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Ledderer, Loni; Kjaer, Marianne; Madsen, Emilie Kirstine; Busch, Jacob; Fage-Butler, Antoinette – Health Education & Behavior, 2020
Nudging is increasingly used in public health interventions in Western societies to produced health-promoting behavior changes; however, there is lack of clarity as to what constitutes a nudge, scant knowledge of the effectiveness of nudging techniques in public health lifestyle interventions and a number of ethical and value-based concerns. The…
Descriptors: Public Health, Intervention, Health Behavior, Behavior Change
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Frantz, Roger S.; McClarty, Katie Larsen – Gifted and Talented International, 2016
Educational policies and practices are influenced by cultural, political, and economic factors, and this is also true of specialized educational approaches such as gifted education. Factors such as a country's cultural tendency toward egalitarianism or meritocracy, whether the political system is centralized or decentralized, and the degree to…
Descriptors: Gifted, Special Education, Cultural Influences, Economic Factors
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Schwarz, Beate; Mayer, Boris; Trommsdorff, Gisela; Ben-Arieh, Asher; Friedlmeier, Mihaela; Lubiewska, Katarzyna; Mishra, Ramesh; Peltzer, Karl – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2012
This study investigated whether the associations between (a) the quality of the parent-child relationship and peer acceptance and (b) early adolescents' life satisfaction differed depending on the importance of family values in the respective culture. As part of the Value of Children Study, data from a subsample of N = 1,034 adolescents (58%…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Life Satisfaction, Parent Child Relationship, Adolescents
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Adler, Israel; Kandel, Denise B. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1982
Correlates of alcohol use were compared in France, with high prevalence of use; Israel, low prevalence; and the United States, in the middle. In all three countries, significant others--parents and peers--were more powerful predictors than personal attributes. The importance of parents in Israel and peers in the United States was shown. (Author/CM)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Influences, Drinking
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Bornstein, Marc H.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1998
Argentine, Belgian, French, Israeli, Italian, Japanese, and U.S. mothers of 20-month-olds evaluated their competence, satisfaction, investment, and role balance in parenting; they also rated attributions of successes and failures in parenting tasks to their ability, effort, or mood; difficulty of task; or child behavior. Few cross-cultural…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences
Bernard van Leer Foundation Newsletter, 1994
This theme issue of the Bernard van Leer Foundation's "Newsletter" is devoted to approaches to working with disadvantaged children up to 3 years of age. An introduction describes the crucial period from before birth to 3 years, noting that although the mother's body provides the an essential part of the environment, other easily…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Rearing, Cultural Influences, Developed Nations