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Buhler-Niederberger, Doris; Van Kreiken, Robert – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 2008
This article analyses the central themes running through the collection of papers in this special issue of Childhood, which were all given as papers at the XVI Durban World Congress of Sociology, 23-29 July 2006. These themes encompass the ways in which global processes of social change combining modernity with tradition have become important for…
Descriptors: Children, Global Approach, Social Change, Foreign Countries

Ciairano, Silvia; Kliewer, Wendy; Bonino, Silvia; Bosma, Harke Anne – Adolescence (San Diego): an international quarterly devoted to the physiological, psychological, psychiatric, sociological, and educational aspects of the second decade of human life, 2008
The main and interactive effects of parental behavioral control and parental support on adolescent adjustment were examined with students ages 15-19 in Italy (N = 391, 59.1% male) and The Netherlands (N = 373, 45.3% male). In general, parental support was associated with better adjustment and parental control was associated with worse adjustment.…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Parenting Styles
van Beuzekom, Brigitte – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2008
This paper reviews recent measurement work on User-Created Content (UCC) undertaken in OECD countries. It shows that UCC is emerging as a significant area of economic and social activity worthy of consideration for official measurement and discusses the implications for the OECD Model Survey on ICT Access and Use by Households and Individuals.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Technology, Access to Computers, Users (Information)
Tressoldi, Patrizio E.; Lorusso, Maria Luisa; Brenbati, Federica; Donini, Roberta – Dyslexia, 2008
This study tested the hypothesis whether older dyslexic children may obtain fewer gains on fluency and accuracy with respect to their younger peers after specific remediation. Changes in accuracy and fluency of a group of children with a diagnosis of dyslexia attending third and fourth grades were compared with those obtained by a group of…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Dyslexia, Grade 6, Grade 7

Camaioni, Luigia; Ercolani, Anna Paola – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1988
Studied 150 Italian children aged five to eight years to determine whether a significant relation existed between referential communication and comparison performance. Results indicated that the ability to compare in noncommunicative tasks was significantly related to communication effectiveness in referential tasks. (RJC)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Communicative Competence (Languages), Performance Factors, Verbal Ability
Mason, Lucia; Boldrin, Angela; Zurlo, Giovanna – International Journal of Educational Research, 2006
This article reports a theoretically based study on the model of development of epistemological understanding proposed by Kuhn (2000) [Kuhn, D. (2000). Theory of mind, metacognition, and reasoning: A life-span perspective. In P. Mitchell & K. J. Riggs (Eds.), "Children's reasoning and the mind" (pp. 301-326). Hove, UK: Psychology…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Cognitive Development, Epistemology, Curriculum
Vieno, Alessio; Nation, Maury; Perkins, Douglas D.; Santinello, Massimo – Journal of Community Psychology, 2007
This study assessed the links between civic participation and adolescent behavior problems (bullying, physical fighting, and alcohol and tobacco use), and whether civic engagement could be a moderator of the negative effects of parent/family detachment. Participants were 7,097 11-, 13-, and 15-year-olds (48.6% girls) in a region of Northern Italy.…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Smoking, Foreign Countries, Adolescent Attitudes
Bornstein, Marc H.; Hahn, Chun-Shin; Haynes, O. Maurice; Belsky, J.; Azuma, Hiroshi; Kwak, Keumjoo; Maital, Sharone; Painter, Kathleen M.; Varron, Cheryl; Pascual, Liliana; Toda, Sueko; Venuti, Paola; Vyt, Andre; de Galperin, Celia Zingman – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2007
A total of 467 mothers of firstborn 20-month-old children from 7 countries (103 Argentine, 61 Belgian, 39 Israeli, 78 Italian, 57 Japanese, 69 Korean, and 60 US American) completed the "Jackson Personality Inventory" (JPI), measures of parenting cognitions (self-perceptions and knowledge), and a social desirability scale. Our first…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Social Desirability, Mothers, Child Rearing
Nota, L.; Ferrari, L.; Soresi, S.; Wehmeyer, M. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2007
Background: The international literature has documented that self-determination is impacted by environmental factors, including living or work settings; and by intraindividual factors, including intelligence level, age, gender, social skills and adaptive behaviour. In addition, self-determination has been correlated with improved quality of life…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Questionnaires, Social Work, Quality of Life
Aarsand, Pal Andre – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 2007
In this ethnographic study of family life, intergenerational video and computer game activities were videotaped and analysed. Both children and adults invoked the notion of a digital divide, i.e. a generation gap between those who master and do not master digital technology. It is argued that the digital divide was exploited by the children to…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Video Games, Family Life, Ethnography

Crepet, P.; And Others – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 1991
Addresses sharp upswing in suicide rates in Italy between 1969 and 1989. Notes that northern regions had highest suicide rate; older adults had highest suicide risk. Results of one Italian center are reported, showing parasuicide rates to be higher for females than for males, whereas age group at highest risk is seen to be young women. (Author/NB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, At Risk Persons, Foreign Countries, Intervention
Ciairano, Silvia; Bonino, Silvia; Kliewer, Wendy; Miceli, Renato; Jackson, Sandy – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2006
Associations among dating, sexual activity, gender, and adjustment were investigated in 2,273 Italian adolescents (54% female, ages 14 to 19 years) attending public high schools. After controlling for age and type of school attended, both being in a dating relationship and being male were associated with less alienation, more positive views of the…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Gender Differences, Depression (Psychology), Dating (Social)
Gasparini, Silvia – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1992
Examines some current theories claiming to explain the acquisition of the passive. The results are then presented from an experiment with Italian subjects of different age and school levels. The authors findings bear directly on current psycholinguistic theories. (22 references) (LET)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition, Language Research
Lent, Robert W.; Tracey, Terence J. G.; Brown, Steven D.; Soresi, Salvatore; Nota, Laura – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2006
In a cross-national replication and extension of prior research with American students, Italian middle and high school students completed measures of interests and competency beliefs relative to a variety of school- and nonschool-related activities. Both interests and competency beliefs tended to show greater adherence to circumplex Realistic,…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Foreign Countries, Competence, Models
Franco, Fabia; D'Odorico, Laura – 1985
This study investigated the influence of the speaker's experience and addressee's developmental level on baby talk characteristics. A total of 240 mothers of only child infants (l-l8 months) or of children 2-3 years old responded to an Infant or Child Series of drawings with an attached list of sentences. Subjects described situations in drawings,…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Foreign Countries, Infants