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Davis, Dan; Kugelmass, Judith – 1974
The Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) is evaluated in this research report with respect to the effects of home environment. The main data of an original HIPPY study consisted of the children's performance in various tests of mental ability. In the present study, the same sample is used, but the focus of research is on the…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged, Family Environment, Home Instruction
Kaffman, M.; Elizur, E. – Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines, 1983
Examines the comparative prevalence of grief reactions, behavioral symptoms, and pathological bereavement in 25 kibbutz and 21 non-kibbutz children between 3 1/2 and 11 1/2 years of age. Findings indicated that, for a large proportion of the children, loss of the father becomes a traumatic situation influencing functioning and causing behavioral…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Bereavement, Children, Comparative Analysis
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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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Levy-Shiff, Rachel – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1986
Home observations of Israeli families with retarded children (N=40) and with normal children (N=40) indicated that, among families with retarded children, there was less frequent maternal behavior toward the child, less frequent communicative behavior of the child toward the parents, and more frequent spousal interchanges regarding the child.…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Father Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Interaction
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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
Srour, Roney W.; Srour, Anan – Journal of Loss and Trauma, 2006
The authors discuss traumatic familial and communal risk factors faced by the average Palestinian child during times of war. Unlike most research, which limits Palestinian children's experience to military-related traumatic events, this article attempts to illustrate their communal and familial contexts empirically. Sources studies were published…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Children, Case Studies, War
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Laufer, Zmira – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 1994
Interviews were conducted with 45 Israeli social workers who were case managers for 105 children in residential care because of parental absence or inadequate care. Interviews indicated that the practice of home weekends is characterized by neglect in professional assurance of the well-being of children and lack of family-oriented intervention…
Descriptors: Child Neglect, Family Environment, Foreign Countries, Interviews
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Sagy, Shifra; Antonovsky, Aaron – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1992
Examined marital dyad as family social system in which individual experiences stressors and coping. Investigated Antonovsky's salutogenic model and its core concept, sense of coherence (SOC). Data from 286 married Israeli retirees suggest, when one spouse has high SOC and other has low SOC, salutogenic versions of family SOC seems to be better…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Coping, Family Environment, Foreign Countries
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Rapoport, Tamar – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1991
Gender-differential socialization within/across the home, school, and informal youth association were examined using self-reports of 220 Israeli adolescents in grades 8-10. Three components of socialization arenas--openness, control, and deviation--were delineated. The deviation of boys was a stronger and more sensitive function of openness and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Patterns, Comparative Analysis, Educational Environment
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Margalit, Malka; And Others – International Journal of Special Education, 1988
Four subtypes of family climate were identified through analysis of the Sense of Coherence Scale, Family Environment Scale, and Global Measure of Satisfaction from Family, using 77 mothers of disabled children in Israeli kibbutzim. The four subtypes emphasized personal growth orientation, conflict orientation, nonsupportive disorganized…
Descriptors: Conflict, Disabilities, Family Environment, Family Life
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Elbedour, Salman; Bart, William M.; Hektner, Joel M. – Journal of Social Psychology, 2000
Examines the scholastic achievement in Arabic, English, Hebrew, and mathematics of 240 Bedouin-Arab adolescents from monogamous and polygamous families in Negev (Israel). Reveals that adolescents from monogamous and polygamous families demonstrate equivalent levels of scholastic achievement, although boys in polygamous families and girls in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Family Environment, Family Influence, Family Structure
Kravetz, Nathan – 1979
Child development in Israel takes place in a context of many unique influences. Influences which define the nature of family experience include religion, ethnic group membership, immigrant or non-immigrant status, and urban or rural living. All of these influences are situated within, and further influenced by, the continuous state of military…
Descriptors: Arabs, Child Development, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Context
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Miller, Paul – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2002
A study of 27 students with deafness raised by hearing parents who advocated a strict oral approach, 22 students with deafness who used Israeli Sign Language, and 39 controls, found both the controls and participants with prelingual deafness who were trained to communicate orally recoded visually presented target words phonologically. (Contains…
Descriptors: Deafness, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Environment, Family Influence
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Lifshitz, Michaela; And Others – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1975
Differences in developmental trends of symptomatology between 30 adopted children and a matched control group of biological children, all referred to a child guidance clinic and reared within the kibbutz communal educational system, are examined. Results indicate that kibbutz adoptees' symptoms show a specificity different from city adopted…
Descriptors: Adopted Children, Aggression, Behavior Problems, Emotional Problems
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Feldman, S. Shirley; Sarnat, Lela – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1986
Examines the relationships between childrearing environments, adult control behaviors, and children's compliance and violation in Israeli town and Kibbutz children. (HOD)
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Child Development, Child Rearing, Comparative Analysis
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