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Hjelte, Jan; Ineland, Jens – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2020
The aim of this article is to analyse how professionals in special needs upper secondary schools in Sweden -- assistants, teachers and Special Education Needs Coordinators -- understand and define quality in their daily interactions with students who have intellectual disabilities. Our analysis draws on data collected via a digital questionnaire,…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, High School Students, Intellectual Disability, Special Education Teachers
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Richmond, Ashley D.; Laursen, Brett; Stattin, Håkan – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2019
This study examined age-related changes in friend similarity on delinquency to determine whether deviant behavior homophily peaks during mid-adolescence. A community sample of 1,663 male and 1,826 female Swedish youth from Grade 5 (M = 11.21 years) to Grade 10 (M = 16.25 years) provided self-reports of delinquency. Friendships were identified from…
Descriptors: Delinquency, Adolescents, Grade 5, Grade 6
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Ojala, Maria – Journal of Environmental Education, 2015
Is hope concerning climate change related to environmental engagement, or is it rather associated with unrealistic optimism and inactivity? This study on Swedish high school students identified two kinds of hope: constructive hope and hope based on denial. Constructive hope was positively associated with engagement and a perception that teachers…
Descriptors: Climate, High School Students, Student Attitudes, Psychological Patterns
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Fredlund, Cecilia; Svensson, Frida; Svedin, Carl Goran; Priebe, Gisela; Wadsby, Marie – Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 2013
Lifetime experience of selling sex among adolescents was investigated together with sociodemographic correlates, parent-child relationship, and the existence of people to confide in. Changes over time regarding the selling of sex were investigated through a comparison of data from 2004 and 2009. This study was carried out using 3,498 adolescents…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Sexual Abuse, High School Students, Parent Child Relationship
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Strand, Anne-Sofie M.; Granlund, Mats – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2014
This paper is a retrospective descriptive content analysis of all identified school documents for 90 ninth-grade students with a history of truancy, collected from two Swedish compulsory schools. The study investigates individual, school, and psychosocial factors in the documents and three analyses are presented: (1) a general analysis of the…
Descriptors: Attendance, Compulsory Education, Truancy, Learning Problems
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Gren-Landell, Malin; Ekerfelt Allvin, Cornelia; Bradley, Maria; Andersson, Maria; Andersson, Gerhard – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2015
In the present online survey, 158 teachers in regular and special education teaching in grades six to nine were asked to rate the importance of probable reasons for problematic school absenteeism. On average, the teachers estimated that among their students, 19 students had presented with problematic school absenteeism over the last five years.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Attendance Patterns, Online Surveys