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Kilger, Magnus – Education Sciences, 2020
One central issue in sports is the role of informal learning in organized child and youth sport in contrast to learning in the school context of physical education (PE). In Scandinavia, the model for organizing sports include an independent sports organization that organizes child and youth training on many levels, including the grassroots level…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Athletics, Youth Programs, Fathers
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Roberts, Tim – Online Submission, 2022
This study adopts a conversation analytic approach to present a close analysis of the sequential organisation of a parent-child homework activity in a Swedish-English bi-national family. Families formed within migration contexts are increasingly common in an ever-globalised world, but current research has not fully investigated how parent-child…
Descriptors: Homework, Translation, Discourse Analysis, Parent Child Relationship
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Lansford, Jennifer E.; Godwin, Jennifer; Al-Hassan, Suha M.; Bacchini, Dario; Bornstein, Marc H.; Chang, Lei; Chen, Bin-Bin; Deater-Deckard, Kirby; Di Giunta, Laura; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Malone, Patrick S.; Oburu, Paul; Pastorelli, Concetta; Skinner, Ann T.; Sorbring, Emma; Steinberg, Laurence; Tapanya, Sombat; Alampay, Liane Peña; Uribe Tirado, Liliana Maria; Zelli, Arnaldo – Developmental Psychology, 2018
To examine whether the cultural normativeness of parents' beliefs and behaviors moderates the links between those beliefs and behaviors and youths' adjustment, mothers, fathers, and children (N = 1,298 families) from 12 cultural groups in 9 countries (China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and the United States) were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Rearing, Adjustment (to Environment), Cross Cultural Studies
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Widding, Ulrika – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2015
This paper examines how some Swedish parents constructed meanings of parenthood. The parents had completed a state-sponsored parenting programme and were interviewed about their experiences of the programme, their everyday lives, their need for support, ideas about the societal context, and their understandings of "good" and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parenting Styles, Parenthood Education, Parent Attitudes
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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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Sorbring, Emma; Hallberg, Jonas; Bohlin, Margareta; Skoog, Therése – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2015
Parental attitudes towards young people's sexuality in traditional (i.e. non-online media) settings have been associated with young people's sexual activities. In this study, we explored the association between key parent and youth characteristics and parental attitudes towards young people's online sexual activities. We also examined the…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Sexuality, Computer Mediated Communication, Social Networks
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Ito, Yoko; Izumi-Taylor, Satomi – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2013
The purpose of this study was to examine similarities and differences in perspectives of fathering among American, Chinese, Japanese and Swedish in-service and pre-service early childhood teachers. The participants in the quantitative survey consisted of 67 American in-service and 277 pre-service teachers, 118 Chinese in-service and 163…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Qualitative Research, Data Analysis, Teacher Attitudes
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Olsson, M. B.; Hwang, C. P. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2008
Background: The first aim of the present study was to estimate the extent to which differences in well-being in parents of children with and without intellectual disability (ID) in Sweden can be accounted for by differences in the presence of the risk factors: (1) child disability; (2) socioeconomic disadvantage; (3) household composition; and (4)…
Descriptors: Research Needs, Mothers, Parent Attitudes, Mental Retardation
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Hwang, Carl Philip – Developmental Psychology, 1986
Reports a study of interactions of middle-class parents from 27 Swedish families, designated as shared child care or traditional families, with their first-born infants, aged 8 to 12 months. Suggests that differential involvement in child care has significant effects on fathers' behavior. (DR)
Descriptors: Affection, Fathers, Infants, Interaction Process Analysis
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Lamb, Michael E.; And Others – Child Development, 1983
Analyses of the interaction of 45 Swedish infants with their mothers and fathers revealed that degree of paternal involvement had no effect on preferences displayed on measures of attachment and affiliative behaviors. At both eight and 16 months, infants showed clear preferences for their mothers over their fathers. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Fathers, Foreign Countries, Infants
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Stattin, Hakan; Klackenberg, Gunnar – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1992
Analyzed descriptive data on prevalence, temporal stability, and prognostic utility of family disharmony over childrearing years. Findings from 133 children raised in 2-parent families until age 18 showed that prevalence of disharmonious marital, mother-child, and father-child relations increased as child aged, with sudden increase in prevalence…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Fathers, Foreign Countries, Incidence
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Jutengren, Goran; Palmerus, Kerstin – Children & Society, 2002
Interviewed two samples (pairwise matched on sex and age of child and fathers' education) of fathers from Sweden and the United States about parental discipline with their 38- to 66-5month-olds. Found that, compared with U.S. fathers, Swedish fathers displayed a range of disciplining approaches from punitive reprimands to restrictive control…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Comparative Analysis, Discipline, Fathers
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Olsson, M. B.; Hwang, C. P. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2006
Background: The aim of the study was to compare mothers' and fathers' involvement in paid work and child-care in families of children with intellectual disability (ID) and control families and to test if differences in well-being between mothers and fathers of children with ID can be explained by differences in involvement in paid work and…
Descriptors: Well Being, Mental Retardation, Child Care, Children
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Lamb, Michael E.; And Others – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1982
To further explore findings indicating that parental gender is a much more important predictor of caretaker behavior style than is involvement in parental role, 45 Swedish couples were observed at home interacting with their 16-month-old infants. Findings suggest that gender differences in parental behavior are much less amenable to social…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Family Life, Fathers, Foreign Countries
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Mutzell, Sture – Early Child Development and Care, 1995
A 15-year study examined the lives of male alcoholic inpatients and their children. Found differences in social adjustment and health status between the children of alcoholics and the control children. These children also required greater social assistance, particularly those in homes where alcohol and drug use combined. Boys were more vulnerable…
Descriptors: Alcoholism, Antisocial Behavior, Child Health, Childhood Needs
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