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Direct linkYuri Akizuki; Shoko Kusunoki; Eri Maeda – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2024
This study aimed to assess the fertility knowledge of Japanese education undergraduates who plan to become schoolteachers and examine related factors. A cross-sectional questionnaire survey was conducted with 252 first-year education undergraduates at a Japanese university. The Cardiff Fertility Knowledge Scale (CFKS) was used to measure fertility…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Gender Differences, Sex Education
Hirokawa, Kumi; Kimura, Takashi; Ikehara, Satoyo; Honjo, Kaori; Ueda, Kimiko; Sato, Takuyo; Iso, Hiroyasu; Kishi, Reiko; Yaegashi, Nobuo; Hashimoto, Koichi; Mori, Chisato; Ito, Shuichi; Yamagata, Zentaro; Inadera, Hidekuni; Kamijima, Michihiro; Heike, Toshio; Iso, Hiroyasu; Shima, Masayuki; Kawai, Yasuaki; Suganuma, Narufumi; Kusuhara, Koichi; Katoh, Takahiko – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2020
The purpose of the present study was to investigate associations of dietary intake including vitamin D, folate, and n-3 and n-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) in pregnant women with broad autism phenotype (BAP). The Japan Environment and Children's Study is a government-funded birth cohort study. All complete data of 92,011 were analyzed. The…
Descriptors: Eating Habits, Dietetics, Nutrition, Pregnancy
Sato, Takahiro; Kataoka, Chie; Burge-Hall, Valerie; Furuta, Yu; Izumi, Ayaka; Tomura, Takafumi – Health Education Journal, 2022
Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate Japanese undergraduate students' learning experiences as part of an online sexuality education workshop. Design: We employed a qualitative design using in-depth, semi-structured interviews. Setting: The study was conducted at a public university in the Kanto region of Japan. Method:…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Learning Experience, Sex Education, Health Behavior
Sato, Takahiro; Kataoka, Chie; McKay, Cathy; Kizuka, Hirotaka; Miyachi, Miho; Furuta, Yu; Ikeshita, Momoka – Cogent Education, 2023
The purpose of this study was to describe and explain Japanese health and physical education teachers' experiences teaching sexuality education at the high school level. This qualitative study used the interview method, with an in-depth, semi-structured approach. The research sites were Japanese high schools located in the Kanto region of Japan.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Health Education, Physical Education Teachers, Sex Education
Stark, Tobias H.; Silber, Henning; Krosnick, Jon A.; Blom, Annelies G.; Aoyagi, Midori; Belchior, Ana; Bosnjak, Michael; Clement, Sanne Lund; John, Melvin; Jónsdóttir, Guðbjörg Andrea; Lawson, Karen; Lynn, Peter; Martinsson, Johan; Shamshiri-Petersen, Ditte; Tvinnereim, Endre; Yu, Ruoh-rong – Sociological Methods & Research, 2020
Questionnaire design is routinely guided by classic experiments on question form, wording, and context conducted decades ago. This article explores whether two question order effects (one due to the norm of evenhandedness and the other due to subtraction or perceptual contrast) appear in surveys of probability samples in the United States and 11…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Test Format, Generalization, Foreign Countries
Download full textJane W. Seymour; Rosemary Frasso; Bitnara Jasmine Park; Katie Herz; Saida Mamedova; Ian M. Bennett – Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies, 2017
Literacy is associated with a range of health behaviors and outcomes, however, the relationship between literacy and reproductive health remains understudied. Literacy level is related to but distinct from educational attainment, a social determinant of health, which is strongly associated with health inequities. Given policy makers' interest in…
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Adults, Literacy, Pregnancy
Hertog, Ekaterina; Iwasawa, Miho – Journal of Family Issues, 2011
In this article, the authors argue that to understand the very low incidence of outside-of-marriage childbearing in contemporary Japan one needs to take into account perceptions of all possible solutions to a premarital pregnancy: marriage, abortion, and childbearing outside wedlock. To demonstrate the particular impact of these perceptions in…
Descriptors: Females, Pregnancy, Marriage, Foreign Countries
Koyama, Tomonori; Kamio, Yoko; Inada, Naoko; Inokuchi, Eiko – Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2011
Difficulties in social communication are not necessarily observed only in individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), and there are many subclinical cases in the general populations. Although advanced parental age at childbirth has often been considered a possible risk factor of ASD, it might contribute to poor social functioning in…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Pregnancy, Social Development, Interpersonal Competence
Maudlin, Julie G.; Sandlin, Jennifer A.; Thaller, Jonel – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2012
We focus on the recently emerging "baby culture" that is fostering a curriculum of consumption and consumerism among parents-to-be and infants aged zero-to-three. To gain insight into how the cultural artifacts, practices, and trends emerging from this demographic are shaping the way we think and act in a consumer culture, we investigate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Life Style, Purchasing, Consumer Economics
Raymo, James M.; Iwasawa, Miho – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2008
In this paper, we examine two aspects of recent increases in marriage preceded by pregnancy (bridal pregnancy) in Japan. Using information on 28,973 respondents to the Japanese National Fertility Surveys, we first demonstrate that increases in bridal pregnancy between 1970 and 2002 were concentrated among women without postsecondary education. We…
Descriptors: Pregnancy, Foreign Countries, Marriage, Educational Attainment
Goto, Aya; Nguyen, Quang Vinh; Nguyen, Thi Tu Van; Pham, Nghiem Minh; Chung, Thi Mong Thuy; Trinh, Huu Phuc; Yabe, Junko; Sasaki, Hitomi; Yasumura, Seiji – Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2010
We conducted this cross-sectional study among 392 Japanese and 294 Vietnamese mothers who attended routine child health visits in a Japanese city and at a tertiary hospital in Vietnam, in order to investigate the prevalence and associated sociodemographic, parenting, and psychological characteristics of low maternal confidence in child rearing…
Descriptors: Psychological Characteristics, Mothers, Self Efficacy, Child Health
Myowa-Yamakoshi, Masako; Takeshita, Hideko – Infancy, 2006
Using four-dimensional (4D) ultrasonography, arm and hand movements toward the face were examined in 27 human fetuses at 19 to 35 weeks of gestation, thereby enabling the continuous monitoring of their faces and other surface features such as the extremities. More than half of the observed arm movements resulted in the hand touching the mouth…
Descriptors: Pregnancy, Motor Reactions, Infant Behavior, Human Body
Wakai, Kunio, Ed.; Chen, Shing-Jen, Ed.; Furutsuka, Takashi, Ed.; Shirotani, Yukari, Ed. – 1997
This annual report discusses several topics related to the work of the Research and Clinical Center for Child Development at Hokkaido University in Japan. The articles are: (1) "Heart to Heart (Inter "Jo") Resonance: Taking Japanese Concept of Intersubjectivity Out of Everyday Life" (Shigeru Nakano); (2) "Intersubjectivity…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Caregiver Child Relationship, Child Development, Child Rearing
Pracana, Clara, Ed.; Wang, Michael, Ed. – Online Submission, 2016
We are delighted to welcome you to the International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends (InPACT) 2016, taking place in Lisbon, Portugal, from 30 of April to 2 of May, 2016. Psychology, nowadays, offers a large range of scientific fields where it can be applied. The goal of understanding individuals and groups (mental functions and…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Educational Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology
