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Jinliang Guan; Baojuan Liu; Wangyan Ma; Chengzhen Liu – Psychology in the Schools, 2024
Suicidal ideation is a prominent public health problem among junior middle school students. Previous researchers have explored the influence of parenting style on adolescents' suicidal ideation, but few researchers distinguished the influence of positive and negative parenting styles. The mediating effect of negative emotions between negative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Suicide, Parenting Styles
Pashmina N. Pathan; Nor A. Ishak; Nabeel Nisar; Shaiwana N. Pathan – Psychology in the Schools, 2024
The purpose of this qualitative exploratory study is to get insights into the understanding of science teachers' entrepreneurial skills and the strategies they implement to develop these skills of students, who teach science subject to students of Grade 6-8 at government Schools of Sindh province, Pakistan. In this study, the researcher employed a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Grade 6, Grade 7
Emily R. Forcht; Ethan R. Van Norman – Psychology in the Schools, 2024
The present study compared the diagnostic accuracy of a single computer adaptive test (CAT), Star Reading or Star Math, and a combination of the two in a gated screening framework to predict end-of-year proficiency in reading and math. Participants included 13,009 students in Grades 3-8 who had at least one fall screening score and end-of-year…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Adaptive Testing, Diagnostic Tests, Screening Tests
Yao-Chung Cheng – Psychology in the Schools, 2024
School principals are integral to the success of school operations, particularly in the face of diverse challenges. Resilience emerges as a critical attribute for these educational leaders. This research investigated the sequential mediation effects of imagination and perceived hope on the relationship between savoring and resilience. A survey was…
Descriptors: Principals, Resilience (Psychology), High Schools, Junior High Schools
Amy E. Fisher; Liat R. Johnson; Sonia Minnes; Emily K. Miller; Jessica S. Riccardi; Anastasia Dimitropoulos – Psychology in the Schools, 2024
After-school youth development programs support social-emotional functioning which leads to better academic and behavioral outcomes. This article examines three common predictors of social-emotional functioning individually and concurrently to better understand the role of these predictors in the after-school setting. The common predictors are…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Social Emotional Learning, Youth Programs, Predictor Variables
Yoshiko Hatakeyama; Haruo Fujino; Tomoka Yamamoto; Atsuko Ishii; Hiroko Okuno – Psychology in the Schools, 2024
Social problem-solving (SPS) skills represent an individual's ability to effectively solve daily problems. Although previous studies have demonstrated the positive effects of SPS interventions, there is still a lack of evidence on the relevant moderating factors. Therefore, this study investigated the impact of an SPS intervention on a sample of…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Interpersonal Competence, Problem Solving, Executive Function
Xianhua Liu; Lei Lei; Yanli Zheng; Yu Deng; Jiajing Chen – Psychology in the Schools, 2024
This study aimed to explore the effectiveness of school-based mindfulness training on learning burnout of Chinese middle school students and the mediating role of psychological resilience between dispositional mindfulness and learning burnout. A cluster randomized controlled trial was conducted with repeated measurement analysis, in which 62…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Burnout, Foreign Countries, Stress Management
Figen Bozkus; Pinar Guner – Psychology in the Schools, 2024
Interest in teachers' moves to classroom discourse has started to increase since how teachers respond to students' thinking influences students' learning. The purpose of this study was to investigate the moves used by one sixth grade mathematics teacher at a public middle school in Turkey to support student reasoning in mathematics instruction and…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Grade 6, Mathematics Instruction
Olfa Tounsi; Omar Trabelsi; Mohamed Abdelkader Souissi; Abdessalem Koubaa; Adnene Gharbi; Swantje Scharenberg; Mourad Bahloul – Psychology in the Schools, 2024
The objective of this study was to investigate how the gender and school level factors relate to disruptive behaviors during physical education (PE) classes in Tunisian schools. The study sample consisted of 632 Tunisian students aged 12-19 years, with 43.2% of them being boys and 56.8% girls. Among the participants, 64.9% were middle school…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Physical Education, Foreign Countries, Student Characteristics
Tounsi, Olfa; Trabelsi, Omar; Souissi, Mohamed Abdelkader; Koubaa, Abdessalem; Gharbi, Adnene; Scharenberg, Swantje; Mkaouer, Bessem; Bahloul, Mourad – Psychology in the Schools, 2024
This study investigated whether the use of the color wheel system (CWS) during physical education (PE) classes is associated with a significant decrease in disruptive behaviors among middle school students. Using a multiple-baseline single-case design, we investigated the effects of the CWS on disruptive behavior in nine middle school students…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Student Behavior, Behavior Problems, Physical Education
Liang, Christopher T. H.; Gutekunst, Malaïka H. C.; Liu, Lian; Rosenberger, Teresa; Kohler, Brooke A. – Psychology in the Schools, 2024
Teaching youth how to self-regulate is a focus of a trauma-informed school approach. Peace Spaces, including Peace Corners and Peace Rooms, are a trauma-informed intervention used to teach self-regulation skills to students. The current study used a Consensual Qualitative Research design to identify and describe the thoughts, concerns, and…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Urban Schools, Intervention, Trauma Informed Approach
Ren, Bingqian; Liang, Xiaotong; Li, Jingyi; Cao, Luyi; Zhou, Xinlin – Psychology in the Schools, 2024
Mathematical performance plays a vital role in students' academic development. Studies have shown that some basic cognitive processes, including inductive reasoning, are critical for the development of mathematical performance. However, little empirical evidence has been accumulated regarding the association between inductive reasoning and…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Logical Thinking, Predictor Variables, Middle School Students
Megan L. Gilbertson; Michelle K. Demaray – Psychology in the Schools, 2024
In an increasingly diverse nation, calls for education that is culturally relevant have become salient, and student perceptions of school-based ethnic-racial socialization (ERS) provide insight toward how cultural messages are being interpreted by students. The current study sought to investigate how a sample of racially diverse middle school…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Middle School Students, Student Attitudes, Student Diversity
Joana Pipa; João R. Daniel; Francisco Peixoto – Psychology in the Schools, 2024
Grade retention is one of the most discussed and controversial educational measures, and yet, it is still widely applied in many countries. Research investigating the effects of grade retention on students' psychosocial variables presents mixed findings, partly due to the variables assessed, methodological issues, and the length of the studies.…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Grade Repetition, Self Esteem, Self Concept
Frank Quansah; Edmond K. Agormedah; Francis Ankomah; Medina Srem-Sai; Regina M. Nugba; John E. Hagan Jr.; Thomas Schack – Psychology in the Schools, 2024
Teachers' Sense of Efficacy Scale (TSES), since its development, has gained much popularity because of its adequate psychometric properties. Yet, scholarly information on the soundness of this instrument in the African context has not been documented. Besides, the previous validation studies on the TSES have yielded mixed results with different…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Efficacy, Teacher Attitudes, Test Validity