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Thorsteinsson, Jakob Frimann; Arnarsson, Ársaell; Jónasson, Jón Torfi – Journal of Outdoor and Environmental Education, 2023
This study explores the relationship between the time children spend outdoors with critical social and health factors. We use questionnaire data from the 2017-2018 Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study in Iceland, focused on children in the 6th, 8th, and 10th grades. All Icelandic schools with pupils in these classes were invited…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Foreign Countries, Correlation, Social Development
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Liu, Junsheng; Li, Dan; Purwono, Urip; Chen, Xinyin; French, Doran C. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2015
This study explored the extent to which loneliness of Indonesian and Chinese adolescents was predicted by their intimacy and conflict with friends and parents. The total sample included 1,833 thirteen- and fifteen-year-old adolescents recruited from urban schools. Boys reported more loneliness than girls, and Chinese boys reported more loneliness…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychological Patterns, Adolescents, Predictor Variables
Walsh, Tanja; Vainio, Teija; Varsaluoma, Jari – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2014
In the era of mobile devices and services, researchers in the educational domain have been interested in how to support learning with mobile technology in both local and global contexts. Recent human-computer interaction (HCI) research in the educational domain has particularly focused on how to develop mobile learning services and how to evaluate…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Cross Cultural Studies, Longitudinal Studies, Foreign Countries
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Crystal, David S.; Kakinuma, Miki; DeBell, Matthew; Azuma, Hiroshi; Miyashita, Takahiro – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2008
Japanese and U.S. sixth, eighth, and tenth graders (N = 2141) responded to questionnaires asking whom they depended on in six contexts of need. These contexts were: morning awakening, physical illness, emotional upset, help with homework, causing a problem, and guidance in extracurricular activities. Findings indicated that, relative to culture,…
Descriptors: Extracurricular Activities, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries, Grade 10