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Direct linkMahoney, Joseph L.; Stattin, Hakan; Lord, Heather – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2004
This study involves a two-year longitudinal investigation of adolescent participation in unstructured youth recreation centres and the development of antisocial behaviour. Participants were 1163 adolescents who represented 92% of all eighth-grade students in the town of Orebro, Sweden, during the fall of 1999. Antisocial young people and those…
Descriptors: School Activities, Antisocial Behavior, Adolescents, Social Environment
Download full textForgasz, Helen J.; And Others – 1996
This study examined whether U.S., Australian, and Swedish grade 9 male and female students' beliefs about themselves as learners of mathematics and English/Swedish differed. The cohort of grade 9 students from one coeducational school in each country participated in the study. Questionnaires were distributed in the three countries and contained…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedFinn, Jeremy D. – Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, 1980
Cross-national data on 14-year-old children in England, Sweden and the United States are analyzed for sex differences in achievement and attitudes in science and reading. The study identifies school characteristics that are associated with large sex discrepancies. Tables are included. (Author/JLF)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Coeducation, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
