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Yunqi Peng; Jiarui Wu; Binli Chen; Xiying Wang – European Journal of Education, 2024
Dating sexual violence (DSV) is a serious social problem among college students worldwide. This study examines the effects of gender role attitudes (GRA) in DSV and the mediating role of rape myth acceptance (RMA) among students of different sexual orientations in China. A total of 2134 Chinese college students (553 men and 1581 women, 1751…
Descriptors: Rape, Social Attitudes, Dating (Social), College Students
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Qu, Yang; Pomerantz, Eva M.; Wang, Qian; Ng, Florrie Fei-Yin – Developmental Psychology, 2020
To elucidate the processes underlying the cultural construction of adolescence, this research examined youth's stereotypes about teens in Hong Kong and Chongqing, a relatively less developed city in Mainland China. Youth (N = 1,269) reported on their teen stereotypes and problem behavior in the fall and spring of 7th grade. Youth in Hong Kong (vs.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Adolescents, Stereotypes, Social Attitudes
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Li, Jie – Educational Gerontology, 2019
It is well known that agism is present in both Eastern and Western literature, including in school textbooks. Older people are often portrayed as insignificant, sick, dependent, boring or lonely. Younger generations may develop "gerontophobia" from such textbooks, which is not beneficial for ensuring that individuals can live happily in…
Descriptors: Aging Education, Elementary School Students, Textbooks, Older Adults
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Mou, Yi; Lin, Carolyn A. – SAGE Open, 2020
Heavy episodic drinking among college students is a common but scarcely researched public health problem in China. Although social drinking could be regarded as an enjoyable activity across cultures, the Chinese cultural belief about alcohol use is different from that of its Western counterpart, which has been richly evidenced in the research…
Descriptors: Drinking, Longitudinal Studies, College Students, Predictor Variables
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Midgette, Allegra J. – Developmental Psychology, 2020
This study explored age-related changes in Chinese and Korean children's fairness judgments and reasoning regarding the gendered division of household labor. The majority of previous research on this issue has focused on adults' experiences and has been conducted in Western countries. Interviews were conducted with 133 children, 65 Chinese and 68…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Cross Cultural Studies, Ethics, Gender Differences
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Zhang, Yinxia; Yin, Hongbiao; Zheng, Li – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2018
The high rate of academic dishonesty reported among Chinese college students has created challenges for practitioners in both domestic and Western universities. Following two contrasting yet complementary scholarly approaches, this study explored the relative importance of predictors indicative of students' intention to cheat (moral attitude,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Ethics, Cheating
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Sinha Mukherjee, Sucharita – Gender and Education, 2015
This paper attempts to explore the connections between expanding female education and the participation of women in paid employment in Japan, China and India, three of Asia's largest economies. Analysis based on existing data and literature shows that despite the large expansion in educational access in these countries in the last half century,…
Descriptors: Womens Education, Females, Cultural Differences, Cross Cultural Studies
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Stankov, Lazar; Saucier, Gerard; Knezevic, Goran – Psychological Assessment, 2010
In the present article, the authors report on the development of a scale for the measurement of the militant extremist mind-set. A previous pilot study identified 56 statements selected from writings of various terrorist groups as well as from psychological, historical, and political texts on terrorism. These statements, together with measures of…
Descriptors: Social Attitudes, Personality Measures, Foreign Countries, Measures (Individuals)
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Rohatynskyj, Marta; Davidson, Valerie; Stiver, Warren; Hayward, Maren – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2008
Low rates of women's enrolment in engineering programs has been identified as a global problem within the general concern to enable women to attain parity in education in all areas. A Western women in engineering meta-narrative is identified which contains a complex of obstacles that typify the situation of Western women. The question is asked…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Gender Differences, Equal Education, Gender Bias
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Lili, Tian; Shenghua, Jin – Frontiers of Education in China, 2006
Objective: To explore the characteristics of the spiritual beliefs among junior high school students. Method: 431 junior high school students are measured by Students' Basic Information Questionnaire (SBIQ) and Middle School Students' Spiritual Beliefs Questionnaire (MSSSBQ). Results: (1) The overall characteristics of the spiritual beliefs among…
Descriptors: Grade 9, Grade 8, Grade 7, Junior High School Students