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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Honkasilta, J.; Sandberg, E.; Närhi, V.; Jahnukainen, M. – Emotional & Behavioural Difficulties, 2014
Students with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) are a growing group served under special education services in many western societies. This article describes the history and current state of the services, as well as the assessment procedure. Our conclusion is that the status of students with ADHD in Finnish basic education (Grades 1…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Special Education, Incidence
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Lester, Leanne; Cross, Donna – Emotional & Behavioural Difficulties, 2014
Chronic victimisation in adolescence is a traumatic experience with potential negative long-term health consequences. Given that victimisation has been shown to increase over the transition from primary to secondary school, longitudinal data from 1810 students transitioning from primary to secondary school were used to identify victimisation…
Descriptors: Victims, Behavior Problems, Adolescents, Emotional Disturbances
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Fandrem, Hildegunn; Strohmeier, Dagmar; Jonsdottir, Kolbrun Asta – Emotional & Behavioural Difficulties, 2012
Despite the rapid increase in immigration all over Europe and concerns expressed for the adjustment of immigrant children and young people, studies on peer victimisation among them are scarce. By combining the predictions of the acculturative stress model with the social-ecological perspective of peer victimisation, this study compared different…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Adolescents, Depression (Psychology), Foreign Countries
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Hotulainen, Risto; Lappalainen, Kristiina – Emotional & Behavioural Difficulties, 2011
In a 15-year longitudinal study, a retrospective quasipanel design was chosen to detect developmental patterns related to the students' (N = 78) self-ratings. In 1999 (grade 9), the students who were rated as part of the risk group (n = 22) by using their kindergarten teachers' initial socio-emotional behaviour ratings that were done in 1989, were…
Descriptors: Identification, Young Adults, Kindergarten, Grade 9
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Storksen, Svein; Idsoe, Thormod; Roland, Erling – Emotional & Behavioural Difficulties, 2011
This study investigated whether secondary schools in Norway had deviant subcultures, which could be labelled "schoolyard corner society", and how gender and age were related to membership. We also studied levels of reactive and proactive aggressiveness in students, and the relationship between these types of aggressiveness and participation in…
Descriptors: Subcultures, Aggression, Playgrounds, Foreign Countries
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Paulsen, Erik; Bru, Edvin – Emotional & Behavioural Difficulties, 2008
The aims of this study were to investigate the dimensionality of internalizing problems among secondary high school pupils and to find out about their preferences for the social organization of learning formats. We wanted to see if preferences varied for pupils reporting different kinds of internalizing problems. Five hundred and one pupils in…
Descriptors: Social Organizations, Foreign Countries, Grade 8, Depression (Psychology)