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Shapira-Lishchinsky, Orly; Rosenblatt, Zehava – Journal of Educational Administration, 2010
Purpose: This paper aims to offer a theoretical framework for linking school ethical climate with teachers' voluntary absence. The paper attempts to explain this relationship using the concept of affective organizational commitment. Design/methodology/approach: Participants were 1,016 school teachers from 35 high schools in Israel. Data were…
Descriptors: Caring, Teacher Attendance, Foreign Countries, Organizational Climate
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Katz, Yaacov J.; Yablon, Yaacov B. – Campus-Wide Information Systems, 2011
Purpose: The purpose of the paper is to examine the efficiency of SMS based cell-phone vocabulary learning as compared to email vocabulary delivery and snail mail vocabulary delivery at the university level. Design/methodology/approach: A total of 241 first year university students studied English vocabulary in their mandatory English foundation…
Descriptors: Electronic Mail, Student Attitudes, Vocabulary, Learning Strategies
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Betzalel, Nurit; Shechtman, Zipora – Journal of Creativity in Mental Health, 2010
This study compared outcomes following cognitive and affective bibliotherapy treatment with 79 children and adolescents in a residential home in Israel. Treatment children were compared to a control-no treatment group from the same home. Anxiety was measured through a self-report measure (Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale; Reynolds &…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bibliotherapy, Anxiety, Comparative Analysis
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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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Sharabi, Adi; Margalit, Malka – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2011
Many adolescents spend time online, communicating with friends, family members and strangers, and these social activities have been often related with their loneliness experience. The goals of this study were to examine the social distress expressed by adolescents with and without learning disabilities (LD) and to distinguish between unique…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Friendship, Adolescents, Psychological Patterns
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Daher, Wajeeh – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2011
Researchers point at the importance of emotions and its study in mathematics education. This research examines middle school students' emotions during learning mathematics outdoors using the mobile phone. The constant comparison method was used to analyze 30 middle school students' emotions while carrying out 15 outdoor activities using the mobile…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Middle School Students, Mathematics Education
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Ben-Zur, Hasida; Michael, Keren – Death Studies, 2009
A sample of 196 participants (mean age 45.94 years, 54% women) completed inventories assessing upward and downward positive and negative social comparisons and general well-being. Widows and widowers were higher on upward negative comparisons than divorced or married persons while being lower on well-being measures of life satisfaction and…
Descriptors: Life Satisfaction, Self Concept, Widowed, Divorce
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Al-Yagon, Michal; Cinamon, Rachel Gali – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2008
The study examined conflict and facilitation in work-family relations among working mothers of children with learning disorders (LD) or with typical development. The study also focused on three maternal personal resources (maternal anxious/avoidant attachment security, affect and sense of coherence) as antecedents of these work-family relations,…
Descriptors: Mothers, Conflict, Attachment Behavior, Parent Child Relationship
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Tzafrir, Shay S.; Mano-Negrin, Rita; Harel, Gedalihau H.; Rom-Nagy, Daphna – Career Development International, 2006
Purpose: Downsizing is a very pervasive organizational process. At these critical junctures many organizations do little to prepare their employees for a mass layoff. The main purpose of this study is to examine how the incorporation of job counseling and professional retraining programs during a period of downsizing affected the responses of both…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Retraining, Affective Behavior, Foreign Countries
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Romi, Shlomo; Lev, Michal – Research in Education, 2007
National history and collective memory and their impact on adolescents' knowledge and attitudes are the topic of this article. A follow-up study, it examines the long-term impact of a journey to historical monuments. Israeli Jewish high-school students have the option of experiential study, visiting cities and death camps in Poland. The first…
Descriptors: Jews, Experiential Learning, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries
Ariel, Shlomo – 1985
This paper summarizes how Chomsky's methodological principles of linguistics may be applied to the clinical interpretation of children's play. Based on Chomsky's derivation of a "universal grammar" (the set of essential, formal, and substantive traits of any human language), a number of hypothesized formal universals of…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Case Studies, Foreign Countries, Linguistic Theory
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Michael, Keren; Ben-Zur, Hasida – Journal of Adolescence, 2007
The research investigated the associations of social and affective factors with risk-taking in male and female adolescents. A sample of 269 Israeli adolescents completed questionnaires measuring frequency of involvement in risk-taking behaviours, relationships with parents, orientation towards peer group, depressive mood, and aggressive behaviour.…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Affective Behavior, At Risk Persons, Foreign Countries
Rafaeli, Anat – 1988
Although many modern occupations require employees to express particular types of emotions while doing their jobs, little empirical evidence exists about factors related to emotional behavior on the job. This study investigated the relationship between emotional displays (smiling, greeting, thanking, eye contact) of sales clerks and variables of…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Dress Codes, Foreign Countries, Interpersonal Relationship
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Regev, Eliahu; And Others – Child Development, 1980
Compares the expression of affect towards parents of 8- to 11-year-old children raised in one of three environments: kibbutz children raised communally with peers, kibbutz children raised in families, and city children raised in traditional families. (SS)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Children, Comparative Analysis, Emotional Response
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Fresko, Barbara – Journal of Educational Research, 1988
A survey of 1,353 college students who received tuition rebates for tutoring disadvantaged students, grades four-nine, revealed: (1) tutor motivations differed, (2) intrinsically motivated tutors rated tutoring success higher than extrinsically motivated tutors, and (3) tutors declaring only extrinsic motivation were more critical. (IAH)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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