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Marja Vauras

sj-pdf-1-jis-10.1177_01655515211043708 – Supplemental material for How do gender, Internet activity and learning beliefs predict sixth-grade students’ self-efficacy beliefs in and attitudes towards online inquiry?

Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-jis-10.1177_01655515211043708 for How do gender, Internet activity and learning beliefs predict sixth-grade students’ self-efficacy beliefs in and attitudes towards online inquiry? by Eero Sormunen, Norbert Erdmann, Suzanne CSA Otieno, Mirjamaija Mikkilä-Erdmann, Eero Laakkonen, Teemu Mikkonen, Md Arman Hossain, Roberto González-Ibáñez, Mario Quintanilla-Gatica, Paavo HT Leppänen and Marja Vauras in Journal of Information Science

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How do gender, Internet activity and learning beliefs predict sixth-grade students’ self-efficacy beliefs in and attitudes towards online inquiry?

Today’s students search, evaluate and actively use Web information in their school assignments, that is, they conduct an online inquiry. This current survey study addresses sixth-grade students’ self-efficacy beliefs in and attitudes towards online inquiry, and to what extent free-time and school-related Internet activity, gender and learning beliefs explain these. The questionnaire was administered in 10 schools to 340 sixth-graders in Finland. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses revealed three elements of self-efficacy beliefs: self-efficacy in Web searching, the evaluation of sources and synthesising information. Furthermore, attitudes towards online inquiry loaded into two fact…

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Parental Self-Efficacy and Intra- and Extra-Familial Relationships

AbstractRelationships are at the heart of well-being. Parental self-efficacy emerges as a powerful construct for understanding parenting and parent–child relationships. However, person-centered approaches that allow identification of different family-specific configurations of mothers’ and fathers’ parental self-efficacy and potential within-family discrepancies remain scarce. Families are more than the sums of their parts, and holistic approaches are needed to deepen our understanding of potential family-level accumulation of relationship well-being and vulnerability. A latent profile analysis of 249 families of preadolescents identified four family profiles of parental self-efficacy: (1) …

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sj-pdf-1-jis-10.1177_01655515211043708 – Supplemental material for How do gender, Internet activity and learning beliefs predict sixth-grade students’ self-efficacy beliefs in and attitudes towards online inquiry?

Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-jis-10.1177_01655515211043708 for How do gender, Internet activity and learning beliefs predict sixth-grade students’ self-efficacy beliefs in and attitudes towards online inquiry? by Eero Sormunen, Norbert Erdmann, Suzanne CSA Otieno, Mirjamaija Mikkilä-Erdmann, Eero Laakkonen, Teemu Mikkonen, Md Arman Hossain, Roberto González-Ibáñez, Mario Quintanilla-Gatica, Paavo HT Leppänen and Marja Vauras in Journal of Information Science

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