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Karen Man Wa Kwan; Sylvia Yun Shi; Laura N. MacMullin; A. Natisha Nabbijohn; Diana E. Peragine; Doug P. VanderLaan; Wang Ivy Wong – Developmental Psychology, 2024
Children show less positivity toward gender-nonconforming (GN) than gender-conforming (GC) peers. Yet, little is known about children's reasoning about peers of varying gender expressions, including age-, gender-, and culture-related influences. We investigated how children aged 4- to 5- and 8- to 9-years-old in Hong Kong and Canada (N = 678)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Moral Values, Age Differences, Gender Differences
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Michele C. McDonnall; Anne Steverson; Jamie Boydstun; Frances Mary D'Andrea – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2025
Introduction: The purpose of this study was to investigate factors associated with having proficient braille skill, with a specific interest in employment status. Method: Survey data were collected in 2021 and 2022 from 449 employed and unemployed people with low vision and people who are blind, all of whom were legally blind. Proficient braille…
Descriptors: Braille, Adults, Language Skills, Blindness
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Lynn Planinac; Robert Schwartz; Michael Chaiton; Bruce Baskerville; Daniel Grace; Carmen Logie; Catherine MacDonald – Journal of LGBT Youth, 2024
Canadian young adults who identify as Two Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, intersex (2SLGBTQI+) have higher smoking rates compared to their straight cisgender counterparts. One of the reasons for this trend is the perceived social acceptability of smoking and how it relates to stress, mental health and social connections. A sequential…
Descriptors: Smoking, LGBTQ People, Young Adults, Foreign Countries
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Christina Carrier; Carly Magnacca; Ethan Rinaldo; Jeffrey Esteves; Adrienne Perry – Journal of Mental Health Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2025
Introduction: Mental health concerns have been noted to be highly prevalent for youth with intellectual disability (ID), with or without autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The purpose of the current study was to examine a Canadian sample of youth with ID, with or without ASD, to explore caregiver-reported percentages, predictors, and treatment…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Mental Disorders, Intellectual Disability, Autism Spectrum Disorders
Laura Presley – Statistics Canada, 2025
In 2022, the disability rate for persons aged 15 years and over in Canada was 27%, representing nearly 8 million people. Disability rates are shown to increase with age: 20.1% among youth aged 15 to 24 and 40.4% among seniors aged 65 and older. Additionally, while disability rates increased across all age groups (with the exception of seniors aged…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Youth, Disabilities, Students with Disabilities
Wall, Katherine; Wood, Shane – Statistics Canada, 2023
This study uses the 2021 Census to describe the educational attainment and earnings of the Canadian-born Black population, focusing on three groups: (1) those with at least one African-born parent (African-origin); (2) those with at least one Caribbean-born parent (Caribbean-origin) and (3) those whose parents were both born in Canada…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Blacks, Educational Attainment, Income
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Jonathan Paris; Sawsen Lakhal; Joséphine Mukamurera – Educational Technology & Society, 2025
The extensive adoption of online education by universities worldwide was further propelled by the coronavirus disease pandemic (COVID-19), giving rise to a key challenge: high dropout rates. Previous studies based on the Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework have examined the effects of social presence (SP), cognitive presence (CP), and teaching…
Descriptors: Student Satisfaction, Academic Persistence, College Students, Online Courses
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Markel Rico-González; Ricardo Martín-Moya; María Mendoza-Muñoz; Jorge Carlos-Vivas – Health Education Journal, 2024
Objective: Physical activity (PA) is essential to promote both optimal physical and emotional health in preschool children. Hence, well-founded PA guidelines are essential. 24-hour Movement Guidelines (which include PA, recreational screen time and sleep) have been established. Thus, this study aimed to explore preschool-aged children's adherence…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Physical Activity Level, Guidelines, Preschool Children
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Nalipay, Ma. Jenina N.; King, Ronnel B.; Yeung, Susanna S. S.; Chai, Ching Sing; Jong, Morris Siu-Yung – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2023
Background: Individuals pursue teaching careers for numerous reasons, such as for instrumental or prosocial purposes. Aims: This study examined the personal (instrumental motivation) and social (prosocial motivation) utility of teaching as predictors of teaching quality in terms of clarity of instruction, classroom management, and cognitive…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Teaching (Occupation), Motivation, Predictor Variables
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Julia Fuoco; Nina Howe; Sandra Della Porta; Hildy S. Ross – Early Education and Development, 2024
This study investigated parents' and siblings' knowledge use during naturalistic teaching episodes in the home. Thirty-seven middle-class families were observed for six 90-minute sessions (siblings aged 4 and 6 years). Parent and sibling teaching sequences were coded for knowledge type (conceptual, procedural), conceptual subcategories (social…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Parents as Teachers, Foreign Countries, Siblings
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Anna Sui; Wuyou Sui; Jennifer Irwin – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Smartphone ownership and engagement are at an all-time high. Excessive smartphone use may impart smartphone-specific anxiety; specifically, the fear of being unable to access or use one's smartphone, or nomophobia. Young adults, in particular, are at higher risk for nomophobia, given higher ownership of and engagement with smartphones. Notably,…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Internet, Addictive Behavior, Anxiety
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Beverly D. Schwartz; Liam P. Pellerine; Nick W. Bray; Jonathon R. Fowles; Joyla A. Furlano; Anisa Morava; Taniya S. Nagpal; Myles W. O'Brien – Journal of American College Health, 2025
Objective: Test the hypothesis that smoking, fast-food consumption, and binge drinking were negatively associated with academic performance in Canadian undergraduate students. Participants: Undergraduate students across Canada [n = 411 (335[female gender symbol]) aged: 22 ± 4 years] completed a questionnaire regarding their lifestyle behaviors and…
Descriptors: Smoking, Alcohol Abuse, Academic Achievement, Undergraduate Students
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Ahn, Junhee; Yang, Youngran – American Journal of Sexuality Education, 2023
This systematic review aimed to understand the effects of self-esteem on risky sexual behavior (RSB) among adolescents and young adults. We followed the procedures outlined in the Cooper's five-step approach, and used the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) 2020 reporting requirements. Published studies were…
Descriptors: Self Esteem, Sexuality, Adolescents, Young Adults
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Samira Feizi; Bärbel Knäuper; Frank Elgar – Higher Education Research and Development, 2024
Stress is a common negative emotion in students. Given the stress associated with doctoral studies, it is crucial to examine the influence of stress on well-being, program satisfaction, and retention in doctoral programs. This study examined stress-related issues and their relationships with intention to quit in a sample of 2,486 students enrolled…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Well Being, Doctoral Students, Student Satisfaction
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Caroline E. Miller; L. Eugene Arnold; Andrea Chronis-Tuscano; Lily Hechtman; Stephen P. Hinshaw; Michael J. Kofler; Brooke S. G. Molina; Sébastien Normand; Linda J. Pfiffner; Amori Yee Mikami – Journal of Attention Disorders, 2025
Background: Many children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) demonstrate impairment in social skills. However, ADHD rarely occurs in isolation, with approximately one-third of children with ADHD having one additional disorder, and another third having two or three comorbidities. Few studies have considered the global and specific…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Profiles, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Comorbidity
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