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Linda Gilmore; Monica Cuskelly – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2025
There is evidence that mastery motivation contributes to developmental outcomes, both for typically developing individuals and for those with disabilities such as Down syndrome. Mastery motivation appears to be a stable trait, at least during early childhood, but research with adults has been restricted by the absence of an appropriate measure.…
Descriptors: Down Syndrome, Motivation, Young Children, Early Adolescents
Lihua Tang; Louise McLean; Fiona May; Jan Matthews; Gina-Maree Sartore; Mandy Kienhuis; Catherine Wade – Educational and Developmental Psychologist, 2025
Objective: Child sleep problems are commonly reported by parents of children aged 6--18 years, with a growing body of evidence describing the link between children's screen time and parental perceived child sleep problems. Using cross-sectional data, representative of the Victorian population, this study explored whether the relationship between…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Use, Handheld Devices, Television Viewing
Markel Rico-González; Ricardo Martín-Moya; María Mendoza-Muñoz; Jorge Carlos-Vivas – Health Education Journal, 2024
Objective: Physical activity (PA) is essential to promote both optimal physical and emotional health in preschool children. Hence, well-founded PA guidelines are essential. 24-hour Movement Guidelines (which include PA, recreational screen time and sleep) have been established. Thus, this study aimed to explore preschool-aged children's adherence…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Physical Activity Level, Guidelines, Preschool Children
Neldner, Karri; Wilks, Matti; Crimston, Charlie R.; Jaymes, R. W. M.; Nielsen, Mark – Developmental Psychology, 2023
In industrialized societies, adults exhibit stable preferences for the types of people, animals, and entities they feel moral concern for (Crimston et al., 2016). Only one published study to date has utilized the moral circles paradigm to examine these preferences in children, finding that as children age, their preferences shift to become more…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Child Development, Familiarity, Preferences
Peta Stapleton; Joseph Dispenza; Angela Douglas; Van Dao; Sarah Kewin; Kyra Le Sech; Anitha Vasudevan – Psychology in the Schools, 2024
This study aimed to understand how mindfulness meditation affects young people by examining its impact on self-regulation, happiness, emotional awareness, and school performance among two groups of school children. A 10-week mindfulness program was conducted by a meditation expert for 552 children aged 4-8 (Group 1) and 287 children aged 9-11…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Metacognition, Young Children, Preadolescents
Jaime Manning; Amy Cosby; Nicole McDonald; Eloise Fogarty – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2024
Agriculture is a significant contributor to the global economy and critical for future food and fibre production. To maximise the industry efficiencies and improve sustainability, a knowledgeable workforce is essential. Today's school-aged youth will be the next generation agriculture workforce. However, there is concern that today's youth are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students, Agriculture
Armitage, Kristy L.; Suddendorf, Thomas; Bulley, Adam; Bastos, Amalia P. M.; Taylor, Alex H.; Redshaw, Jonathan – Developmental Psychology, 2023
A cardinal feature of adult cognition is the awareness of our own cognitive struggles and the capacity to draw upon this awareness to offload internal demand into the environment. In this preregistered study conducted in Australia, we investigated whether 3-8-year-olds (N = 72, 36 male, 36 female, mostly White) could self-initiate such an external…
Descriptors: Creativity, Learning Strategies, Cognitive Processes, Metacognition
Joanna M. Tsirgiotis; Robyn L. Young; Nathan Weber – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
Little is currently known about the autism spectrum disorder (ASD)-related difficulties of females narrowly below the ASD diagnostic threshold and whether the disorder conceptualisation should be broadened to capture their presentations. We extracted fine-grained information from the assessment reports of 222 children who were either diagnosed…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Clinical Diagnosis, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
Tobias Lieberei; Merryn Dawnborn-Gundlach; Jan van Driel; Moritz Krell – Teaching Science, 2024
In a modern and increasingly complex society, students are expected to acquire skills and knowledge to deal with societal challenges, for example, climate change. These include scientific reasoning competencies (SRC), which describe abilities to solve scientific problems by applying scientific skills and knowledge and thus play a crucial role in…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Science Instruction, Thinking Skills
Samuel P. Putnam; Ela Sehic; Brian F. French; Maria A. Gartstein; Benjamin Lira Luttges – Developmental Psychology, 2024
Data from 83,423 parent reports of temperament (surgency, negative affectivity, and regulatory capacity) in infants, toddlers, and children from 341 samples gathered in 59 countries were used to investigate the relations among culture, gender, and temperament. Between-nation differences in temperament were larger than those obtained in similar…
Descriptors: Personality, Infants, Toddlers, Children
Peter Fieger; Annette Foley – Education & Training, 2024
Purpose: In the wake of a skills shortage in Australia and its impact on the economy, the need for students to complete their vocational education and training (VET) programmes and enter the workforce is critical. This study aims to identify to what degree student programme choice and perceived personal benefits as well as various confounders act…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Satisfaction, Vocational Education, Student Attitudes
Rawan Alzukari; Tianlan Wei – Journal of International Students, 2024
This meta-analysis examines gender differences in acculturative stress among international students. Despite numerous studies on cultural adjustment, inconsistencies persist regarding gender differences in acculturative stress. This study synthesizes findings from 12 empirical studies. Comprehensive searches across databases, including…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Foreign Students, Stress Variables, Student Characteristics
Burns, Edgar Alan – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2022
Mid-career men and women professionals describe their pervasive sense of 'lateness' retraining in law. Against industry patterns of lawyers wishing to leave the profession, these individuals had chosen to assert or reassert a desire to become lawyers partway through existing careers. What cultural narratives mediate the process of making this…
Descriptors: Legal Education (Professions), Adult Students, Career Change, Foreign Countries
How Do Students Interact with the Primary Scientific Literature in an Undergraduate Science Program?
Hou, By Yi; Verkade, Heather; van Driel, Jan – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2023
The ability to read, understand, and interpret primary scientific literature is an essential skill for undergraduate students in science. This study aimed to provide a detailed understanding of how second- and third-year undergraduate students in a biochemistry and molecular biology major at the University of Melbourne in Australia feel about…
Descriptors: Science Education, Scientific Research, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes
Levickis, Penny; Eadie, Patricia; Mensah, Fiona; McKean, Cristina; Bavin, Edith L.; Reilly, Sheena – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2023
Background: A wealth of evidence supports the important role high-quality parent-child interactions play in children's early language acquisition. However, the impact on later language outcomes remains unclear. Aims: To examine the associations between responsive parental behaviours across the early years and child language outcomes at age 7 years…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Interaction, Language Acquisition, Correlation