Browsing by Author "Georgiou, Stelios N."

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      Attachment style and mentoring relationships in adolescence 

      Georgiou, Stelios N.; Demetriou, Andreas P.; Stavrinides, Panayiotis (2008)
      This study examined the relationship between adolescents' attachment style and their decision to enter mentoring relationships. The participants were 569 Greek Cypriot high school students. It was found that adolescents ...
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      Attachment to Parents and Peers as a Parameter of Bullying and Victimization 

      Nikiforou, Militsa; Georgiou, Stelios N.; Stavrinides, Panayiotis (Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2013)
      The purpose of the present study was threefold. First, we tried to investigate whether the quality of attachment with parents and peers predicts bullying and victimization. Second, we also attempted a moderation analysis ...
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      Beliefs of experienced and novice teachers about achievement 

      Georgiou, Stelios N. (2008)
      The aim of this study was to examine the beliefs that experienced and novice teachers hold about school achievement. It is important to investigate these beliefs and attributions because of the significant role that teachers ...
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      Bullies, victims and bully-victims: Psychosocial profiles and attribution styles 

      Georgiou, Stelios N.; Stavrinides, Panayiotis (2008)
      This study aimed at examining the differences between bullies, victims, bully-victims and students that are non involved in peer violence in terms of their temperament, their degree of deviation from the typical in appearance ...
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      Bullying and empathy: A short-term longitudinal investigation 

      Stavrinides, Panayiotis; Georgiou, Stelios N.; Theofanous, V. (2010)
      The aim of this study was to test the direction of effect in the relationship between bullying and empathy. The participants were 205 sixth-grade students, randomly selected from urban and rural schools in Cyprus. A ...
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      Bullying and victimization at school: The role of mothers 

      Georgiou, Stelios N. (2008)
      Background. Social learning literature is used in order to describe the contextual parameters of peer aggression, and specifically bullying and victimization. Aim. The aim of the present study was to examine the influence ...
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      Bullying and victimization experiences at school, the parent-child relationship and child school performance: A longitudinal investigation 

      Fanti, Kostas A.; Georgiou, Stelios N. (Nova Science Publishers, Inc, 2010)
      The current investigation examines longitudinal differences between bullies, victims, and bully-victims in terms of the quality of their relationship with their parents and school performance. We also investigate the ...
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      Construction of nearly orthogonal Latin hypercube designs 

      Efthimiou, Ifigenia; Georgiou, Stelios N.; Liu, Min-Qian (2015)
      The Latin hypercube design (LHD) is a popular choice of experimental design when computer simulation is used to study a physical process. In this paper, we propose some methods for constructing nearly orthogonal Latin ...
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      Cultural value orientation and authoritarian parenting as parameters of bullying and victimization at school 

      Georgiou, Stelios N.; Fousiani, K.; Michaelides, Michalis P.; Stavrinides, Panayiotis (2013)
      The purpose of the present study was to examine the existing association between cultural value orientation, authoritarian parenting, and bullying and victimization at school. The participants (N = 231) were early adolescents, ...
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      Cultural values as mediators between parenting styles and bullying behavior at school 

      Georgiou, Stelios N.; Ioannou, Myria; Stavrinides, Panayiotis (2018)
      The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between parenting styles, cultural values and bullying behavior at school. The main objective was to test the mediating role of cultural values in these relationships. ...
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      Do mothers know? Longitudinal associations between parental knowledge, bullying, and victimization 

      Stavrinides, Panayiotis; Nikiforou, Militsa; Georgiou, Stelios N. (2015)
      The purpose of the present study was to investigate the direction of effects between parents’ sources of knowledge and children’s involvement in bullying and victimization at school. The participants were 348 early adolescents ...
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      The emerging self: the convergence of mind, personality and thinking styles 

      Demetriou, Andreas P.; Kazi, Smaragda; Georgiou, Stelios N. (1999)
      This paper aims to integrate research and theorizing about problem solving, self and personality into a comprehensive theory. With this purpose, the paper attempts to answer three questions: how do humans become aware of ...
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      Family dynamics and school achievement in Cyprus 

      Georgiou, Stelios N. (1995)
      The purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which family cohesion, a functional characteristic of family life, is related to school achievement. It is already established in the international literature that ...
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      Family parameters of achievement: A structural equation model 

      Georgiou, Stelios N.; Christou, Constantinos (2000)
      The aim of the present study was to investigate the effects of several structural and functional characteristics of the family on the child's actual school achievement. A structural equation model was constructed and its ...
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      Family parameters of achievement: A structural equation model 

      Georgiou, Stelios N.; Christou, Constantinos (2000)
      The aim of the present study was to investigate the effects of several structural and functional characteristics of the family on the child’s actual school achievement. A structural equation model was constructed and its ...
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      Is there a psychopathic element in adolescent drinking? A longitudinal study 

      Charalampous, K.; Stavrinides, Panayiotis; Georgiou, Stelios N.; Giasemidou, P. (2017)
      While previous studies have examined the relationship between psychopathic traits and alcohol use in adolescents, limited empirical investigations of the longitudinal bidirectional effects of psychopathic traits and alcohol ...
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      Is Victor better than Victoria at Maths? 

      Georgiou, Stelios N.; Stavrinides, Panayiotis; Kalavana, Theano (2007)
      The aim of this study was to examine whether there are gender differences in actual maths achievement, in attitudes towards maths, and in relevant achievement attributions among early adolescents. The participants were 255 ...
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      Linking callous-unemotional traits to instrumental and non-instrumental forms of aggression 

      Fanti, Kostas A.; Frick, Paul J.; Georgiou, Stelios N. (2009)
      The current study investigated the relation of callous-unemotional (CU) traits to bullying, victimization, and proactive and reactive aggression. We also examined whether CU traits will be more strongly related to groups ...
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      Longitudinal associations between adolescent alcohol use and parents'sources of knowledge 

      Stavrinides, Panayiotis; Georgiou, Stelios N.; Demetriou, Andreas P. (2010)
      The aim of this study was to test the direction of effect in the relationship between parents' sources of knowledge (parental monitoring and child disclosure) and adolescent alcohol use. The participants were 215 adolescents ...
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      Longitudinal investigation of the relationship between bullying and psychosocial adjustment 

      Stavrinides, Panayiotis; Georgiou, Stelios N.; Nikiforou, Militsa; Kiteri, E. (2011)
      The aim of the present study was to test the direction of effects in the relationship between bullying, victimization, adjustment difficulties, and school achievement. The participants were 238 fifth and sixth-grade children ...