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Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleAn Empirical Analysis on Mobile Phone Messaging Satisfaction among Malaysian YouthsVimala Balakrishnan, P.H.P. Yeow, H. S. LooProblem statement: The proliferation of mobile phone use among the youths worldwide has sparked the interest of many researchers, especially those related to the mobile phone adoptions and use. However, there is a lack of study in assessing the impact of the mobile design on its users, especially in relation to the Short Messaging Service application. Due to this, an … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 7, Issue 2 · 21 Mar 2011 · 7,868 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleExploring the Causal Factors of Recidivism among Children in Conflict with the Law: The Case of Addis Ababa Women’s, Children and Youth Affairs Rehabilitation Center, EthiopiaDemelash Kassaye Debalkie, Fiseha AbadiRecidivism is a complex issue arising from a variety of sources. The increasing number of children in conflict with the Law in Ethiopia became a pressing issue of the law enforcement agencies to reduce the participation of children in crime. This study aims to identify the factors motivating children to commit crimes after rehabilitation. Children aged 12-15 years and experts … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 21, Issue 1 · 11 Mar 2025 · 6,112 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleSexting and Youth: Achieving a Rational ResponseNancy E. WillardThe term “sexting” is a combination of two terms “text” and “sex”. The term is being applied to situations to sending self-created nude or semi-nude sexually provocative images or sexually explicit text. Most of the focus has been on sending nude images-because these are far more likely to be more widely disseminated and because the distribution of these images can … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 6, Issue 4 · 23 Oct 2010 · 9,637 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleSexting, Texting, Cyberbullying and Keeping Youth Safe OnlineRobin D'Antona, Meline Kevorkian, Ashley RussomProblem statement: The issue of cyberbullying is one that has raised the concerns of parents, educators and law enforcement. Today children have cell phones with internet access as young as age eleven and some have cell phones as young as age eight making them all vulnerable to cyberbullying. Approach: The aim of this study was to explore differences between third, … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 6, Issue 4 · 23 Oct 2010 · 13,565 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleHow Youth in India and Lebanon Rate their IntelligenceRamzi Nasser, Sushila SinghalA sample of 648 Lebanese and 252 Indian students estimated their intelligences based on Gardner's 10 multiple intelligence. Males rated higher their body kinesthetic and religious dimension (spiritual) while females rated higher their verbal and intra-personal estimates of intelligence. Using the educational level of the parent, no significant correlation with self-estimates of intelligence for each of the national samples was … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 2, Issue 4 · 31 Dec 2006 · 7,095 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsAmerican Students in Russia: Research and Data Analysis of Exchange ProgramsAlexander Aref’ev, Mara SukholutskayaThe article focuses on the main trends in American students training in Russia from the 1960s to the present day. The paper considers the issues like changes in geography and curricula of American students, dynamics of their total number in Soviet and Russian higher education and their preferences of certain universities. The article also provides information on socio-demographic composition of … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 12, Issue 10 · 30 Oct 2015 · 6,748 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsBarriers to Children and Young People’s Participation in Policy Making in GhanaJones Adu-GyamfiThis research examined the barriers to young people’s participation as strategic stakeholders in the formulation of public policy, using the formulation of Ghana’s youth policy as a case study. The aim was to gain knowledge about the processes that facilitate or hinder young people’s participation in the policy process at national level. The study involved the use of semi-structured interviews … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 11, Issue 4 · 21 Sep 2015 · 8,199 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsRELATIONSHIPS AMONG INDICATORS OF FITNESS, FATNESS AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE RISK FACTORS IN ADOLESCENTSRobert Malina, Stephen-Mark Cooper, John Young et al.In adults, fatness and low cardiorespiratory fitness are associated with a higher prevalence of chronic disease risk and mortality. The association between measures of physical fitness and fatness upon cardiovascular risk in youth, however, is less clear. The effects of adiposity and physical fitness upon cardiovascular disease risk factors in youth are receiving increasing attention but studies that have examined … …OnLine Journal of Biological Sciences, Vol. 12, Issue 3 · 7 Aug 2012 · 8,114 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsThe Role of the Jordanian Media in Raising Awareness of the Democratic ElectionHeba Hammad, Mustafa AyrouttProblem statement: We ty to identify the role of Jordanian media in spreading awareness of the democratic election from the viewpoint of a sample of students in the faculties of university in Jordan. Approach: The search tool consisting of 24 paragraphs were utitlized on a sample of 100 students. Results: Results showed that differences were not statistically significant according to … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 7, Issue 3 · 18 Jul 2011 · 7,101 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsMulticultural Upper Secondary School Life in Denmark: Identifications, Solidarity and CitizenshipYvonne MørckEducation has played an important role in the development of the Nordic welfare states. As in other European countries, present day Denmark wrestles with the problem of finding ways to handle the increased diversity of its population in terms of, for instance, ethnicity, religion and language. Hence, negotiations and contestations about how to operationalize different forms of multiculturalism on all … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 3, Issue 2 · 30 Jun 2007 · 8,037 accessesView PDFCite