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Tracey Bowen; Maureen T.B. Drysdale; Sarah Callaghan; Sally Smith; Kristina Johansson; Colin Smith; Barbara Walsh; Tessa Berg – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2024
Purpose: This study identifies gendered disparities among women students participating in work-integrated learning and explores the effects of the disparities on their perceptions on perceived opportunities, competencies, sense of belonging, and professional identity. Design/methodology/approach: A series of semi-structured focus groups were run…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, College Students, Work Experience Programs
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Bäck, Emma A.; Bäck, Hanna; Altermark, Niklas; Knapton, Holly – International Journal of Developmental Science, 2018
It is a human fundamental to desire to be valued, loved and respected--to be significant. Social exclusion induce significance loss which elicits a 'quest for significance'--the search for opportunities to re-gain significance. The present article establishes this relation in a laboratory experiment (N = 71, mean age = 28, SD = 10.42, 65% women,…
Descriptors: Social Isolation, Laboratory Experiments, Attitude Change, Rejection (Psychology)
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Skar, R. N. Lisa – Journal of Adolescence, 2003
The purpose of this study was to enhance our knowledge of what it is like to grow up with a disability, specifically, with focus on how adolescents with restricted mobility perceive social roles and relationships to peers and adults. The group investigated consisted of 12 adolescents with restricted mobility from northern Sweden, aged from 15 to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adolescent Attitudes, Physical Disabilities, Interviews