Education in Malaysia is aimed to shape noble and highly skilled individuals. The advancement of the education system have led to Education 5.0, emphasizing the "qalbu" (soul) teaching concept. In 2019, the General Education Subjects (MPU) implementation structure, which aims to cultivate skills, social responsibilities, values,…

Objective: The current study aimed to compare endorsement of the muscular- and thin-ideals alone, as well as simultaneous endorsement of both as representative of the fit-ideal and examine potential negative correlates of each type of ideal internalization. Participants: Participants were 300 female undergraduate students. Methods: Participants…

This study utilizes the personal critical narrative of myself, a woman from the Chaoshan region in China, as the primary data source to explore the impact of traditional gender roles and patriarchal values on women's personal growth transformation through a feminist lens. Integrating feminist and transformative learning theory, it encompasses my…

This study explores the extent to which parental and peer behaviors and norms may affect substance use, personal antidrug norms, and intentions to use drugs in a group of Mexican heritage preadolescents in the Southwest United States, and whether these parental and peer influences differ according to gender. Secondary data from a randomized trial…

The various youth cultures are described in regard to their sexual attitudes and behaviors. Publicity given to the minority cultures through the media has falsely led the public to believe their behaviors are typical. (CJ)

The growing influx of immigrant families into the USA necessitates an understanding of how these families manage mental health disorders. Few studies have documented the ways in which autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are understood across different immigrant groups. This lack of knowledge creates barriers for practitioners who are encountering…

Sex education programs for blind children must take into account the sexual negativism of American culture and work to overcome resistance to the use of touch so necessary to learning by blind children.(Author)

Reviews some of the literature bearing on the thesis that violence results from certain values, reports the results of a re-analysis of survey data collected for the President's Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, and presents new data on peer esteem and social psychological correlates of fighting among males. (Author/JM)

The results, which seem to be in conflict with the findings of Westoff and Potvin, indicate clearly that the influence of religiouness and Catholic education on fertility values is real, although the mutual contamination of both factors seems to be great. (Author)

Examined tolerance of children's, adolescents', and young adults' judgments about dissenting beliefs, speech, practices, and people engaged in those practices. Found that tolerance of dissenting beliefs and speech increased with age. Tolerance was most common with dissenting beliefs, then speech, persons engaged in the practice, and the practice…

Explores factors influencing people to either support or oppose the idea of economic equality, emphasizing that low income people apparently oppose equality: a literature review is interpreted as suggesting the existence of an underlying belief structure consisting of five elements, all of which would have to be present if equality is to be…

Analyzes survey data on young adults from 1967 (n=297) and 1994 (n=345) to examine relationship between attitudes about: (1) social relationships and marriage expectations; (2) stability and change over time in marital expectations; and (3) changes in institutionalized notions of marriage. Change and stability occurred in marriage expectations,…

Examined cohort replacement explanation of secular changes in parental socialization values, based on surveys of metropolitan area in 1958, 1971, and 1983 which revealed a significant change in parental values with greater preference for autonomy for children and less preference for obedience. Cohorts born since 1930 tended more to prefer autonomy…

The pursuit of curriculum and the role of tradition in curriculum development are explored for Norway at the national-political level. The contexts of influence and of policy text production are considered. In Norway there currently exists a new type of nationally mandated curriculum guideline, a general policy curriculum document calling for a…