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Risks on the Internet: The Role of Family Support in Colombian Adolescents
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Castaño-Pulgarín, Sergio Andrés; Millán Otero, Katy Luz; Herrera-López, Harvey Mauricio – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2021
Introduction: Internet users, especially adolescents, may experience online risks that can affect their mental health. This study examined the association between online risks and family support as this has been conceptualized as variable that can prevent the risks in the Internet use among adolescents. Method: We applied an adapted version to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Internet, Family Role, Correlation
Sources of Support and Mediation Online for 9-12-Year-Old Children
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McDonald-Brown, Craig; Laxman, Kumar; Hope, John – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2017
The emerging adolescents of today are required to navigate challenges and risks quite different from those faced by their parents and teachers. The usual trials of adolescence have been magnified and transformed, in large part due to the development of information and communication technology, and the rapid rise of online social networking. The…
Descriptors: Preadolescents, Self Efficacy, Parent Role, Teacher Role
Forest Schools and Environmental Attitudes: A Case Study of Children Aged 8-11 Years
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Turtle, Christina; Convery, Ian; Convery, Katie – Cogent Education, 2015
There is growing evidence that children in the UK are suffering from a lack of engagement with nature and the outdoor environment. This paper investigates the attitudes of children towards the natural environment and focuses on Forest School programmes as a mechanism to promote a "pro-environmental" attitude. The study identified that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Natural Resources, Student Attitudes, Outdoor Education
Making Dutch Pupils Media Conscious: Preadolescents' Self-Assessment of Possible Media Risks and the Need for Media Education
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Kuter-Luks, Theresa; Heuvelman, Ard; Peters, Oscar – Learning, Media and Technology, 2011
Despite clear European and Dutch policies about media education, there is currently no media education curriculum in Dutch schools. A survey among preadolescents (n = 257) in six primary schools in the Netherlands included questions regarding media access, fears, risks, parental mediation of television and the internet, and the need for media…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Journalism Education, Preadolescents, Risk
Risk Taking, Boundary Performance and Intentional School Internet "Misuse"
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Hope, Andrew – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2007
Whilst the association of risk with schools is predominately a negative one, fostering images of potential dangers, this paper draws upon a socio-cultural counter-discourse to explore the perceived benefits of certain risk taking activities within educational establishments. Using research data on school Internet "misuse" it is argued…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Internet, Risk, Student Behavior
Clusters of Pre- and Early Adolescents with Varying Substance Use Expectancies: Identifying Probabilities of Membership.
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Egan, Elizabeth A.; Hummel, Thomas J. – 1998
Adolescent drug use in the United States remains higher than that of any other industrialized country. To explore this problem, demographic and psychosocial variables from a survey of 346 pre- and early adolescents were used to predict membership in clusters of students with varying substance use attitudes and expectancies. Cluster analysis…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Drinking, Elementary Secondary Education, Illegal Drug Use