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Babad, Elisha Y. – American Educational Research Journal, 1985
Israeli elementary school teachers graded a handwritten worksheet allegedly written by an "excellent" or a "weak" student. This ability labeling caused a significant expectancy bias effect. The effects of teachers' ethnic origins, preferred teaching methods, teaching experience, and views on Israeli school integration on…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Bias, Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers
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Zimrin, Hanita – American Journal of Family Therapy, 1984
Suggests that the characteristics of an abused child might be the result of the parent's abusive behavior or the cause of such behavior. The nature of the particular encounter and the matching or nonmatching of needs may turn the characteristics of the child or parent into risk factors. (JAC)
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Etiology, Family (Sociological Unit), Foreign Countries
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Neumann, Yorm; Neumann, Lily – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1982
Examined the relationship between university professors' (N=120) work orientation and attitudes toward their work. Found that a global work orientation is a strong predictor of attitudes toward intrinsic aspects of work in social sciences and a moderate predictor in physical sciences. (Author)
Descriptors: College Faculty, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Job Satisfaction
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Gati, Itamar; Meir, Elchanan I. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1982
Tested the predictive validity of Holland's constructs of congruence and consistency defined according to the hierarchical model for the structure of interests. A follow-up study of adults tested as high school seniors showed the hierarchical and circular models are of similar efficiency in predicting occupational choice satisfaction. (Author/JAC)
Descriptors: Career Choice, Comparative Analysis, Congruence (Psychology), Employees
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Melamed, Samuel – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1981
A study of the function of leisure activities shows: people select leisure activities congruent with their personality; people in congruent occupations were vocationally satisfied and conceived their preferred activities as an extension of the activities they do at work; people in incongruent occupations compensate by selecting compensatory…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Career Choice, Congruence (Psychology), Employees
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Weller, Leonard; Rofe, Yacov – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1988
Wives (N=298) completed two marital happiness questionnaires and other measures. Found no significant differences in marital happiness dimensions between mixed and homogeneous marriages. Women of Asian or African origin reported less marital happiness than did women of Western descent. Differences became nonsignificant when socioeconomic levels…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Educational Attainment, Ethnic Groups
Tal, Amos – Interchange on Educational Policy, 1982
A study examines environmental and personality factors as predictors of academic achievement among kibbutz and urban high school students. Results of a comparison of personality factors indicate that kibbutz students are more restrained, reserved, adaptable, and conforming. The higher scores of city students on intelligence tests may stem from a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Collective Settlements, Educational Environment, Foreign Countries
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Barak, Azy; Rabbi, Ben-Zion – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1982
Examined the relationships between students' level of consistency in choosing a major in college and their persistence, stability, and achievement in a five-year follow-up. It was found that consistent students tend to persist in college, not to change majors, and that they have higher achievement than inconsistent students. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Development, College Students, Followup Studies
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Zak, Itai – Journal of Education for Teaching, 1981
Three selection phases were found in a study investigating the selection process of students into the teaching profession: (1) self selection by the potential teacher; (2) admission to the teacher-training program; and (3) election to undergo the course of instruction. Results suggest that personality traits are more important than cognitive…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Career Choice, Cognitive Measurement, Education Majors
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Francis, Leslie; And Others – British Journal of Educational Technology, 1996
Eysenck's model of personality maintains that personality differences can be expressed in terms of neuroticism, extraversion, and psychoticism. A sample of 298 female undergraduates in Israel demonstrated that a more positive attitude towards computers was associated with higher scores on psychoticism (impersonality) and lower scores on…
Descriptors: Computer Anxiety, Computer Attitudes, Extraversion Introversion, Females
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Laufer, Avital; Harel, Yossi; Molcho, Michal – Journal of School Violence, 2006
This study explores whether the association between substance use and involvement in youth violence is a unique association resulting from the properties of the drugs, or whether it is part of a larger behavioral cluster. The sample was composed of 1,571 10th grade students from the Israeli secular and religious state school systems, including…
Descriptors: State Schools, Jews, Intervention, Violence
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Ferber, Sari Goldstein; Feldman, Ruth – Infancy, 2005
This study examined delivery pain as a possible risk factor for the development of mother-infant interaction. Eighty-one mothers completed the Pain Catastrophizing Scale, the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, and the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale. A retrospective evaluation of labor pain was performed using the Visual Analog Scale at 2 days…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Play, Mothers, Infants
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Horn, Hadassa; And Others – Research in Higher Education, 1990
A study comparing personality traits, demographic variables, and sex-role orientation of Israeli women studying engineering as compared with women studying humanities and males studying engineering found female engineering students to be more feminist, have "realistic" or "investigative" personality types, and have…
Descriptors: Demography, Educational Policy, Engineering, Females
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Barnea, Zipora; And Others – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1992
A test with 1,446 high school students in Israel of a multidimensional model of adolescent drug use that incorporates sociodemographic variables, personality variables, cognitive variables, interpersonal factors, and the availability of drugs validated the model longitudinally. Results suggest that different legal and illegal substances share a…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cognitive Processes, Etiology, Foreign Countries
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Chen, Gila – Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 2006
This study examined differences in the sense of coherence, anxiety, depression, hostility, behavior, and meaning in life among Israeli prisoners recovering from drug and alcohol addiction over various time periods (6-24 months), and without therapeutic intervention (natural recovery). Ninety-eight abstinent prisoners were divided into two groups:…
Descriptors: Counseling Techniques, Substance Abuse, Alcoholism, Depression (Psychology)
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