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Håkansson, Michael; Östman, Leif – Environmental Education Research, 2019
This article departures from the understanding of environmental sustainable education (ESE) as a political project that consists of dissonant and conflicting voices. The aim of the article is to understand how affection, i.e. bodily sensations, transform into political emotions in teaching and learning settings. The article offers a philosophical…
Descriptors: Political Attitudes, Environmental Education, Sustainable Development, Citizenship
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Hörberg, Anna; Lindström, Veronica; Scheja, Max; Conte, Helen; Kalén, Susanne – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2019
The aim of this study was to explore challenging encounters experienced by registered nurses (RN) during their first year in the emergency medical service by using the social learning theory of communities of practice. During the first year in a new professional practice, a new RN experiences a transition during which the new professional identity…
Descriptors: Nurses, Medical Services, Socialization, Communities of Practice
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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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Park, Eunil; Kim, Ki Joon – Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, 2013
Purpose: The aim of this paper is to propose an integrated path model in order to explore user acceptance of long-term evolution (LTE) services by examining potential causal relationships between key psychological factors and user intention to use the services. Design/methodology/approach: Online survey data collected from 1,344 users are analysed…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Services, Path Analysis
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Wojnar, Danuta M.; Swanson, Kristen M.; Adolfsson, Ann-Sofie – Death Studies, 2011
In spite of scientific evidence that miscarriage has negative psychological consequences for many individuals and couples, silence and dismissal continue to surround this invisible loss in North American culture and beyond. The grief and sorrow of miscarriage has important implications for clinical practice. It indicates a need for therapeutic…
Descriptors: Pregnancy, Death, Psychological Patterns, Females
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Renberg, Ellinor Salander; Hjelmeland, Heidi; Koposov, Roman – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2008
Our aim was to build a model delineating the relationship between attitudes toward suicide and suicidal behavior and to assess equivalence by applying the model on data from different countries. Representative samples from the general population were approached in Sweden, Norway, and Russia with the Attitudes Toward Suicide (ATTS) questionnaire.…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Prevention, Suicide, Foreign Countries
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Viberg, Ake – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2008
In her thought-provoking article, Aneta Pavlenko approaches emotion and emotion-laden words in the bilingual lexicon from an impressive number of different perspectives. This is particularly welcome, since most models of linguistic structure do not account for emotional meanings in a systematic way. One exception worth mentioning, however, is…
Descriptors: Dictionaries, Grade 5, Bilingualism, Bilingual Students
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Fauth, Elizabeth Braungart; Zarit, Steven H.; Malmberg, Bo; Johansson, Boo – Gerontologist, 2007
Purpose: This study used the Disablement Process Model to predict whether a sample of the oldest-old maintained their disability or disability-free status over a 2- and 4-year follow-up, or whether they transitioned into a state of disability during this time. Design and Methods: We followed a sample of 149 Swedish adults who were 86 years of age…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Foreign Countries, Models, Older Adults