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Zeidner, Moshe; Shani-Zinovich, Inbal – High Ability Studies, 2015
This study compares facets of self-concept in gifted and non-identified Israeli adolescent students. The self-concept mean score profile of gifted vs. non-selected Israeli students was significantly different, with gifted students reporting higher mean levels of academic self-concept, but lower mean levels of social, personal, and physical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gifted, Self Concept, Adolescents
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Raviv, Amiram; Raviv, Alona; Vago-Gefen, Idit; Fink, Abby Schachter – Journal of Adolescence, 2009
The study explores adolescents' attitudes toward seeking help for emotional problems. The personal service gap is examined by asking adolescents about their willingness to refer themselves and others to formal (psychologists) and informal (friends) help sources, using a within-subjects design. The study included 662 Israeli adolescents in the 10th…
Descriptors: Emotional Problems, Help Seeking, Psychologists, Adolescents
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Leichtentritt, Judith; Shechtman, Zipora – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2010
This study compared outcomes and processes in counseling groups of an expressive-supportive modality for children with learning disabilities (LD) and without them (NLD). Participants were 266 students (ages 10-18), all referred for emotional, social, and behavioral difficulties; of these, 123 were identified with LD and 143 were not. There were 40…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Group Counseling, Interpersonal Competence, Counseling Effectiveness
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Elizur, Yoel; Spivak, Amos; Ofran, Shlomit; Jacobs, Shira – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2007
The objective of this study was to explain why adolescent girls with conduct problems (CP) are more at risk than boys to develop emotional distress (ED) in a sample composed of Israeli-born and immigrant youth from Ethiopia and the former Soviet Union (n = 305, ages 14-18). We tested a structural equation model and found a very good fit to the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Adolescents, Parent Child Relationship
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Tishby, Orya; Turel, Miriam; Gumpel, Omer; Pinus, Uri; Lavy, Shlomit Ben; Winokour, Miriam; Sznajderman, Semi – Adolescence, 2001
Study investigated the willingness of Israeli adolescents to seek help for emotional and health problems, and their preference for various helping agents. Gender and age were identified as factors associated with help seeking attitudes. In general, adolescents preferred seeking help from family and peers, rather than professionals, for emotional…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescents, Attitude Measures, Emotional Problems
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Schneider, Stanley; And Others – Adolescence, 1984
Deals with sexuality as a treatment issue in working with adolescents who have emotional and physical disabilities, and suggests that physical handicaps should not be viewed as separate from emotional dificulties. Describes a residential program for adolescents in Israel. (JAC)
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Body Image, Counseling Techniques
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Lamm, Oren; Epstein, Rachel – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1992
This study of the emotional status of 133 Israeli adolescents and young adults found no significant differences between subjects with dyslexia and controls. Both groups were easily differentiated from psychiatric patients. Subjects with severe deficits in ability to remember details of a text, and with concentration difficulties, exhibited high…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Anxiety, Association (Psychology), Cognitive Style