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Richman, Amy L.; And Others – New Directions for Child Development, 1988
Compares the behavior of mothers to their own infants at three- to four- and nine- to 10-months of age in five of the societies described in previous chapters: Gusii of Kenya, Yucatec Mayan of Mexico, Italian, Swedish, and suburban Bostonian. Reveals differences between agrarian and urban-industrial societies, as well as culture-specific patterns…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comparative Analysis, Context Effect, Cross Cultural Studies
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Morra, Sergio – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1994
Two studies on M-capacity found factor-analytical and correlational evidence that five M-capacity tests share a common source of variance and that, as subjects' increase in age, scores increase at a similar rate. Results suggest that, in the 6-11 age range, M-capacity can be measured with a battery of tests. (AA)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Axia, Giovanna; Argenti, Emanuela – 1989
The development of linguistic politeness in 7- and 9-year-old Italian children was examined. A total of 80 subjects, 40 males and 40 females, produced requests according to different contexts which were graphically presented. Factors considered for such contexts were: sex of the speaker; sex of the addressee; status of the addressee, either peer…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries
National Center for Education Statistics (ED), Washington, DC. – 1993
Information from the International Indicators Project of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, Center for Educational Research and Innovation is used to compare completion rates of secondary and higher education in the United States with those of other highly industrialized countries, namely, Canada, France, Germany, Italy,…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comparative Analysis, Developed Nations, Educational Attainment
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Cravens, Thomas D.; Giannelli, Luciano – Language Variation and Change, 1995
Examines the social parameters of acceptance and spread of intervocalic spirantization of "/p/,/t/,/k/" in Tuscany to test the salience of gender and class. This sociolinguistic analysis of the interaction of three options provides a more precise understanding of the significance of gender and class as (co)-conditioners of variation and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Change Agents, Consonants, Data Collection
Trela, James; Hewitt, Christopher – 1986
While research has examined how age-related factors structure the probability of experiencing a particular event or suffering a particular kind of injury, one issue which has not been empirically addressed is the age structure of victimization from terrorist activity and civil strife. To explore the relationship between age and terrorist…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Aging (Individuals), Death, Foreign Countries
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Rodney, Clare – Childhood Education, 1976
Discusses child care in Europe in terms of school age entry priorities, family day care, staffing, major goals of child care programs and trends. Stresses the importance of viewing comparative education with objectivity. (MS)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Care, Comparative Education, Day Care
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Longoni, Anna M.; Scalisi, T. G. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1994
Four experiments investigated phonemic and visual similarity effects in 5- and 10-year olds. Results suggested that young children rely on modality-dependent codes, which are probably automatically activated, and do not use a speech-based memory code for drawings and words. This pattern of findings appeared to be independent of culture and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Developmental Stages
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Marini, Andrea; Boewe, Anke; Caltagirone, Carlo; Carlomagno, Sergio – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2005
Narratives produced by 69 healthy Italian adults were analyzed for age-related changes of microlinguistic, macrolinguistic and informative aspects. The participants were divided into five age groups (20-24, 25-39, 40-59, 60-74, 75-84). One single-picture stimulus and two cartoon sequences were used to elicit three stories per subject. Age-related…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Semantics, Form Classes (Languages), Cartoons
Axia, Giovanna; And Others – 1987
These two studies, which were part of a cross-national project exploring the development of Italian and British children's understanding of sociolinguistic rules, investigated politeness in children's requests addressed to adults and children, and children's views on how requests addressed to persons differing in status and familiarity would be…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Child Development, Comprehension
Cartiglia, Marco; Furinghetti, Fulvia; Paola, Domingo – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2004
In this paper we report on some patterns of reasoning, which emerged during an activity of proving a mathematical statement performed by nine grade and university mathematics students. The statement in question involves drawing figures, working in arithmetic and in algebra. As for secondary students we detected fluency, flexibility and ability of…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Secondary School Mathematics, College Mathematics, Problem Solving
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de Francesco, Corrado – European Journal of Education, 1980
The extent to which enrollment rates are a good indicator of the extension of schooling in Italy is examined. These rates suggest that there has been a transition from elite to mass secondary education. The search for differences according to sex, social class, and regional variables is discussed. (MLW)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Age Differences, Differences, Dropouts
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Baldry, Anna C.; Winkel, Frans Willem – Journal of Adolescence, 2003
Suicidal cognition is defined here as the combination of thinking about committing suicide and engaging in self-harm and is considered to indicate maladjustment following an extreme internalized reaction to negative life events. Victimization at home and at school might lead some youth to suicidal cognition. The present study aimed to examine…
Descriptors: Family Violence, Gender Differences, Suicide, Risk
De Leo, Diego; And Others – 1987
Attitudes about suicide were examined among older adults in Padua, Italy and were compared to attitudes of younger subjects. Elderly subjects (N=246) consisted of 122 adults living in residential homes, 73 medical inpatients of a geriatric hospital, and 51 depressed inpatients with primary affective disorders. Younger subjects (N=263) consisted of…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Attitudes, College Freshmen
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Caselli, Maria Cristina; And Others – Cognitive Development, 1995
Examines children's variation in rate, style, and sequence of grammatical development, within and across natural languages. Using a sample of English and Italian infants, concludes that while there are structural differences between English and Italian that could affect the order in which nouns and verbs are acquired, no differences were observed…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies
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