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Coneus, Katja; Laucht, Manfred – Education Economics, 2014
This paper investigates the impact of early noncognitive skills on social outcomes in adolescence. The child's attention span, approach, prevailing mood and distractibility in early childhood may be crucial predictors for school achievements, health risk behavior, delinquency and autonomy as adolescent. We investigate this issue using a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Young Children, Personality
Edmundson, Mark – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
Following an encounter with a student at the beginning of fall term, the writer reflects that today's student generation is a singular one: its members want to study, travel, make friends, make more friends, read everything (superfast), take in all the movies, listen to every hot band, keep up with everyone they've ever known. They live to…
Descriptors: Life Satisfaction, Quality of Life, Internet, Cultural Context