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Volume 52, issue 6, 2018

Empirical evaluation of educational interactive systems pp. 2427-2434

Francisco José García-Peñalvo, Lourdes Moreno López and Cruz Sánchez-Gómez Mª

Gender as a moderator of the relationship between Facebook® addiction and self-efficacy for learning in a college sample: the mediating effect of deliberative belief pp. 2435-2454

Chun-wen Lin

Building, coding and programming 3D models via a visual programming environment pp. 2455-2468

Ana Mª Pinto-Llorente, Sonia Casillas-Martín, Marcos Cabezas-González and Francisco José García-Peñalvo

The effectiveness of technology-assisted history teaching based on peace training: The case of history of Cyprus pp. 2469-2485

Gülçin Keleszade, Ali Efdal Ozkul and Ahmet Güneyli

Investigation of the level of consciousness of citizens about the climate change pp. 2487-2493

Fidan Aslanova

Nursing staff intentions to continuously use a blended e-learning system from an integrative perspective pp. 2495-2513

Yueh-Ying Tsai, Cheng-Min Chao, Hong-Mau Lin and Bor-Wen Cheng

Software as a facilitator of quality processes in social sciences research pp. 2515-2533

María Cruz Sánchez-Gómez, Ana Iglesias-Rodríguez and Antonio Víctor Martín-García

The role of empathy between functional competence diversity and competence acquisition: a case study of interdisciplinary teams pp. 2535-2556

Cheng-Ta Lin and Shuang-Shii Chuang

Qualitative analysis of the process of restoring social esteem by the women with multiple sclerosis pp. 2557-2575

Soodeh Maghsoodi and Naima Mohammadi

The place attachment experience regarding the disabled people: the typology of coffee shops pp. 2577-2596

Ahmet Murat Saymanlier, Sevinc Kurt and Nezih Ayiran

Explanatory analysis of the key factors in an energy sustainability index pp. 2597-2632

Massimiliano Agovino, Antonio Garofalo, Antonio Angelo Romano and Giuseppe Scandurra

The comparative examination of promotion criterias of teachers in North Cyprus and Turkey as a manager and a supervisor in profession pp. 2633-2643

Osman Vaiz and Hasan Eriş

Earthquake triggered networked risk and response: based on relevant literature pp. 2645-2666

Zhiyi Meng and Liming Yao

The effect of pregnancy Pilates-assisted childbirth preparation training on childbirth fear and neonatal outcomes: a quasi-experimental/quantitative research pp. 2667-2679

Dilek Sarpkaya Güder, Mesut Yalvaç and Gülşen Vural

The relationship of sport experience and the effect of competitive anxiety during the match for junior handball player students pp. 2681-2690

Figen Lesinger, Emete Yağcı, Mohammad Hassan Abdullah Almaee and Deniz Erdağ

Associational versus correlational research study design and data analysis pp. 2691-2707

Merton S. Krause

Examination of the roles of foundations on Turkish education system of Cyprus pp. 2709-2722

Behcet Öznacar

A global food–energy–water nexus with heterogeneity, non-stationarity and cross-sectional dependence pp. 2723-2755

Angeliki N. Menegaki and Aviral Tiwari

Revisiting the difference between mixed methods and multimethods: Is it all in the name? pp. 2757-2770

M. Teresa Anguera, Angel Blanco-Villaseñor, José Luis Losada, Pedro Sánchez-Algarra and Anthony J. Onwuegbuzie

An evaluation of beauty and hair care education at vocational schools pp. 2771-2784

Yeşim U. Aksoy

The future of augmented reality and an overview on the to researches: a study of content analysis pp. 2785-2793

Erkan Bal

Assessment of the role of household empowerment in alleviating participatory poverty among rural household of Pakistan pp. 2795-2814

Muhammad Abrar ul haq, Mohd Razani Mohd Jali and Gazi Md Nural Islam

Two-side face of knowledge building using scientometric analysis pp. 2815-2836

Hyejin Park and Han Woo Park

DNA test to assess criminal responsibility: a Bayesian approach pp. 2837-2853

Massimiliano Giacalone, Maria Rosaria Giannuzzi and Demetrio Panarello

The impact of women’s education and employment on their empowerment: an empirical evidence from household level survey pp. 2855-2870

Sofia Riaz and Zahid Pervaiz

Satisfied surgeon–patient matching: a model-based method pp. 2871-2891

Yang Liu, Zhi-Ping Fan and Yan-Ping Jiang

1971–2017: Evolution, exploration and test of time of conjoint analysis pp. 2893-2919

Kushagra Kulshreshtha, Vikas Tripathi and Naval Bajpai

Volume 52, issue 5, 2018

Evolution on regional disparities in China from 2000 to 2012: evidence from 74 cities within three mega-urban regions along Yangtze River pp. 1989-2006

Rong Sheng and Shi Lin Liu

Does renewable energy ensure environmental quality in favour of economic growth? Empirical evidence from China’s renewable development pp. 2007-2030

Joshua Sunday Riti, Deyong Song, Yang Shu, Miriam Kamah and Agya Adi

Understanding and misunderstanding group mean centering: a commentary on Kelley et al.’s dangerous practice pp. 2031-2036

Andrew Bell, Kelvyn Jones and Malcolm Fairbrother

BitCoin exclusively informational money: a valuable review from 2010 to 2017 pp. 2037-2054

Jyotir Chatterjee, Le Hoang Son, Srijani Ghatak, Raghvendra Kumar and Manju Khari

Does gender inequality reduce growth and development economique? Evidence for a panel from African countries pp. 2055-2061

Khayria Karoui and Rochdi Feki

Beyond qualitative/quantitative structuralism: the positivist qualitative research and the paradigmatic disclaimer pp. 2063-2077

Izhak Berkovich

Justifying code switching through the lens of teacher identities: novice EFL teachers’ perceptions pp. 2079-2092

Yağmur Raman and Nur Yiğitoğlu

Evaluation of satisfaction of individuals educated in health sciences pp. 2093-2099

Mahmut Çelik and Behçet Öznacar

Learning strategies of students studying Russian as a second foreign language, with relation to English as their first foreign language pp. 2101-2109

Saide Sadikoglu and Serdar Oktay

Knowledge spillover effects: empirical evidence from Russian regions pp. 2111-2132

Luigi Aldieri, Maxim Kotsemir and Concetto Paolo Vinci

Palliative care at home: quality measurement and organizational drivers: evidences from Italy pp. 2133-2150

Gianlorenzo Scaccabarozzi and Pietro Giorgio Lovaglio

Supervised scaling of semi-structured interview transcripts to characterize the ideology of a social policy reform pp. 2151-2162

Pierre-Marc Daigneault, Dominic Duval and Louis M. Imbeau

Measuring populist discourse using semantic text analysis: a comment pp. 2163-2172

Roel Popping

A note on poverty, growth, and inequality nexus: evidence from a panel of sub-Saharan African countries pp. 2173-2195

Alaa Mohamd Shoukry, Musarrat Jabeen, Khalid Zaman, Showkat Gani and Alamzeb Aamir

The Global Competitiveness Index: an alternative measure with endogenously derived weights pp. 2197-2219

Francesca Petrarca and Silvia Terzi

Surveying individual political elites: a comparative three-country study pp. 2221-2237

Stefaan Walgrave and Jeroen K. Joly

New media scholarship in Africa: an evaluation of Africa-focused blog related research from 2006 to 2016 pp. 2239-2254

Adeola Abdulateef Elega and Bahire Efe Özad

How does terrorism affect the international trade of Muslims countries? pp. 2255-2268

Mario Ruiz Estrada, Donghyun Park, Muhammad Tahir and Alam Khan

Do the sunk cost effect and cognitive dissonance increase risk perception? An empirical study in the context of city smog pp. 2269-2289

Wei Qi, Xiumei Guo, Xia Wu, Dora Marinova and Jin Fan

Does corporate social responsibility matter for corporate stability? Evidence from China pp. 2291-2319

Yujing Gong and Kung-Cheng Ho

The effect of answer based computer assisted geometry course on students success level and attitudes pp. 2321-2329

Murat Tezer

Better with age? The relationship between longevity and efficiency dynamics of nonprofit microfinance institutions pp. 2331-2343

Ayi Gavriel Ayayi and Mahinda Wijesiri

Deterministic modeling in scenario forecasting: estimating the effects of two public policies on intergenerational conflict pp. 2345-2371

Addolorata Marasco and Alessandro Romano

Peace, terrorism and economic growth in Middle East and North African countries pp. 2373-2392

Yilmaz Bayar and Marius Dan Gavriletea

Determination of the impact of augmented reality application on the success and problem-solving skills of students pp. 2393-2402

Damla Karagozlu

Group differences on affiliate stigma experienced by family caregivers of psychiatric patients pp. 2403-2412

Maryam Farzand and Engin Baysen

The relationship between the inflation rate and inequality across U.S. states: a semiparametric approach pp. 2413-2425

Mehmet Balcilar, Shinhye Chang, Rangan Gupta and Stephen Miller

Volume 52, issue 4, 2018

Women and corruption: evidence from multinational panel data pp. 1447-1468

Yu Hao, Chun-Ping Chang and Zao Sun

Erratum to: Women and corruption: evidence from multinational panel data pp. 1469-1469

Yu Hao, Chun-Ping Chang and Zao Sun

Skills and labour incomes: how unequal is Italy as part of the Southern European countries? pp. 1471-1500

Antonio Garofalo, Rosalia Castellano, Gennaro Punzo and Gaetano Musella

Class diversification, economic growth and urban sprawl: evidences from a pre-crisis European city pp. 1501-1522

Cesare Feliciantonio, Luca Salvati, Efthymia Sarantakou and Kostas Rontos

A classification of response scale characteristics that affect data quality: a literature review pp. 1523-1559

Anna DeCastellarnau

Agricultural exports and economic growth in Pakistan: an econometric reassessment pp. 1561-1574

Khalid Mahmood and Shehla Munir

Campaign dynamics of cognitive accessibility of political judgments: measuring the impact of campaigns and campaign events using response latencies in two German rolling cross section studies pp. 1575-1592

Jochen Mayerl and Thorsten Faas

A mixed-mode sensitive research on cannabis use and sexual addiction: improving self-reporting by means of indirect questioning techniques pp. 1593-1611

Pier Francesco Perri, Beatriz Cobo Rodríguez and María del Mar Rueda García

Human values and beliefs and concern about climate change: a Bayesian longitudinal analysis pp. 1613-1625

Gabriele Prati, Luca Pietrantoni and Cinzia Albanesi

Modelling bullying propagation in Spain: a quantitative and qualitative approach pp. 1627-1642

Elena De la Poza, Lucas Jódar and Lucía Ramírez

Measuring differences in economic standard of living between immigrant communities in Italy pp. 1643-1667

Francesco Schirripa Spagnolo, Antonella D’Agostino and Nicola Salvati

Personal relationships in the digital age: three female academics’ qualitative research pp. 1669-1675

Saveria Capecchi

Can problem-solving attitudes explain the gender gap in financial literacy? Evidence from Italian students’ data pp. 1677-1705

Sergio Longobardi, Margherita Maria Pagliuca and Andrea Regoli

The economic cost of the Islamic State on the Syrian and Iraqi economies pp. 1707-1730

Mario Ruiz Estrada, Alam Khan and Donghyun Park

A comparison of qualitatively and quantitatively driven analytic procedures of psychotherapeutic group sessions with deviant adolescents pp. 1731-1760

Eugenio De Gregorio, Ivana Tagliafico and Alfredo Verde

Conflicting perceptions on participation between citizens and members of local government pp. 1761-1778

Seyed Hamid Mohammadi, Sharifah Norazizan and Hedayat Allah Nikkhah

Immigration, socio-economic conditions and crime: a cross-sectional versus cross-sectional time-series perspective pp. 1779-1805

Luigi M. Solivetti

The quantitative and qualitative evolution of the social security research pp. 1807-1816

Mario Ruiz Estrada and Evangelos Koutronas

The U-shaped relationship between happiness and age: evidence using world values survey data pp. 1817-1829

Edsel L. Beja

Multicollinearity in regression: an efficiency comparison between Lp-norm and least squares estimators pp. 1831-1859

Massimiliano Giacalone, Demetrio Panarello and Raffaele Mattera

Impact of women empowerment on rural development in Southern Punjab, Pakistan pp. 1861-1872

Irfan Ahmad Baig, Zarmina Batool, Asghar Ali, Sajjad Ahmad Baig, Muhammad Hashim and Muhammad Zia-ur-Rehman

Does economic performance affect officials’ turnover? Evidence from municipal government leaders in China pp. 1873-1891

Yaobo Shi, Chun-Ping Chang, Chyi-Lu Jang and Yu Hao

Saturation in qualitative research: exploring its conceptualization and operationalization pp. 1893-1907

Benjamin Saunders, Julius Sim, Tom Kingstone, Shula Baker, Jackie Waterfield, Bernadette Bartlam, Heather Burroughs and Clare Jinks

Border is better than distance? Contagious corruption in one belt one road economies pp. 1909-1928

Gen-Fu Feng, Bo Sui, Min-Yi Dong, Chun-xia Jiang and Chun-Ping Chang

A mathematical approach to study and forecast racial groups interactions: deterministic modeling and scenario method pp. 1929-1956

Goran Dominioni, Addolorata Marasco and Alessandro Romano

Confounding and collinearity in regression analysis: a cautionary tale and an alternative procedure, illustrated by studies of British voting behaviour pp. 1957-1976

Ron Johnston, Kelvyn Jones and David Manley

Assessing information integration processes: a comparison of findings obtained with between-subjects designs versus within-subjects designs pp. 1977-1988

Etienne Mullet and Gérard Chasseigne

Volume 52, issue 3, 2018

Religious pluralism and religious participation: a median-based approach to the non-substantive problem pp. 969-982

Anning Hu

Item analysis of university-wide multiple choice objective examinations: the experience of a Nigerian private university pp. 983-997

Jonathan A. Odukoya, Olajide Adekeye, Angie O. Igbinoba and A. Afolabi

Comparing hazard models for the growth failure of children in Iran pp. 999-1013

Mohammad Salehi Veisi, Sadegh Rezaei and Saralees Nadarajah

Globalization and the welfare state pp. 1015-1040

Gülsün Gürkan Yay and Tolga Aksoy

Mapping global sustainability report scoring: a detailed analysis of Europe and Asia pp. 1041-1055

Mario González, María del Mar Alonso-Almeida and David Dominguez

YouTubers’ networking activities during the 2016 South Korea earthquake pp. 1057-1068

Han Woo Park

A multiplicative process for generating the rank-order distribution of UK election results pp. 1069-1079

Trevor Fenner, Mark Levene and George Loizou

Validation of a social cohesion theoretical framework: a multiple group SEM strategy pp. 1081-1102

Gianmaria Bottoni

Erratum to: Validation of a social cohesion theoretical framework: a multiple group SEM strategy pp. 1103-1103

Gianmaria Bottoni

Renewable and non-renewable energy consumption, environmental degradation and economic growth in Tunisia pp. 1105-1119

Mounir Ben Mbarek, Kais Saidi and Mohammad Mafizur Rahman

What do respondents mean when they report to be “citizens of the world”? Using probing questions to elucidate international differences in cosmopolitanism pp. 1121-1135

Michael Braun, Dorothée Behr and Juan Díez Medrano

Evaluating corruption under the application of the SOCIO-economic development desgrowth index (Ð-index): the case of Guatemala pp. 1137-1157

Mario Ruiz Estrada, Marcin Staniewski and Ibrahim Ndoma

The resource curse and income inequality in Iran pp. 1159-1172

Younes Nademi

The use of network analysis to handle semantic differential data pp. 1173-1192

Giuseppe Giordano and Ilaria Primerano

Asymmetric causality between military expenditures and economic growth in top six defense spenders pp. 1193-1207

Abdulnasser Hatemi-J, Tsangyao Chang, Wen-Yi Chen, Feng-Li Lin and Rangan Gupta

Research design: the methodology for interdisciplinary research framework pp. 1209-1225

Hilde Tobi and Jarl K. Kampen

Comparison of four common data collection techniques to elicit preferences pp. 1227-1239

Pasquale Anselmi, Luigi Fabbris, Maria Cristiana Martini and Egidio Robusto

Measuring populist discourse with semantic text analysis: an application on grassroots populist mobilization pp. 1241-1263

Paris Aslanidis

The impacts of gender inequality in education on economic growth in Tunisia: an empirical analysis pp. 1265-1273

Khayria Karoui and Rochdi Feki

Changes in women’s and men’s child care time in China, 2004–2011: the contributions of cohort replacement and intra-cohort change pp. 1275-1289

Sibo Zhao

Evaluating complementary currencies: from the assessment of multiple social qualities to the discovery of a unique monetary sociality pp. 1291-1314

Luigi Doria and Luca Fantacci

The scientific study of the qualities of individual human lives, rather than of their average quantities in aggregations of lives pp. 1315-1329

Merton S. Krause

Measuring systemic diversity of Chinese universities: a clustering-method approach pp. 1331-1347

Chuanyi Wang and Qiang Zha

Militarism and globalization: Is there an empirical link? pp. 1349-1369

Manuchehr Irandoust

Is Spain benefiting from the Arab Spring? On the impact of terrorism on a tourist competitor country pp. 1371-1408

Julio A. Afonso-Rodríguez and María Santana-Gallego

What determines the financial performance of microfinance institutions in Bangladesh? a panel data analysis pp. 1409-1422

Shamima Nasrin, Rajah Rasiah, Angathevar Baskaran and Muhammad Mehedi Masud

Does the iodized salt therapy of pregnant mothers increase the children IQ? Empirical evidence of a statistical study based on permutation tests pp. 1423-1435

Massimiliano Giacalone, Agata Zirilli, Mariacarla Moleti and Angela Alibrandi

Community based qualitative health research: negotiating ethics in India pp. 1437-1446

Avanish Kumar and Meerambika Mahapatro

Volume 52, issue 2, 2018

Beyond data, innovation, social network, and convergence pp. 515-518

Chung Joo Chung and Han Woo Park

Unveiling cultures in emergency response communication networks on social media: following the 2016 Louisiana floods pp. 519-535

Jungwon Yeo, Claire Connolly Knox and Kyujin Jung

Social media, trust, and disaster: Does trust in public and nonprofit organizations explain social media use during a disaster? pp. 537-550

Brian D. Williams, Jesus N. Valero and Kyungwoo Kim

Does having a strong commitment matter in building sustainable networks? pp. 551-564

Minsun Song

International trade of GMO-related agricultural products pp. 565-587

Vargas Meza Xanat, Ke Jiang, George A. Barnett and Han Woo Park

Is the gap widening among universities? On research output inequality and its measurement in the Korean higher education system pp. 589-606

Joonha Jeon and So Young Kim

Knowledge flow in China’s humanities and social sciences pp. 607-626

Meijun Liu, Xiao Hu and Jiang Li

State of the art in business analytics: themes and collaborations pp. 627-633

Seyed Mohammad Jafar Jalali and Han Woo Park

Dynamics of social economy self-organized on social media: following social entrepreneur forum and social economy network on Facebook pp. 635-651

Eun Sun Lee and Kyujin Jung

Identification of future signal based on the quantitative and qualitative text mining: a case study on ethical issues in artificial intelligence pp. 653-667

Young-Joo Lee and Ji-Young Park

An evaluation of the performance and suitability of R × C methods for ecological inference with known true values pp. 669-683

Carolina Plescia and Lorenzo De Sio

Causal conditions for loneliness: a set-theoretic analysis on an adult sample in the UK pp. 685-701

Keming Yang

Walkability and the built environment: validation of the Neighborhood Environment Walkability Scale (NEWS) for urban areas in Mexico pp. 703-718

Oscar A. Martínez-Martínez and Araceli Ramírez-López

Life experiences of sexual minorities in Iran: limitations, adaptations and challenges pp. 719-737

Naima Mohammadi

Impact of new media use on user’s personality traits pp. 739-758

Ke Xue, ChangZheng Yang and MingYang Yu

Measuring country image in terrorism reports: evidence from Pakistan pp. 759-770

Talib Hussain and Benqian Li

Let the data speak: semiparametric evidence on the environmental Kuznets curve in Africa pp. 771-782

Ekpeno Effiong and Alex O. Iriabije

The hierarchical age–period–cohort model: Why does it find the results that it finds? pp. 783-799

Andrew Bell and Kelvyn Jones

Corroborating social media echelon in cancer research pp. 801-813

Arif Mehmood, Byung-Won On, Ingyu Lee, Han Woo Park and Gyu Sang Choi

Preparing for analysis: a practical guide for a critical step for procedural rigor in large-scale multisite qualitative research studies pp. 815-828

Yang Yang, Jennifer Pankow, Holly Swan, Jennifer Willett, Shannon Gwin Mitchell, Danielle S. Rudes and Kevin Knight

The adequacy of measures of gender roles attitudes: a review of current measures in omnibus surveys pp. 829-848

Jessica Gabriele Walter

A microeconometric analysis of housing and life satisfaction among the Vietnamese elderly pp. 849-867

Tuyen Tran and Huong Vu

Environmental recidivism in Sweden: distributional shape and effects of sanctions on duration of compliance pp. 869-882

Gebrenegus Ghilagaber

How does terrorism measurement matter of state-level of a country? Evidence from Islamic countries pp. 883-898

Alam Khan

Comparing survey data with an official administrative population: assessing sample-selectivity in the IAB Establishment Panel pp. 899-920

Mario Bossler, Gregor Geis and Jens Stegmaier

The impact of creative activities integrated into curriculum for tolerance education and teachers’ reflections pp. 913-927

Mutlu Soykurt and Hüseyin Uzunboylu

Do institutions affect the matching process of disabled people? The Italian case pp. 921-943

Massimiliano Agovino, Antonio Garofalo and Katia Marchesano

Determination of teachers’ perspectives and level of readiness towards MOOCs for tolerance education pp. 929-943

Ahmet Arnavut and Hüseyin Bicen

The pioneer evidence of contagious corruption pp. 945-968

Bo Sui, Gen-Fu Feng and Chun-Ping Chang

Perceptions of instructors and administrators of English language on their professional development needs pp. 945-959

Farhad Muhammad Rajab and Fatoş Silman

Tolerance, equality and access in all levels of education quality management pp. 961-967

Gulsun Basari and Zehra Altinay

The use of mobile learning for visually impaired learners school in tolerance education contents pp. 969-982

Umu Akcil

Examining the role of leadership, trust for school culture and policy pp. 983-1006

Figen Yaman Lesinger, Fahriye Altinay, Zehra Altinay and Gökmen Dagli

The historical background of tolerance education for blind learners in Cyprus pp. 1007-1025

Ali Efdal Ozkul, Mete Ozsezer and Huseyin Tufan

Determining the requirements of families of children with special needs pp. 1027-1042

Mukaddes Demirok, Gönül Akçamete and Soner Öyken

An evaluation of class-teachers’ roles in transferring values pp. 1043-1058

Mehmet Ali Özdilekler, Fahriye Altınay, Zehra Altınay and Gökmen Dağlı

An evaluation of educational and administrative decision making process in tolerance school context for job motivation pp. 1059-1076

Ergen Gürbüzer, Fahriye Altınay, Zehra Altınay and Gökmen Dağlı

Technology-assisted tolerance education at elementary schools within the framework of inspector qualifications pp. 1077-1091

Osman Vaiz and Ahmet Guneyli

An evaluation of positive psychological state of educational administrators in a tolerance context pp. 1093-1104

Behcet Öznacar, Şebnem Güldal Kan and Şeniz Şensoy

Building communities and tolerance: power, ownership and social interactions among young people in an English-medium school in Cyprus pp. 1105-1120

Ülviye Soysev, Çise Çavuşoğlu and Mustafa Kurt

Having a share in creating a peaceful world: teaching students to become tolerant pp. 1121-1135

Fatma Özüorçun and Mustafa Kurt

The relationship between 5 year-old children’s social value acquisition and parenting styles pp. 1137-1149

Ezgi Ulu and Gizem Erdentuğ

“I don’t think Turkish used here is normal”: language attitudes of Turkish university students towards Cypriot Turkish pp. 1151-1166

Çise Çavuşoğlu and Dimitris Evripidou

The role of English as a foreign language classes in tolerance education in relation to school management practices pp. 1167-1177

Nurdan Atamturk

The role of communication in tolerance education pp. 1179-1186

Meltem Dursun-Bilgin, Mustafa Ufuk Çelik and E. Sinem Kasımoğlu

Career satisfaction and professional commitment of special education teachers pp. 1187-1199

Mukaddes Sakalli Demirok

The problems disabled people face in mobile and web based e-learning phases in a developing country pp. 1201-1210

Umut Akcil and Çimen Ünlücan

The risk factors for the mentally disabled in the use of social media pp. 1211-1218

Dönay Nisa Kara and Yağmur Çerkez

Perceptions of educational managers on reflective thinking, strategic thinking and entrepreneurship pp. 1219-1233

Elcin Altan

An investigation of universal values and disability awareness in course books pp. 1235-1243

Nedime Karasel, Fahriye Altınay, Gokmen Dagli and Zehra Altınay

Developments and assessments on barrier-free it in Turkey pp. 1245-1252

Mustafa Özhan Kalaç and Gonca Telli Yamamoto

A novel method as a diagnostic tool for the detection of influential observations in the Cox proportional hazards model pp. 1253-1266

Nuriye Sancar and Deniz Inan

Development of education rights for disabled children in Northern Cyprus and evaluation of grants for their families pp. 1267-1274

Fahriye Altınay, Menil Celebi, Mehmet Altınay and Gokmen Dagli

Evaluation of administrative and supervisory performance of the directors of Special Education Institutions according to the teachers pp. 1275-1286

Fahriye Altinay, Zehra Altinay, Gokmen Dagli and Merve Cifci

‘‘Peace’’ perceptions of Special Education Students in North Cyprus: a metaphorical approach pp. 1287-1296

Seyit Özkutlu

Evaluation based on inspector and academician opinions of the needs of preservice teachers in cultural adaptation process pp. 1297-1304

Seçil Besim

The relationship between burn-out and psychological resiliency levels of special education teachers in a developing economy pp. 1305-1317

Cahit Nuri and Murat Tezer

Performance evaluation of special education in China based on Data Envelopment Analysis pp. 1319-1327

Chich-Jen Shieh, Jyh-Rong Chou and Zehra Nur Ersozlu

Mobile device based smart medication reminder for older people with disabilities pp. 1329-1342

Hassan B. M. Mohammed, Dogan Ibrahim and Nadire Cavus

Development of a voice recognition based system to help physically disabled people use the facebook pp. 1343-1352

Salem Mohamad Ali Enajeh, Nadire Cavus and Dogan Ibrahim

Effect of mobile teaching on students who need special education pp. 1353-1363

Tolgay Karanfiller, Kamil Yurtkan, Omaç Ruştioğlu and Hüseyin Göksu

Physical education and sports education candidate students awareness and knowledge status about physical education lessons designed for physically disabled individuals pp. 1365-1370

Behcet Öznacar and Deniz Erdağ

Reflections of associations and foundations’ applications in new media to increase the quality in disabled people’s lives pp. 1371-1389

Umut Ayman, Anıl Kemal Kaya and Sertan Kağan

Experiences of a dyslexic child in an English as a foreign language class pp. 1391-1398

Celen Dimililer and Esra Istek

Effects of multimedia teaching integrated social story on autistic children’s social interaction pp. 1399-1408

Kuan-Hung Chen

The representation of the people with disabilities in the internet publishing: North Cyprus example pp. 1409-1419

Çağdaş Öğüç and Fevzi Kasap

Historical development of the school for deaf children which was opened in Cyprus under the British Administration pp. 1421-1435

Mete Ozsezer, Huseyin Tufan and Ali Efdal Ozkul

Syrian refugee women’s profile and their expectations in their host country: a case study in Turkey pp. 1437-1443

İsmail Hakkı Mirici

Women leadership and its effect on teachers’ emotional labor in Turkish high schools pp. 1445-1454

Mehmet Şahin

Vengeance scale: reliability and validity study with gender differences pp. 1455-1469

Gizem Öneri Uzun

Volume 52, issue 1, 2018

Partial least squares path modeling: Quo vadis? pp. 1-8

Jörg Henseler

The life satisfaction of teachers at work place, research of structural equation modelling regarding general and organized cynicism pp. 1-10

Ahmet Satilmis, Behcet Oznacar, Huseyin Uzunboylu and Ercan Yılmaz

Partial least squares path modeling using ordinal categorical indicators pp. 9-35

Florian Schuberth, Jörg Henseler and Theo K. Dijkstra

Paternalist leadership style of the organizational trust pp. 11-30

Nedime Karasel, Zehra Altınay, Fahriye Altınay and Gokmen Dagli

Being leader in global citizenship at the information technology age pp. 31-42

Fahriye Altınay, Mehmet Altınay, Gokmen Dagli and Zehra Altınay

What matters most: importance-performance matrix analysis of the factors influencing international postgraduate students’ psychological and sociocultural adaptations pp. 37-56

Azadeh Shafaei and Nordin Abd Razak

Strategy for lifelong learning in vocational schools of tourism education pp. 43-58

Nesrin Menemenci Bahçelerli

Assessing statistical differences between parameters estimates in Partial Least Squares path modeling pp. 57-69

Macario Rodríguez-Entrena, Florian Schuberth and Carsten Gelhard

An evaluation of higher education sector to the economy pp. 59-65

Hüseyin Baykan, Fahriye Altınay, Şerife Zihni Eyüboğlu and Zehra Altınay

Consciousness levels of Libyan higher education students on ecological footprint and sustainable life pp. 67-78

Şerife Gündüz and Elbashir Ali Abdusalam Alsagher

Question order effects in partial least squares path modelling: an empirical investigation pp. 71-84

Jan Hendrik Schreier, Niels Biethahn and Frank Drewes

A practice of e-learning platform in fostering professional development pp. 79-92

Zenal Sözgün, Zehra Altinay, Muhammet Berigel, Hasal Karal and Fahriye Altinay

Spatially varying associations between creative worker concentrations and social diversity in Shenzhen, China pp. 85-99

Hongbo Li, Yali Liu and Anlu Zhang

Evaluation of preschool teacher candidates’ attitudes towards history teaching pp. 93-104

Ali Efdal Ozkul, Faika Gülcan Ülvay, Necla Göktan and Ezgi Ulu

Evaluation of the quality and quantity of research results in higher education pp. 101-118

Amelia Bucur, Claudiu Vasile Kifor and Silvia Mărginean

An investigation of high school students’ social capital development within organizational climate pp. 105-113

Bircan Ergün, Huseyin Uzunboylu and Zehra Altinay

Evaluation of the organizational personalities of the tourism schools in Cyprus: a comparative case study pp. 115-128

Hale Özgit and Fatoş Silman

The implementation of the Strategy Europe 2020 objectives in European Union countries: the concept analysis and statistical evaluation pp. 119-133

Małgorzata Stec and Mariola Grzebyk

The effects of the gamified flipped classroom environment (GFCE) on students’ motivation, learning achievements and perception in a physics course pp. 129-145

Gülsüm Aşıksoy

The effects of employment promotion measures on labour market participation of disabled people: the case of Italy pp. 135-155

Massimiliano Agovino, Antonio Garofalo and Katia Marchesano

A comparative cultural study of mathematics education at Northern Cyprus and Turkmenistan secondary schools pp. 147-164

Eser Gemikonaklı, Hatyja Kakajanova, Gokmen Dagli, Mehmet Altinay and Ramesh C. Sharma

The exclusion of young Arab women from work, education and training in Israel pp. 157-173

Nasreen Hadad Haj-Yahya, Izhak Schnell and Nabil Khattab

Food safety knowledge, behavior and attitude of Libyan consumers pp. 165-179

Şerife Gündüz, Amna Hakem and Mirati Erdoğuş

Response quality and ideological dispositions: an integrative approach using geometric and classifying techniques pp. 175-194

Alice Barth and Andreas Schmitz

Attitudes of primary school teachers toward multicultural education pp. 181-194

Ayten Aktoprak, Pervin Yiğit and Ahmet Güneyli

Turkish newspapers’ peace journalism exam: Gezi Park protests pp. 195-207

Engin Aluç and Metin Ersoy

Quantitative analysis of effect of Pilates exercises on psychological variables and academic achievement using fuzzy logic pp. 195-204

Konul Memmedova

The primary schools (sibyans) in Ottoman Cyprus during the Tanzimat reform era (1839–1878) pp. 205-214

Hasan Samani

Is population beneficial to economic growth? An empirical study of China pp. 209-225

Fumitaka Furuoka

Teacher opinions regarding the perception management levels of school administrators pp. 215-221

Ali Aktepebasi, Zehra Altınay and Gokmen Dagli

Ethical issues in counseling: a trend analysis pp. 223-233

Yağmur Çerkez, Gloria Manyeruke, Omotoyosi Oduwaye and Stella Shimave

The application of a topological clustering technique to capture forms and dynamics of deprivation in contemporary Switzerland pp. 227-248

Mario Lucchini, Christine Butti, Sara Della Bella and Angela Lisi

Analysis of children’s interest in books and their reading levels depending on the education status of family pp. 235-245

Burak Gökbulut and Mustafa Yeniasır

Quality in reflective thinking: elicitation and classification of reflective acts pp. 247-259

Mustafa Kurt

Empirical analysis of structural properties, macroscopic and microscopic evolution of various Facebook activity networks pp. 249-275

Ehsan Khadangi, Alireza Bagheri and Ali Zarean

Ensuring quality physical education (PE) instruction: the role of department heads pp. 261-269

Hakan Atamturk

Modernization, nationalization, globalization: Turkish higher education and academics with a perspective on the problem of identity pp. 271-283

Belkıs Ayhan Tarhan, Meltem Onurkan Samani and Hasan Samani

Filling the gap between bureaucratic and adaptive approaches to crisis management: lessons from the Sewol Ferry sinking in South Korea pp. 277-294

Kyujin Jung, Minsun Song and Han Woo Park

The attitudes of education, tourism and health sector managers in Northern Cyprus towards Education on Health Tourism pp. 285-303

Ahmet Savaşan, Mesut Yalvaç, Hüseyin Uzunboylu and Ediz Tuncel

A proposal for the analysis of the relational dimension in the interview techniques: a pilot study on in-depth interviews and focus groups pp. 295-312

Silvia Cataldi

Internet-based English Language Media (IBELM) as a means of Europeanization of discourses on minorities: Prague Post and representation of Roma during the post-communist transition period pp. 305-319

Umut Koldas

An overview of structural equation modeling: its beginnings, historical development, usefulness and controversies in the social sciences pp. 313-354

Piotr Tarka

Analysing the self-esteem level of adolescents with divorced parents pp. 321-342

Askin Kiraz and Muge Asikli Ersoy

Impact of collaborative and reflective writing activities on students’ autonomy in writing pp. 343-360

Nadıran Tanyeli Zeki and Sıtkıye Kuter

Patriarchy as a contextual and gendered pathway to crime: a qualitative study of Iranian women offenders pp. 355-370

Aliasghar Maghsoudi, Nahid Rahimipour Anaraki and Dariush Boostani

The present and the future of journalism education pp. 361-366

Eren Ekin Ercan

Evaluating perspectives of novice primary school teachers concerning experienced peer mentoring and administrative support pp. 367-388

Yagis Altayli and Gokmen Dagli

Tax evasion and religiosity in the Muslim world: the significance of Shariah regulation pp. 371-394

Mohammad Nurunnabi

Analysis of overseas students’ level of test anxiety according to their demographic characteristics pp. 389-396

Esen Sucuoğlu

Coming together in a rightward direction: post-1980s changing attitudes to the British welfare state pp. 395-413

Christopher Deeming and Ron Johnston

Examining the effect size of the psychoeducation in a Turkish sample: a meta analysis study pp. 397-411

Mehmet Beyazsaclı, Eser Gemikonaklı, Mehmet Altinay and Gokmen Dagli

Priorities of the citizens in city brand development: comparison of two cities (Nicosia and Kyrenia) by using analytic hierarchy process (AHP) approach pp. 413-437

Emete Toros and Yavuz Gazibey

Distribution of the benefits from public health expenditures in Ghana pp. 415-430

Micheal Kofi Boachie and K. Ramu

Influence of labor transfer on farmland sustainable development: a regional comparison of plain and hilly areas pp. 431-443

Lu Zhang, Shukui Tan, Chengwu Liu and Siliang Wang

Analysis of candidate teachers’ opinions of history course books printed after 2009 pp. 439-450

Ali Efdal Ozkul, Huseyin Tufan and Mete Ozsezer

On the urbanization-pollution nexus in Africa: a semiparametric analysis pp. 445-456

Ekpeno Effiong

Administrative methods of ensuring teachers’ motivation: the case of north Cyprus pp. 451-461

Osman Emiroglu and Hakan Atamturk

Firm performance: taxonomy of European companies using self-organizing maps pp. 457-477

Egidio Riva and Mario Lucchini

Expectations of students at psychological counselling and rehabilitation department of Near East University from psychological counselling and rehabilitation centers pp. 463-481

Pembe Can

Life satisfaction and unemployment in Turkey: evidence from Life Satisfaction Surveys 2004–2013 pp. 479-499

Z. Bilgen Susanlı

Preservice teachers’ identity construction: emergence of expected and feared teacher-selves pp. 483-500

Ayşegül Sallı and Ülker Vancı Osam

Effects of the technology use on anxiety and aggression levels of youth conducting their higher education studies abroad pp. 501-507

Konul Memmedova and E. L. Selahattin

How energy consumption affects economic development in select African countries pp. 501-513

Saida Zaidi, Samia Gmiden and Kais Saidi

The importance of strategic planning and humanpower in school development pp. 509-520

Betul Yıkıcı and Fahriye Altınay

An evaluation of music education in Northern Cyprus based on teacher opinions and documents pp. 521-532

Emine Kıvanç Öztuğ and Burcu Karagöz

Television as an educational vehicle in Turkey: presentation of violence in news bulletins pp. 533-556

Fevzi Kasap, Ayhan Dolunay and Mustafa Kavaz

Social exclusion of life in the written media of the disabilities: the importance of media literacy and education pp. 557-571

Fevzi Kasap and Pınar Gürçınar

The effectiveness of a new classification system in higher education as a new e-learning tool pp. 573-582

Yoney Kirsal Ever and Kamil Dimililer

Enhancing disability awareness and empathy through children’s literature about characters with disabilities: a cognitive stylistic analysis of Rodman Philbrick’s Freak The Mighty pp. 583-597

Behbood Mohammadzadeh, Hatice Kayhan and Çelen Dimililer

Parental construction of school quality when making school choice pp. 599-607

Nurdan Atamturk

The first studies in family guidance in early childhood: the books of Dr. Hafız Cemal pp. 609-623

Azize Ummanel, F. Sülen Şahin Kıralp and Pervin Yiğit

Role of awareness in controlling HIV/AIDS: a mathematical model pp. 625-637

Bilgen Kaymakamzade, Tamer Şanlıdağ, Evren Hınçal, Murat Sayan, Farouk Tijjani Sa’ad and Isa Abdullahi Baba

Online authentic learning self-efficacy: a scale development pp. 639-649

Murat Tezer, Ezgi Pelin Yildiz and Hüseyin Uzunboylu

Use of Intelligent Student Mood Classification System (ISMCS) to achieve high quality in education pp. 651-662

Kamil Dimililer

Freedom of the press in the digital age within the frameworks of ethics, law and democracy education: example of the North Cyprus pp. 663-683

Ayhan Dolunay and Fevzi Kasap

Impact of mobile-assisted learning activities on the life-long learning qualifications of teacher candidates pp. 685-694

Emrah Soykan and Nazım Kaşot

Two-strain epidemic model with two vaccinations and two time delayed pp. 695-709

Bilgen Kaymakamzade and Evren Hincal

Dynamics of HIV/AIDS in Turkey from 1985 to 2016 pp. 711-723

Murat Sayan, Evren Hınçal, Tamer Şanlıdağ, Bilgen Kaymakamzade, Farouk Tijjani Sa’ad and Isa Abdullahi Baba

Branding and internationalization of higher education in an unrecognized state through sports: the Women Basketball Team of Near East University in Northern Cyprus pp. 725-735

Umut Koldas, Murat Tuzunkan, Erhan Ayaz and Mustafa Cirakli

The effect of exam frequency on academic success of undergraduate music students and comparison of students performance anxiety levels pp. 737-752

Erkan Sulun, Ertem Nalbantoglu and Emine Kivanc Oztug

From healthy education to a healthy population: testing the impact of the innovative school health program on health of primary school students in Azerbaijan pp. 753-776

Afet Suleymanova and Elnara Bashirova

Social capital: a qualitative investigation of principal views pp. 777-790

Alpay Ersozlu, Helen Wildy and Mert Bastas

Opinions of classroom teachers on reading comprehension difficulties, inclusion education and co-teaching pp. 791-806

Gönül Akçamete and Özlem Dağli Gökbulut

Evaluation of health practices in the primary education in Cyprus in history pp. 807-819

Hasan Topal, Ali Efdal Ozkul and Gökmen Dagli

The roles and competencies of instructors of teaching Turkish as a foreign language pp. 821-834

Funda Gezer Faslı

The role of media on environment to increase awareness in higher education students and media members pp. 835-850

Şeniz Şensoy and Abdusselam Tanisman

Economic status, self-efficacy and academic achievement: the case study of undergraduate students pp. 851-861

Esen Sucuoğlu

Assessing the quality of architecture schools pp. 863-888

Sevinc Kurt

A theoretical prescription for Turkey higher education publicity: an umbrella model pp. 889-900

Mustafa Sagsan, Serkan Subasi and Nermin Gürhan

Assessment of crisis management skills of secondary school administrators pp. 901-912

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