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Children affected by earthquakes and their immediate emotional needs
- Author:
- DOOSTGHARIN Taghi
- Journal article citation:
- International Social Work, 52(1), January 2009, pp.96-106.
- Publisher:
- Sage
The article explores the way in which Iranian children were affected by grief after being uprooted and having experienced the loss of family members, their homes and communities. Lack of access to information about what had happened to their immediate family members and uncertainty concerning the future were the most important expressed worries.
Role of motivation and cognition on school performance of high-school students: a structural analysis
- Author:
- YAILAGH Manizheh Sheni
- Journal article citation:
- Indian Journal of Social Work, 64(1), January 2003, pp.50-64.
- Publisher:
- Tata Institute of Social Sciences
This article reports on a path analysis examining the causal relationship among goal setting, self-efficacy, learning strategies, and prior performance on final achievement of high school students in Ahwaz, Iran. Questionnaires were administered to 148 randomly selected Iranian high school students. Structural path analysis was employed to examine the relationships among variables. The results show that the paths of self-efficacy with learning strategies and goal setting , the paths of prior grades with final grades were significant, thus supporting social cognitive theory of motivation. The only non-significant path was between learning strategies and final grades. The probable reasons for this latter finding are discussed.
Risk and protective factors for residential foster care adolescents
- Authors:
- AGUILAR-VAFAIRE Marie E., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Children and Youth Services Review, 33(1), January 2011, pp.1-15.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
To investigate the relationship between risk and protective factors and adolescent psychopathology and adjustment, adolescent girls (n = 69) and boys (n = 71) living in residential foster homes in the city of Tehran, responded to an adapted version of the Adolescent Health and Development Questionnaire and their foster home caregivers rated the adolescents' internalizing/externalizing problems and prosocial behaviour with the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ, Goodman, 2001). The study identified several influential aspects at the levels of the individual, foster home, peers and community that serve as a direct risk and protective factors, and also documented indirect pathways of gender, individual, foster home, peers and community influence. Three main patterns, protective, protective and enhancing, and protective but reactive seemed to characterize most of the risk by protective factor interactions. The risk and protective factors associated with foster home adolescents' mental health are broadly in line with previous published findings. Based on the present findings, the extension of universal intervention programs designed within the framework of PBT and which address multiple targets seems justified to be used with foster care home adolescents.