UNLABELLED BACKGROUND People have the right to make choices regarding their own sexuality, as far as they respect the rights of others. The knowledge of those rights is critical to youth's ability to protect themselves from unwanted reproductive outcomes. Reproductive health targeted Millennium Development Goals will not be achieved without improving access to reproductive health. This study...

The present study focuses on comparing the impact of role assignment and cross-age peer tutors on students’ level of knowledge construction in 15 asynchronous discussion groups of nine students each in a first-year university course (N 1⁄4 135). Content analysis was applied to analyse the level of knowledge construction in students’ online postings. The results indicated that students in the tu...

This research revised Wong and Law’s (2002) Emotional Intelligence Scale (WLEIS), and specifically examined the feasibility of its use with Chinese university students. The participants were 1458 university students in two cities in China (Beijing and Shandong province) and results showed that the Chinese version of the WLEIS retained a four-factor structure. The scale had acceptable reliabilit...

We examine the impact of primary school mergers on academic performance of students using a dataset that we collected using a survey designed specifically to examine changes in the academic performance of students before and after their schools were merged. We use difference-in-differences and propensity score matching approaches and demonstrate that overall the primary school merger has not ha...

The purpose of this study is to identify salient factors on students' career preparation behavior in the context of the hospitality and tourism education. A correlational study examined relationships between learning motivation, academic achievement, career decision selfefficacy, and career preparation behavior for 188 American students and 234 Korean students who major hospitality and tourism....

The present study considered the reliability and validity of the 78-item revised version of the Multicultural Personality Questionnaire, a multidimensional instrument aimed at measuring multicultural effectiveness of expatriate employees and students. The questionnaire includes scales for cultural empathy, open-mindedness, emotional stability, social initiative and flexibility. Participants wer...

BACKGROUND A reversed gender pattern has been observed in the suicide rate in China compared to elsewhere. Like suicidal behaviour, non-suicidal self-injurious (NSSI) behaviour is a health-risk behaviour. We examined whether a reversed gender pattern existed in the prevalence of NSSI. METHODS Online literature databases were searched for English and Chinese articles on NSSI behaviours among t...