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Yli-Panula, Eija; Persson, Christel; Jeronen, Eila; Eloranta, Varpu; Pakula, Heini-Marja – Education Sciences, 2019
Children explore their environment through experiences and each experience is meaningful in developing their environmental consciousness and identity. On the basis of the drawn landscape experiences, the present qualitative study set out to find out what landscapes the participating students deemed worth conserving. The data consisted of the…
Descriptors: Physical Environment, Freehand Drawing, Place Based Education, Foreign Countries
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Thornberg, Robert; Wänström, Linda; Gini, Gianluca; Varjas, Kristen; Meyers, Joel; Elmelid, Rasmus; Johansson, Alexandra; Mellander, Emelie – Educational Psychology, 2021
The aim of the current study was to examine whether collective moral disengagement in the classroom was associated with bullying perpetration and victimisation. One-thousand-and-fifty-four students from 70 classrooms in 29 schools in the middle and southern parts of Sweden completed a questionnaire in their classroom. In line with the hypotheses,…
Descriptors: Bullying, Victims, Moral Values, Student Characteristics
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Brännström, Karl Jonas; Karjalainen, Suvi; Sahlén, Birgitta; Andersson, Ketty; Lyberg-Åhlander, Viveka; Christensson, Jonas – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2022
The present study reports on the development of a questionnaire that evaluates children's experiences of their physical classroom environment, activities and interactions. It also explores the psychometric properties of the questionnaire and how acoustical characteristics of the classroom, class size and student characteristics (age, sex and…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Questionnaires, Classroom Environment, Learning Activities
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Hellström, Lisa; Lundberg, Adrian – Educational Research, 2020
Background: Common definitions of bullying, employed in research and public policy alike, are generally based on adult-imposed categories. To account for students' needs in school, research should aim to include their voices more often. However, a major challenge for educational research in general, and bullying research in particular, is finding…
Descriptors: Bullying, Early Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Well Being
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Darling, Nancy; Tilton-Weaver, Lauree – Developmental Psychology, 2019
This article used a sample of 2 adolescents per family to (a) examine the extent to which parental monitoring and adolescent information management are characteristics of families or of dyads and (b) replicate past research on parental monitoring and adolescent information management using models that distinguish differences between families from…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Parenting Styles, Adolescents, Family Environment
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Klerfelt, Anna; Stecher, Ludwig – International Journal for Research on Extended Education, 2018
In Sweden and in Germany, an extensive system of extended education programmes and activities has been established within the last decades. Prototypic examples of this development are school-age educare centres in Sweden and all-day schools in Germany. In this article a bi-national comparison, aiming to find some similarities and differences by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Extended School Day, Educational Change
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Glatz, Terese; Dahl, Viktor – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2016
This study used reactance theory as a starting point to explain what role a perceived undemocratic and controlling family has for adolescents' readiness to use illegal political activity. Additionally, we examined whether adolescents' readiness to use illegal political means was related to actual political behaviour, which has been lacking in…
Descriptors: Family Role, Adolescents, Readiness, Family Environment
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Lundberg, Erik; Abdelzadeh, Ali – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2019
School is often ranked highly among social agents that are central to the development of various citizenship values and norms in younger members of society. In this paper, we examined the impact of two dimensions of school climate on changes in social trust among adolescents over time, namely relationships and safety. Using a series of latent…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Attitude Change, Trust (Psychology), Adolescents
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Thornberg, Robert; Wänström, Linda; Pozzoli, Tiziana – Educational Psychology, 2017
The aim of the present study was to examine whether class climate and class moral disengagement each contribute to explain different levels of victimisation among classes. Eight-hundred-and-ninety-nine children from 43 Swedish elementary school classes participated in the current study. Class moral disengagement, class relational climate and peer…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Moral Values, Victims, Peer Relationship
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Putnick, Diane L.; Bornstein, Marc H.; Lansford, Jennifer E.; Malone, Patrick S.; Pastorelli, Concetta; Skinner, Ann T.; Sorbring, Emma; Tapanya, Sombat; Uribe Tirado, Liliana Maria; Zelli, Arnaldo; Alampay, Liane Peña; Al-Hassan, Suha M.; Bacchini, Dario; Bombi, Anna Silvia; Chang, Lei; Deater-Deckard, Kirby; Di Giunta, Laura; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Oburu, Paul – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2015
Background: It is generally believed that parental rejection of children leads to child maladaptation. However, the specific effects of perceived parental acceptance-rejection on diverse domains of child adjustment and development have been incompletely documented, and whether these effects hold across diverse populations and for mothers and…
Descriptors: Mothers, Fathers, Rejection (Psychology), Parent Child Relationship
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Beery, Thomas H. – Environmental Education Research, 2013
This study explored the question of whether a relationship exists between the Nordic cultural idea of friluftsliv and the psychological construct of environmental connectedness (EC). This quantitative study employed a correlational design with existing data from the Swedish Outdoor Recreation in Change national survey. Results indicate that there…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Environment, Recreational Activities, Outdoor Education
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Niklasson, Laila; Sandberg, Anette – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2010
In this article we will discuss the outdoor environment for younger children with the help of two different concepts. The first concept, affordance, is well known in the discussion about outdoor environments. What the affordance in the outdoor environment is perceived as can differ between actors. How the affordance is used can be another source…
Descriptors: Physical Environment, Children, Childhood Attitudes, Space Utilization
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Norrelgen, Fritjof; Fernell, Elisabeth; Eriksson, Mats; Hedvall, Asa; Persson, Clara; Sjölin, Maria; Gillberg, Christopher; Kjellmer, Liselotte – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2015
There is uncertainty about the proportion of children with autism spectrum disorders who do not develop phrase speech during the preschool years. The main purpose of this study was to examine this ratio in a population-based community sample of children. The cohort consisted of 165 children (141 boys, 24 girls) with autism spectrum disorders aged…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Preschool Children, Speech Skills
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Wahlqvist, Moa; Moller, Claes; Moller, Kerstin; Danermark, Berth – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2013
Introduction: The objectives of the study reported here were to describe the physical and psychological health of persons with Usher syndrome Type II (USH2) and to explore any differences in terms of gender. Methods: The participants were recruited from the Swedish Usher database. In the first step, 122 persons received the questionnaire by mail,…
Descriptors: Public Health, Well Being, Measures (Individuals), Identification (Psychology)
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Priebe, Gisela; Svedin, Carl Goran – Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 2009
The purpose of this study was to investigate lifetime prevalence and characteristics of self-reported child sexual abuse and associations between child sexual abuse, gender, sociodemographic data, and consensual sexual experiences. A questionnaire was completed by 4,339 Swedish high school seniors. Three categories of child sexual abuse were…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Child Abuse, Incidence, Foreign Countries
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