Adversity and resilience: A synthesis of international research
Children and adolescents worldwide experience a variety of adversities that have the potential to disrupt typical development. However, some of these individuals exhibit resilience, evidencing normal development in the face of adversity. Here we review research on these constructs of risk, adversity, and resilience; synthesize international research on factors that may serve to protect children and adolescents from the negative effects of adversity at the individual, family, school, community, and cultural levels; and provide future implications for research on this topic, highlighting the unique contributions of the subse...
Source: School Psychology International - September 17, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Noltemeyer, A. L., Bush, K. R. Tags: Theme issue articles Source Type: research
SPI's virtual special issue 'Resilience Across Contexts'
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Source: School Psychology International - September 17, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Mcloughlin, C. S. Tags: Editorial introduction Source Type: research
They own this: Mother tongue instruction for indigenous Kuku Children in Southern Sudan
This article details a pilot program of mother tongue instruction in five primary schools for classes one through three, in Kajokeji County, Central Equatoria State, South Sudan. The program was launched by teachers and volunteers with the support of the Jesuit Refugee Service, an international non-governmental organization. The research examines how mother tongue education impacted teaching and learning during one academic term. The article discusses the reasons for mother tongue education in Kajokeji, the implementation methods, the results of the pilot effort, and implications for educational personnel working with indi...
Source: School Psychology International - August 5, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Laguarda, A. I., Woodward, W. P. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Cultural models of education and academic performance for Native American and European American students
We examined the role of cultural representations of self (i.e., interdependence and independence) and positive relationships (i.e., trust for teachers) in academic performance (i.e., self-reported grades) for Native American (N = 41) and European American (N = 49) high school students. The Native American students endorsed marginally more interdependent representation of self and marginally less trust for teachers than did the European American students. While interdependent representations of self and trust for teachers were positively related for the Native American students, neither cultural representations of self were...
Source: School Psychology International - August 5, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Fryberg, S. A., Covarrubias, R., Burack, J. A. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Bi-cultural Aotearoa/New Zealand: Provision of psychological services to the Maori population of rural New Zealand: Combining best practice with cultural considerations
This article summarizes initiatives currently in place and presents information concerning Maori educational achievement and progress that has been made to bring in Maori children to a level commensurate with rates of other children. (Source: School Psychology International)
Source: School Psychology International - August 5, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Little, S. G., Akin-Little, A., Johansen, A. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Self-concepts and educational outcomes of Indigenous Australian students in urban and rural school settings
Indigenous Australians have been known to be disadvantaged in many ways although higher art and physical self-concepts have been reported with Indigenous samples. Given recent research demonstrating the reciprocal effects of achievement and self-concept in academic domains, Indigenous students may experience further disadvantages in both academic performance and self-concept. A sample of Indigenous and non-Indigenous students (N = 1,342) from schools in New South Wales (NSW), Australia were asked to respond to a survey measuring: five domains of self-concept (i.e., school, reading, mathematics, art, and physical abilities)...
Source: School Psychology International - August 5, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Yeung, A. S., Craven, R. G., Ali, J. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Coping with natural disasters in Yogyakarta, Indonesia: A study of elementary school teachers
The nation of Indonesia is in an area of geological instability, resulting in repeated and severe natural disasters including earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and tsunamis. Teachers, as adult authority figures and people with whom students spend a majority of their day, can play a major role in the lives of children in a disaster-prone community. Four years after a 6.3 magnitude earthquake that devastated a primarily rural community in Central Java, we studied 43 elementary school teachers from six primary schools who are responsible for educating hundreds of students annually. First, we examined the relationship between p...
Source: School Psychology International - August 5, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Seyle, D. C., Widyatmoko, C. S., Silver, R. C. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
'Friends and grades': Peer preference and attachment predict academic success among Naskapi youth
The primary findings of this study are preliminary support for the promotive effects of positive peer relations in an educational context with a specific group of First Nations adolescents. Eighty-one students from grades 6–11 who attended the sole school in the Naskapi community of Kawawachikamach in northern Québec, representing virtually all of the youths in the community, completed questionnaires regarding peer preferences, self-report peer and parental attachment, and affiliation with mainstream White and Native culture. Based on a regression analysis with full information maximum likelihood (FIML) analys...
Source: School Psychology International - August 5, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Burack, J. A., D'Arrisso, A., Ponizovsky, V., Troop-Gordon, W., Mandour, T., Tootoosis, C., Robinson, S., Iarocci, G., Fryberg, S. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Characteristics of effective schools in facing and reducing bullying
This article examines whether variation in school effectiveness in terms of reducing bullying can be attributed to differences in their classroom and school learning environment. All 6th grade students (n = 1504) of 35 primary schools in Cyprus participated in this study. The revised Olweus bully/victim questionnaire was used to measure bullying at the beginning and at the end of the school year. A questionnaire measuring the classroom learning environment was also administered to the student sample. A teacher questionnaire was used in order to measure school policy and actions taken to improve the school learning environm...
Source: School Psychology International - May 22, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Kyriakides, L., Creemers, B. P. M. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
The effects of autonomy support versus psychological control and work engagement versus academic burnout on adolescents' use of avoidance strategies
This study examines the relationships among Taiwanese ninth graders’ perceptions of autonomy support versus psychological control in the classroom context, work engagement versus academic burnout, and their avoidance of help seeking as well as self-handicapping behaviors. Four hundred and thirty-five ninth-grade Taiwanese students completed a self-reported survey assessing these variables. Results of hierarchical regressions indicated that in terms of environmental predictors, teachers’ autonomy support negatively predicted both help avoidance and self-handicapping, whereas teachers’ psychological control...
Source: School Psychology International - May 22, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Shih, S.-S. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Parental involvement and the academic achievement and social functioning of Cuban school children
The goal of the current study was to investigate whether parental involvement is an important predictor of student outcomes within the Cuban school system, where extensive support for pupils’ progress and adjustment are available from the peer group, community, and family. The participants were 188 children in Grades 2 and 3 from four localities in Cuba. School-based involvement was significantly higher among parents of children not at risk for behavioral problems than among parents of at-risk children. Parental involvement in Year 1 did not significantly predict changes in student academic competency or total diffic...
Source: School Psychology International - May 22, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Alvarez-Valdivia, I. M., Chavez, K. L., Schneider, B. H., Roberts, J. S., Becalli-Puerta, L. E., Perez-Lujan, D., Sanz-Martinez, Y. A. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Correlates of teachers' ways of handling bullying
Aggressive behaviors in schools and bullying behaviors amongst children are a serious problem in the school context. As a consequence of an aggressive atmosphere in the classroom, learning processes are disturbed and children are less likely to experience pleasure when attending school. Teachers face a big challenge as a result. As we know from previous research, teachers have different possibilities when handling incidents of aggressive behaviors and bullying in their classrooms. The present study sought to examine correlates (e.g. attitudes toward aggression) of ways of handling bullying in German teachers. Factor analys...
Source: School Psychology International - May 22, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Grumm, M., Hein, S. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Epistemological beliefs as predictors of self-regulated learning strategies in middle school students
This study examines the contribution of epistemological beliefs to middle school students’ reported use of self-regulated learning strategies. One hundred and sixty 8th and 9th graders from three public middle schools participated in the study. Gender was about equally represented in the sample (89 girls, 71 boys). During the group examination phase, the participants were asked to complete a Greek version of Epistemological Beliefs Questionnaire (EBQ), based on Schommer-Aikins, Mau, Brookhart and Hutter’s (2000) middle school version of EBQ. During the individual examination phase, they were interviewed using t...
Source: School Psychology International - May 22, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Metallidou, P. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
A cross-cultural comparison of teacher ratings of child adjustment and behavioral problems
This study examines similarities and differences in teacher ratings of behavioral problems and adaptive skills between a sample of 320 students from Anguilla, BWI and 315 children from the United States of America using the Behavior Assessment System for Children (BASC; Reynolds & Kamphaus, 1992). The study also compared teacher ratings of boys and girls in the Caribbean sample. Analyses of variance (ANOVA) revealed that Anguillian teachers rated their students as having higher mean school problems, while the mean score for adaptive skills was higher for US students. Effect sizes were small, though, indicating that lit...
Source: School Psychology International - May 22, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Rowe, E. W., Rivers, L., Kamphaus, R. W. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
School violence in Bedouin schools in Israel: A re-examination
Students in Bedouin schools in Israel completed a survey in which they indicated how frequent abusive teacher behaviors occurred in their classrooms; responses indicated that abusive teacher behaviors occur often. Female students tended to register higher levels of punitive teacher behaviors than male students and secondary school students tended to register higher levels of punitive teacher behaviors than elementary school students. Also, the perceived frequencies of abusive teacher behaviors presented in this study tended to be significantly higher than perceived frequencies of similar teacher behaviors reported in a com...
Source: School Psychology International - May 22, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Elbedour, S., ElBassiouny, A., Bart, W. M., Elbedour, H. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
