The Experience of Columbian Child Soldiers from a Resilience Perspective

There are child soldiers fighting with government forces and opposition groups in more than 30 countries worldwide. Although studies have been conducted on the impact of war-related trauma on children, very few have focused on those children who do not exhibit trauma-related symptoms after experiencing armed combat. The purpose of this study was to identify and understand some of the mechanisms and resources that resilient children draw upon to overcome the trauma of child soldiering. Six Colombian child soldiers were recruited through purposive sampling techniques to participate in a narrative study focusing on their lived experiences and their personal understanding of how they were able to overcome the effects of war trauma. Six narrative themes were identified and discussed in terms of the literature on trauma and childhood resilience and also related to counselling needs and services.     

Culture, Climate, and Contribution: Career Satisfaction Among Female Faculty

Retention of female faculty is an important issue for institutions of higher education aiming for excellence and diversity. However, an essential first step in understanding retention is to examine what contributes to career satisfaction for academic women. This study is based on data from a census survey of faculty conducted in 1996 at a Research I university located in the Midwest. Using Hagadorn's (2000) model for conceptualizing faculty job satisfaction, the study identifies domains of environmental condition, departmental climate, and demographics that play a role in female faculty's overall career satisfaction.     

Discriminant Validity of the Parent and Child Scales of the Parenting Stress Index

The aim of the present study was to further validate the Parental Stress Index (PSI; Abidin, 1990) which claims to measure distinct sources of stress related to the parent and the child. Two hundred and forty five mothers completed the French version of the PSI and other questionnaires including the DAS (Spanier, 1976), the CBCL (Achenbach & Edelbrock, 1981) and the BDI (Beck, et al., 1961). A subsample of 218 mothers and their preschoolers were also directly observed during a problem solving task in the laboratory. In general, regression analyses indicated that both parent and child scales contributed significantly and independently to the prediction of marital adjustment, depression, the child's problems as reported by the mother and behaviors observed in the laboratory. As expected, the parent's scale when entered first explained most of the variance for factors related to the mother, such as marital adjustment (29%) and depression (45%), and the child's scale obtained no significant results when entered last. Moreover, the child's scale contributed over and above the parent's scale in predicting the child's difficulties (12%) as reported by the mother, and accounted for all the variance when entered first (31%). Intriguingly, results showed that the child scale significantly predicted mother and child behavior in the laboratory situation, but the parent scale contributed to the explained variance only when entered first. In general, these results suggest that the two main factors of the PSI represent valid and relatively independent sources of information. Considering clinical and research applications, the PSI may be particularly useful in assessing combinations of stressors, which appear to be specifically harmful for the parent-child relationship.     

The role of IQ, expertise, and motivation in the recall of familiar information

High- and low-IQ children in the first, third, and fifth grades performed two free-recall tasks: a sort-recall task with sets of categorically related pictures, and a class-recall task, with children recalling the current members of their school class. All children were deemed to be experts concerning the composition of their school class, but, unlike experts in other domains, had no special motivation associated with their expertise. Recall and clustering on both tasks were high. The high-IQ children performed better than low-IQ children only on the sort-recall task. IQ was significantly correlated with measures of performance on the sort-recall task but not on the class-recall task. The results reflect the fact that the memory benefits associated with being an expert (here, elimination of IQ effects) are related to the greater knowledge the expert possesses and not to factors of motivation.     

语言学习的革新

Auralog公司是1987年在法国成立的,基于一个语音实验室.这个语音实验室将语音识别技术发展得非常成熟.1990年该公司把E-Learning技术运用到了外语学习上,形成了一套完整的外语学习解决方案.到目前为止我们的客户在全球已达到六十七个国家.     

Connective Leadership in an Interdependent and Diverse World

Expressing strong agreement with Robert Sternberg’s rationale for changing our methods for identifying intelligence, this analysis emphasizes connections with leadership failures. In recognition that a changing world requires connective ethical leadership, it discusses the nine-factor behavioral model portraying achieving styles that can facilitate effective leadership in a changing world. Leaders operating along these lines can identify high-potential initiatives and artfully adjust their behaviors to achieve the best outcomes.