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Soos, Istvan; Biddle, Stuart; Boros-Balint, Iuliana; Sandor, Iosif; Szabo, Peter; Hamar, Pal; Simonek, Jaromir – European Physical Education Review, 2012
Sedentary behaviour is becoming a popular area of health research, but most studies report data on samples from Australia, the UK and USA, and on a narrow range of behaviours. The present study reports on the prevalence of multiple sedentary behaviours in a sample of secondary school students (n = 635; mean age 16.0 years) from Romania and…
Descriptors: College Students, Incidence, Diaries, Foreign Countries
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Nina Jakhelln Laugen; Silja Berg Kårstad; Trude Reinfjell; Lars Wichstrøm – Developmental Psychology, 2024
Emotion understanding (EU) develops through emotion socialization provided by children's social environments, but the relative importance of various socializing agents has not been determined. In this prospective study, the unique contributions of parents, teachers, and peers to changes in EU from 4 to 8 years of age were therefore investigated in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Preadolescents, Parent Child Relationship
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Hawkley, Louise C.; Buecker, Susanne; Kaiser, Till; Luhmann, Maike – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2022
Prior research in non-U.S. samples has found a complex nonlinear relationship between loneliness and age. This research has shown that established predictors of loneliness--poor health, being unmarried, living alone, and having infrequent social interactions--help to explain age differences in loneliness. However, while some variables were found…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Predictor Variables, Age Differences, Adults
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Olsen, Darren L. – American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2018
Social participation is an important resource for parents in old age, and may be particularly important for parents living with adult offspring with intellectual and developmental disabilities. To evaluate whether socializing with friends and family and participating in social organizations protects against depression in old age, this study…
Descriptors: Parents, Older Adults, Adults, Intellectual Disability
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Šimunovic, Mara; Babarovic, Toni – Research in Science Education, 2021
The shortage of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) professionals worldwide calls for research to identify social forces that can foster student career interest in this domain. In this study, we examined the underlying structure of middle school student STEM career interest and the role of their parents' STEM-specific…
Descriptors: Parent Role, Social Behavior, STEM Education, Vocational Interests
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Chen, Eva E.; Corriveau, Kathleen H.; Lai, Veronica K.W.; Poon, Sze Long; Gaither, Sarah E. – Child Development, 2018
The impact of social group information on the learning and socializing preferences of Hong Kong Chinese children were examined. Specifically, the degree to which variability in racial out-group exposure affects children's use of race to make decisions about unfamiliar individuals (Chinese, White, Southeast Asian) was investigated. Participants…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Socialization, Racial Identification, Racial Differences
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Kolak, Amy M.; Dean, Caitlin H. – Early Child Development and Care, 2023
This multi-method study examined mothers' and fathers' cognitive stimulation during parent--child interactions and toddlers' moral regulation (assessed via parent reports) as predictors of their executive functioning skills approximately 2½ years later. Forty children (23 girls and 17 boys) and their parents participated in both timepoints.…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Preschool Children, Mothers, Fathers
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Kong, Qiuyi; Lai-Ku, Kelly-Yee; Deng, Liping; Yan-Au, Apple-Chung – Comunicar: Media Education Research Journal, 2021
With the prevalence of social media in a digital age, accessing news on social media has become a daily routine of university students' lives. However, little research has been done to examine their social media news use in detail, especially in Asian countries. To fill this gap, we aimed to examine what motivated university students to seek news…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, College Students
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Cooper, Alexandra M.; Reschke, Peter J.; Porter, Chris L.; Coyne, Sarah M.; Stockdale, Laura A.; Graver, Haley; Siufanua, Matthew; Rogers, Adam; Walle, Eric A. – Developmental Psychology, 2023
Parents play an important role in socializing children's emotion understanding. Previous research shows that parents emphasize different aspects of emotion contexts depending on the discrete emotion. However, there is limited research on how parents and children discuss self-conscious emotions, such as embarrassment, guilt, and shame, and what…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Self Concept, Psychological Patterns, Emotional Response
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Compiegne, Irwin – Intercultural Communication Education, 2021
The literature exploring study abroad students' social networks and intercultural communication traditionally considers three categories of social ties: the co-national network, the multi-national network and the host national network. However, the data collected from a yearlong digital ethnography and the narratives on the social media posts of…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Social Media, Social Networks, Intercultural Communication
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Poteat, V. Paul; Yoshikawa, Hirokazu; Marx, Robert A.; Sherwood, S. Henry; Richburg, Abigail; Murchison, Gabriel R.; Lipkin, Arthur; Yang, Megan K.; Calzo, Jerel P. – Grantee Submission, 2023
Gender-Sexuality Alliances (GSAs) are school clubs for LGBTQ+ youth and peer allies to support one another. This eight-week weekly diary study considered whether a youth's positive and negative affect during a given week could be predicted by experiences in their most recently attended GSA meeting. Ninety-nine GSA members (M[subscript age] =…
Descriptors: LGBTQ People, Clubs, Sexual Identity, Sexual Orientation
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Tran, Yvonne; Blumgart, Elaine; Craig, Ashley – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: Adults who stutter (AWS) have increased risk of comorbid social anxiety about speaking in social contexts. AWS also report experiencing embarrassment in different social situations; however, research has rarely been conducted on embarrassment and its relationship to social anxiety in AWS. Method: AWS (N = 200) reported their level of…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Anxiety, Adults, Stuttering
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Skrzypiec, Grace; Alinsug, Earvin; Amri Nasiruddin, Ulil; Andreou, Eleni; Brighi, Antonella; Didaskalou, Eleni; Guarini, Annalisa; Heiman, Tali; Kang, Soon-Won; Kwon, Soonjung; Olenik-Shemesh, Dorit; Ortega-Ruiz, Rosario; Romera, Eva M.; Roussi-Vergou, Christina; Sandhu, Damanjit; Sikorska, Iwona; Wyra, Mirella; Xi, Juzhe; Yang, Chih-Chien – Journal of School Violence, 2021
Research is sparse on who targets whom in peer aggression. In this study, we investigated the harm associated with the type of relationship between aggressed and aggressor with an international sample of over 5,000 students aged 11-16, living in 12 nations. Best friends and individuals with whom the respondent had no relationship were the least…
Descriptors: Aggression, Peer Relationship, Friendship, International Studies
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Hazar, Esin; Yildiz, Hatice; Bozpolat, Ebru – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2022
This research examines how Turkish undergraduates construct "campus" metaphors to represent their opinions about campus phenomenon in the context of a Turkish university. The present study adopted a phenomenological approach. The participants of this study were 92 students in the 2020-2021 academic year from different faculties and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, College Environment, Campuses
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Charmaraman, Linda; Delcourt, Catherine Grevet; Durrani, Sidrah; Kapoor, Jyontika; Richer, Amanda M.; Xiao, Le Fan – Information and Learning Sciences, 2022
Purpose: This study aims to introduce the concept of communities of social media practice where more experienced users provide guidance to female novice users, enacting a form of legitimate peripheral participation to "onboard" newcomers. Design/methodology/approach: Through surveys with 968 early adolescents (average age was 13), the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Females, Social Media, Novices
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