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Direct linkSue Greenwood – Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, 2024
Studies into why young people choose to study journalism have often been informed by a belief in journalism's inherent worthiness within civil society. However, as surveys show decreasing trust in journalism and increasing avoidance of news in many countries, this article asks whether young people are being put off studying journalism in part…
Descriptors: Journalism, Trust (Psychology), News Media, Decision Making
Iikka Oinonen; Tuija Seppälä; Riikka Paloniemi – Environmental Education Research, 2024
How to support young people's agency is a key question of sustainability education. Action competence for sustainability is suggested covering the essential components of youth's readiness to act both individually and collectively, but empirical tests of these associations are scarce. Therefore, this study explores the relationship between action…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Sustainability, Environmental Education, Competence
Pirinen, Veera; Loukusa, Soile; Dindar, Katja; Mäkinen, Leena; Hurtig, Tuula; Jussila, Katja; Mattila, Marja-Leena; Eggers, Kurt – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the nature of speech disfluencies in autistic young adults and controls by using a wide-range disfluency classification of typical disfluencies (TD; i.e., filled pauses, revisions, abandoned utterances, and multisyllable word and phrase repetitions), stuttering-like disfluencies (SLD; i.e., sound…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Young Adults, Stuttering, Speech Impairments
Samira Harjula; Mira Kalalahti – Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, 2024
Young people in the Nordic countries have many options and face obligations to participate in career guidance and counselling (guidance). In Finland, young people are subjected to multiple institutionalized guidance practices especially in educational transition phases. Guidance has various objectives as a public policy, thereby setting a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Career Guidance, Young Adults, Adolescents
Olivier, Elizabeth; Morin, Alexandre J. S.; Leo, Victoria; Salmela-Aro, Katariina – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2023
This study seeks to identify profiles of depressive symptoms trajectories among a sample of 2,696 Finnish students (56.8% female), followed from 13-14 to 18-19 years old. Piecewise growth mixture analyses identified 5 trajectories: Low Stabilizing (6.20%), Mild Increasing (47.90%), Moderate Stabilizing (36.82%), Low Increasing (3.62%), and High…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Young Adults, Depression (Psychology)
Padilla-Walker, Laura M.; Van der Graaff, Jolien; Workman, Katey; Carlo, Gustavo; Branje, Susan; Carrizales, Alexia; Gerbino, Maria; Gülseven, Zehra; Hawk, Skyler T.; Luengo Kanacri, Paula; Mesurado, Belén; Samper-García, Paula; Shen, Yuh-Ling; Taylor, Laura K.; Trach, Jessica; van Zalk, Maarten H. W.; Žukauskiene, Rita – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2022
Evidence suggests an impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health, particularly among emerging adults. However, theories on altruism born of suffering or adversarial growth suggest that we might also see prosocial behavior as a function of the pandemic, which may protect against mental health challenges. Because cultural values are central in…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Mental Health, Prosocial Behavior, Cultural Influences
Dindar, Katja; Loukusa, Soile; Leinonen, Eeva; Mäkinen, Leena; Mämmelä, Laura; Mattila, Marja-Leena; Ebeling, Hanna; Hurtig, Tuula – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2023
Since prior research has mostly focused on children, less is known about how autistic adults and adults with sub-clinical autistic traits interpret pragmatically complex social situations and the kind of narrative discourse they produce. 32 autistic young adults, 18 young adults with sub-clinical autistic traits and 34 non-autistic young adults…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Interpersonal Relationship, Young Adults
Riikka Puhakka – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2024
While well-being and health benefits of nature are increasingly recognized, young people's decreasing contact with nature has raised concerns. The emerging adulthood period is seen as critical for ongoing participation in outdoor recreation. This mixed methods study examines how participation in an outdoor education course, including canoeing and…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Well Being, Young Adults, Environment
Benasso, Sebastiano, Ed.; Bouillet, Dejana, Ed.; Neves, Tiago, Ed.; Parreira do Amaral, Marcelo, Ed. – Palgrave Studies in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning, 2022
This open access book explores different landscapes of Lifelong Learning policies (LLP), producing case-based examinations of their institutional, discursive, and relational dimensions. Across Europe, young people develop their life courses amidst diverse living conditions and are confronted with a variety of institutional and structural…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Foreign Countries
Meriläinen, Niina – On the Horizon, 2022
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to study how young vocational school students in Finland frame themselves and their participation in society and whether they are seen in various media. The explorative research, with n = 213 vocational school and prepatory VALMA students as co-researchers, tells us that young vocational school students use…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Students, Foreign Countries, Vocational Schools
Tervo-Niemelä, Kati – British Journal of Religious Education, 2021
The focus of this article is on religious transmission in families and other religious influences among young adults and their linkage to changes in faith in transition to adulthood. The special interest lies in the question of what happens to those with no religious upbringing at home: are there other factors which may turn out as meaningful and…
Descriptors: Religion, Religious Factors, Child Rearing, Longitudinal Studies
Repo, Juuso; Herkama, Sanna; Yanagida, Takuya; Salmivalli, Christina – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2023
The study investigated a developmentally sensitive group, emerging adults going through a critical post-secondary educational transition in tandem with the first wave of the COVID pandemic in Finland. The participants (n = 330) were surveyed initially during their first year in secondary education, and again during the pandemic, right after their…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Adjustment (to Environment), COVID-19, Pandemics
Daria Khanolainen; Maria Psyridou; Kenneth Eklund; Tuija Aro; Minna Torppa – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2024
Purpose: Reading fluency establishes the basis for the strong literacy skills needed for academic success. We aim to trace how reading fluency develops from childhood to adulthood and identify factors that influence this development. Method: In this study, 200 families were followed. All participating children (N = 200, 47% female) were ethnic…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Growth Models, Student Development, Children
Minjong Youn; Chungseo Kang – SAGE Open, 2023
This study explores the role of the welfare state in reducing young people not being in education, employment, or training (NEET)s across 15 European countries. Using data from the Survey of Adult Skills in the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) in combination with the Social Expenditure Database, we conducted…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Welfare Services, Young Adults, Out of School Youth
D'Urso, Giulio; Juvonen, Jaana; Salmivalli, Christina – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2023
The current study examines whether peer victimization experienced in early adolescence is associated with compromised social functioning 14 years later in young adulthood. The sample involved 1533 young adults (65.1% female, M[subscript age] = 27.06) who had participated in a large research project as middle school students (7th and 8th graders,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Young Adults, Peer Relationship, Victims
