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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Chiu, Shao-I; Hong, Fu-Yuan; Hu, Hsiu-yuan – School Psychology International, 2015
This study proposed and tested a structural model of the effects of family cultural capital and reading motivation on reading behaviour in elementary school students. Participants were 467 fifth and sixth graders from elementary schools in Changhua County, Taiwan. The instruments employed in this study included the Family Cultural Capital Scale,…
Descriptors: Cultural Capital, Reading Motivation, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries
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Clinton, Amanda B.; Edstrom, Leihua; Mildon, Heather A.; Davila, Lesliann – School Psychology International, 2015
Researchers evaluated the effectiveness of a universal social skills program and compared social emotional knowledge on individual skills interviews with 100 Guatemalan preschool children from resource rich (N?=?47) and resource poor (N?=?53) backgrounds. Participant ages ranged from 3- to 6-years-old. SEL was evaluated prior and subsequent to…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Social Development, Emotional Development, Socioeconomic Status
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Wu, Pei-Chen; Kuo, Shin-Ting – School Psychology International, 2015
The primary purpose of this study was to utilize a multidimensional perspective to examine whether children's self-concept served as a mediator between academic achievement and depression, and to further investigate whether this mediation effect was moderated by the ages of children. The participants consisted of 632 Taiwanese children in the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Self Concept, Depression (Psychology), Correlation
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Tynan, Joshua J.; Somers, Cheryl L.; Gleason, Jamie H.; Markman, Barry S.; Yoon, Jina – School Psychology International, 2015
With Bronfenbrenner's (1977) ecological theory and other multifactor models (e.g. Pianta, 1999; Prinstein, Boergers, & Spirito, 2001) underlying this study design, the purpose was to examine, simultaneously, key variables in multiple life contexts (microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem levels) for their individual and combined roles in…
Descriptors: Arabs, North Americans, Risk, Goal Orientation
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Wang, Cixin; Ni, Hong; Ding, Yi; Yi, Chunli – School Psychology International, 2015
This study used a semi-structured interview with 94 teachers from 92 elementary and secondary schools in Beijing, China, to explore their perceptions of the roles, training, and challenges of school psychological service providers (SPs) as well as teachers' satisfaction with the services provided by SPs. Results indicated that the SP to…
Descriptors: Asians, Semi Structured Interviews, Teacher Attitudes, Foreign Countries
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You, Sukkyung; Kim, Euikyung; No, Unkyung – School Psychology International, 2015
Recently, research studies and media have reported on the detrimental effects violent video games have on the social behaviors of adolescents. For example, previous studies have found that playing video games is positively associated with aggressive behaviors and negatively associated with prosocial behaviors. However, very few studies have…
Descriptors: Violence, Video Games, Social Behavior, Self Control