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Kraaykamp, Gerbert; Tolsma, Jochem; Wolbers, Maarten H. J. – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2013
In this paper we study to what extent parental field of study affects a person's educational level and field of study. We employ information on 8800 respondents from the Family Survey Dutch Population (1992-2009). Our results first of all show that, over the last five decades, economic fields of study have become more fashionable among men. In…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Equal Education, Educational Trends, Trend Analysis
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Castera, Jeremy; Sarapuu, Tago; Clement, Pierre – Journal of Biological Education, 2013
Innatism is the belief that most of the human personality can be determined by genes. This ideology is dangerous, especially when it claims to be scientific. The present study investigates conceptions of 1060 students from Estonia and France related to genetic determinism of some human behaviours. Factors taken into account included students'…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Gender Differences, Genetics, Foreign Countries
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Jourdan, D.; Pironom, J.; Berger, D.; Carvalho, G. S. – Health Education Journal, 2013
Objective: To analyse teachers' health views in order to obtain general trends in factors influencing health and health education and to fit them into the negative-positive model of health proposed by Downie and collaborators. Method: This large international study involved 15 countries from Western and Eastern Europe, North and Sub-Saharan…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Health Education, Trend Analysis, Questionnaires
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Corra, Mamadi; Carter, Shannon K.; Carter, J. Scott; Knox, David – Journal of Family Issues, 2009
This article uses data from the 1973-2006 General Social Survey to assess the interactive impact of race and gender on marital happiness over time. Findings indicate independent and significant effects for both variables, with Whites and husbands reporting greater marital happiness than Blacks and wives. Comparing four subgroups (White husbands,…
Descriptors: Spouses, Marital Satisfaction, Marriage Counseling, Psychological Patterns