamei; Selcuk, Bilge; Yavuz, Melis; Zreik, Ghadir – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2016
In this article, we test the hypothesis that beliefs about the ideal mother are convergent across cultures and that these beliefs overlap considerably with attachment theory's notion of the sensitive mother. In a sample including 26 cultural groups from 15 countries around the globe, 751 mothers sorted the Maternal Behavior Q-Set to reflect their…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Child Rearing, Young Children
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Orland-Barak, Lily; Kheir-Farraj, Roseanne; Becher, Ayelet – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2013
This paper examines the nature of moral dilemmas mentors from three different national groups (Jewish, Druze, and Arab) encounter in their work in Israeli Arab schools, how they manage these dilemmas in practice, and how the nature of particular dilemmas might connect to their management strategies. Given the multicultural and politically…
Descriptors: Jews, Arabs, Foreign Countries, Mentors
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Pines, Ayala Malach; Neal, Margaret B.; Hammer, Leslie B.; Icekson, Tamar – Social Psychology Quarterly, 2011
We use existential theory as a framework to explore the levels of and relationship between job and couple burnout reported by dual-earner couples in the "sandwich generation" (i.e., couples caring both for children and aging parents) in a sample of such couples in Israel and the United States. This comparison enables an examination of…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Burnout, Family Work Relationship, Foreign Countries
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Katz, Ruth; Gur-Yaish, Nurit; Lowenstein, Ariela – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 2010
We explore from a cross-national perspective three motivations in adult children to provide help to older parents: affectual solidarity, parental need for care, and filial norms. The sample is 1,055 adult children from Norway, Spain, and Israel, countries selected because they represent different family cultures and welfare regimes. Affectual…
Descriptors: Norms, Foreign Countries, Cultural Context, Cross Cultural Studies
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Gartstein, Maria A.; Peleg, Yana; Young, Brandi N.; Slobodskaya, Helena R. – Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 2009
The present study addresses cross-cultural differences between infants born to families of Russian immigrants in USA and Israel, as well as Russian families residing in Russia, with the emphasis on evaluating the impact of immigration and acculturation. Community samples of primary caregivers of infants between 3 and 12 months of age were…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Caregivers, Infants, Personality
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Levav, I.; Aisenberg, E. – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 1989
Compared overall rates of completed suicide between Israel and selected European and North American countries. Found that rates for Israel were generally lower. Also compared suicide among different national-religious groups in Israel. Found rates were higher for Jews than for Muslim minority. Attempts to explain findings. (Author/NB)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Influences, Epidemiology
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Amir, Yehuda – Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 1975
Noting that one would expect that members of cultural groups whose modes of child rearing foster individual autonomy would achieve more articulated perceptual functioning rather than persons reared in societies where conformity and emotional dependence are stressed, this article discusses a study which compared two Israeli sub-groups and two…
Descriptors: Arabs, Child Rearing, College Students, Cross Cultural Studies
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Adler, Israel; Kandel, Denise B. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1982
Correlates of alcohol use were compared in France, with high prevalence of use; Israel, low prevalence; and the United States, in the middle. In all three countries, significant others--parents and peers--were more powerful predictors than personal attributes. The importance of parents in Israel and peers in the United States was shown. (Author/CM)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Influences, Drinking
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Nisan, Mordecai – Developmental Psychology, 1988
Nisan responds to Turiel, Nucci, and Smetana's (1988) critique by stating that it merely serves to emphasize the difficulty involved in distinguishing between the moral and the conventional without reference to the cultural meaning of the act. (PCB)
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Influences, Foreign Countries, Moral Development
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Logan, Regina; And Others – Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 1990
Discusses a study of moral types (autonomous vs. heteronomous) based on Kohlberg's theory of moral development in order to establish cross-cultural validity. The sample included kibbutz-educated Israeli adolescents. Compares results to studies of adolescents in the United States, Turkey, Taiwan, and the Bahamas. Israeli subject were most likely to…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences
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