Environments that are hostile to one or more marginalized groups known have a negative effect on the mental health and well-being of both targets observers. Anti-fat attitudes been well documented in medical education, including use derogatory humor discriminatory treatment toward higher-weight patients. However, date, it is not what observing weight stigma discrimination during school has stud...

While research has established that depression interferes with academic achievement, less is understood about the processes by which social relationships may buffer the relationship between depression and academic outcomes. In this study we examined the role of positive relationships in the school, family and peer contexts in the association between depressive symptoms and academic achievement ...

Following a previous work, concerning the energy audit of a nursery school belonging to the public building park of the town of Palermo, some further analyses have been conducted. These mainly refer to the environmental performances of the school that are assessed with regards to different interventions involving the envelope (the glazed part, particularly) and the surrounding spaces. The inter...

a r t i c l e i n f o Cyberbullying is a growing concern worldwide. Using a sample of 1917 secondary adolescents from seven schools, five psychometric measures (self-efficacy, empathy level, feelings regarding a harmonious school, sense of belonging to the school, and psychosocial wellbeing) and five scales regarding bullying experiences (cyber-and traditional bullying perpetration and victimiz...

The present study concerns longitudinal research on bullying perpetration and peer victimization. A focus is on school factors of school climate (academic support, group support) and school identification (connectedness or belonging), which are conceptualized as related but distinct constructs. Analysis of change on these factors as well as individual well-being across time contributes to under...

School administrators are the people who organize all employees in school, give them orders, and direct, coordinate, supervise work school order to fulfill goals of school. This research was carried out examine perceptions teachers about communication styles process managers schools. Communication is main motivation tool schools, which formal educational organizations, as organizations. Adminis...

Abstract Grounded in ecological theory, this study investigated relative contributions of perceived classroom and school climate variables to mathematics self-concept achievement English-at-home English learner (EL) students using PISA 2012 data for American middle-grade students. For both outcomes, results 3-step hierarchical linear regression models the combined sample closely mirror those ma...

This article addresses migrant children’s entries into new education systems from the vantage point of musical participation. Through an ethnographic study one Norwegian primary school, it investigates what scope for participation is available to newly arrived children in a dedicated introductory class, and how their engagement with music contributes sense belonging. Four themes emerged: (1) Se...

Lipopolysaccharides Lipopolysaccharides (LPS) are a major component of the cell surface of gram-negative bacteria and are typically thought to be a protective barrier against host defense molecules. Mutational analysis of a LPS biosynthesis gene (waaL) in Spiraeoideae-infecting strains of E. amylovora has shown LPS to be involved in virulence [1]. Comparison of the LPS biosynthetic gene cluster...