The Role of Parental Involvement in Youth Sport Experience: Perceived and Desired Behavior by Male Soccer Players

Parents play a key role in the youth sports educational experience. They are responsible for the introduction of their children to physical or sporting education and their involvement has been associated with sport participation in early stages. The aims of this cross-sectional study were, first, to assess the perceived and desired parental involvement by children and, secondly, to examine their satisfaction or dissatisfaction with any specific behavior. 80 male soccer players filled the Parental Involvement in Sport Questionnaire (PISQ) before or after a training session in presence of a coach. PISQ results revealed excessive active involvement and pressure, insufficient praise and understanding and satisfactory directive behavior from children’s parents. Our findings suggest that excessive parental involvement can cause pressure on children who would prefer parental participation characterized by praise and understanding. A balance between a supporting involvement without putting too much pressure is needed by the parents. To prevent burnout and dropout and to facilitate future practice, parents should be counseled (possibly by a sport educator) on how to positively support their children concerning their sport experience.

DISORDERS OF COMMUNICATION IN RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN GIRLS AND BOYS

The purpose of the study is to reveal the specifics of communication disorders in the relationship between a boy and a girl, their origin, the emergence of a couple at the initial stage of communication. It is necessary to take into account those manifestations that lead to serious violations in communication and a couple breakup, in particular, conflicts, and crises. Research methods applied: theoretical (analysis, generalization) and empirical (questionnaire development and implementation, analysis of answers and comparison of data). The consequences of crisis situations in a young couple’s relationship are as follows: it can serve as a motive for self-awareness or rethinking oneself in the relationship; as a push to change behavior; as a risk for another girl or boy; as a risk of suspicions, quarrels and accusations. Elimination of deformations, establishment of relations help young people to get out of problem situations in the right way. Young people mention communication disorders: abuse of time, resources; violation of personal boundaries; directive behavior; ignoring the position of a partner, indifference; attempts to act illegally, inadequately; neglect of opinion, position; manipulation in relationships; immoral manifestations. To determine the specifics of violations in the relationship between a boy and a girl, factors are characterized by personal areas − cognitive, emotional, volitional. The results of the study show that young people find important the factors of influence and correctly understand the ways of establishing interpersonal communication. However, overcoming the crisis is to become a conscious desire.

Organizational Climate at the University of Eastern Philippines Pedro Rebadulla Memorial Campus Catubig, Northern Samar

This study aimed to assess organizational school climate of University of Eastern Philippines, Pedro Rebadulla Memorial Campus, Catubig Northern .Samar for school year: 2017-2018. It aimed to identify the perception of faculty towards organizational climate in terms of: Supportive Behavior; Directive Behavior ; Engaged Behavior; Intimate Behavior; and Frustrated Behavior; determine the standardized scores of organizational climate; and determine the general openness index among employees in the workplace. Moreover, this study was conducted to improve the organizational climate of the institution by getting or assessing the supportive, directive, engaged, and frustrated behavior from the respective respondents. This study used a standardized questionnaire which is called the “Organizational Climate Description Questionnaire (OCDQ) adopted from Wayne K Hoy (1991). It is an instrument used to measure important aspects of teacher-teacher and dean-teacher interactions. Along with this, the study was designed with descriptive methodology which involves the analysis of the organizational climate of the university for the school year 2017-2018 and to determine the climate openness of the school specifically focusing on the dimensions or subtest covered by the Organizational Climate Questionnaire (OCDQ-RS). This study found out that the organizational climate was higher than 84% of the schools from the normative samples, and the openness index of the organizational climate scored 380.9 The University falls below the average range for openness. Finally, it is recommended that the University should conduct an intervention on how improve the openness index of the organizational climate.

Autobiographical memory, personality, and Facebook mementos

The present study analyzed the relationships between directive, self and social functions of autobiographical memory, personality traits, as defined by the Five Factor model, and the Facebook mementos. We defined Facebook mementos as objective measures of the textual (i.e., Facebook Status Updating) and visual (i.e., Photos uploading) information people record on their Facebook profiles. Questionnaires gathered data from a sample of 193 Italian Facebook users (148 female; 45 male; age M = 22.8, SD = 6.8). Results at path analysis using AMOS showed direct significant positive associations between personality traits related to extraversion, openness, neuroticism, conscientiousness and Facebook mementos. Extraversion and openness were positive precursors of the directive, self and social functions of autobiographical memory, whereas neuroticism predicted directive and self-functions, and conscientiousness was a positive precursor of the directive function of autobiographical memory. As well, indirect significant positive paths among extraversion, neuroticism, openness and the frequency of photos uploaded on Facebook for collecting life events have emerged via the mediation of the self-continuity function of autobiographical memory. In sum, the present study highlights how individual differences in motivations for using autobiographical memory for directive-behavior, self-continuity or social-bonding purposes deeply related with the personal experience of using social media as a repository tool for textual or visual information.

Teachers' perceptions of the effect of leadership on school climate

This mixed methods research examines the relationship between principal leadership and school climate. A sample of 63 elementary teachers evaluated their school climate and leadership through the OCDQ-RE and the MLQ-5X and expressed their views on both by responding to open-ended questions. Quantitative analysis for both questionnaires, correlations between the dimensions of the two instruments and qualitative analysis of the open-ended questions were conducted to determine the leadership characteristics and behaviors that impact school climate the most. Both principals scored high on supportive and directive behavior and were “more transformational” and “more transactional than the norm”; teachers scored high on collegial and intimate behavior; school climates were determined to be open. Correlational analysis revealed significant positive relationships between the characteristics of transformational and transactional leadership and both supportive and directive principal behaviors; qualitative results showed that characteristics of transformational leadership and supportive principal behaviors have the most impact on school climate. The results of this study revealed that although the principals were perceived as highly directive, the climates were still open. This calls for further exploration of the impact of principal behaviors on school climate and whether teacher behaviors are more significant determinants of school climate than principal behaviors are.

School Climate and Teachers Performance in an Elementary School in a Resettlement Area

This study investigated the relationship between school climate and teachers’ performance in Palanog Resettlement Elementary School. Using the descriptive- correlational research design the study included all teachers of the school. The school climate was measured through the Organizational Climate Descriptive Questionnaire and the teachers’ performance through the Performance Appraisal System for Teachers. The data were analyzed using frequency count, percentages, means, Pearson-r product moment correlation and t-test correlation coefficient. The findings revealed that the supportive principal behavior and collegial teacher behavior dimension of school climate has significant relationship on teachers performance. Based on the findings, it was suggested that school head should continue the supportive climate on teachers but not to disregard the directive behavior as to ensure the implementation of the school policies.

Kepemimpinan kepala taman kanak-kanak di persekolahan Kanisius Yogyayakarta

Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mendeskripsikan kemampuan kepala TK dalam: (1) mengarahkan guru dan staf, (2) membuat keputusan penting (3) memberikan pendelegasian tugas dan, (4) membangun hubungan kerja sama secara internal dan eksternal. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif dengan jenis studi kasus pada tiga sekolah TK Kanisius Yogyakarta. Subjek penelitian yaitu kepala sekolah, guru, orang tua siswa (komite sekolah). Teknik pengumpulan data menggunakan teknik observasi dan wawancara. Analisis data yang digunakan adalah model analisis interaktif Milles & Huberman untuk mendeskripsikan dan menganalisis empat aspek kepemimpinan yang dijalankan pada ketiga sekolah tersebut. Penelitian ini menemukan pelaksanaan kepemimpinan kepala TK Kanisius: (1) pengarahan dilakukan secara langsung dan tidak langsung melalui rapat, diskusi dan morning briefing mengenai tugas pokok, tugas khusus dan tugas penunjang, (2) proses pengambilan keputusan melalui musyawarah dengan koordinasi pihak yayasan (3) pendelegasian tugas pokok, tugas khusus dan tugas penunjang yang didasarkan pada kemampuan bawahan, durasi waktu, jenis tugas dan target pencapaian, (4) kerja sama internal dan eksternal dibangun melalui team dan mitra bersama komite sekolah yang digerakan atau disponsori oleh team orang tua. Berdasarkan temuan tersebut maka perilaku kepemimpinan kepala TK Kanisus Demangan Baru berorientasi pada perilaku supportif, perilaku kepemimpinan kepala TK Kanisius Kotabaru berorientasi pada perilaku direktif dan perilaku kepemimpinan kepala TK Kanisius Wirobrajan berorientasi pada perilaku partisipatif. Dari temuan perilaku kepemimpinan tersebut maka model kepemimpian yang diperankan ketiga kepala TK Kanisus cenderung menunjukan model kepemimpinan instruksional.Kata kunci: kepemimpinan kepala TK, perilaku kepemimpinan dan model kepemimpinan PRINCIPALS’ LEADERSHIP IN CANISIUS KINDERGARTENS YOGYAKARTAAbstractThis research aims to describe the ability of the head of kindergarten in: (1) directing teachers and staff, (2) making important decisions (3) provide the delegation of tasks and, (4) establish working relationships both internally and externally. This study uses a qualitative approach with case studies on three kindergarten Canisius Yogyakarta. The research subject is the principal, teachers, parents students (school committee). Data collection technique used observation and interview techniques. Analysis of the data used is an interactive model Milles & Huberman to describe and analyze four aspects of leadership that run on all three schools. This study found the implementation of leadership in TK Canisius: (1) directly or indirectly through meetings, discussions, and briefings on main tasks, special tasks and supporting duties, (2) decision making process in compliace the board of foundation (3) task delegation that suits on the capacity of each subordinates, project timeline and target,(4) internal and external cooperation built through fundamental activities, special activities and support activities as well as maintaining relationships both personally and socially. Based on these findings, the behavior of the leadership of the head of Kanisus Demangan Baru kindergarten oriented supportive behavior, the behavior of the leadership of the head of Canisius Kotabaru kindergarten oriented directive behavior and leadership behavior Canisius head Wirobrajan kindergarten oriented participative behavior. From the findings of the leadership behavior of the model of leadership, played three head of Canisus kindergartens more trend on instructional leadership model.Keywords: kindergarten leadership, leadership behaviors and leadership models