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Rüschenpöhler, Lilith; Markic, Silvija – International Journal of Science Education, 2020
Participation in science is unevenly distributed among secondary school students, depending on gender, social class, and ethnicity. In the present study, the influence of the home environment on students' chemistry self-concept is investigated as a factor for explaining participation in science. For this, the sociological lens of chemistry capital…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Family Influence, Secondary School Students, Scientific Attitudes
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Agasisti, Tommaso; Gil-Izquierdo, María; Han, Seong Won – Education Economics, 2020
In this paper, we have employed data from the OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA, 2012 edition) on the EU-15 countries in order to investigate the effect of using ICT at home on achievement. By employing Propensity Score Matching, we provide robust evidence that in most countries there is a negative association between…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Computer Use, Homework, Family Environment
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Paizan, Madalina A.; Benbow, Alison E. F.; Aumann, Lara; Titzmann, Peter F. – School Psychology, 2022
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and the resulting infringements of day-to-day life have affected families through school closures and home-learning. Yet, little research investigated how adolescents and their families could be supported during this time. Our two-wave study had three aims. First, we examined life satisfaction and…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Adolescents, Life Satisfaction
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Clara Pracana, Editor; Michael Wang, Editor – Online Submission, 2024
This book contains a compilation of papers presented at the International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends (InPACT) 2024, organized by the World Institute for Advanced Research and Science (WIARS), held in International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends (InPACT) 2024, held in Porto, Portugal, from 20 to 22 of April…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, Statistics, Epistemology, Student Attitudes
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Grieve, Averil Marie – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2015
This study focuses on the relationships between host family success, social integration, length of stay and acquisition of adolescent language by students on extended international homestay programmes. Degree of adolescent language acquisition and integration is measured by use of two hallmarks of adolescent language: markers of approximation…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Correlation
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Schilling, Susanne R.; Sparfeldt, Jorn; Rost, Detlef H. – Educational Psychology, 2006
Studies of families with gifted adolescents have revealed conflicting results. Adolescents, mothers, and fathers of 84 families with a gifted adolescent and of 95 families with a non-gifted adolescent evaluated their family system independently. Dependent variables were cohesion, democratic family style (adaptability), organisation, achievement…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Mothers, Academically Gifted, Fathers
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Klien-Allerman, Elke; And Others – New Directions for Child Development, 1995
Examined the social factors that influence adolescent aggression and antiforeigner sentiment. Subjects were 158 East German and 138 West German youths. Found that for subjects from both regions, aggressive and antiforeigner attitudes are linked to stressful experiences in school and family but also to societal conditions as perceived by the…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescents, Aggression, Comparative Analysis