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Maslovskaya, Olga; Smith, Peter W. F.; Padmadas, Sabu S. – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2018
Knowledge about different health-related attitudes, beliefs, and risks is of significant interest to scholars in different Social Science disciplines. Usually knowledge is collected in a form of multiple variables and then constructed as a composite indicator. The question any researcher working with knowledge-related variables faces is: what is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Science Research, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Cross Cultural Studies
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Pronk, Jeroen; Lee, Nikki C.; Sandhu, Damanjit; Kaur, Kirandeep; Kaur, Shubhdip; Olthof, Tjeert; Goossens, Frits A. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2017
Contemporary research adopts an evolutionary theoretical perspective in which bullying is strategic behavior that is conducive to peer-group status enhancement. Within this view, a high social status (i.e., popularity) has been associated with bullying others, while a high affiliative status (i.e., preference) has been associated with defending…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Bullying, Social Status, Peer Acceptance
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Schuster, Beate; And Others – Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 1989
Studies perceptions of causal attributions pertinent to success and failure in two social class groups from Belgium, West Germany, India, South Korea, and England. Found high agreement among the two social classes as well as among four of the nations, but Indians rated all causes as more external, variable, and uncontrollable. (FMW)
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Attribution Theory, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences