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Müller, Christoph M.; Hofmann, Verena; Arm, Sybille – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2017
Early adolescents vary in their susceptibility to peer influence on delinquency. However, it is still less clear which factors explain this variation and how these factors relate to each other. In this study, 10 factors that may moderate peer influence were investigated. A sample of 868 participants was followed across six occasions from seventh…
Descriptors: Delinquency, Peer Influence, Prevention, Gender Differences
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Pfenninger, Simone E.; Singleton, David – Second Language Research, 2016
Recent findings (see, for example, Muñoz and Singleton, 2011) indicate that age of onset is not a strong determinant of instructed foreign language (FL) learners' achievement and that age is intricately connected with social and psychological factors shaping the learner's overall FL experience. The present study, accordingly, takes a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Age
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Valeeva, Rania F. – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2016
In this paper, I examine whether generalized trust and education, as well as social security policies of welfare state institutions matter for cross-national differences in subjective well-being (SWB), because knowledge on this issue is still lacking. For this purpose I integrated the insights of two sociological theories: Social Function…
Descriptors: Well Being, Federal Programs, Public Policy, Welfare Services