Alexander-Stamatios Antoniou

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens | uoa · Department of Primary Education

In the present research, the relationship between emotional intelligence and burnout was investigated in a sample of Greek special education teachers. The cusp catastrophe model was used for the statistical analysis. Based on the analysis, emotional intelligence was negatively correlated with burnout. Surprisingly, this negative relationship was re...

Introduction The association between the cognitive and the affective domain in reading is well documented in research, especially when difficulties are manifested. The aim of this study was (a) to investigate levels of reading self-concept, trait emotional intelligence, and anxiety of students with dyslexia and compare them to students with no prev...

78 μαθητές των δύο τελευταίων τάξεων του δημοτικού οι οποίοι φοιτούσαν σε κέντρα ξένων γλωσσών στην Αθήνα. Στους συμμετέχοντες χορηγήθηκαν σταθμισμένες και άτυπες δοκιμασίες. Διαπιστώθηκε ότι οι μαθητές κάνουν ίδιους τύπους λαθών στην αποκωδικοποίηση και στις δύο γλώσσες με διαφοροποίηση συχνότητας, ενώ φαίνεται ότι μεταφέρουν τις στρατηγικές που χ...

The study explored the morphosyntactic skills of grade 3 monolingual Greek children and bilingual children with poor reading comprehension. There were four groups: a) 38 Greek children with good reading comprehension (GRC),b) 21 bilingual GRCs, c) 6 Greek children with poor reading comprehension (PRC) and d) 19 bilingual PRCs. None of the participa...

The study explored the morphosyntactic skills of grade 3 monolingual Greek children and bilingual children with poor reading comprehension. There were four groups: a) 38 Greek children with good reading comprehension (GRC),b) 21 bilingual GRCs, c) 6 Greek children with poor reading comprehension (PRC) and d) 19 bilingual PRCs. None of the participa...

The study explored the morphosyntactic skills of grade 3 monolingual Greek children and bilingual children with poor reading comprehension. There were four groups: a) 38 Greek children with good reading comprehension (GRC),b) 21 bilingual GRCs, c) 6 Greek children with poor reading comprehension (PRC) and d) 19 bilingual PRCs. None of the participa...

This study aims to propose and evaluate a model for work engagement in Special Educational Needs (SEN) teachers in Greece, in order to get insights into the effect of parameters such as job satisfaction, burnout and other personal characteristics. The sample consisted of 503 female and 161 male teachers of both primary and secondary education, work...

The purpose of this study was to identify special education tea-chers' profiles in relation to their levels of burnout, work engagement and job satisfaction, following a person-oriented approach. This approach was chosen in order to provide cfombinations of attributes that shape high-risk groups of low engagement and high burnout. Additionally, it...

This study aims to propose and evaluate a model for work engagement in Special Educational Needs (SEN) teachers in Greece, in order to get insights of the relationship between parameters such as their job satisfaction and burnout. The sample consisted of 503 female and 161 male teachers of both primary and secondary education, working in special an...

The aim of this article is to identify the educational interest of Nietzsche’s fundamental philosophical principles. To this end, Nietzsche’s work “The Gay Science” and corresponding references from other fragments of his corpus have been aggregated for the needs of this goal. An analysis of the book’s major propositions indicates an epistemologica...

When the majority of UK citizens voted to exit the EU almost nobody could tell the main impact of the most important event in global politics in the beginning of the 21st century. Two years after the referendum none is sure what exactly Brexit means, especially on the relationship the UK will have with EU in the future. The UK invoked the Article 5...

Aim: Cross-cultural adaptation of the Interaction with Disabled Persons Scale into Greek. Methods: Interaction with Disabled Persons Scale was forward and back translated by two bilingual physiotherapists and a Greek-English translator, respectively. Greek-speaking health professionals provided modifications and the final version of the scale was...

In Clouds (Nubes) of Aristophanes, Socrates appears as a sophist school owner, the Phrontisterion (‘thinkery’), in which he hosts students of all ages, in order to teach them not only philosophy, literature, physics but also effective sophistic techniques. In Clouds opposed ideas can be found like the aims of historical Socrates’ educational method...

In Clouds (Nubes) of Aristophanes, Socrates appears as a sophist school owner, the Phrontisterion (‘thinkery’), in which he hosts students of all ages, in order to teach them not only philosophy, literature, physics but also effective sophistic techniques. In Clouds opposed ideas can be found like the aims of historical Socrates’ educational method...

Drug dependence creates a marginal state with negative consequences for the individual, his/her family and the wider social community. Substance abuse among immigrants can be related to coexistence of factors related to immigration history, profound losses and acculturation stress. Drama therapy “home” approach (past, present, future), as a part of...

This research aims to investigate special educators’ and therapists’ perceptions for Speech Disorders. Coping with speech disorders, cooperative relationships and burnout is posed at the focal point of the research. The sample consisted of five speech therapists, five special educators, five occupational therapists and an interdisciplinary group. Q...

In Clouds (Nubes) of Aristophanes, Socrates appears as a sophist school owner, the Phrontisterion (‘thinkery’), in which he hosts students of all ages, in or-der to teach them not only philosophy, literature, physics but also effective sophistic techniques. In Clouds opposed ideas can be found like the aims of historical Socrates’ educational metho...

The present study is a mixed-methods research on secondary-school teachers’ perceptions of job resources in schools in an area of the Midlands in the UK. Taking into consideration psychological research into job resources, an analysis was carried out that included the results of a factor analysis of 13 items extracted and partially adapted from Bow...

The present study explored secondary school teachers’ perceptions of professional development resources based on the theory of job resources using a predominantly qualitative enquiry. Participants were asked about their perceptions of available professional development opportunities and what supports their engagement in their work. This research co...

This study examines the relationship between coping strategies and trait emo-tional intelligence of 548 academic staff employed in public universities in Greece Coping strategies were assessed by the Coping Scale of the Occupational Stress Indicator—OSI (Cooper, Sloan, & Williams, 1988); and Trait Emotional Intelligence was measured by the Short fo...

Although a considerable number of studies have been conducted with regard to work well-being of medical personnel, few of these have focused on smaller countries with a cultural setting such as Greece. In specific, much attention has been given to the mental health of medical doctors who appear to be at high risk and prone to a number of job stress...

The aim of this study was to explore the relationship between emotional intelligence and vocational interests using a sample of 272 Greek 10th and 11th Grade students. Trait Emotional Intelligence model (Petrides & Furnham, 2000, 2001, 2003) and Holland’s RIASEC (Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising & Conventional) vocational in...

Suicides as well as suicidal behaviours are considered to be one of the main health problems in the world, rated as the second most common cause of death among young people globally and the 15th leading cause of death worldwide among all populations (World Health Organization, 2012). According to statistical data and epidemiological reports, in Eur...

This paper aims to shed light on issues examined in the framework of social pedagogy, such as those that influence and often determine the values and the integrative model of individuals and groups as well as their subsequent perceptions and behaviours. The study focuses on comparative data from Greek and Albanian immigrants related to family value...

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We investigated relationships between four dimensions of work–family conflict (time- and strain-based work interference with family, time- and strain-based family interference with work) and three key national paid leave policies (paid parental leave, paid sick leave, paid annual leave) among a sample of 643 working married parents with children un...

T his book is an ambitious project uniting various fields in a multidisciplinary venture drawing on academics and clinicians from medicine, psychology and educational sciences. The interdisciplinary approach has assembled medical, educational and health specialists with scholarly contributions from many different countries and institutes. A plethor...

T his book is an ambitious project uniting various fields in a multidisciplinary venture drawing on academics and clinicians from medicine, psychology and educational sciences. The interdisciplinary approach has assembled medical, educational and health specialists with scholarly contributions from many different countries and institutes. A plethor...

This book is an ambitious project uniting various fields in a multidisciplinary venture drawing on academics and clinicians from medicine, psychology and educational sciences. The interdisciplinary approach has assembled medical, educational and health specialists with scholarly contributions from many different countries and institutes. A plethora...

T his book is an ambitious project uniting various fields in a multidisciplinary venture drawing on academics and clinicians from medicine, psychology and educational sciences. The interdisciplinary approach has assembled medical, educational and health specialists with scholarly contributions from many different countries and institutes. A plethor...

This research investigates the levels of occupational stress and professional burnout of teachers of pri-mary and secondary education. It also aims to investigate the coping strategies that they adopt, and the relationship between them. The survey involved 388 teachers who teach in public schools in Attica. Three instruments were administrated to t...

This book is an ambitious project uniting various fields in a multidisciplinary venture drawing on academics and clinicians from medicine, psychology and educational sciences. The interdisciplinary approach has assembled medical, educational and health specialists with scholarly contributions from many different countries and institutes. A plethora...

Surveying 6509 managers from 24 countries/geopolitical entities, we tested the process through which individualism–collectivism at the country level relates to employees’ appraisals of and reactions to three types of work demands (i.e., work hours, workload, and organizational constraints). Our multilevel modeling results suggested that, while work...

Within M&As, the present study was based on the social identity approach (SIA) and stress theory implications to propose a comprehensive model of the effects of intergroup-(i.e., status of pre-merger organizations, merger integration pattern) and individual-level parameters (work stress) on workers' physical and psychological health post-combinatio...

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Although assessment of stress is typically performed using generic stress questionnaires, the context-specificity and generalisability of such assessments are often ignored. This study explored the differences in perceptions of work-related stressors in male/female and high/low rank police officers in Greece, by the application of a context-specifi...

Although there is conceptual and empirical evidence that supports the existence of possible curvilinear relationships between job characteristics and health outcomes, risk assessments usually rely on linear estimation approaches. However, this approach may not be conducive to good risk management practice. Where curvilinear effects exist, it is pos...

Few studies explore the specific sources of stress, and the coping strategies applied by teachers of children with special educational needs, particularly in small countries such as Greece. The present study investigated the specific work-related stressors affecting special educational needs teachers in Greece and the coping strategies applied by t...

'The reader will find the articles themselves very well-written and well-researched... this book would best be utilized as a reference tool for a researcher or as a reader for a masters- or doctoral-level course in organizational studies, industrial or organizational psychology... this text will be extremely valuable.' © Alexander-Stamatios G. Anto...

Primary work stressors and job satisfaction/dissatisfaction in Greek Junior Hospital Doctors (JHDs) are investigated to identify similarities and differences in the reports obtained from male and female hospital doctors. Participants in the study included 32 male and 28 female Greek hospital doctors who provided information through semi-structured,...

Leather, 2001). Εξαιτίας της πολυπλοκότητας και της πολυμορφίας του εν λόγω φαινομένου, αποθαρρύνεται η δημιουργία ενός, ξεκά-θαρου και ολοκληρωμένου ορισμού πάνω στο πεδίο αυτό παρόλο που οι σχετικές έρευνες (European Foundation, 2000˙ Hoel & Coo-per, 2000) αναγνωρίζουν ότι οι ορισμοί της παρενόχλησης – bul-lying, mobbing, moral harrassment – αναφ...

Purpose – To identify the specific sources of occupational stress and the professional burnout experienced by teachers working in Greek primary and secondary schools. A special emphasis is given to gender and age differences. Design/methodology/approach – A cross‐sectional design was used. Two self‐report measures were administered to a sample of 4...