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Emotional Intelligence, Sexual Functioning, and Subjective Sexual Well-being in Portuguese Adults

Patrícia Silva, Henrique Pereira, Graça Esgalhado, Samuel Monteiro, Rosa Marina Afonso & Manuel Loureiro · Journal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science · 2016

Not many studies exist that relate emotional intelligence with sexual variables, such as sexual functioning and subjective sexual well-being. In order to fill the gap in the research, we developed this study with the following objectives. First, we aim to assess levels of emotion...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJESBS/2016/23481

An Investment Analysis of Private Hostel Business in Ghana Tertiary Institutions: A Case of Knust Campus

Lydia Asare-Kyire, William Ansah Appienti, Anthony Kusi & Abraham Osei · Journal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science · 2016

The various educational reform programmes in recent times has led to an increase in enrolment of students in the major public and private tertiary institutions in the country with its resultant accommodation difficulties. Statistically, over 60 percent of students in most of the...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJESBS/2016/23891

A Study of the Determinants to School Image and Reputation in Higher Education Institutions in Hong Kong

Arison Woo, Canon Tong & Anthony Wong · Journal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science · 2016

Having a rapid expansion and huge investment in the higher education sector in Hong Kong in last ten years, especially the development of self-financed programmes, it becomes necessary to address the issue of the education quality, student satisfaction and reputation of instituti...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJESBS/2016/22958

Differential Equations Applied to Atomic Force Microscopy: A Strategy to Classical Mechanics Teaching in Undergraduation

Gerson A. C. Lopes, Eduardo A. Cotta & Henrique D. da Fonseca Filho · Journal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science · 2016

Aims: To purpose a didactic mechanism for the teaching of the physical and mathematical concepts with respect to the mechanical oscillations, which is commonly addressed in undergraduate courses in Physics, in the chair of Classical Mechanics or correlated ones. Place and Duratio...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJESBS/2016/23699

Ethnicity and Stress at Work: A Literature Review and Suggestions for Future Research

Roberto Capasso, Maria Clelia Zurlo & Andrew P. Smith · Journal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science · 2016

Aims: Ethnicity and culture represent a novel topic in the literature on stress and wellbeing at work because there has not been enough consideration of them in studies of work stress. This paper aims to present a critical review and evaluate recent articles investigating ethnici...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJESBS/2016/24340

Parental Involvement in Early Schooling: Exploring Parent and Teacher Views in a Low-income African Context

Tamara Chansa-Kabali · Journal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science · 2016

This study examined the nature and influence of parental involvement in children’s early schooling exhibited by low income parents in an African City−Lusaka in Zambia. The sample consisted of seventy-two first graders, their parents and forty-five teachers. Using self report ques...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJESBS/2016/23599

African Union and the Challenges of Underdevelopment in Contemporary Africa

Alhaji Ahmadu Ibrahim · Journal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science · 2016

Despite the timely creation of the African Union as a continental front towards alleviating the multifaceted sufferings of Africans and poster an avenue for a concerted effort towards achieving developmental goals, the continent remains cocooned to almost all indices of underdeve...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJESBS/2016/23488

Parental Interest in Children’s Further Exposure to STEM Related Activities after an All-girls Robotics Camp

Monika Kiss, Doris Van Kampen-Breit & Brian Camp · Journal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science · 2016

This pilot study of parental attitudes concerning an all-girls robotics camp was conducted in the summer of 2015 at Saint Leo University, a private, not-for-profit university in the southern United States. The purpose of the research was to determine parental interest in further...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJESBS/2016/22954

Motivating Factors Influencing Teacher Educators to Choose Academe as a Career

Kelly M. Carrero & Lyndal M. Bullock · Journal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science · 2016

The motivations that impelled individuals to pursue careers in Institutions of Higher Education as professors in personnel preparation are examined. Data were collected using Motivations for Choosing Academia as a Profession (MCAP) and a 10-item Big Five Inventory (BFI-10). Two h...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJESBS/2016/24172

A Clinical Practice Experience: Focus Groups for Prevention Activities with Adolescents

Michela Gatta, Lorenza Svanellini, Sofia Pertile, Paolo C. Testa, Giovanni Ceranto, Manuela J. Difronzo & Pier Antonio Battistella · Journal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science · 2016

Aims: This study had three main objectives:   -   To identify the principal risk factors in psychiatric adolescents attending a Neuropsychiatric Unit in Padua (Italy) that provides daily psychiatric services for children and adolescents;   -   To elucidate the thinking and reason...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJESBS/2016/22441

Pilot Research Results of the Client Developing Programme for Women in Professional Crisis Situations

Anita Racene · Journal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science · 2016

The research aim is to evaluate the Client Developing Programme for Women in Professional Crisis Situations developed and a pedagogical experiment in career counselling performed by the author in the e-environment. The target audience was women who wished to or were forced to cha...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJESBS/2016/24045

Learning Style for First Year Saudi Medical Students at Qassim University: Gender Differences

Mahfoudh A. M. Abdulghani, Mohammed S. S. Al-Dhubaibi, Meshal M. A. Alhameedy & Mohammed A. Alnuwaysir · Journal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science · 2016

Aims: Studies on learning preferences of medical students in Saudi where medical education, as well as the environmental education, differ greatly from Western countries are limited. Students have preferences for the modes in which they collect information. The objective of this...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJESBS/2016/23815