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Predicting reading comprehension difficulties in the context of an extended simple view of reading model Apostolos Kargiotidis, Eufimia Tafa, Angeliki Mouzaki, George Manolitsis Reading and Writing, 2026 The present longitudinal study examined the role of a broader repertoire of oral language skills in predicting reading comprehension difficulties within an extended Simple View of Reading model. Ninety-one Greek children were assessed on listening comprehension, morphological awareness, vocabulary, reading accuracy, and reading fluency in Grade 2. Next, they were assessed on a standardized reading comprehension measure at the beginning and at the end of Grade 3. Based on their performance, they were classified into a group with reading comprehension difficulties ( N = 39) and a typically developing group ( N = 52). Hierarchical binary logistic regressions revealed that listening comprehension, reading fluency, and morphological awareness significantly predicted reading comprehension difficulties, whereas vocabulary lost its predictive strength when morphological awareness entered into the equation. These findings underline the substantial role of morphological awareness in predicting reading comprehension difficulties, supporting an extended Simple View of Reading model. Moreover, they suggest that although vocabulary remains an important factor, its role appears to be rather limited and possibly mediated by morphological awareness. Implications for both the assessment of reading comprehension difficulties and intervention policy are discussed.
Understanding the Role of Reading and Oral Language Skills Growth in Overcoming Reading Comprehension Difficulties Apostolos Kargiotidis, George Manolitsis Behavioral Sciences, 2026 The present longitudinal retrospective study examined in a sample of 123 Greek-speaking children whether the raw score growth in a broad range of oral language and reading skills from Grade 1 to Grade 3 differs among children with persistent reading comprehension difficulties (pRCD; N = 49) identified in Grade 3, those exhibiting a resolving tendency of RCD (rRCD; N = 16), and typically developing (TD; N = 58) children. Children were classified into the respective groups, based on their performance on standardized reading comprehension measures in Grades 1, 2, and 3. They were, also, assessed on phonological awareness, rapid automatized naming (RAN), morphological awareness, vocabulary, word reading accuracy, word reading fluency, and text-reading fluency across the three Grades. Mixed ANOVAs showed that children with pRCD displayed slower growth in morphological awareness, word reading fluency, and text-reading fluency than the other two groups. Children with rRCD did not differ from TD children on these measures, but they exhibited a higher growth on RAN. Both groups of children with RCD outperformed TD children on the growth of phonological awareness and word reading accuracy, whereas no group differences revealed in vocabulary. Our results suggest that more rapid gains in morphological awareness, RAN, word reading fluency, and text-reading fluency over time might be associated with a resolving tendency of reading comprehension difficulties, providing valuable insights for intervention policy.
Examining the role of home literacy environment in the growth of morphological awareness from kindergarten to Grade 2 Ioannis Grigorakis, George Manolitsis, Tomohiro Inoue, George K. Georgiou Journal of Research in Reading, 2025 BackgroundEarly morphological awareness skills are well‐known predictors of later literacy skills, but little is known on how young children develop this early morphological knowledge without formal instruction. Home literacy environment is considered as a supporting context for several early literacy skills' growth, but no studies have examined effects on early morphological awareness growth. The purpose of this study was to examine the direct and indirect effects of different aspects of the home literacy environment (HLE; code‐related HLE, meaning‐related HLE and access to literacy resources) in the growth of morphological awareness (MA) skills.MethodsOne hundred and sixty Greek children (79 girls and 81 boys; Mage = 67.22 months) were assessed in kindergarten on letter knowledge, phonological awareness and vocabulary. Their MA skills (Word Analogy and Compounding) were also assessed in kindergarten, Grade 1 and Grade 2. Their parents filled out an HLE questionnaire when their children were in kindergarten.ResultsResults of structural equation modelling showed that code‐related HLE had both a direct effect on the intercept of Word Analogy and an indirect effect on the growth of Word Analogy and the intercept of Compounding through letter knowledge. In turn, access to literacy resources predicted the intercept of Word Analogy and Compounding indirectly through the effects of vocabulary.ConclusionsTaken together, the present findings suggest that HLE is important in the early stages of MA development, but its effects are mostly mediated by the emergent literacy skills.
THE IMPACT OF MARITAL SATISFACTION, CHILDREN’S DISABILITY, AND FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS ON FATHER INVOLVEMENT Kypriotaki, Maria, Charitaki, Garyfalia, Marinakis, Georgios, Markodimitraki, Maria, Kalesiou, Maria, et al. Hellenic Journal of Psychology, 2025 Father involvement is embodied in the diverse ways through which the father engages with the child and can be considered a major challenge. Amongst the factors linked to father’s involvement, marital satisfaction and family characteristics are of primary importance. This study aimed to reveal potential differences between mothers and fathers with and without a child with disabilities regarding their subjective views towards father involvement. Moreover, to identify potential predictors of father involvement. A total number of 146 parents (fathers: n = 67 and mothers: n = 79) participated in the study. They were administered the Father Involvement Scale (Bragiel Kaniok, 2011) and the Marital Satisfaction Scale (Braun-Galkowska, 2007). Results suggested that family characteristics and marital satisfaction predict subjective views toward father involvement. Results are discussed concerning their implications for future theory, methodology, and counseling.
Exploring the Factor Structure and Measurement Invariance of the Teacher Subjective Wellbeing Questionnaire Across Four European Countries Demos Michael, Anastasia Vatou, Vicky Charalambous, Christos Pezirkianidis, Charalambos Vrasidas, Maria Evangelou-Tsitiridou, George Manolitsis, Angeliki Mouzaki, Maria Kypriotaki, Vasileios Oikonomidis, Filipe Piedade, Ana Lemos, Diana Alves, Catarina Grande, Joana Cadima, Georgeta Chirlesan, Mihaela-Manuela Ciucurel, Duminica Delia, Vasilis Grammatikopoulos Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2025 Teacher well-being is a psychological asset for educators, often associated with job engagement and retention. However, sophisticated measures to comprehensively assess teacher well-being are still under investigation. This study explores the factor structure and cross-country comparability of the Teacher Subjective Wellbeing Questionnaire (TSWQ) among 393 early childhood education teachers from four European countries. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses generally supported the TSWQ’s proposed dimensionality, identifying teaching efficacy and school connectedness as two distinct latent factors, along with indications for the existence of a general, higher-order factor. Additionally, measurement equivalence was established at all levels across the four countries. Discriminant validity analyses highlighted culturally specific nuances in the relationship between teacher well-being and burnout. The findings underscore the TSWQ’s potential to advance theoretical and methodological research on teacher well-being and broaden the instrument’s applicability across diverse educational settings.
Psychometric Properties of Maslach Burnout Inventory - Educators Survey (MBI-ES): A Study with Early Childhood Education Professionals from Greece, Cyprus, Portugal, and Romania Ana Lemos, Filipe Piedade, Tiago Ferreira, Carolina Guedes, Diana Alves, Catarina Grande, Teresa Leal, Joana Cadima, Anastasia Vatou, Maria Evangelou, George Manolitsis, Angeliki Mouzaki, Maria Kypriotaki, Vasileios Oikonomidis, Vasilis Grammatikopoulos, Demos Michael, Vicky Charalambous, Charalambos Vrasidas, Andri Agathokleous, Georgeta Chirlesan, Mihaela-Manuela Ciucurel, Duminica Delia European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 2025 Teachers’ burnout, a psychological syndrome that emerges in response to chronic interpersonal stressors on the job, can have serious consequences on children and staff in schools. The Maslach Burnout Inventory – Educators Survey (MBI-ES) is the most widely used scale to measure burnout among educational staff. However, this scale has revealed divergent results in factorial validity analysis across countries, calling for further cross-cultural research. This study examines the cross-cultural factorial validity of MBI-ES among a sample of 391 early childhood education professionals from four countries – Greece, Cyprus, Portugal, and Romania. Results of multi-group confirmatory factor analysis suggest that a 1-factor solution, exclusively focused on measuring emotional exhaustion, holds partial scalar invariance across countries. In light of previous research on this scale, the conceptualization of burnout, and the specificities of working in early childhood education and care contexts, these findings are discussed.
Cross-Cultural Validation of Teachers Social Self-Efficacy Scale: Insights from Cyprus, Greece, and Portugal Anastasia Vatou, Athanasios Gregoriadis, Maria Evagelou-Tsitiridou, George Manolitsis, Angeliki Mouzaki, Maria Kypriotaki, Vasileios Oikonomidis, Ana Lemos, Filipe Piedade, Diana Alves, Joana Cadima, Demos Michael, Vicky Charalambous, Andri Agathokleous, Charalambos Vrasidas, Vasilis Grammatikopoulos Education Sciences, 2024
Next directions in measurement of the home mathematics environment: An international and interdisciplinary perspective Caroline Byrd Hornburg, Giulia A. Borriello, Melody Kung, Joyce Lin, Ellen Litkowski, Jimena Cosso, Alexa Ellis, Yemimah A. King, Erica Zippert, Natasha J. Cabrera, Pamela Davis-Kean, Sarah H. Eason, Sara A. Hart, Iheoma U. Iruka, Jo-Anne LeFevre, Victoria Simms, María Inés Susperreguy, Abbie Cahoon, Winnie Wai Lan Chan, Sum Kwing Cheung, Marie Coppola, Bert De Smedt, Leanne Elliott, Nancy Estévez-Pérez, Thomas Gallagher-Mitchell, Nicole Gardner-Neblett, Camilla Gilmore, Diana Leyva, Erin A. Maloney, George Manolitsis, Gigliana Melzi, Belde Mutaf-Yıldız, Gena Nelson, Frank Niklas, Yuejuan Pan, Geetha B. Ramani, Sheri-Lynn Skwarchuk, Susan Sonnenschein, David J. Purpura Journal of Numerical Cognition, 2021
The Student Counselling Centre at the University of Crete, Greece Panos Bitsios, Evangelos Karademas, Angeliki Mouzaki, George Manolitsis, Ourania Kapellaki, Anastasia Diacatou, Arianna Archontaki, George Mamalakis, Theodoros Giovazolias Bjpsych International, 2017
Development and standardization of the Greek Scale of Preschool Graphomotor Skills (Greek-SPGS 4–6) K Trouli, M Linardakis, G Manolitsis Early Years, 1-17 , 2026 2026
Understanding the Role of Reading and Oral Language Skills Growth in Overcoming Reading Comprehension Difficulties A Kargiotidis, G Manolitsis Behavioral Sciences 16 (1), 90 , 2026 2026
Cross-lagged relations between word reading accuracy and fluency: evidence from languages varying in orthographic consistency GK Georgiou, T Inoue, PF Jong, G Manolitsis, R Parrila Reading and Writing 38 (10), 3009-3020 , 2025 2025 Citations: 1
Examining the effects of an intervention program on early childhood teachers’ sense of wellbeing and burnout A Vatou, D Michael, G Manolitsis, A Mouzaki, M Evangelou-Tsitiridou, ... Early Years, 1-17 , 2025 2025 Citations: 3
Examining the role of home literacy environment in the growth of morphological awareness from kindergarten to Grade 2 I Grigorakis, G Manolitsis, T Inoue, GK Georgiou Journal of Research in Reading 48 (3), 201-219 , 2025 2025 Citations: 3
THE IMPACT OF MARITAL SATISFACTION, CHILDREN'S DISABILITY, AND FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS ON FATHER INVOLVEMENT M Kypriotaki, G Charitaki, G Marinakis, M Markodimitraki, M Kalesiou, ... Hellenic Journal of Psychology 22 (2), 245-266 , 2025 2025
Family engagement approaches to enhance kindergartener’s early literacy skills through storybook reading: Parents as partners in preschool education E Nikoloudaki, G Manolitsis, V Grammatikopoulos International Journal of Early Childhood, 1-21 , 2025 2025 Citations: 2
Exploring the factor structure and measurement invariance of the teacher subjective wellbeing questionnaire across four european countries D Michael, A Vatou, V Charalambous, C Pezirkianidis, C Vrasidas, ... Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment 43 (4), 417-436 , 2025 2025 Citations: 3
Predicting reading comprehension difficulties in the context of an extended simple view of reading model A Kargiotidis, E Tafa, A Mouzaki, G Manolitsis Reading and Writing, 1-20 , 2025 2025 Citations: 8
Literacy, Parents' Expectations and Children's Literacy Skills in Greek G Manolitsis, G Georgiou, I Grigorakis Home Literacy Environment and Literacy Acquisition: Evidence from Different … , 2025 2025
Home Literacy Environment: The Link Between Parents’ Attitudes Towards Literacy, Parents’ Expectations and Children’s Literacy Skills in Greek G Manolitsis, G Georgiou, I Grigorakis Home Literacy Environment and Literacy Acquisition: Evidence from Different … , 2025 2025
Psychometric Properties of Maslach Burnout Inventory–Educators Survey (MBI-ES) A Lemos, F Piedade, T Ferreira, C Guedes, D Alves, C Grande, T Leal, ... European Journal of Psychological Assessment , 2025 2025 Citations: 2
Cross-Cultural Validation of Teachers Social Self-Efficacy Scale: Insights from Cyprus, Greece, and Portugal A Vatou, A Gregoriadis, M Evagelou-Tsitiridou, G Manolitsis, A Mouzaki, ... Education Sciences 14 (8), 840 , 2024 2024 Citations: 6
Are children with early literacy difficulties at risk for anxiety disorders in late childhood? A. Kargiotidis and G. Manolitsis A Kargiotidis, G Manolitsis Annals of Dyslexia 74 (1), 82-96 , 2024 2024 Citations: 19
Retelling as a means of story structure and story content understanding E Vretudaki, E Tafa, G Manolitsis International Journal of Early Years Education 31 (4), 1056-1070 , 2023 2023 Citations: 8
The impact of home and school environment on early literacy and mathematic skills P Bonifacci, V Tobia, T Inoue, G Manolitsis Frontiers in Psychology 14, 1258391 , 2023 2023 Citations: 11
Modeling the effects of oral language skills on early reading development in an orthographically consistent language A Kargiotidis, A Mouzaki, E Kagiampaki, G Marinakis, AM Vervelaki, ... Scientific Studies of Reading 27 (3), 272-288 , 2023 2023 Citations: 18
Morphological awareness for children with reading and spelling difficulties:: Educational Implications E Pittas, S Tsesmeli, G Manolitsis Morphological process in written language, 409-427 , 2023 2023
Early oral language precursors of different types of reading difficulties in a consistent orthography I Grigorakis, A Kargiotidis, A Mouzaki, G Manolitsis Frontiers in Education 7, 959374 , 2022 2022 Citations: 11
Next directions in measurement of the home mathematics environment: An international and interdisciplinary perspective CB Hornburg, GA Borriello, M Kung, J Lin, E Litkowski, J Cosso, A Ellis, ... Journal of numerical cognition 7 (2), 195 , 2021 2021 Citations: 150
MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS
Examining the effects of home literacy and numeracy environment on early reading and math acquisition G Manolitsis, GK Georgiou, N Tziraki Early Childhood Research Quarterly 28 (4), 692-703 , 2013 2013 Citations: 506
Phonological awareness and rapid automatized naming as longitudinal predictors of reading in five alphabetic orthographies with varying degrees of consistency K Landerl, HH Freudenthaler, M Heene, PF De Jong, A Desrochers, ... Scientific Studies of Reading 23 (3), 220-234 , 2019 2019 Citations: 479
Longitudinal predictors of reading and spelling across languages varying in orthographic consistency GK Georgiou, M Torppa, G Manolitsis, H Lyytinen, R Parrila Reading and Writing 25 (2), 321-346 , 2012 2012 Citations: 329
Modeling the relationships of parents’ expectations, family’s SES, and home literacy environment with emergent literacy skills and word reading in Chinese C Liu, GK Georgiou, G Manolitsis Early Childhood Research Quarterly 43, 1-10 , 2018 2018 Citations: 229
Revisiting the home literacy model of reading development in an orthographically consistent language G Manolitsis, GK Georgiou, R Parrila Learning and Instruction 21 (4), 496-505 , 2011 2011 Citations: 172
Is rapid automatized naming related to reading and mathematics for the same reason (s)? A follow-up study from kindergarten to Grade 1 GK Georgiou, N Tziraki, G Manolitsis, A Fella Journal of experimental child psychology 115 (3), 481-496 , 2013 2013 Citations: 159
Next directions in measurement of the home mathematics environment: An international and interdisciplinary perspective CB Hornburg, GA Borriello, M Kung, J Lin, E Litkowski, J Cosso, A Ellis, ... Journal of numerical cognition 7 (2), 195 , 2021 2021 Citations: 150
Attitudes of Greek parents of typically developing kindergarten children towards inclusive education E Tafa, G Manolitsis European journal of special needs education 18 (2), 155-171 , 2003 2003 Citations: 147
Early contribution of morphological awareness to literacy skills across languages varying in orthographic consistency A Desrochers, G Manolitsis, P Gaudreau, G Georgiou Reading and Writing 31 (8), 1695-1719 , 2018 2018 Citations: 141
Beginning to read across languages varying in orthographic consistency: Comparing the effects of non-cognitive and cognitive predictors G Manolitsis, G Georgiou, K Stephenson, R Parrila Learning and Instruction 19 (6), 466-480 , 2009 2009 Citations: 140
Home literacy environment and early literacy development across languages varying in orthographic consistency T Inoue, G Manolitsis, PF de Jong, K Landerl, R Parrila, GK Georgiou Frontiers in Psychology 11, 1923 , 2020 2020 Citations: 114
The longitudinal contribution of early morphological awareness skills to reading fluency and comprehension in Greek G Manolitsis, I Grigorakis, GK Georgiou Frontiers in psychology 8, 1793 , 2017 2017 Citations: 97
Does task-focused versus task-avoidance behavior matter for literacy development in an orthographically consistent language? GK Georgiou, G Manolitsis, JE Nurmi, R Parrila Contemporary Educational Psychology 35 (1), 1-10 , 2010 2010 Citations: 89
Reading and spelling development across languages varying in orthographic consistency: Do their paths cross? GK Georgiou, M Torppa, K Landerl, A Desrochers, G Manolitsis, ... Child development 91 (2), e266-e279 , 2020 2020 Citations: 83
Are morphological awareness and literacy skills reciprocally related? Evidence from a cross-linguistic study. G Manolitsis, GK Georgiou, T Inoue, R Parrila Journal of Educational Psychology 111 (8), 1362 , 2019 2019 Citations: 82
name letter-sound and phonological awareness: evidence from Greek-speaking kindergarten children G Manolitsis, E Tafa Reading and Writing 24 (1), 27-53 , 2011 2011 Citations: 59
Examining the Importance of Assessing Rapid Automatized Naming (RAN) for the Identification of Children with Reading Difficulties. GK Georgiou, R Parrila, G Manolitsis, JR Kirby Learning Disabilities: A Contemporary Journal 9 (2), 5-26 , 2011 2011 Citations: 44
A longitudinal literacy profile of Greek precocious readers E Tafa, G Manolitsis Reading Research Quarterly 43 (2), 165-185 , 2008 2008 Citations: 44
The role of achievement strategies on literacy acquisition across languages GK Georgiou, R Hirvonen, CH Liao, G Manolitsis, R Parrila, JE Nurmi Contemporary Educational Psychology 36 (2), 130-141 , 2011 2011 Citations: 42
Teachers' evaluations for the detection of primary‐school children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder M Kypriotaki, G Manolitsis European Journal of Special Needs Education 25 (3), 269-281 , 2010 2010 Citations: 34