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Golan, Ofer; Terner, Michael; Israel-Yaacov, Sandra; Allison, Carrie; Baron-Cohen, Simon – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2023
The Autism-Spectrum Quotient is a self-report scale, used to assess autistic traits. It was tested cross-culturally, and a short version was created to clinically refer adults for an autism assessment. This study aimed to examine the properties of the Hebrew version of the Autism-Spectrum Quotient and to create a short version suitable for…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Hebrew, Psychometrics
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Goldner, Limor; Sachar, Shira Carren; Abir, Ayelet – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2018
This study correlated measures of adolescents' rejection sensitivity with their self-drawings in a sample of 323 nonclinical Israeli adolescents. Drawings were coded using the DAP-SPED scoring system (Naglieri, 1988). The findings indicated no correlation between adolescents' level of rejection sensitivity and the DAP-SPED composite score. A…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Art Therapy, Adolescents, Rejection (Psychology)
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Mesman, Judi; van IJzendoorn, Marinus; Behrens, Kazuko; Carbonell, Olga Alicia; Cárcamo, Rodrigo; Cohen-Paraira, Inbar; de la Harpe, Christian; Ekmekçi, Hatice; Emmen, Rosanneke; Heidar, Jailan; Kondo-Ikemura, Kiyomi; Mels, Cindy; Mooya, Haatembo; Murtisari, Sylvia; Nóblega, Magaly; Ortiz, Jenny Amanda; Sagi-Schwartz, Abraham; Sichimba, Francis; Soares, Isabel; Steele, Howard; Steele, Miriam; Pape, Marloes; van Ginkel, Joost; van der Veer, René; Wang, Lamei; Selcuk, Bilge; Yavuz, Melis; Zreik, Ghadir – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2016
In this article, we test the hypothesis that beliefs about the ideal mother are convergent across cultures and that these beliefs overlap considerably with attachment theory's notion of the sensitive mother. In a sample including 26 cultural groups from 15 countries around the globe, 751 mothers sorted the Maternal Behavior Q-Set to reflect their…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Child Rearing, Young Children
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Tanay, Galia; Lotan, Gili; Bernstein, Amit – Behavior Therapy, 2012
The present study evaluated the effect of a brief mindfulness-based preventive intervention on (a) dispositional (MAAS; Brown & Ryan, 2003) and state (SMS; Tanay & Bernstein, 2010) mindfulness; (b) putative proximal factors/processes engendered through the development of mindfulness, including increased decentering (EQ-D; Fresco et al.,…
Descriptors: Intervention, Prevention, Psychopathology, Foreign Countries
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Gartstein, Maria A.; Peleg, Yana; Young, Brandi N.; Slobodskaya, Helena R. – Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 2009
The present study addresses cross-cultural differences between infants born to families of Russian immigrants in USA and Israel, as well as Russian families residing in Russia, with the emphasis on evaluating the impact of immigration and acculturation. Community samples of primary caregivers of infants between 3 and 12 months of age were…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Caregivers, Infants, Personality
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Klein, Pnina S.; Feldman, Ruth – Early Child Development and Care, 2007
Interactive behavior of 90 Israeli toddlers was observed with mothers and caregivers in one-on-one free play interactions. Children were examined with the Bayley Scales of Infant Development, and adults completed self-report measures. Observations were coded for both the quality of adult-child interactive behavior and for the quality of adults'…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Caregivers, Play, Mothers
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Ferber, Sari Goldstein; Feldman, Ruth – Infancy, 2005
This study examined delivery pain as a possible risk factor for the development of mother-infant interaction. Eighty-one mothers completed the Pain Catastrophizing Scale, the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, and the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale. A retrospective evaluation of labor pain was performed using the Visual Analog Scale at 2 days…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Play, Mothers, Infants
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Kaminitz-Berkooz, Iris; Shapiro, Edward S. – School Psychology International, 2005
This study was an initial effort to examine the applicability of Curriculum Based Measurement (CBM) procedures to measure reading in a language other than English and more specifically, in Hebrew. Participants included a sample of 458 students from grades 1-5 from three elementary schools in Israel, 416 from regular education and 42 students from…
Descriptors: Curriculum Based Assessment, Semitic Languages, Elementary School Students, Validity