Socio-Economic Status, Self-efficacy and Mathematics Performance: A Multilevel Structural Euation Model

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A multilevel study of area socio-economic status and food purchasing behaviour.

OBJECTIVE The present study examined the association between area socio-economic status (SES) and food purchasing behaviour. DESIGN Data were collected by mail survey (64.2 % response rate). Area SES was indicated by the proportion of households in each area earning less than $AUS 400 per week, and individual-level socio-economic position was measured using education, occupation and household...

teachers emotional intelligence, self-efficacy, and perceived english language proficiency: a case of iranian efl teachers

educational researchers have provided evidence that teachers’ emotional intelligence has strong effects on various aspects of teaching and learning. yet, in the field of teaching english to speakers of other languages (tesol), inquiry into teachers’ emotional intelligence is nearly limited. given its documented powerful impact on teaching practices and student learning, it is critical to pursue...

A Structural Model of the Relationship Between Teachers\' Job Motivation and Socio-Emotional Skills and Social Capital Mediated by Self-Efficacy

The purpose of this study was to consider the goodness of fit of a structural model of the relationship between teachers' job motivation and their social capital and social-emotional skills with the mediation of self-efficacy. The research method was descriptive-correlational. The statistical population included female teachers working in the 10th and 5th districts of Tehran in the second secon...

Socio-economic, socio-political and socio-emotional variables explaining school bullying: a country-wide multilevel analysis.

Why do some countries, regions and schools have more bullying than others? What socio-economic, socio-political and other larger contextual factors predict school bullying? These open questions inspired this study with 53.316 5th- and 9th-grade students (5% of the national student population in these grades), from 1,000 schools in Colombia. Students completed a national test of citizenship comp...

Is the "Glasgow effect" of cigarette smoking explained by socio-economic status?: A multilevel analysis

BACKGROUND The Glasgow area has elevated levels of deprivation and is known for its poor health and associated negative health-related behaviours, which are socially patterned. Of interest is whether high smoking rates are explained by the area's socio-economic profile. METHODS Data on age, sex, current/previous smoking status, area deprivation, social class, education, economic activity, pos...