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Estanyol, Elisenda; Montaña, Mireia; Fernández-de-Castro, Pedro; Aranda, Daniel; Mohammadi, Leila – Comunicar: Media Education Research Journal, 2023
Datafication in today's communicative ecosystem poses a challenge to media and digital literacy, especially with regard to young people's participation and civic and democratic engagement. We address this issue using the notion of digital citizenship, in order to study the gender digital divide as it relates to competence (i.e., skills and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Digital Literacy, Late Adolescents, Young Adults
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María Rosario Carvajal Muñoz – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2024
Vocational training, aimed mainly at the most vulnerable groups of unemployed, was introduced in Spain during the 1980s, at a time of rising unemployment. Since then, its main objective has been integrating these people into the labour market; however, the results are unsatisfactory. In this regard, the seven focus group interviews carried out in…
Descriptors: Unemployment, Foreign Countries, Well Being, Personal Autonomy
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Luca Bazzi; Susanne Brouwer; Alice Foucart – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Literature has shown that foreign-accented (FA) speech modulates the degree of irony perceived by native (NA) individuals, but the subsequent consequences it may have on social interaction are unknown. To address this question, we presented Spanish first language (L1) users with written contexts with ironic/literal praises allocated to either a NA…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Spanish Speaking, Figurative Language, Native Speakers
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Hui Yang – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2025
This study explored the impact of digital technologies on the development of musical skills among music students. A learning experiment was conducted with 66 students between the ages of 18 and 21 from China, France, Italy, and Spain. The study used the methods of a survey and online discussions. Participants verified that the present advancement…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Adults, Music Education, Music
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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
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Taddeo, Gabriella; de-Frutos-Torres, Belinda; Alvarado, Maria-Cruz – Comunicar: Media Education Research Journal, 2022
Misinformation on social media is a major problem facing our society. The experience deriving from use does not guarantee success in identifying false information. This study seeks to determine whether an active role in social media impacts on informational skills. For this purpose, we designed a survey that was administered to 756 young people…
Descriptors: Social Media, Misconceptions, Information Skills, Young Adults
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Diaz-Garolera, Gemma; Pallisera, M.; Fullana, J. – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2022
Society stigmatises people with learning disabilities (LD) and limits their opportunities to experience relationships [Callus and Farrugia 2016. "The Disabled Child's Participation Rights." Routledge]. Actions addressed at improving their competence in social skills may contribute to enhancing their social networks. Therefore, a…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Friendship, Program Development, Program Evaluation
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Mónica Guerra Santana; Josue Artiles-Rodríguez; Josefa Rodríguez Pulido – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2024
Introduction: The difference in the opinions of two groups of university students on the transition to adulthood and on certain educational aspects over a period of 8 years was analysed, one before and the other after the Sars-Cov 2 pandemic. Method: The questionnaire was applied based on the perception that university students have on the…
Descriptors: College Students, COVID-19, Pandemics, Individual Development
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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
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Lopez-Agudo, Luis Alejandro; Prieto-Latorre, Claudia; Marcenaro-Gutierrez, Óscar David – Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research, 2021
Both students and parents have expectations about students' academic future. The present study analyses the influence of both sets of expectations when students are at age 15-16 on the level of education achieved by students when they are 23-24 years old. For this purpose, a structural equation model is estimated by three-stage least squares,…
Descriptors: Expectation, Educational Attainment, Academic Aspiration, Parent Aspiration
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María del Carmen García-Mendoza; Águeda Parra Jiménez; Enrique Bernardino Arranz Freijo; Jeffrey Arnett; Inmaculada Sánchez Queija – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2024
During emerging adulthood, family relationships remain salient. This study examined, from a gender perspective, continuity/discontinuity and stability/instability in family relationships, in a two-time repeated-measures study with Spanish emerging adult college students. It also analyzed the implications of the quality of parent--child…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Young Adults, Family Relationship
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Sergi Martín-Arbós; Elena Castarlenas; Fabia Morales-Vives; Jorge-Manuel Dueñas – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2024
Dropout is a problematic issue in education due to its high prevalence and impact on students and society. In fact, it can limit students' future options, and it involves a substantial cost for public budgets in most countries. This is not an easy problem to solve, since student dropout is a complex decisional process involving such factors as…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Potential Dropouts, Social Influences, Demography
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Robles-Bello, María Auxiliadora; Sánchez-Teruel, David; Valencia Naranjo, Nieves; Delgado Rodríguez, Rafael – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2022
The social functioning of adults with Down Syndrome (DS) specially influences their quality of life. Emotional intelligence (EI) plays a key role in social outcomes because it is defined as a variety of social and emotional skills that enable people to be more effective in their personal and social lives. Thus, validated EI tests for use among…
Descriptors: Down Syndrome, Emotional Intelligence, Test Validity, Psychometrics
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Rojas-Pernia, Susana; Haya-Salmón, Ignacio; Lastra-Cagigas, Santiago; Álvarez-Sáenz de Santa María, Lucia – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2020
This article presents the results of a project carried out by a group of researchers with and without intellectual disabilities on "the importance of social relationships and loneliness." We wanted to find out about the experience of loneliness in young people with and without intellectual disabilities and know whether this was an…
Descriptors: Alienation, Cultural Isolation, Developmental Disabilities, Foreign Countries
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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
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