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Fjällström, Eva; Kokkola, Lydia – Children's Literature in Education, 2015
Resisting the will to empathise with a focalised character is assumed to be difficult for young readers, yet empirical evidence on how they actually respond is limited. This paper combines recent insights gleaned from cognitive literary studies with a small-scale empirical study of thirty-five Swedish adolescents reading an Irish short story in…
Descriptors: Reader Response, Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Fiction
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Thornberg, Robert; Rosenqvist, Robert; Johansson, Per – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2012
Background: In accordance with the social information processing model, how adolescents attribute cause to a particular social situation (e.g., bullying) they witness or participate in, influences their online social information processing, and hence, how they will act in the situation. Objective: The aim of the present study was to explore how…
Descriptors: Bullying, Social Cognition, Adolescents, Social Environment
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Meristo, Marek; Hjelmquist, Erland – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2009
The aim of the present study was to investigate the role of executive functions (EF) in theory-of-mind (ToM) performance in deaf children and adolescents. Four groups of deaf children aged 7-16 years, with different language backgrounds at home and at school, that is, bilingually instructed native signers, oralist-instructed native signers, and…
Descriptors: Reaction Time, Deafness, Foreign Countries, Cognitive Ability
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Jutengren, Goran; Palmerus, Kerstin – Social Indicators Research, 2007
Four specific schemas of cognitive structures that adolescents may hold concerning interpersonal disagreements with their parents were identified, each reflecting an authoritative, authoritarian, indulgent, or a neglecting parenting style. To examine the occurrence of such schemas across high and low levels of psychosocial adjustment, 120 Swedish…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Adjustment (to Environment), Psychological Patterns, Social Influences
Goldman, Ronald; Goldman, Juliette – 1982
The purpose of this cross-national descriptive study is to measure the extent of children's sexual knowledge and sexual understanding at various ages and to identify what processes of thought children use in trying to explain biological functions and the phenomena of their own bodies as they grow and change. Sexual thinking is defined as thinking…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Aging (Individuals), Child Development
Norden, K. – 1970
The development of psychological methods for assessing the abilities of deaf students could aid in the formation of educational programs and the provision of vocational guidance. A battery of tests designed to measure a wide range of functions was administered to all eighth grade students, average age 15, in schools for the deaf in Sweden. All…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Academic Ability, Adolescents, Career Guidance