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Antonovsky, Aaron; Sourani, Talma – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1988
Administered family Sense of Coherence (SOC) scale to 60 married Israeli males who were disabled by injury or illness and to their spouses. Data provide strong support for hypothesis that strength of SOC would be associated with adaptation, and showed considerable degree of consensus among spouses. (Author/NB)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Attitudes, Disabilities, Family Characteristics
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Bornstein, Marc H.; Hahn, Chun-Shin; Haynes, O. Maurice; Belsky, J.; Azuma, Hiroshi; Kwak, Keumjoo; Maital, Sharone; Painter, Kathleen M.; Varron, Cheryl; Pascual, Liliana; Toda, Sueko; Venuti, Paola; Vyt, Andre; de Galperin, Celia Zingman – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2007
A total of 467 mothers of firstborn 20-month-old children from 7 countries (103 Argentine, 61 Belgian, 39 Israeli, 78 Italian, 57 Japanese, 69 Korean, and 60 US American) completed the "Jackson Personality Inventory" (JPI), measures of parenting cognitions (self-perceptions and knowledge), and a social desirability scale. Our first…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Social Desirability, Mothers, Child Rearing
Milgram, Norman A. – 1987
The topic of procrastination (putting off for tomorrow what one should do today) is introduced as a well-known phenomenon that has been the subject of widespread general interest, modest professional activity, and remarkably little research interest. In this paper, explicit criteria are formulated to define the phenomenon. The various etiological…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Behavior Theories, Coping, Counseling
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Ben-David, Amith; Sprenkle, Douglas H. – American Journal of Family Therapy, 1993
Eight individuals from larger study of lay persons who interpreted Family Adaptability and Cohesion Evaluation Scales (FACES-III) adaptability items were interviewed in-depth concerning their understanding of adaptability items of regular FACES III and two alternate versions. Qualitative results suggest that participants may not be understanding…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adults, Foreign Countries, Interviews
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Tziner, Aharon; Vered, Efrat; Ophir, Limor – Journal of Career Assessment, 2004
This study examined the connection between personality traits (extraversion, conscientiousness, openness) and two strategies for job search: networking (family, friends, etc.) and general search (want ads, employment agencies), making use of Costa and McCrae's five-factor model of personality dimensions. The relations between the two strategies…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Personality Traits, College Graduates, Unemployment
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Meir, Elchanan I.; Hasson, Razia – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1982
Studied level of congruence between personality type of subjects and modal personality type in their environment. Results showed modal personality type of males and females was not similar; correlation was high for congruence level and inclination to remain in an environment and low for congruence level and social acceptance. (Author/RC)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Congruence (Psychology), Foreign Countries, Personality Traits
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Margalit, Chaim; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1980
Females demonstrated the same A-Trait/A-State relationship as previously reported for males. Findings suggest that state anxiety and trait anxiety are cognitively and experientially differentiated constructs. The state construct is related to situations; the trait construct is stable over situations. (Author/BEF)
Descriptors: Anxiety, Behavior Rating Scales, Emotional Response, Females
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Klein, Helen Altman; Ballantine, Jeanne H. – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 1991
Assessed U.S., English, Israeli, and Japanese teachers' views of the ideal temperaments of children. Teachers in the U.S. and England had the most similar views, whereas those in Israel were most divergent. Differences and similarities of teacher's views are discussed in terms of eight dimensions of temperament. (BB)
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries
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Meir, Elchanan I.; And Others – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1990
Examined interrelationship among congruence aspects (vocational, avocational, and skill utilization) and their relationship to well-being measures. Administered inventories to Jewish (N=74) and Arab (N-117) teachers. Found various kinds of congruence were related not only to reported satisfaction but also to reported physical and distress…
Descriptors: Congruence (Psychology), Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Job Satisfaction
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Lufi, Dubi; Darliuk, Lina – International Journal of Educational Research, 2005
The purpose of the present research was to expand the knowledge about test anxiety (TA) and its interactive effect on personality characteristics among adolescents who suffer from learning disabilities (LDs). The 166 participants aged 14-18 years, were divided into the following four groups: (1) adolescents with TA and with LD; (2) adolescents…
Descriptors: Test Anxiety, Learning Disabilities, Adolescents, Personality Measures
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Diesendruck, Gil; haLevi, Heidi – Child Development, 2006
Four studies examined whether Israeli 5-year-olds (N=88) and adults (N=48) drew inferences about psychological properties based on a character's social category, personality trait, or physical appearance trait. Study 1 revealed that while children drew inferences mostly by social category, adults did it by personality trait. Study 2 showed that…
Descriptors: Language Role, Cultural Influences, Social Influences, Young Children
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Birenbaum, Menucha; And Others – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1986
The Endler S-R Inventory of General Trait Anxiousness was analyzed employing Smallest Space Analysis (SSA) and factor analysis. The SSA yielded a two-dimensional lattice partitioning the space into regions corresponding to the situations specified in the inventory. The factor-analytic results were similar but not as informative. (Author/JAZ)
Descriptors: Anxiety, Factor Analysis, Foreign Countries, Multidimensional Scaling
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Lichtman, Helen – Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1984
Examined communication concerning wartime experiences in survivor families through interviews and testing of Jewish children of survivors (N=64). Results indicated that willingness to talk about experiences and frequency of communication were related to negative factors among offspring for the mother and positive factors among offspring for the…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Emotional Experience, Foreign Countries, International Crimes
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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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Dar, Yechezkel; Kimhi, Shaul – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2001
Analyzed self-perceived maturation associated with service in the Israeli army according to gender, rank, service trajectory (unit or role), and the socialization environment of the individual (urban or kibbutz). Results for 633 subjects suggest that army service contributes to the maturation of Israeli youth, and maturation is moderately affected…
Descriptors: Armed Forces, Foreign Countries, Individual Development, Maturity (Individuals)
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