Papers by Stavroula-Vera Strychnou
Psychological Thought, Apr 30, 2020
This research was conducted to explore and compare Greek educators' views on migrant students, as... more This research was conducted to explore and compare Greek educators' views on migrant students, as well as to establish some social-demographic differences in Greek teachers' views. The research was cross-sectional, and the research instrument was a questionnaire. The sampling technique used in the present research was the non-probability sampling, and even the purposive sampling was used. All the participants were educators, and the sample consisted of 150 participants. In Greek literature, there is a limited number of studies on teachers' views on migrant students and their integration in the general school. Based on this research, it was found that most of the studied teachers had positive views on migrant students. The most negative views on migrant students were expressed overtly by the female Greek teachers, who were 41-60 years old (M = 52.7, SD= 2.35), had postgraduate studies, were in good economic situation, married, and lived in villages. In contrast, the most positive views on migrant students were expressed overtly by the male Greek teachers, who were 18-40 years old, hold Ph.D., were in bad economic situation, single, and lived in cities. Given these results, it is necessary to educate teachers, as well as to carry out more research on the individual difficulties faced by teachers and students, as school is the miniature of the society and therefore school integration extends to social inclusion.
Problems of psychology in the 21st century, Jun 20, 2018
This research was conducted to explore and compare the attitudes of Greek educators towards immig... more This research was conducted to explore and compare the attitudes of Greek educators towards immigrant children and children with special educational needs, as well as to establish some social-demographic differences in Greek teachers' attitudes. The research tool used in this research was the questionnaire. The scale of answering was a five-degree Likert scale, and only one question was yes/no. The statistical program used for statistical analysis of the data was the IBM SPSS program. Descriptive statistics, correlation coefficients, and chi-square analysis were used. The sampling method used in the present research was the feasibility sampling, and even the homogeneity technique was used. In this research, all the participants were educators. The research sample consisted of 150 participants. Modern Greek schools contain to a large extent migrant students and students with special educational needs. Based on this research, there were found several similarities in Greek teachers' attitudes towards immigrant students and students with special educational needs, but there were also some differences. The most negative attitudes towards immigrant students were expressed overtly by the male Greek teachers, at 18-29 years old, married, with one child, teaching history in secondary education, with the period of educational experience of 11-20 years, and the most negative attitudes towards the students with special educational needs were expressed overtly by the female Greek teachers, with PhD, in bad or very good economic situation, divorced, teaching in primary school for more than 10 years at school. The Greek school, although it is a "mosaic of students" with different educational, cognitive, political, social, economic, historical, linguistic and cultural specifics, insists on its monocultural orientation, the rejection of diversity, isolation, and stereotypes. Given these results, it is necessary in the future to explore the effective ways to reduce these perceptions, if not destroy them.
Students’ Self-Assessment of One’s Abilities for Their Life Goals Achievement
Problems of Psychology in the 21st Century
Goal achievement is considered to be related to need satisfaction, motivation, and self-esteem. T... more Goal achievement is considered to be related to need satisfaction, motivation, and self-esteem. The self-assessed abilities for goal achievement were operationalized as positive self-talk, perceived self-efficacy, the performance level of doing a task, the aspiration level, the in/congruence between performance and prognosis, and frustration tolerance to pursue one’s goals in spite of some obstacles. In total, 392 students whose mean age was 21 years old were investigated, divided in sub-samples, with the positive self-talk scale from the ASTQS questionnaire, the self-efficacy scale by Schwarzer & Jerusalem, and the AHA computerized test method from Vienna test system. Students’ self-assessment of one’s abilities for goal achievement revealed the most frequent high levels of perceived self-efficacy and good performance in coding tasks. The other self-assessed abilities for goal achievement were expressed more often at a medium level. The gender differences in the performance level o...
Similarities and Differences in Attitudes of Greek Educators Towards Students with Special Educational Needs and Migrant Students: Social-Demographic Differences
Problems of Psychology in the 21st Century
This research was conducted to explore and compare the attitudes of Greek educators towards immig... more This research was conducted to explore and compare the attitudes of Greek educators towards immigrant children and children with special educational needs, as well as to establish some social-demographic differences in Greek teachers’ attitudes. The research tool used in this research was the questionnaire. The scale of answering was a five-degree Likert scale, and only one question was yes/no. The statistical program used for statistical analysis of the data was the IBM SPSS program. Descriptive statistics, correlation coefficients, and chi-square analysis were used. The sampling method used in the present research was the feasibility sampling, and even the homogeneity technique was used. In this research, all the participants were educators. The research sample consisted of 150 participants. Modern Greek schools contain to a large extent migrant students and students with special educational needs. Based on this research, there were found several similarities in Greek teachers’ at...
Psychological Thought
This research was conducted to explore and compare Greek educators’ views on migrant students, as... more This research was conducted to explore and compare Greek educators’ views on migrant students, as well as to establish some social-demographic differences in Greek teachers’ views. The research was cross-sectional, and the research instrument was a questionnaire. The sampling technique used in the present research was the non-probability sampling, and even the purposive sampling was used. All the participants were educators, and the sample consisted of 150 participants. In Greek literature, there is a limited number of studies on teachers' views on migrant students and their integration in the general school. Based on this research, it was found that most of the studied teachers had positive views on migrant students. The most negative views on migrant students were expressed overtly by the female Greek teachers, who were 41-60 years old, had postgraduate studies, were in good economic situation, married, and lived in villages. In contrast, the most positive views on migrant stu...
Goal achievement is considered to be related to need satisfaction, motivation, and self-esteem. T... more Goal achievement is considered to be related to need satisfaction, motivation, and self-esteem. The self-assessed abilities for goal achievement were operationalized as positive self-talk, perceived self-efficacy, the performance level of doing a task, the aspiration level, the in/congruence between performance and prognosis, and frustration tolerance to pursue one's goals in spite of some obstacles. In total, 392 students whose mean age was 21 years old were investigated, divided in sub-samples, with the positive self-talk scale from the ASTQS questionnaire, the self-efficacy scale by Schwarzer & Jerusalem, and the AHA computerized test method from Vienna test system. Students' self-assessment of one's abilities for goal achievement revealed the most frequent high levels of perceived self-efficacy and good performance in coding tasks. The other self-assessed abilities for goal achievement were expressed more often at a medium level. The gender differences in the performance level of doing a task were compared to some previous results that indicated a variety of trends, because of the age peculiarities and the types of the tasks that were executed. The advance in age was related to more frequent use of positive self-talk and lower aspiration level, besides to lower performance level. The proposed model of the abilities for goal achievement was successfully approbated in this study revealing the strengths in the students' self-assessment of one's abilities for goal achievement and some weaknesses that should be the focus of further interventions in order to increase the students' frustration tolerance ability and the use of positive self-talk.
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