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Direct linkMa, Yue – International Journal of Science Education, 2022
Using TIMSS 2015 data, the present study aimed to explore the profiles of attitudes toward science among Hong Kong eighth-grade students (N = 4138), and further to investigate how these attitudinal profiles might relate with gender and science achievement. In TIMSS, attitudes toward science are specified in terms of four factors: intrinsic…
Descriptors: Profiles, Student Attitudes, Scientific Attitudes, Gender Differences
Download full textMehmet Oktay Kablan; Mehmet Imamoglu – Journal of Education in Science, Environment and Health, 2024
The aim of this study was to examine the effects of gender, the number of siblings, and grade level on digital game playing motivation and addiction levels in secondary school students and to reveal the relationship between digital game motivation and addiction. A total of 394 students, 168 boys and 226 girls, participated in the study…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Eating Habits, Secondary School Students, Grade 5
Prewett, Sara L.; Whitney, Stephen D. – Teacher Development, 2021
Teachers' teaching self-efficacy and teachers' feelings of negative affect may be associated with students' academic achievement; however, little is known about how these factors directly affect adolescent students' math and reading achievement. The eighth-grade wave of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study data was used to investigate teacher…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Teacher Attitudes, Affective Behavior, Academic Achievement
Depressive Symptoms in Mexican-Origin Adolescents: Interrelations between School and Family Contexts
Arora, Prerna G.; Wheeler, Lorey A. – Contemporary School Psychology, 2018
This study, as guided by cultural-ecological frameworks, examined multiple contextual stressors, including subjective economic hardship, acculturation, discrimination, and negative perceptions of school safety, as simultaneously linked to adolescents' depressive symptoms, as well as the role of gender, familism values, family cohesion, and school…
Descriptors: Mexican Americans, Grade 8, Grade 9, Stress Variables
Lee, Jihyun – Written Communication, 2013
Based on eighth-grade writing assessment data from the 1998 (N = 20,586) and 2007 (N = 139,900) National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), this study examines the relationships among students' writing attitudes, learning-related behaviors, and gender in relation to writing performance. Overall, the effects of attitudes were slightly…
Descriptors: National Competency Tests, Writing Tests, Data Analysis, Writing Evaluation
James, Jenee; Ellis, Bruce J.; Schlomer, Gabriel L.; Garber, Judy – Developmental Psychology, 2012
The current study tested sex-specific pathways to early puberty, sexual debut, and sexual risk taking, as specified by an integrated evolutionary-developmental model of adolescent sexual development and behavior. In a prospective study of 238 adolescents (n = 129 girls and n = 109 boys) followed from approximately 12-18 years of age, we tested for…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Females, Puberty, Fatherless Family
Doganay, Ahmet – Research Papers in Education, 2010
The scores of Turkish students on the international tests such as TIMMS and PISA, which assess basic science concepts, reading and problem-solving abilities, are among the lowest. Although understanding the concept of democracy has been studied across the countries, it has not been clearly researched in Turkey. For this reason, the focus of this…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Gender Differences, Socioeconomic Status, Parent Influence
Yang, Shu Ching; Chen, Shih-Fen – Death Studies, 2009
This study administered an open-ended questionnaire about death and the Multidimensional Fear of Death Scale (MODS) to explore the relationships between personal constructs about death and fears of death among Taiwanese adolescents. The sample included 329 adolescents in junior and senior high school grades 7 to 12. A coding manual was used to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Content Analysis, Fear, Death
Peer reviewedChristiansen, Lois M.; Copeland, Ellis P.; Stapert, Erika B. – Adolescence (San Diego): an international quarterly devoted to the physiological, psychological, psychiatric, sociological, and educational aspects of the second decade of human life, 2008
This study investigated the presence and strength of the relationship between daily hassles, coping style, negative mood regulations, and somatic symptomatology in junior high rural adolescents. Five paper-and-pencil instruments assessing perceived daily hassles, coping strategies, ability to successfully alleviate a negative mood state, degree of…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Coping, Rural Areas, Grade 8
Rinaldi, Christina M.; Kates, Allison D.; Welton, Christine – Emotional & Behavioural Difficulties, 2008
Many social interactions between school-age children contain both competitive and cooperative elements. In order to gain a better understanding of how students at risk for emotional and behavioural difficulties (EBD) negotiate social exchanges in cooperative and competitive-related tasks in comparison with non-EBD students: (a) prosocial; (b)…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, High Risk Students, Competition, Cooperation
Benenson, Joyce F.; Schinazi, Joy – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2004
The current studies were designed to examine whether female adolescents have more negative reactions than male adolescents to achieving more than their same-sex friends. In Study 1, 51 females and 48 males from grades 8 and 10 were administered questions assessing their reactions to performing better than their closest same-sex friends in four…
Descriptors: Friendship, Adolescents, Grade 8, Grade 10
Carmo, Mafalda, Ed. – Online Submission, 2017
This book contains a compilation of papers presented at the International Conference on Education and New Developments (END 2017), organized by the World Institute for Advanced Research and Science (W.I.A.R.S.). Education, in our contemporary world, is a right since we are born. Every experience has a formative effect on the constitution of the…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Models, Vocational Education, Outcomes of Education
