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Furutani, Kaichiro; Kawamoto, Taishi; Alimardani, Maryam; Nakashima, Ken'ichiro – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2020
We examined the factorial structure and validity of a Japanese version of the Parental Burnout Assessment, the PBA-J, with 1,500 Japanese parents. The Parental Burnout Assessment measures burnout using four dimensions: exhaustion in one's parental role, contrast in parental self, feelings of being fed up, and emotional distancing. Confirmatory…
Descriptors: Burnout, Factor Analysis, Parent Attitudes, Factor Structure
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Pandya, Samta P. – Religious Education, 2018
Based on a one-year longitudinal experimental study with 3,782 kindergarten school children across 15 countries, this article examines the association between prayer and happiness. Results show that the post-test scores on the faces scale were higher for the participant group who had taken the prayer lessons vis-à-vis the comparison group.…
Descriptors: Scores, Cross Cultural Studies, Christianity, Pretests Posttests
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Akitsu, Yutaka; Ishihara, Keiichi N.; Okumura, Hideyuki; Yamasue, Eiji – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2017
Energy literacy is indispensable for a sustainable society, which is fostered and improved by formal and informal energy education. To achieve the goal of energy education, which develops a well-informed public with positive attitudes toward energy conservation and the ability to make appropriate decisions regarding future energy choices, we must…
Descriptors: Energy, Literacy, Environmental Education, Energy Conservation
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Nakayama, Minoru; Mutsuura, Kouichi; Yamamoto, Hiroh – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2014
A fully online learning environment requires effective learning management in order to promote pro-active education. Since student's notes are a reflection of the progress of their education, analysis of notes taken can be used to track the learning process of students who participate in fully online courses. This paper presents the causal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Notetaking, Learning Processes
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Osada, Hirokazu; Tachimori, Hisateru; Koyama, Tomonori; Kurita, Hiroshi – Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 2012
We followed up 67 children with autistic disorder (AD) and 31 children with pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified (PDDNOS) for more than 10 years by reviewing medical records at a clinic for children with developmental disabilities. The participants' data were collected between their first visit to the clinic and the visit at…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Autism, Developmental Disabilities, Clinics
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Tokuda, Y.; Okubo, T.; Yanai, H.; Jacobs, J.; Ohde, S.; Takahashi, O.; Omata, F.; Hinohara, S.; Fukui, T. – Health Education Journal, 2010
Objective: Health locus of control (HLC) is associated with health behaviours. We aimed to investigate the difference of HLC to understand the potential gap in health beliefs between physicians and the general public. Design and setting: Physicians and the general public were surveyed in Japan using a cross-sectional survey. Data on the Japanese…
Descriptors: Locus of Control, Structural Equation Models, Physicians, Foreign Countries
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Shiotsu, Toshihiko; Weir, Cyril J. – Language Testing, 2007
In the componential approach to modelling reading ability, a number of contributory factors have been empirically validated. However, research on their relative contribution to explaining performance on second language reading tests is limited. Furthermore, the contribution of knowledge of syntax has been largely ignored in comparison with the…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Syntax, Reading Tests, Structural Equation Models
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Nakayama, Minoru; Yamamoto, Hiroh; Santiago, Rowena – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2007
To improve the management of hybrid courses, the relationship between learner characteristics and learning performance was analyzed in two regular university courses. Undergraduate and graduate students participated in two 15-week hybrid courses which consisted of face-to-face lectures (Information Industrial issues), and the corresponding modules…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Characteristics, Undergraduate Students, Blended Learning