Browsing by Author "Leondari, A."
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The effectiveness of teaching a life skills program in a physical education context
Goudas, M.; Dermitzaki, I.; Leondari, A.; Danish, S. (2006)The purpose of the present study was to examine the effectiveness of a life skills training program taught as part of physical education lessons. Seventy three, seventh grade students were assigned either in an experimental ... -
EXPLORING CHILDREN'S UNDERSTANDING OF DEATH: THROUGH DRAWINGS AND THE DEATH CONCEPT QUESTIONNAIRE
Bonoti, F.; Leondari, A.; Mastora, A. (2013)To investigate whether children's understanding of the concept of death varies as a function of death experience and age, 52 children aged 7, 9, and 11 years (26 had a personal death experience), drew a picture reflecting ... -
From the fear of death to the fear of 'dissimilar other': A research in elementary school classrooms
Leondari, A.; Magos, K.; Oikonomou, A. (2014)Social stereotyping and prejudice constitute pressing societal problems and have many causes. Terror Management Theory offers a compelling and heavily researched account of individuals' reactions towards 'dissimilar others' ... -
Implicit theories of intelligence, perceived academic competence, and school achievement: Testing alternative models
Gonida, E.; Kiosseoglou, G.; Leondari, A. (2006)In the present study 3 alternative causal models concerning the relationships between implicit theories of intelligence, perceived academic competence, and school achievement were tested. The direction of changes in implicit ... -
The importance of body image for the psychological health of young men and women: Counseling interventions
Leondari, A. (2011)Body image is considered a central aspect of the self and a factor influencing considerably people's psychological health. Recently an increasing number of research studies focus on body image because of its alleged ... -
Motivational and affective determinants of self-regulatory strategy use in elementary school mathematics
Chatzistamatiou, M.; Dermitzaki, I.; Efklides, A.; Leondari, A. (2015)The aim of the study was to investigate the relationships between elementary students’ reported use of self-regulatory strategies in mathematics and their motivational and affective determinants. Participants of the study ... -
Patterns of motivation among adolescents with biased and accurate self-efficacy beliefs
Gonida, E. N.; Leondari, A. (2011)The motivational pattern of adolescents with biased and accurate self-efficacy beliefs in language and/or in math was examined in the current study. A sample of 6119 adolescents completed self-report questionnaires measuring ... -
Predicting academic self-handicapping in different age groups: The role of personal achievement goals and social goals
Leondari, A.; Gonida, E. (2007)Background. Academic self-handicapping refers to the use of impediments to successful performance on academic tasks. Previous studies have shown that it is related to personal achievement goals. A performance goal orientation ... -
Relations between young students' strategic behaviours, domain-specific self-concept, and performance in a problem-solving situation
Dermitzaki, I.; Leondari, A.; Goudas, M. (2009)This study aimed at investigating the relations between students' strategic behaviour during problem solving, task performance and domain-specific self-concept. A total of 167 first- and second-graders were individually ... -
Religiosity and psychological well-being
Leondari, A.; Gialamas, V. (2009)The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship between religiosity and psychological wellbeing in a sample of Greek Orthodox Christians. Previous research has documented that personal devotion, participation ... -
Students' strategic behavior and its relations to performance and to academic self-concept
Dermitzaki, I.; Leondari, A. (2008)