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García-Moya, Irene; Brooks, Fiona; Morgan, Antony; Moreno, Carmen – Health Education Journal, 2015
Objectives: Teacher connectedness is an important factor for young people's well-being. The aim of this paper was to examine teacher connectedness in detail and its potential association with emotional wellbeing. More specifically, we set out to analyse whether teacher connectedness acted as a universal asset for boys and girls of different ages…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Student Relationship, Well Being, Adolescents
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Escobar-Rodríguez, Tomás; Carvajal-Trujillo, Elena; Monge-Lozano, Pedro – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2014
Social media technologies are becoming a fundamental component of education. This study extends the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) to identify factors that influence the perceived advantages and relevance of Facebook as a learning tool. The proposed model is based on previous models of UTAUT. Constructs from previous…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Networks, Models, Student Attitudes
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Lechuga, M. Teresa; Gomez-Ariza, Carlos J.; Iglesias-Parro, Sergio; Pelegrina, Santiago – Psicologica: International Journal of Methodology and Experimental Psychology, 2012
The main aim of this research was to study whether memory dynamics influence older people's choices to the same extent as younger's ones. To do so, we adapted the retrieval-practice paradigm to produce variations in memory accessibility of information on which decisions were made later. Based on previous results, we expected to observe…
Descriptors: Memory, Age Differences, Older Adults, Models
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Garcia, Luis F.; Aluja, Anton; del Barrio, Victoria – Assessment, 2008
Using exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, the aims were (a) to obtain, describe, and compare different solutions of three, five, and six first-order factors raised in the previous literature about the Children's Depression Inventory (CDI); (b) analyze the number and nature of the second-order factors; (c) test which model best reproduces…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Depression (Psychology), Factor Analysis, Evaluation Methods
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Nievas, Francisco; Justicia, Fernando – Cognitive Development, 2004
A cross-sectional study examined the effect of meaning frequency, referred to as ''dominance'' in the semantic priming paradigm, where ambiguous words (primes) were processed in isolation. Participants made lexical decisions to target words that were associates of the more frequent (dominant) or less frequent (subordinate) meaning of a homograph…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Semantics, Models, Reading Processes
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Herrero, Juan; Estevez, Estefania; Musitu, Gonzalo – Journal of Adolescence, 2006
Deviant behaviour and victimization at school have been consistently related to poor psychological adjustment in adolescents. This research explores the mediating role that parents and teachers have in adolescent psychological distress in 973 Spanish students aged 11-16 years old. Structural equation analyses results showed that adolescent deviant…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Victims of Crime, Models, Parent Role