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Andrew Jenkins – Studies in Continuing Education, 2024
This paper draws on longitudinal birth cohort data for Britain to analyse participation in learning activities by people in their 30s and 40s. People in this age group have received less attention than either young adults or people in retirement. Yet technical change and the need for new skills make it important for them to engage in learning to…
Descriptors: Adults, Midlife Transitions, Lifelong Learning, Job Skills
Esen Altunay; Nedim Özdemir – Studies in Continuing Education, 2025
Policymakers worldwide are grappling with devising robust policies aimed at enhancing adult learning, due to its growing significance in bolstering competitiveness within knowledge-based economies. However, there is scant research on adult learning strategies for improving intrapersonal or social practice approaches, particularly in work settings,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adults, Adult Learning, Learning Strategies
Marianne Paimre; Sirje Virkus; Kairi Osula – Health Education & Behavior, 2024
Despite the proven effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines in preventing severe illness, many individuals, including older adults who are most susceptible to the virus, have opted against vaccination. Various factors could shape vaccination decisions, including seeking health information (HI). The internet is the primary source of HI today; however,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Immunization Programs
Kaspar Burger; Michael Becker; Ingrid Schoon – Developmental Psychology, 2024
Developmental science suggests that the consequences of mental health problems for life-course outcomes may depend on the timing of their onset. This study investigated the extent to which mental health predicted educational attainment at ages 17, 20, and 25 and whether gender moderated the links between mental health and educational attainment.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Educational Attainment, Adults
Lampe, Leonie F.; Hameau, Solène; Nickels, Lyndsey – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2022
This research investigated how word production is influenced by six feature-based semantic variables (number of semantic features, intercorrelational density, number of near semantic neighbors, semantic similarity, typicality, and distinctiveness). We simultaneously investigated effects of the six semantic variables on spoken picture naming in a…
Descriptors: Semantics, Naming, Pictorial Stimuli, Psycholinguistics
Tian-Tian Li; Hsiu-Lan Shelley Tien – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2024
The purpose of the study was to test the applicability of the "Time Perspective Scale" for the emerging adult population in China. Participants were 725 young adults. The instruments included the "Time Perspective Scale", "Life Satisfaction Scale" and "Career Adaptability Scale". The results indicated: (1)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Adults, Life Satisfaction, Vocational Adjustment
Cindy Karikari – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The influence of andragogical principles on employee motivation to transfer training was examined in this study. The research problem is whether the principles of andragogy (Need to Know, Self-Concept, Experience, Readiness to Learn, Orientation to Learning, and Motivation to Learn) predict motivation to transfer training among individuals who…
Descriptors: Motivation, Transfer of Training, Correlation, Employees
Paloma Aparicio; Alberto Alonso-Babarro; Raquel Barba; Fernando Moldenhauer; Carmen Suárez; Diego Real de Asúa – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2024
Objectives: Characterise the circumstances associated with death during admission of adults with Down syndrome (DS) and to identify predictors of mortality. Patients and Methods: Observational study based on data on all emergent admissions of adults with DS to hospitals of the Spanish National Health System between 1997 and 2014. We analysed…
Descriptors: Death, Adults, Down Syndrome, Predictor Variables
Divya Sadana; Rajnish Kumar Gupta; Sanjeev Jain; S. S. Kumaran; Jamuna Rajeswaran – Gifted and Talented International, 2024
The present study aimed to explore the association between creativity, intelligence, and personality. The study recruited sixty healthy volunteers in the age range of 20-40 years from Bengaluru city (formerly Bangalore), South India, and administered tests for fluid intelligence (Raven's Standard Progressive Matrices), personality (Big Five…
Descriptors: Creativity, Personality, Intelligence, Correlation
Jenkins, Andrew – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2021
The literature on educational choices and participation has tended to focus on youth and to some extent on older adults, with little attention to the group in between. This paper therefore analyses participation in various types of learning by people in their 30s and 40s. This group are often juggling career and family life commitments meaning…
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, Student Participation, Adults, Predictor Variables
Alexandra Starr; Zainab F. Haider; Sophie von Stumm – Developmental Psychology, 2024
In putatively meritocratic societies, doing well in school is a pivotal precondition for accessing further and higher education, which, in turn, has a pervasive, long-term influence on adulthood development. Yet, doing well in school may also predict "real-life success" outside formal education settings and independent of the educational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Adults, Outcomes of Education, Educational Attainment
Ting Li; Lushaobo Shi; Yi Xia; Zengping Shi; Dong Wang – Youth & Society, 2024
As a result of globalization, Chinese young adults who transit to adulthood currently are being exposed to a combination of traditional Chinese values such as collectivism and Confucian philosophy, as well as Western individualism. We analyzed the trends in depression prevalence within an 8-year period using panel data derived from young adults in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Adults, Predictor Variables, Non Western Civilization
Melanie Viola Partsch; Monique Landberg – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2024
In today's world, lifelong learning (LLL) is a key element of individual and societal success. However, despite knowing potential determinants of LLL, we do not yet understand how they interact to facilitate LLL. Therefore, the present study aims to verify the usefulness of the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) in predicting LLL. We applied a…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Behavior Theories, Nonformal Education, Informal Education
Liu, Hsiu Tan – Deafness & Education International, 2022
This study explores relationships between Taiwanese Sign Language (TSL) and Chinese reading comprehension with 65 deaf adults/youth (study 1: ages 14--50 years) and 27 deaf children (study 2: ages 6--13 years). Significant relationships were found between scores on two tests measuring TSL tasks. In study #1, the TSL tasks (measured by Taiwan Sign…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Chinese, Reading Comprehension, Deafness
Lin, Shu-Yuan; Tseng, Hui-Chen – Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2022
The purpose of this study was to investigate short-term changes of frailty in adults and identify predictors of frailty and disability changes between baseline and the follow-up. A cohort study was conducted in 85 adults with intellectual disability (ID) in southern Taiwan. Variables of frailty phenotype, Barthel Index, fall, comorbidity, and…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Adults, Intellectual Disability, Predictor Variables