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Okeke, C. I. O.; Dlamini, Ceasar C. – South African Journal of Education, 2013
This study employed the descriptive-correlation research design to determine whether secondary school teachers experience work-related stress. Participants included 239 teachers selected from schools in the Hhohho region of Swaziland. A questionnaire was used as the instrument to determine the level of work-related stress experienced by these…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Stress Variables, Correlation, Secondary School Teachers
Rodriguez, Valerie J.; Glover-Graf, Noreen M.; Blanco, E. Lisette – Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin, 2013
The role of religiosity and spirituality in the process of adjustment to disability is of increasing interest to rehabilitation professionals. Beginning with the Kubler-Ross models of grief and adjustment to disability and terminal illness, a number of stage models have included spiritual and religious interactions as a part of the adjustment…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Religion, Disabilities, Rehabilitation
Domingues, Marisa Accioly; Ordonez, Tiago Nascimento; Lima-Silva, Thais Bento; Torres, Maria Juliana; de Barros, Thabata Cruz; Cachioni, Meire – Educational Gerontology, 2013
This study describes the social support network of older adults enrolled in the Open University for Senior Citizens at the School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities, University of Sao Paulo. A cross-sectional study was conducted with a sample of 117 elderly or older adults, mostly female (78%), married (53%), retired (82%), and aged on average…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Enrollment, Older Adults, Questionnaires
Gasparishvili, A. T.; Kruzhalin, V. I.; Krukhmaleva, O. V. – Russian Education and Society, 2013
Research on teachers in Moscow shows that their material circumstances tend to be better than those in the provinces, but also that collectively they have not yet formed definite opinions on recent educational reforms. (Contains 2 tables, 3 figures, and 4 notes.)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Urban Areas
Eidelman, James Andrew – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of the proposed study was to determine whether there is a correlation between attitudes toward the use of handheld cellular telephone devices while driving and the use of such devices while driving, with particular interest in the role of gender, age, marital status, parental status, age of children, having a disability, level of…
Descriptors: Traffic Safety, Motor Vehicles, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices
Erdener, Mehmet Akif – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Parent involvement has an influence on children's educational engagement during the elementary years. The purpose of this study was to examine the perceptions of rural Turkish parents about their involvement in schooling with elementary school students based on Epstein's (1995) six types of parental involvement (parenting, communicating,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Attitudes, Parent Participation, Elementary Education
Unal, Burcu; Gizir, Sidika – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2014
Due to social, economic, and political changes, as well as changing institutional priorities, the permeation of managerialism has impelled universities to redefine the roles and functions of its faculty members. Therefore, researchers from various disciplines have focused on the career choices and paths of such members. In this context, the…
Descriptors: Investigations, College Faculty, Teacher Role, Teacher Responsibility
Maskan, A. Kadir – Educational Research and Reviews, 2014
The purpose of this study is to determine the job satisfaction levels of the teachers participating in the study and to investigate whether their job satisfaction levels differ with respect to certain variables. The participants of the study were 297 science teachers (physics: 104, chemistry: 105, biology: 87 and 1 N/A) from secondary schools in…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, Secondary School Science, Physics, Chemistry
George, Darren; Adalikwu-Obisike, Justina; Boyko, Jesse; Johnson, Jay; Boscanin, Alex – Journal of Research on Christian Education, 2014
A sample of 406 subjects completed a questionnaire testing the influence of personal spirituality, education and several other factors on sexual tension in cross-sex friendships (CSF Tension). The subjects included 143 students from a Christian university (CU), 137 from a secular junior college (JC), and 127 non-students (NS). The primary…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Spiritual Development, Religious Factors, Sexuality
Rindermann, Heiner; Ceci, Stephen J. – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2018
In 19 (sub)samples from seven countries (United States, Austria, Germany, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Vietnam, Brazil), we analyzed the impact of parental education compared with wealth on the cognitive ability of children (aged 4-22 years, total N = 15,297). The background of their families ranged from poor indigenous remote villagers to academic…
Descriptors: Parent Background, Educational Attainment, Parent Child Relationship, Intelligence
Nelson-Peterman, Jerusha L.; Toof, Robin; Liang, Sidney L.; Grigg-Saito, Dorcas C. – Health Education & Behavior, 2015
Refugees in the United States have high rates of chronic disease. Both long-term effects of the refugee experience and adjustment to the U.S. health environment may contribute. While there is significant research on health outcomes of newly resettled refugees and long-term mental health experiences of established refugees, there is currently…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Refugees, Immigrants, Females
Eren, Colleen; Keeton, André – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2015
The impact of alcohol and substance abuse on college students' behavior has become a ripe area of focus and research. However, interest and research has primarily been focused on traditional four- year college students. Thus, the four-year college experience is taken as the default against which two-year colleges are compared. Nearly 12 million…
Descriptors: Two Year College Students, Two Year Colleges, Student Behavior, Substance Abuse
Prins, Esther; Kassab, Cathy; Campbell, Kimeka – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2015
This article paints a comprehensive portrait of the demographic, financial, and educational characteristics of Pennsylvania postsecondary students who are adult learners, and identifies rural-urban differences within this group. The study analyzed data from the 2010-11 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (n = 610,925), supplemented by…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Higher Education, Student Characteristics, Demography
Baran, Medine; Maskan, Abdulkadir; Baran, Mukadder – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2015
The purpose of this study was to determine teachers' reasons for choosing the profession of teaching and their level of job satisfaction and to investigate the effects of certain variables on their job satisfaction. The research data were collected via a questionnaire form to determine the demographic backgrounds of the participants and a Job…
Descriptors: Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Science Teachers
Wade, April Mitchell – ProQuest LLC, 2015
This quantitative descriptive study identified the differences in the moral reasoning development levels between undergraduate teacher education students enrolled in methods courses and graduate teacher education students enrolled in an alternative certification education program using the Defining Issues Test-2 instrument. Based on Kohlberg's…
Descriptors: Moral Development, Abstract Reasoning, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education