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Alhaqbani, Ahmad; Riazi, Mehdi – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2012
This paper reports a study that investigated university students' awareness of their reading strategy use when they read Arabic academic texts. One hundred and twenty-two undergraduate L2 Arabic students mostly from Africa and Asia completed a 30-item survey of reading strategies. Results indicated that these students perceived problem-solving…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Foreign Countries, Problem Solving, College Students
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Zhang, Wenxin; Li, Hailei; Gong, Yanming; Ungar, Michael – School Psychology International, 2013
This study examines the role of salient external factors (family, peer and school caring relations) and internal factors (goals and aspirations, problem solving and self-efficacy, empathy, and self-awareness) in protecting adolescents experiencing interpersonal problems and academic pressure from depression. A total of 1,297 eighth and ninth grade…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Asians, Depression (Psychology), Interpersonal Relationship