@article {792,
	title = {ALBANIAN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS{\textquoteright} ETHNIC DISTANCE AND STEREOTYPES COMPARED WITH OTHER BALKAN NATIONS},
	journal = {Problems of Education in the 21st Century},
	volume = {48},
	year = {2012},
	month = {November/2012},
	type = {Original article},
	chapter = {127-134},
	abstract = {The purpose of this study is to identify the Albanian university students{\textquoteright} ethnic distance and the negative ethnic stereotypes compared with other ethnic groups in the Balkans. In addition, the study aims at determining the relationship between the ethnic distance and negative ethnic stereotypes. The sample of this study consists of 600 students selected at random in seven Albanian public universities. The instruments used in this study are a seven item ethnic distance scale for measuring the ethnic distance and a ten item scale for measuring ethnic stereotypes. The ethnic distance scale reliability coefficient is 0.76. The reliability coefficient for the ethnic stereotypes scale varies from 0.84 to 0.90. The descriptive statistics (mean - comparison) is used to describe the level of ethnic distance and ethnic stereotypes...Pearson Product-moment Correlations are used to identify the intensity and orientation of the relation between the ethnic distance and stereotyped attitudes. The study findings indicate that Albanian university students manifest high levels of ethnic stereotypes and ethnic distance compared with other Balkan ethnic groups, especially Serbs and Greeks. In line with the other research, the findings of the present study indicate that there is a positive relationship between the ethnic distance and negative ethnic stereotypes.},
	keywords = {Balkan ethnic groups, ethnic distance, ethnic stereotypes},
	issn = {1822-7864},
	doi = {https://doi.org/10.33225/pec/12.48.127},
	url = {http://oaji.net/articles/2014/457-1415392684.pdf},
	author = {Edmond   Rapti and Theodhori   Karaj}
}
@article {747,
	title = {THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN JOB SATISFACTION, DEMOGRAPHIC AND SCHOOL CHARACTERISTICS AMONG BASIC EDUCATION TEACHERS IN ALBANIA},
	journal = {Problems of Education in the 21st Century},
	volume = {45},
	year = {2012},
	month = {July/2012},
	type = {Original article},
	chapter = {73-80},
	abstract = {The purpose of this descriptive-correlation study was to describe the overall level of job satisfaction, also relationships among job satisfaction, demographic characteristics and school characteristics for teachers in the basic education system in Albania. For this purpose a survey was conducted for 1000 basic education teachers randomly selected in 40 schools representing different regions in Albania. The questionnaire was composed of items which measured demographic and school characteristics. Job Satisfaction Index (Bayfield and Roth{\textquoteright}s, 1951) was used to measure the overall job satisfaction. The reliability coefficient of this scale was 0.85. The research data was analyzed by Correlation and descriptive analysis, Kruskall {\textendash} Wallis Test and Mann-Whitney Test.
 The findings indicated that the basic education teachers in Albania were moderately satisfied with their job and some of the demographic and school characteristics (age, tenure, teacher level of education and school size) were negligibly related to overall teacher{\textquoteright}s job satisfaction.},
	keywords = {demographic characteristics, school characteristics, teacher job satisfaction},
	issn = {1822-7864},
	doi = {https://doi.org/10.33225/pec/12.45.73},
	url = {http://oaji.net/articles/2014/457-1413727555.pdf},
	author = {Edmond   Rapti and Theodhori   Karaj}
}
