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Andreana Pastena; Albert Sesé; Mireia Trenchs-Parera – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This study investigates first-year undergraduates when starting their studies in a highly internationalised public university settled in a multicultural and multilingual European city. It focuses on to what extent individual differences as regards plurilingualism and previous intercultural experience are related to a higher or lower degree of…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Freshmen, Student Attitudes, Cultural Awareness
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Fernández de la Iglesia, Josefa del Carmen; Martínez-Santos, Alba-Elena; Rodríguez-González, Raquel; Cebreiro, Beatriz; Fernández-Morante, Carmen; Casal-Otero, Lorena – Health Education Journal, 2020
Objective: The purpose of this study was to describe how a service-learning methodology can promote blood donation among students by increasing levels of knowledge and improving attitudes while developing professional skills. Method: A quasi-experimental study design was utilised. A questionnaire identified barriers and incentives to blood…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Student Attitudes, Human Body, Donors
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Aznar-Díaz, Inmaculada; Trujillo-Torres, Juan-Manuel; Alonso-García, Santiago; Rodríguez-Jiménez, Carmen – Research in Social Sciences and Technology, 2019
The development of mobile devices has affected the way of life of university students, affecting their daily habits and sometimes their health. Specifically, in recent years a series of illnesses have developed as a result of the constant use of smartphones by the university population, which has come to be catalogued as an at-risk population. The…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Addictive Behavior, College Students, Foreign Countries
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Oller, Judith; Largo, Mariana; Merino, Iris; Coll, César – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2020
Introduction: In the "new ecology of learning" it is becoming crucial to trace the paths of learning experiences that students develop both in school and outside it. Few research studies have focused on out-of-school activities. In this paper, we explore differences between children and adolescents in their participation through 26…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Learning Experience, Children, Adolescents
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Katsantonis, Ioannis – Pedagogical Research, 2020
The goal of the present study is to examine mainly the associations of contextual variables with stress and teachers' psychological well-being across organizational cultures. The responses (N= 51,782) of a population of primary school teachers from 15 different educational cultures were analyzed. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was implemented…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Well Being, Stress Variables, Cross Cultural Studies
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Larrañaga, Elisa; Navarro, Raúl; Yubero, Santiago – Comunicar: Media Education Research Journal, 2018
Research on the characteristics shown by children who cyberbully others is scarce. The objective of this research is to know the variables that predict the involvement of youngsters in cyberbullying perpetration. The current study examined the relation between socio-cognitive and emotional variables and cyberbullying perpetration. It examined the…
Descriptors: Bullying, Computer Mediated Communication, Moral Values, Social Cognition
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Cortés-Pascual, P. A.; Cano-Escoriaza, J.; Orejudo, S. – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2014
This study analyzes the work values of 2,951 first-year university students in Spain enrolled in degree programs within the five major areas of university studies. For our research, participants were asked to respond to a Scale of Work Values in which intrinsic, social, and pragmatic extrinsic values as well as extrinsic values related to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, Values, Work Attitudes
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Tesch-Romer, Clemens; Motel-Klingebiel, Andreas; Tomasik, Martin J. – Social Indicators Research, 2008
These analyses explore the relationship between gender inequality and subjective well-being. The hypothesis was tested as to whether societal gender inequality is related to the size of gender differences in subjective well-being in various societies. Results come from comparative data sets (World Values Survey, involving 57 countries; OASIS…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Well Being, Cross Cultural Studies