Over the past three decades, the interest of teachers and parents has focused on a variety of learning difficulties that students face in school settings. A significant number of students systematically fail in school, as ...

Aims: This article describes a study examining predictors of burnout and engagement, including job demands, job resources and Type A behaviour, in a sample of Norwegian physiotherapists (N = 244). Methods: This study ...

BACKGROUND:Burnout in the healthcare workers is formally defined as a state of physical, emotional and mental exhaustion caused by long-term involvement in situations that are emotionally demanding. METHODS:Using a random ...

Introduction: Distance learning seems to have a crucial impact on the social and emotional life of students. Within the framework of distance learning at the Open University of Cyprus, the "Healthcare Management" department ...

Various studies have employed quantitative and qualitative methods in order to explore the process of behavioral change emerging during a drug addiction treatment, i.e. the factors both encouraging and discouraging such ...

The chapter examines the efforts of the EU civilian missions deployed in BiH (EUPM) and Kosovo (EULEX) to advance the consolidation of state-building and the establishment of the rule of law. It tries to map out and assess ...

Introduction: Recent research has highlighted an increased rate of co-morbidity between the neurodevelopmental-behavioral disorder of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and a variety of psychiatric disorders, ...

The manifestation of Specific Learning Disorder (SLD) during adulthood is one of the least examined research areas among the relevant literature. Therefore, the adult population with SLD is considered a "rare" and "unique" ...

The epigram "Είς τόν εαυτού πατέρα" by John Geometres is considered a lyrical sepulchral poetic masterpiece, since it densely captures the poet's emotional state within 11 lines. The particular epigram has already been ...

Previous research has pointed out the importance of Cyprus in the body image literature as well as the importance of body-image crosscultural investigations. The purpose of the current study was to compare appearance ...

Aim To assess the major causes of conflict and to identify choices of strategy in handling conflicts. Background Conflict is inherent to hospitals as in all complex organizations, and health personnel deal with internal ...

Background: Conflict among health-care personnel has been identified as an issue within health-care settings around the world. Aim: To investigate the existence and management of conflict among health-care personnel in ...

The exact dating of the death of Nicetas Choniates bristles with problems, because of the lack of any direct information about the last years of his life.Moreover,the problem becomes even more complex since Nicetas Choniates ...

This work was supported by an NIH award R01 NS065049 and James S. McDonnell Foundation award #220020190 to LB.

The purpose of this study was to examine the variables of ethnic identity, collective self-esteem, person perception, individualism, collectivism, and prejudice in Caucasian (North and South), African-American, and ...

This book examines the variables of ethnic identity, collective self-esteem, person perception, individualism, collectivism, and prejudice in Caucasian (North and South United States), African-American, and Greek-Cypriot ...

In Greece, the self-help groups of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and Narcotics Anonymous (NA) have existed for over twenty years, but both qualitative and quantitative research in this field has been limited. This is the first ...

The Lausanne Convention for the Exchange of Greek-Turkish Populations represents a hlming point in the modern history not only of Greece and Turkey, but also of Southeast Europe and the Near East as a whole. This compulsory ...

This paper presents the professional life phases of Cypriot secondary school teachers and discusses the influences underlying their motivation. A comparison is established between teachers within each phase by extracting ...

While modern theologians have dealt extensively with the problem of the sources of the Definition of Chalcedon , there hasn’t been yet an absolutely sufficient solution to this problem, so that it could respond to the ...