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Global Journal of Guidance and Counseling in Schools: Current Perspectives
This study was conducted with the objective of improving female students' participation and their... more This study was conducted with the objective of improving female students' participation and their academic performance of students in Ethiopian Technical University. The researcher selected 22 female students and 6 male teachers through purposive sampling techniques. The data gathering tools were questionnaire and interview; secondary data were collected through document analysis. The quantitative data were analysed using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences and qualitative data were analysed by narration and summarisation. The result indicated that university climate, department choice of students, lack of tutorial classes provided by the university and poor training support for female students to improve academic performance impacted female students' academic performance. In addition, sociocultural factors, female students' background area, educational status of parents and perception towards their academic performance affected the academic achievement of female students. Furthermore, socioeconomic factors, economic status of parents, female students living outside university and being non-cafe affected female student's academic performance at the higher education level.
Global Journal of Guidance and Counseling in Schools: Current Perspectives
This research aims to examine the relationship between social intelligence (SI) and organisationa... more This research aims to examine the relationship between social intelligence (SI) and organisational commitment (OC) among male and female managers of boys' and girls' schools in the two Iranian cities of Kashmar and Khalilabad. The statistical population of the study included all the managers of the aforementioned schools in two cities, with a total of 204 people based on the information received from the local education bureaus. The study is based on the correlation method. Pearson's correlation coefficient, multiple regressions and independent t-test were carried out using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences software for data analysis. The results revealed that there was a relationship between SI and OC; meanwhile, SI could somehow predict and explain the alterations in OC. Also, there was a meaningful association between the subscale of patience and OC where patience had an impact on OC and its dimensions.
Global Journal of Guidance and Counseling in Schools: Current Perspectives
Museums are founded on the preservation, classification and exhibition of artifacts collected fro... more Museums are founded on the preservation, classification and exhibition of artifacts collected from rare cabinets to imperial treasures. The aim of this study was to examine how arrangements in museum differentiate parental scaffolding behaviour. This research was carried out in Ankara University Toy Museum, and 50 parent-child couples participated. It was investigated how the situation of playing 'find the difference' game differentiates parental scaffolding behaviour. Interactions between parents and children in the museum were videotaped and speeches were transcribed. Speeches were divided into scaffolding categories and frequencies were calculated. As a result of the analysis, 20 parents played the game with their children. According to the results of the research, museums can support parents' scaffolding behaviour. In Turkey, there is limited information on how parents are using museums for their children. Studies carried out in this field can provide more information about how practices can be conducted in this field.
Global Journal of Guidance and Counseling in Schools: Current Perspectives
The Internet and advanced technology are increasingly dominating our lives. The number of researc... more The Internet and advanced technology are increasingly dominating our lives. The number of researches regarding the aggressive behaviour of teenagers on the Internet is rapidly increasing. This study aims at revealing the features of cyberbullying in popular social networks and its negative psychological consequences. This article summarises the results of using Google Trends in the context of 'bullying' and 'cyberbullying' during the COVID-19 pandemic in Kazakhstan during the transition to distance learning. A total number of 32 adolescents participated in an online survey about cyberbullying. According to our results, all participants said that this is a terrifying fact to believe that they cannot rely on adults when it comes to cyberbullying unlike traditional bullying, where the aggressor is known to the face and can be avoided, but the pursuer is anonymous in cyberspace. Cyberbullying can be particularly dangerous for children and adolescents who have had traumatic experiences or who have experienced rejection within the family.
Global Journal of Guidance and Counseling in Schools: Current Perspectives
The purpose of this study was to assess the effectiveness of tutorial class on female students' a... more The purpose of this study was to assess the effectiveness of tutorial class on female students' academic achievement in Wachemo University. The study employed the experimental research design. Data were collected from 10% (60) of the female students as a sample from the total of 598 female students by using simple random sampling techniques and 11 teachers out of 114 teachers were selected by using purposive sampling techniques. The results revealed that tutorial support has both academic and psychological effects on female students. Academically, tutorial class is effective in improving a student's academic performance. Psychologically, tutorial support is effective in improving their self-confidence, selfconcept, decision-making ability, memory and feeling of happiness. Finally, the study suggested that tutorials are indispensable factors in the achievements of educational goals and objectives. Therefore, students, teachers and other concerned bodies should give special attention to the implementation of effective tutorial class support for female students.
Global Journal of Guidance and Counseling in Schools: Current Perspectives
The purpose of the present study is to investigate the relationship between Internet addiction wi... more The purpose of the present study is to investigate the relationship between Internet addiction with loneliness, depression, anxiety and stress among students of Albania's universities. The prevalence of Internet addiction and the gender differences are other important purposes of this study. The sample consists of 1,024 university students from different Faculties of Albania's Universities. The results showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between internet addiction and loneliness, anxiety, stress and depression as a whole and all its components. Data were collected using the Internet addiction scale, UCLA Loneliness Scale, Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS 21). The regression results also indicated that in general, Internet addiction can predict loneliness, depression, anxiety and stress variable. T-test analysis indicated that male students are more prone to be addicted to the Internet than female ones and the prevalence rate of heavy internet addiction is about 0.7%. The data were analysed using correlation, regression, descriptive analysis and t-test.
Global Journal of Guidance and Counseling in Schools: Current Perspectives
The main goal of this research was to identify and understand the effects of play therapy on the ... more The main goal of this research was to identify and understand the effects of play therapy on the prevention of behavioural disorders of younger school-aged children. A semi-structured interview was used as the data collection method with 17 open-ended questions. The study participants were seven parents whose children were involved in play therapy treatment for at least 3 months. It has been shown that play therapy is an effective medium in empathy development, more successful emotion management, encouragement of non-violent communication and reduction in aggressive behaviour. It can be concluded that the effectiveness of play therapy in the prevention of behavioural disorders significantly depends on the involvement of parents in treatment and the relationship between a therapist and a child. This research certainly serves as a basis for further research that will recognise the importance of therapeutic play in solving emotional and/or behavioural difficulties of children and youth.
Global Journal of Guidance and Counseling in Schools: Current Perspectives
Parents provide emotional, physical and economic aid to their members of families. The aim of stu... more Parents provide emotional, physical and economic aid to their members of families. The aim of study was to examine the psychosocial challenges of single parenthood students in vision primary school. The target population of the study was 87 boys and 82 girls totally 169 students were selected as sample participants by using purposive sampling techniques. The fivepoint Likert questionnaires were used, descriptive statistics like frequency, table and percentage to examine the effect of psychosocial challenges of single parenthood students. The result revealed that students from single parenthood face psychosocial problems due to the absence of one parent by death or divorce that create more problems for these students. Also, students from single parent face psychological problems like low self-esteem, loneliness and high depression, negative attitudes about themselves and hopelessness about their future life. Finally, the study suggested that the concerned bodies should play a great role in teaching and counseling therapy.
Global Journal of Guidance and Counseling in Schools: Current Perspectives
In psychology, self-esteem is a concept that is largely used and analysed in the scientific liter... more In psychology, self-esteem is a concept that is largely used and analysed in the scientific literature. The goal of this study is to assess, with validated instruments, the corollary links between students' academic results and the nature of perceptions of their skills and self-esteem. A total of 255 student volunteers with an average age of 21 years (91 female students and 164 male students) were included. We opted for two types of surveys: a questionnaire (SEQ) developed by Duclos, which measures self-esteem in five domains, and a questionnaire on the perception of competence on three domains of training. According to the results, even though students displayed a low sense of competence in the face of modest results during training, their self-esteem in the 'family and social' domains stayed stable with good scores. The study concludes that every person achieves high self-esteem when they achieve successes that are equal to or greater than their ambitions.
Global Journal of Guidance and Counseling in Schools: Current Perspectives
Since this study aims to examine the relationship between the motivation levels of teachers worki... more Since this study aims to examine the relationship between the motivation levels of teachers working in primary, secondary and high schools affiliated to the Ministry of National Education in TRNC and their views on school climate, a relational scanning model, one of the descriptive research methods, was used in this study. The universe of this study consists of 3868 teachers studying in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Primary Education and General Secondary Education schools. A total of 208 teachers working in schools in Nicosia, Famagusta, Güzelyurt and Girne were included in the sample group. The data collected with the help of scales in the study were analysed by statistical methods of "Correlation", "Regression", "Kruskal-Wallis H", "Mann-Whitney U" and Spearman correlation techniques. The value of 0.371, calculated as a correlation coefficient between teachers' school climate and teacher motivation, indicates that the relationship between the variables is at a positive and medium level.
Global Journal of Guidance and Counseling in Schools: Current Perspectives
Although Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic created negative consequences in education as... more Although Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic created negative consequences in education as a virus affecting the
world, in general, the technological developments experienced today are reshaping the entire world. This study aims to examine
the relationship between academic procrastination behaviours and problematic Internet usage of high school students during
the COVID-19 Pandemic. This study is in the form of a descriptive survey, and the survey method was used in the study. The
population of the study in the 2020–2021 academic year consisted of 350 students who studied in vocational schools affiliated
to the Northern Cyprus. In this study, academic procrastination and problematic Internet usage scales were used as data
collection tools. As a result, in the Pandemic Period, the relationship between male students' problematic Internet usage and
academic procrastination behaviours is significantly higher than that of female students. In the first years of high school,
problematic Internet usage of students was seen to be higher than in the later years. Problematic Internet usage of students is
increasing according to the frequency of Internet usage. It has been observed that the academic procrastination behaviours of
high school students also increase during the day due to their stay connected to the Internet. As problematic Internet usage of
students decreases, general grade point average (GPAs) increase. As academic procrastination behaviours of students decrease,
their GPAs increase. As academic procrastination behaviours of students decrease, so do problematic Internet usage levels. In
general, students reported that they rarely had problematic Internet usage and that they had a number of academic
procrastination behaviours.
Global Journal of Guidance and Counseling in Schools: Current Perspectives
This study examined the relationship between personality factors and marital conflict resolution ... more This study examined the relationship between personality factors and marital conflict resolution strategies among spouses in (AMAC) Federal Capital Territory Abuja. Two research questions and corresponding hypotheses were raised to guide this study. The personality factors such as educational qualification and length of marriage were the focus of this study. Samples of a hundred respondents consisting of 50 young and aged married couples, selected using the purposive sampling technique. The research questions were analysed using Pearson Product Moment correlation while the hypotheses were tested using the significance of Pearson (r) at 0.05 level of significance using t-test. The findings revealed that there is a significant relationship; between educational qualification and conflict resolution strategies of married people, also; between the length of marriage and conflict resolution strategies of married people. The study recommended that couples to be should get to understand each other in the area of likes and dislikes, ideologies and personality make-ups.
Global Journal of Guidance and Counseling in Schools: Current Perspectives
Career decision-making, particularly among high school students, is something that all students s... more Career decision-making, particularly among high school students, is something that all students should carefully consider since it has ripple effects in one's life. This paper presents an overview of peer pressure as a factor that influences career decision-making among high school students in Midlands Province, Zimbabwe. A quantitative research approach was used in the current study. A survey design that made use of questionnaires in collecting data was used. Descriptive statistics were used to analyse data. A total of one thousand and ten student participants and 20 career guidance teachers who were randomly selected participated in this study. Results from the study indicated that students are influenced by their peers in making career decisions in a number of ways. Chief among the predictors were peer advice, encouragement and peer education. However, students denied that they seek validation of their career decisions from their peers. The study recommended that a similar national study be carried out to enable generalisation of the results to a wider community.
Global Journal of Guidance and Counseling in Schools: Current Perspectives
The guidance needs of a particular student or group of students are likely to differ and evolve b... more The guidance needs of a particular student or group of students are likely to differ and evolve based on different variables. However, information on the influence of certain demographic variables on the guidance needs of teacher trainees at the Colleges of Education level in Ghana seems to be unavailable. Our purpose in this study was to investigate whether the guidance needs of teacher trainees in the Colleges of Education in Ghana varied based on their sex, age, marital status and the college in which they were enrolled. The study employed a survey research design in which data were collected with the help of a questionnaire from a total of 401 2nd-year teacher trainees (256 males and 145 females). Data were analysed using means, standard deviations, independent samples t-test and Kruskal-Wallis H test. The results showed that the guidance needs of teacher trainees in Colleges of Education in the Volta Region vary based on the trainees' sex, age, marital status and college. It was recommended that college counsellors should take into account the demographic variables of sex, age, marital status and college when designing and implementing guidance programmes in Colleges of Education.
Global Journal of Guidance and Counseling in Schools: Current Perspectives
The purpose of the present study is to analyse the relationship between identity status and self-... more The purpose of the present study is to analyse the relationship between identity status and self-efficacy. The statistical population included all graduate students employed at the Training Centre of Ayatollah Khatami in the city of Yazd in 2009. The sample consisted of 122 students who were selected by convenience sampling. The chosen research method is descriptive correlational. Bennion and Adams' Extended Objective Measure of Ego Identity Status and the Self-Efficacy Scale were used for measuring the identity statuses and self-efficacy. The results of this study show that there is a positive significant relationship between achieved identity status, self-efficacy (p < 0.01) and diffused identity; there is a negative significant relationship between diffused identity status and self-efficacy (p < 0.05); and there is a negative significant relationship between foreclosure identity status and self-efficacy (p < 0.01). According to this study, for providing qualified forces, the training centres can employ forces by detecting identity statuses and self-efficacy of volunteers.
Global Journal of Guidance and Counseling in Schools: Current Perspectives
The purpose of the present study is to analyse the relationship between identity status and perso... more The purpose of the present study is to analyse the relationship between identity status and personal values. The statistical population included all freshmen from University of Tehran in 2015. The sample consisted of 100 students who were selected by convenience sampling. The chosen research method is descriptive correlational. Bennion and Adams' Extended Objective Measure of Ego Identity Status and the personal values questionnaire were used for measuring the identity bases and personal values, respectively. The results of this study show that there is a positive significant relationship between achieved Identity status and religious values (p < 0.01), diffused identity and economic values (p < 0.05), diffused identity and value of power (p < 0.05), foreclosure identity status and religious values (p < 0.05) and foreclosure identity status and value of family (p < 0.05). In addition, the results indicate that there is a significant negative relationship between achieved identity status and economic values (p < 0.01), diffused identity and religious values (p < 0.01) and foreclosure identity status and aesthetic values (p < 0.01). In this study, the moratorium identity status showed no significant relationship with none of the variables. There was also no significant relationship between other personal values and identity status. Based on these findings, it can be concluded that the quality of personal values which originates from family, society and cultural background plays a major role in the formation of identity. Other findings are also discussed.
Global Journal of Guidance and Counseling in Schools: Current Perspectives
The purpose of the study is to identify the level of stress among adolescents regarding body imag... more The purpose of the study is to identify the level of stress among adolescents regarding body image and the strategies that they use to cope with it. 282 adolescents in 10th and 11th grade answered three questionnaires: the Adolescent Stress Questionnaire, the Body Image Coping Strategies Inventory and the Body Esteem Scale for Adolescents and Adults. In the order of results, factors generating stress in adolescents are money pressure, uncertain future, school/leisure conflicts, school performance, assuming adult responsibilities, school attendance, romantic relationships, home life, interactions with teachers and peer pressure. Girls are more stressed by home life, peer pressure, an uncertain future, money pressure and adult responsibilities, while boys by school attendance. The most frequently used coping mechanism is positive rational acceptance. The level of stress among adolescents correlates with the level of satisfaction regarding the body image.
Global Journal of Guidance and Counseling in Schools: Current Perspectives
The article focuses on an exegetical analysis of the piety and devotion before God as the main pe... more The article focuses on an exegetical analysis of the piety and devotion before God as the main personal qualities of a pastoral counsellor. They are revealed as the basis for making a unity with God while performing the activities of a pastoral counsellor. The article deals with the importance of the piety before God in the development of respectful relationships with peers. The understanding of a new creature in Christ is linked with the ability to build a mutual dedicated relationship between pastoral counsellors and persons under their care. Charity is seen as a service to the least brothers, concluding that in the New Testament everything related to the words poverty and suffering reveals the presence of the Kingdom of God on earth, as well as the fact that any person in our lives can become the least brother of Jesus.
Global Journal of Guidance and Counseling in Schools: Current Perspectives
The main objective of this study is to compare the human values and psychological well-being of g... more The main objective of this study is to compare the human values and psychological well-being of gifted/talented students
with their peers with standard development. In addition, it aims to determine the level of relationship between human
values and psychological well-being of gifted/talented students and whether human values were effective on psychological
well-being. In this research, the relational survey model of quantitative research methods, which is a sub-type of the general
survey model, is used. Assistance was received from 328 (59.3%) eighth-grade secondary school students in schools run by
the Ministry of National Education in Izmir and Manisa and 225 (40.7%) gifted/talented students who were educated at
BILSEM. To collect data, the Human Values Scale (PSI) and the Psychological Well-being Scale were used. Independent
samples t-test for paired comparisons, Pearson’s product-moment correlation analysis for variable relationships and
regression analysis to determine the predictive level were used. According to the t-test results, the human values and
psychological well-being levels of gifted/talented students were higher than those of their peers with standard development
and the gender variable did not play an effective role in the psychological well-being of gifted/talented students. As a result
of the correlation analysis, a statistically significant correlation was found between human values and the psychological wellbeing of gifted/talented students. According to the regression analysis, human values significantly increased psychological
well-being.
Global Journal of Guidance and Counseling in Schools: Current Perspectives
This study investigated the effects of problem-solving teaching method on elementary school stude... more This study investigated the effects of problem-solving teaching method on elementary school students' physics achievement at elementary school. In this investigation an experimental research procedure was used. Along with this, a sample of sixty students was drawn from a total of three hundred seventy-eight students using lottery method of sampling technique. Physics achievement test (pre-test and post-test) covering the unit ''Introduction to Electronics'' was used as measuring instrument. Then, based on the pre-test scores, mixed ability groups such as fifteen high and fifteen low scoring 30 students each were assigned as experimental (13Fand17M) and control(15 and15M) groups using lottery method of sampling technique Students in the experimental group were taught using problem solving teaching method while those in the control group were instructed with lecture teaching method. The post-test constructed by the writer in the sample unit taught was administrated to both groups immediately after the treatment was over. Finally, the results of the study revealed that problem-solving teaching method was more effective in teaching physics as compared with lecture method at elementary school level.
Global Journal of Guidance and Counseling in Schools: Current Perspectives
This study was conducted with the objective of improving female students' participation and their... more This study was conducted with the objective of improving female students' participation and their academic performance of students in Ethiopian Technical University. The researcher selected 22 female students and 6 male teachers through purposive sampling techniques. The data gathering tools were questionnaire and interview; secondary data were collected through document analysis. The quantitative data were analysed using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences and qualitative data were analysed by narration and summarisation. The result indicated that university climate, department choice of students, lack of tutorial classes provided by the university and poor training support for female students to improve academic performance impacted female students' academic performance. In addition, sociocultural factors, female students' background area, educational status of parents and perception towards their academic performance affected the academic achievement of female students. Furthermore, socioeconomic factors, economic status of parents, female students living outside university and being non-cafe affected female student's academic performance at the higher education level.
Global Journal of Guidance and Counseling in Schools: Current Perspectives
This research aims to examine the relationship between social intelligence (SI) and organisationa... more This research aims to examine the relationship between social intelligence (SI) and organisational commitment (OC) among male and female managers of boys' and girls' schools in the two Iranian cities of Kashmar and Khalilabad. The statistical population of the study included all the managers of the aforementioned schools in two cities, with a total of 204 people based on the information received from the local education bureaus. The study is based on the correlation method. Pearson's correlation coefficient, multiple regressions and independent t-test were carried out using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences software for data analysis. The results revealed that there was a relationship between SI and OC; meanwhile, SI could somehow predict and explain the alterations in OC. Also, there was a meaningful association between the subscale of patience and OC where patience had an impact on OC and its dimensions.
Global Journal of Guidance and Counseling in Schools: Current Perspectives
Museums are founded on the preservation, classification and exhibition of artifacts collected fro... more Museums are founded on the preservation, classification and exhibition of artifacts collected from rare cabinets to imperial treasures. The aim of this study was to examine how arrangements in museum differentiate parental scaffolding behaviour. This research was carried out in Ankara University Toy Museum, and 50 parent-child couples participated. It was investigated how the situation of playing 'find the difference' game differentiates parental scaffolding behaviour. Interactions between parents and children in the museum were videotaped and speeches were transcribed. Speeches were divided into scaffolding categories and frequencies were calculated. As a result of the analysis, 20 parents played the game with their children. According to the results of the research, museums can support parents' scaffolding behaviour. In Turkey, there is limited information on how parents are using museums for their children. Studies carried out in this field can provide more information about how practices can be conducted in this field.
Global Journal of Guidance and Counseling in Schools: Current Perspectives
The Internet and advanced technology are increasingly dominating our lives. The number of researc... more The Internet and advanced technology are increasingly dominating our lives. The number of researches regarding the aggressive behaviour of teenagers on the Internet is rapidly increasing. This study aims at revealing the features of cyberbullying in popular social networks and its negative psychological consequences. This article summarises the results of using Google Trends in the context of 'bullying' and 'cyberbullying' during the COVID-19 pandemic in Kazakhstan during the transition to distance learning. A total number of 32 adolescents participated in an online survey about cyberbullying. According to our results, all participants said that this is a terrifying fact to believe that they cannot rely on adults when it comes to cyberbullying unlike traditional bullying, where the aggressor is known to the face and can be avoided, but the pursuer is anonymous in cyberspace. Cyberbullying can be particularly dangerous for children and adolescents who have had traumatic experiences or who have experienced rejection within the family.
Global Journal of Guidance and Counseling in Schools: Current Perspectives
The purpose of this study was to assess the effectiveness of tutorial class on female students' a... more The purpose of this study was to assess the effectiveness of tutorial class on female students' academic achievement in Wachemo University. The study employed the experimental research design. Data were collected from 10% (60) of the female students as a sample from the total of 598 female students by using simple random sampling techniques and 11 teachers out of 114 teachers were selected by using purposive sampling techniques. The results revealed that tutorial support has both academic and psychological effects on female students. Academically, tutorial class is effective in improving a student's academic performance. Psychologically, tutorial support is effective in improving their self-confidence, selfconcept, decision-making ability, memory and feeling of happiness. Finally, the study suggested that tutorials are indispensable factors in the achievements of educational goals and objectives. Therefore, students, teachers and other concerned bodies should give special attention to the implementation of effective tutorial class support for female students.
Global Journal of Guidance and Counseling in Schools: Current Perspectives
The purpose of the present study is to investigate the relationship between Internet addiction wi... more The purpose of the present study is to investigate the relationship between Internet addiction with loneliness, depression, anxiety and stress among students of Albania's universities. The prevalence of Internet addiction and the gender differences are other important purposes of this study. The sample consists of 1,024 university students from different Faculties of Albania's Universities. The results showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between internet addiction and loneliness, anxiety, stress and depression as a whole and all its components. Data were collected using the Internet addiction scale, UCLA Loneliness Scale, Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS 21). The regression results also indicated that in general, Internet addiction can predict loneliness, depression, anxiety and stress variable. T-test analysis indicated that male students are more prone to be addicted to the Internet than female ones and the prevalence rate of heavy internet addiction is about 0.7%. The data were analysed using correlation, regression, descriptive analysis and t-test.
Global Journal of Guidance and Counseling in Schools: Current Perspectives
The main goal of this research was to identify and understand the effects of play therapy on the ... more The main goal of this research was to identify and understand the effects of play therapy on the prevention of behavioural disorders of younger school-aged children. A semi-structured interview was used as the data collection method with 17 open-ended questions. The study participants were seven parents whose children were involved in play therapy treatment for at least 3 months. It has been shown that play therapy is an effective medium in empathy development, more successful emotion management, encouragement of non-violent communication and reduction in aggressive behaviour. It can be concluded that the effectiveness of play therapy in the prevention of behavioural disorders significantly depends on the involvement of parents in treatment and the relationship between a therapist and a child. This research certainly serves as a basis for further research that will recognise the importance of therapeutic play in solving emotional and/or behavioural difficulties of children and youth.
Global Journal of Guidance and Counseling in Schools: Current Perspectives
Parents provide emotional, physical and economic aid to their members of families. The aim of stu... more Parents provide emotional, physical and economic aid to their members of families. The aim of study was to examine the psychosocial challenges of single parenthood students in vision primary school. The target population of the study was 87 boys and 82 girls totally 169 students were selected as sample participants by using purposive sampling techniques. The fivepoint Likert questionnaires were used, descriptive statistics like frequency, table and percentage to examine the effect of psychosocial challenges of single parenthood students. The result revealed that students from single parenthood face psychosocial problems due to the absence of one parent by death or divorce that create more problems for these students. Also, students from single parent face psychological problems like low self-esteem, loneliness and high depression, negative attitudes about themselves and hopelessness about their future life. Finally, the study suggested that the concerned bodies should play a great role in teaching and counseling therapy.
Global Journal of Guidance and Counseling in Schools: Current Perspectives
In psychology, self-esteem is a concept that is largely used and analysed in the scientific liter... more In psychology, self-esteem is a concept that is largely used and analysed in the scientific literature. The goal of this study is to assess, with validated instruments, the corollary links between students' academic results and the nature of perceptions of their skills and self-esteem. A total of 255 student volunteers with an average age of 21 years (91 female students and 164 male students) were included. We opted for two types of surveys: a questionnaire (SEQ) developed by Duclos, which measures self-esteem in five domains, and a questionnaire on the perception of competence on three domains of training. According to the results, even though students displayed a low sense of competence in the face of modest results during training, their self-esteem in the 'family and social' domains stayed stable with good scores. The study concludes that every person achieves high self-esteem when they achieve successes that are equal to or greater than their ambitions.
Global Journal of Guidance and Counseling in Schools: Current Perspectives
Since this study aims to examine the relationship between the motivation levels of teachers worki... more Since this study aims to examine the relationship between the motivation levels of teachers working in primary, secondary and high schools affiliated to the Ministry of National Education in TRNC and their views on school climate, a relational scanning model, one of the descriptive research methods, was used in this study. The universe of this study consists of 3868 teachers studying in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Primary Education and General Secondary Education schools. A total of 208 teachers working in schools in Nicosia, Famagusta, Güzelyurt and Girne were included in the sample group. The data collected with the help of scales in the study were analysed by statistical methods of "Correlation", "Regression", "Kruskal-Wallis H", "Mann-Whitney U" and Spearman correlation techniques. The value of 0.371, calculated as a correlation coefficient between teachers' school climate and teacher motivation, indicates that the relationship between the variables is at a positive and medium level.
Global Journal of Guidance and Counseling in Schools: Current Perspectives
Although Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic created negative consequences in education as... more Although Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic created negative consequences in education as a virus affecting the
world, in general, the technological developments experienced today are reshaping the entire world. This study aims to examine
the relationship between academic procrastination behaviours and problematic Internet usage of high school students during
the COVID-19 Pandemic. This study is in the form of a descriptive survey, and the survey method was used in the study. The
population of the study in the 2020–2021 academic year consisted of 350 students who studied in vocational schools affiliated
to the Northern Cyprus. In this study, academic procrastination and problematic Internet usage scales were used as data
collection tools. As a result, in the Pandemic Period, the relationship between male students' problematic Internet usage and
academic procrastination behaviours is significantly higher than that of female students. In the first years of high school,
problematic Internet usage of students was seen to be higher than in the later years. Problematic Internet usage of students is
increasing according to the frequency of Internet usage. It has been observed that the academic procrastination behaviours of
high school students also increase during the day due to their stay connected to the Internet. As problematic Internet usage of
students decreases, general grade point average (GPAs) increase. As academic procrastination behaviours of students decrease,
their GPAs increase. As academic procrastination behaviours of students decrease, so do problematic Internet usage levels. In
general, students reported that they rarely had problematic Internet usage and that they had a number of academic
procrastination behaviours.
Global Journal of Guidance and Counseling in Schools: Current Perspectives
This study examined the relationship between personality factors and marital conflict resolution ... more This study examined the relationship between personality factors and marital conflict resolution strategies among spouses in (AMAC) Federal Capital Territory Abuja. Two research questions and corresponding hypotheses were raised to guide this study. The personality factors such as educational qualification and length of marriage were the focus of this study. Samples of a hundred respondents consisting of 50 young and aged married couples, selected using the purposive sampling technique. The research questions were analysed using Pearson Product Moment correlation while the hypotheses were tested using the significance of Pearson (r) at 0.05 level of significance using t-test. The findings revealed that there is a significant relationship; between educational qualification and conflict resolution strategies of married people, also; between the length of marriage and conflict resolution strategies of married people. The study recommended that couples to be should get to understand each other in the area of likes and dislikes, ideologies and personality make-ups.
Global Journal of Guidance and Counseling in Schools: Current Perspectives
Career decision-making, particularly among high school students, is something that all students s... more Career decision-making, particularly among high school students, is something that all students should carefully consider since it has ripple effects in one's life. This paper presents an overview of peer pressure as a factor that influences career decision-making among high school students in Midlands Province, Zimbabwe. A quantitative research approach was used in the current study. A survey design that made use of questionnaires in collecting data was used. Descriptive statistics were used to analyse data. A total of one thousand and ten student participants and 20 career guidance teachers who were randomly selected participated in this study. Results from the study indicated that students are influenced by their peers in making career decisions in a number of ways. Chief among the predictors were peer advice, encouragement and peer education. However, students denied that they seek validation of their career decisions from their peers. The study recommended that a similar national study be carried out to enable generalisation of the results to a wider community.
Global Journal of Guidance and Counseling in Schools: Current Perspectives
The guidance needs of a particular student or group of students are likely to differ and evolve b... more The guidance needs of a particular student or group of students are likely to differ and evolve based on different variables. However, information on the influence of certain demographic variables on the guidance needs of teacher trainees at the Colleges of Education level in Ghana seems to be unavailable. Our purpose in this study was to investigate whether the guidance needs of teacher trainees in the Colleges of Education in Ghana varied based on their sex, age, marital status and the college in which they were enrolled. The study employed a survey research design in which data were collected with the help of a questionnaire from a total of 401 2nd-year teacher trainees (256 males and 145 females). Data were analysed using means, standard deviations, independent samples t-test and Kruskal-Wallis H test. The results showed that the guidance needs of teacher trainees in Colleges of Education in the Volta Region vary based on the trainees' sex, age, marital status and college. It was recommended that college counsellors should take into account the demographic variables of sex, age, marital status and college when designing and implementing guidance programmes in Colleges of Education.
Global Journal of Guidance and Counseling in Schools: Current Perspectives
The purpose of the present study is to analyse the relationship between identity status and self-... more The purpose of the present study is to analyse the relationship between identity status and self-efficacy. The statistical population included all graduate students employed at the Training Centre of Ayatollah Khatami in the city of Yazd in 2009. The sample consisted of 122 students who were selected by convenience sampling. The chosen research method is descriptive correlational. Bennion and Adams' Extended Objective Measure of Ego Identity Status and the Self-Efficacy Scale were used for measuring the identity statuses and self-efficacy. The results of this study show that there is a positive significant relationship between achieved identity status, self-efficacy (p < 0.01) and diffused identity; there is a negative significant relationship between diffused identity status and self-efficacy (p < 0.05); and there is a negative significant relationship between foreclosure identity status and self-efficacy (p < 0.01). According to this study, for providing qualified forces, the training centres can employ forces by detecting identity statuses and self-efficacy of volunteers.
Global Journal of Guidance and Counseling in Schools: Current Perspectives
The purpose of the present study is to analyse the relationship between identity status and perso... more The purpose of the present study is to analyse the relationship between identity status and personal values. The statistical population included all freshmen from University of Tehran in 2015. The sample consisted of 100 students who were selected by convenience sampling. The chosen research method is descriptive correlational. Bennion and Adams' Extended Objective Measure of Ego Identity Status and the personal values questionnaire were used for measuring the identity bases and personal values, respectively. The results of this study show that there is a positive significant relationship between achieved Identity status and religious values (p < 0.01), diffused identity and economic values (p < 0.05), diffused identity and value of power (p < 0.05), foreclosure identity status and religious values (p < 0.05) and foreclosure identity status and value of family (p < 0.05). In addition, the results indicate that there is a significant negative relationship between achieved identity status and economic values (p < 0.01), diffused identity and religious values (p < 0.01) and foreclosure identity status and aesthetic values (p < 0.01). In this study, the moratorium identity status showed no significant relationship with none of the variables. There was also no significant relationship between other personal values and identity status. Based on these findings, it can be concluded that the quality of personal values which originates from family, society and cultural background plays a major role in the formation of identity. Other findings are also discussed.
Global Journal of Guidance and Counseling in Schools: Current Perspectives
The purpose of the study is to identify the level of stress among adolescents regarding body imag... more The purpose of the study is to identify the level of stress among adolescents regarding body image and the strategies that they use to cope with it. 282 adolescents in 10th and 11th grade answered three questionnaires: the Adolescent Stress Questionnaire, the Body Image Coping Strategies Inventory and the Body Esteem Scale for Adolescents and Adults. In the order of results, factors generating stress in adolescents are money pressure, uncertain future, school/leisure conflicts, school performance, assuming adult responsibilities, school attendance, romantic relationships, home life, interactions with teachers and peer pressure. Girls are more stressed by home life, peer pressure, an uncertain future, money pressure and adult responsibilities, while boys by school attendance. The most frequently used coping mechanism is positive rational acceptance. The level of stress among adolescents correlates with the level of satisfaction regarding the body image.
Global Journal of Guidance and Counseling in Schools: Current Perspectives
The article focuses on an exegetical analysis of the piety and devotion before God as the main pe... more The article focuses on an exegetical analysis of the piety and devotion before God as the main personal qualities of a pastoral counsellor. They are revealed as the basis for making a unity with God while performing the activities of a pastoral counsellor. The article deals with the importance of the piety before God in the development of respectful relationships with peers. The understanding of a new creature in Christ is linked with the ability to build a mutual dedicated relationship between pastoral counsellors and persons under their care. Charity is seen as a service to the least brothers, concluding that in the New Testament everything related to the words poverty and suffering reveals the presence of the Kingdom of God on earth, as well as the fact that any person in our lives can become the least brother of Jesus.
Global Journal of Guidance and Counseling in Schools: Current Perspectives
The main objective of this study is to compare the human values and psychological well-being of g... more The main objective of this study is to compare the human values and psychological well-being of gifted/talented students
with their peers with standard development. In addition, it aims to determine the level of relationship between human
values and psychological well-being of gifted/talented students and whether human values were effective on psychological
well-being. In this research, the relational survey model of quantitative research methods, which is a sub-type of the general
survey model, is used. Assistance was received from 328 (59.3%) eighth-grade secondary school students in schools run by
the Ministry of National Education in Izmir and Manisa and 225 (40.7%) gifted/talented students who were educated at
BILSEM. To collect data, the Human Values Scale (PSI) and the Psychological Well-being Scale were used. Independent
samples t-test for paired comparisons, Pearson’s product-moment correlation analysis for variable relationships and
regression analysis to determine the predictive level were used. According to the t-test results, the human values and
psychological well-being levels of gifted/talented students were higher than those of their peers with standard development
and the gender variable did not play an effective role in the psychological well-being of gifted/talented students. As a result
of the correlation analysis, a statistically significant correlation was found between human values and the psychological wellbeing of gifted/talented students. According to the regression analysis, human values significantly increased psychological
well-being.
Global Journal of Guidance and Counseling in Schools: Current Perspectives
This study investigated the effects of problem-solving teaching method on elementary school stude... more This study investigated the effects of problem-solving teaching method on elementary school students' physics achievement at elementary school. In this investigation an experimental research procedure was used. Along with this, a sample of sixty students was drawn from a total of three hundred seventy-eight students using lottery method of sampling technique. Physics achievement test (pre-test and post-test) covering the unit ''Introduction to Electronics'' was used as measuring instrument. Then, based on the pre-test scores, mixed ability groups such as fifteen high and fifteen low scoring 30 students each were assigned as experimental (13Fand17M) and control(15 and15M) groups using lottery method of sampling technique Students in the experimental group were taught using problem solving teaching method while those in the control group were instructed with lecture teaching method. The post-test constructed by the writer in the sample unit taught was administrated to both groups immediately after the treatment was over. Finally, the results of the study revealed that problem-solving teaching method was more effective in teaching physics as compared with lecture method at elementary school level.