Introduction: Stigma is a major barrier to help seeking among adolescents with mental disorders. HIV-AIDS is also a highly stigmatised chronic disorder among youths. In contrast with HIV-AIDS, there is scarcity of large scale interventions targeted at reducing mental illness rela...
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Research Article10.9734/JESBS/2017/36128
This study assessed the influence of Planned repetition skill on the academic performance of students in secondary school Physics in Khana Local government Area of Rivers State, Nigeria, using five research questions and one hypothesis. The population consists of teachers and Phy...
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Research Article10.9734/JESBS/2017/29367
The teaching profession in Asia in general, particularly in Thailand, is female dominated and more and more aging. As of 2012, approximately 56% of teachers in Thailand were women. 68% of the country’s basic education teachers and 61% of vocational education teachers are supposed...
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Research Article10.9734/JESBS/2017/36569
Webometric Ranking of Universities provides a way to evaluate these institutions based on their web content and presence. Such an endeavour motivates institutions on improving the presence of their academic activities on their websites to help publicize their various achievement...
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Research Article10.9734/JESBS/2017/36136
The Children’s Act of 2009 has entrenched social work as an integral stakeholder in delivering child justice. Social work has been assigned roles ranging from community education, investigations, working as friends of the court, supervising protected children, processing foster c...
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Research Article10.9734/JESBS/2017/34928
This study aimed at investigating teachers’ conception and actual teaching approach in higher education institutions. The study employed mixed research approach particularly the QUAN+qual research design. Randomly selected 132 teachers from three colleges were the participants of...
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Research Article10.9734/JESBS/2017/34003
According to conception of historical and cultural psychology, introduced by L.S. Vigotsky, early childhood should be understood as a specific period of development or specific psychological age. Appropriate ways of care, communication, developmental procedures and organization o...
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Research Article10.9734/JESBS/2017/36630
Aim: Depression is a disorder that is defined by certain emotional, behavioral and thought patterns. Hence this study was planned to verify the depression status of adolescents in Haryana across personal variables. Study Design: A cross – sectional study was conducted on 460 adol...
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Research Article10.9734/JESBS/2017/34505
Reading is a receptive skill - through it we receive information. It is the process of looking at a series of written symbols and getting meaning from them. And we use our brain to convert these symbols into words, sentences and paragraphs that communicate something to us. (Brown...
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Research Article10.9734/JESBS/2017/34043
This study was conducted to describe the cognitive and affective strategized approaches of a media – Fana Broadcasting Corporate S.c – to persuade government policy issues of the country, mainly on its audience of the capital city Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. With this general objectiv...
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Research Article10.9734/JESBS/2017/35082