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Active Citizenship -- Participatory Patterns of European Youth
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Enchikova, Ekaterina; Neves, Tiago; Beilman, Mai; Banaji, Shakuntala; Pavpoulos, Vassilis; Ferreira, Pedro D. – Journal of Social Science Education, 2021
Purpose: Treating Active Citizenship as a sum of behavioral indicators requires certain prerequisites that can be difficult to meet in practice (e.g. structural validity and measurement invariance). We explore a different approach, in which we treat Active Citizenship as a categorical, rather than a linear, construct. Design: Based on longitudinal…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Foreign Countries, Youth, Citizenship
Determinants of the Attitudes of Portuguese Accounting Students and Professionals towards Earnings Management
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Montenegro, Tânia Menezes; Rodrigues, Lúcia Lima – Journal of Academic Ethics, 2020
We revisit religiosity, gender, age, ethics education and experience as drivers of ethicality, while expanding prior research from Anglo-Saxon and Asiatic/Euro-Asiatic countries to a Latin European country, Portugal. We apply the Merchant (1989) instrument of attitudes towards earnings management, in a sample of Portuguese accounting students and…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Alumni, Foreign Countries, Accounting
The Views of Health Care Professionals and Laypersons Concerning the Relevance of Health-Related Behaviors in Prioritizing Patients
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Pinho, Micaela; Pinto Borges, Ana – Health Education & Behavior, 2019
This article aims to investigate to what extent health care professionals in Portugal find health-related behaviors relevant as a criterion to priority setting, to study what type of risk behavior they consider relevant in such decisions and to compare their views with those of laypersons. An online questionnaire was used to collect data from a…
Descriptors: Health Personnel, Health Services, Health Behavior, Patients
Student Burnout: A Case Study about a Portuguese Public University
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Salgado, Sofia; Au-Yong-Oliveira, Manuel – Education Sciences, 2021
Burnout is increasingly present in organizations and in the most diverse professions, namely, in university students. Burnout can have negative repercussions on their well-being and can even lead them to abandon their studies. The objective of the study focuses on academic burnout and taking medication as a consequence of the requirements of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Colleges, Stress Variables, Drug Therapy
Ethical Perceptions of Accounting Students in a Portuguese University: The Influence of Individual Factors and Personal Traits
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Costa, Alberto J.; Pinheiro, Margarida M.; Ribeiro, Mariana S. – Accounting Education, 2016
Our purpose is to empirically examine whether gender, age, work experience, and attendance of a course on ethics affect the ethical perceptions of Portuguese accounting students and analyze the influence of some individual factors that may affect their ethical decision-making. Additionally, we consider the degree of importance assigned to a list…
Descriptors: Ethics, Accounting, Gender Differences, Entrepreneurship
Measuring User-Created Content: Implications for the ICT Access and Use by Households and Individuals Surveys. OECD Digital Economy Papers, No. 139
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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)