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Telef, Bülent Baki; Arslan, Gökmen; Mert, Abdullah; Kalafat, Sezai – Educational Research and Reviews, 2015
The aim of this study is to examine the relationships among teacher support, positive emotions, school satisfaction and life satisfaction in adolescences. The study had the participation of 344 adolescents from different socio-economic levels studying in the sixth, seventh and eighth grades of three public middle schools in the province of…
Descriptors: Life Satisfaction, Positive Attitudes, Educational Environment, Educational Experience
Kiray, S. Ahmet; Gok, Bilge; Bozkir, A. Selman – Online Submission, 2015
The purpose of this article is to identify the order of significance of the variables that affect science and mathematics achievement in middle school students. For this aim, the study deals with the relationship between science and math in terms of different angles using the perspectives of multiple causes-single effect and of multiple…
Descriptors: Science Achievement, Mathematics Achievement, Information Retrieval, Data Analysis
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Aydogan, Canan; Farran, Dale C.; Sagsöz, Gülseren – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2015
The primary aim of the present study was to examine the way in which instructional and emotional aspects of teacher support combined to predict children's engagement in learning-related activities in kindergarten classrooms that served a socio-economically diverse population of children. Observations were conducted on teachers and children in 45…
Descriptors: Correlation, Classroom Environment, Learner Engagement, Learning Activities
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Eryilmaz, Ali – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2015
This study aims to investigate the relation between participation in religious activities and the subjective wellbeing of high school students. The study group involves 196 participants, 99 female and 97 male; all of the participants were adolescents attending high school in Eskisehir, Turkey, their ages varying from 14 to 16. The measurement…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Religion, Religious Factors, High School Students
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Topcu, Cigdem; Erdur-Baker, Ozgur – School Psychology International, 2012
Gender differences in bullying behavior among adolescents have been observed, but the reasons for the discrepancy in males' and females' bullying experiences has been the focus of few studies. This study examined the role of the cognitive and affective empathy in explaining gender differences in bullying through multiple mediation analysis. The…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Internet, Bullying, Empathy
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Akcinar, Berna; Baydar, Nazli – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2014
The association of three different strategies of maternal control (behavioral, psychological, and physical), and maternal warmth with children's externalizing behaviors were analyzed in an observational study of 3-year-old children in Turkey ("N" = 123). The results indicated that (i) mothers exercised all three types of control…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parenting Styles, Parent Child Relationship, Behavior Problems
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Imuta, Kana; Henry, Julie D.; Slaughter, Virginia; Selcuk, Bilge; Ruffman, Ted – Developmental Psychology, 2016
It has been argued that children who possess an advanced theory of mind (ToM) are more likely to act prosocially, yet the empirical findings are mixed. To address this issue definitively, a meta-analytic integration of all prior literature that met appropriate inclusion criteria was conducted. In total, 76 studies including 6,432 children between…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Prosocial Behavior, Children, Meta Analysis
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Karaaslan, Ozcan; Mahoney, Gerald – Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2013
A randomized control study was conducted to evaluate Responsive Teaching (RT) with a sample of 15 Turkish preschool aged children with Down syndrome (DS) and their mothers over a six-month period of time. RT is an early intervention curriculum that attempts to promote children's development by encouraging parents to engage in highly responsive…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Down Syndrome, Preschool Children, Mothers
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Orta, Irem Metin; Corapci, Feyza; Yagmurlu, Bilge; Aksan, Nazan – Infant and Child Development, 2013
This cross-sectional study relied on circumscribed measures of emotion regulation and dysregulation to examine their role in mediating the associations of maternal responsiveness and effortful control with social competency and externalizing symptoms. We examined those associations in an understudied cultural context, Turkey, with 118…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Self Control, Foreign Countries, Correlation
Tepeli, Kezban; Yilmaz, Elif – Online Submission, 2013
This study was conducted to find an answer to the question of "Do social problem-solving skills of 5-6 years old children differentiate depending on the levels of maternal acceptance rejection?" The participants of the study included 359 5-6 years old children and their mothers. Wally Social Problem-Solving Test and PARQ (Parental…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Young Children, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship
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Celik, Eyup; Arici, Neslihan – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2014
This study aimed to predict the effects of levels of sexual awareness, sexual courage, and sexual self-disclosure on sexual embarrassment. Data was collected from 336 married individuals, who have students in the Sultangazi District of Istanbul. According to the structural equation model (SEM), sexual self-disclosure, directly, and sexual courage…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Sex, Marriage, Spouses
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Bilgin, Sezen Seymen – Educational Research and Reviews, 2016
Code switching involves the interplay of two languages and as well as serving linguistic functions, it has social and psychological implications. In the context of English language teaching, these psychological implications reveal themselves as teachers' thought processes. While the nature of code switching in language classrooms has been widely…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Video Technology, Student Teachers, English (Second Language)
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Çaliskan, Muhittin – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2014
In this study, the effect of cognitive entry behaviors and affective entry characteristics on learning level was investigated. The study was conducted on 258 first year students attending the Faculty of Education in the autumn semester of the 2011-2012 academic year. The study was conducted using the relational survey model and data was collected…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Academic Ability, Self Efficacy, Achievement Tests
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Yagmurlu, Bilge; Yavuz, H. Melis – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2015
The aim of the study was to investigate social competence in children with orthopaedic disability and its concurrent relations to child's temperament, health condition, and maternal warmth. Participants were 68 Turkish children (mean = 5.94 years) with chronic orthopaedic disability and their mothers coming from disadvantaged backgrounds. Mother…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Physical Disabilities, Personality Traits, Affective Behavior
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Kapikiran, Necla Acun – Social Indicators Research, 2012
The main purpose of this study is to examine the mediator and moderator role of positive and negative affectivity variables on the relationship between optimism and life satisfaction in university students. 397 university students, ranging in age from 18 to 27 (M = 20.98), attending different departments of the Faculty of Education, at Pamukkale…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Life Satisfaction, Affective Behavior, College Students
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