Vietnamese undergraduate students’ perspectives on sexual knowledge, attitudes, and risky sexual behavior

Human sexual behavior research is a multidisciplinary endeavor that seeks to comprehend one of the most vital and complex aspects of our behavioral science. This study aimed to investigate Vietnamese university students' perception of sexual knowledge as well as the relationship between gender, academic year, and sexual orientation. The questionnaire was sent to 666 Vietnamese undergraduate students in four universities which 418 respondents were considered valid for research purposes. The study results showed that there was a significant difference among the four study groups of different (1) academic year; (2) sexual orientations; (3) gender and academic year level; (4) academic year and sexual orientation; (5) gender, academic year, and sexual orientation level when considered jointly on the variables of the three aspects of the Sex knowledge and Attitude Questionnaire II. However, there was no reciprocal relationship between (6) gender; (7) gender, and sexual orientation level. The findings of this study will have implications for school policies that attempt to promote and maintain a positive school climate in an effort to address the issue of sexuality education, including sexual knowledge.

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The Academic Freedom among the Students at the Hashemite University: الحرية الأكاديمية لدى طلبة الجامعة الهاشمية

المجلة العربية للعلوم ونشر الأبحاث مجلة العلوم التربوية والنفسية ◽

10.26389/ajsrp.x141217 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4 (30) ◽

Author(s):

Abd AlKhaleq Muhammad Al-Zyoud

Keyword(s):

Academic Freedom ◽

Undergraduate Students ◽

First Semester ◽

Academic Level ◽

Study Results ◽

High Level ◽

The University ◽

Hashemite University ◽

Senior Students ◽

Academic Year

This study aimed at exploring the level of academic freedom at the Hashemite University in Jordan from the perspective of the undergraduate students, and whether there are impacts of the students’ gender, academic level, or specialization. The sample consisted of (376) undergraduate students (111 male, 265 female), who are registered at the university for the first semester of the academic year 2019/2020, from all faculties of the Hashemite University. The results showed that 25.5% of participants perceived a high level of academic freedom, 57.2% of participants perceived a moderate level, and 17.3% of them perceived a low level. Significant differences were found due to academic level; academic freedom perceived level among senior students was higher than all other years (freshmen, sophomores and juniors), but no significant differences were found due to students’ gender, or specialization. In light of the study results, the researcher recommends a number of recommendations such as: raising the awareness about the academic freedom among the students, faculty members, and the staff the Jordanian universities, conducting survey studies that measure the level of academic freedom among the students at various Jordanian universities, Supporting the academic freedom of the students at the institutions of higher education through deliberate and planned initiatives.

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Genital Piercing: Childhood and Adolescent Behaviors That Serve as Predictors and Scores on Scales Measuring Hypersexuality and Risky Sexual Behavior, Sexual Orientation, Depression, Conflict, Intimacy, and Sexual Satisfaction

Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity ◽

10.1080/10720162.2017.1290563 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 24 (1-2) ◽

pp. 58-78 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Karen Griffee ◽

Keith W. Beard ◽

Sandra S. Stroebel ◽

Karen V. Harper-Dorton ◽

Stephen L. O'Keefe ◽

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Keyword(s):

Sexual Behavior ◽

Sexual Orientation ◽

Sexual Satisfaction ◽

Risky Sexual Behavior

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CHALLENGES FACED BY UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS IN ONLINE LEARNING DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Scholarly Research Journal for Interdisciplinary Studies ◽

10.21922/srjis.v9i66.6829 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9 (66) ◽

pp. 15346-15358

Author(s):

Bhadab Hembram

Keyword(s):

Online Learning ◽

Undergraduate Students ◽

Online Teaching ◽

Traditional Classroom ◽

Descriptive Statistics ◽

Classroom Teaching ◽

Significant Difference ◽

Traditional Classroom Teaching ◽

Girl Students ◽

Academic Year

Nowadays the education system has dramatically changed from traditional classroom teaching to remote online teaching due to this COVID-19 crisis. This study aimed to estimate the challenges in Online Learning among undergraduate l students studying in various Aided colleges during this lockdown period due to the COVID-19 crisis. The study was conducted by employing a questionnaire prepared using 'Google form'. An aggregate of 136 undergraduate students participated in this survey. For hypotheses testing both descriptive statistics such as 'Mean, SD' and inferential statistics such as t – test' were employed. Analysis showed that there is no significant difference between Problems faced by UG students in terms of gender, place of living, and academic year. The study confirms that girl students have more than boy students in the online learning process.

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Changes in the engineering students’ procrastination self-evaluation within the experimental approbation of career education program

10.22616/rrd.26.2020.041 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Aleksandra Jerkunkova ◽

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Irena Katane ◽

Regina Baltusite ◽

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Keyword(s):

Education Program ◽

Engineering Students ◽

Career Education ◽

Career Goals ◽

Dropping Out ◽

Self Evaluation ◽

Study Results ◽

Significant Difference ◽

Before And After ◽

Academic Year

One of the modern education problems being investigated is a phenomenon of student procrastination and minimisation of its influence on achievement of career goals. A transformative pedagogical experiment was carried out involving 1st year engineering students of Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies during the 2018/2019 academic year. The aim of the transformative pedagogical experiment was to promote the reduction of student procrastination levels and achievement of their goals by practical experimental approbation of a career education program. During the experiment, self-evaluation of student procrastination was performed before and after the implementation of the career education program. The methodology included 20 indicators of procrastination self-evaluation. The program included three topic-based parts: 1) understanding and setting student career goals; 2) defining procrastination levels and factors; 3) the influence of procrastination minimisation on career goals’ achievement. The study results allowed to conclude that due to the career education program elaborated and implemented in practice, substantial changes in student procrastination self-evaluation took place during the transformative pedagogical experiment. There was a significant difference in student procrastination levels before and after the transformative pedagogical experiment. The study results demonstrated that the elaborated and experimentally implemented career education program is valid and can be further used for minimisation of student procrastination, it can contribute to career goals’ achievement and for the reduction of early discontinuation of studies and dropping out of university as there is a correlation between procrastination and dropout phenomena.

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Contraception Knowledge And Risky Sexual Behavior In College Students

International Business & Economics Research Journal (IBER) ◽

10.19030/iber.v11i13.7456 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 11 (13) ◽

pp. 1519

Author(s):

Marta Yubero ◽

Elisa Larranaga

Keyword(s):

College Students ◽

Sexual Behavior ◽

Young People ◽

Sexual Behaviors ◽

Risky Sexual Behavior ◽

Basic Knowledge ◽

Sexual Relations ◽

Contraceptive Methods ◽

Significant Difference ◽

Lack Of Knowledge

Most research indicates that there is an early beginning of sexual relations among young people, a fact that makes them susceptible to risky practices as it is demonstrated by the growing percentage of unwanted pregnancies and the rate of IVES among youngsters under 18 years old. Information and education on sexual health are of relevant importance for the prevention of a risky sexual behavior among young people. In previous studies it has been demonstrated that there is a significant lack of knowledge regarding contraceptive methods too. The current work aims at learning about the sexual behaviors of young people as well as about the basic knowledge they should have about contraceptive methods so as to elaborate efficient intervention and prevention programs. The participants were between 17 and 23 years old. Their first sexual relations were at 16.5 years old, as an average, a figure that is coincident with that of other studies. 85% of the college students being surveyed had had complete sexual relations. Among them, a significant percentage had a risky sexual behavior. Regarding the knowledge they have of contraceptive methods, there is no significant difference between genders. There is lack of knowledge of essential aspects of this area.

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PENGEMBANGAN MEDIA PEMBELAJARAN INTERAKTIF PADA MATA PELAJARAN GEOGRAFI

Jurnal Teknologi Pendidikan (JTP) ◽

10.24114/jtp.v5i1.487 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Sahat Siagian ◽

Lingin Lingin

Keyword(s):

Hypothesis Test ◽

Field Testing ◽

Instructional Media ◽

Text Book ◽

Instructional Product ◽

Study Results ◽

Significant Difference ◽

Academic Year ◽

Information Collecting

This research is aimed to : (1) develop a good interactive Instructional media, easy to be learnt, and can be used for individual learning, (2) examine the effectiveness of theinteractive instructional media in Geography. This study is developmental research uses Borg & Gall’s model combined with Dick & Carey’s. The development of this instructional product is systematically proceeded in six steps; research and information collecting, planning, developing preliminary product, validating, trying out, revising, and producing final product. The subjects of preliminary field testing are two experts in Geography, two experts in instructional design,two experts in media product, three students for one-to-one try out, nine students for small group try out, and fifty one students for large group try out. The instruments employed in this study is a questionnaire and analyzed by using descriptive statistics. The findings of the study conclude that the quality of the developed instructional is excellent. The final product ofthis interactive instructional media is continued with effectiveness test. The study takes place in SMA Sutomo 1 Medan to the students of X class, academic year 2011-2012. The method used in this study is quasi experiment. The samples are 96 students consisting 50 students as experiment class given interactive Instructional media while the others given text book as control class. The result of hypothesis test proof that the study results of the students taught show a significant difference between using interactive instructional media and the text book. (Fcount = 5.19 > Ftable = 1.95). The effectiveness of the interactive instructional media is 82.55%higher than the text book 71.84%.

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Undergraduate Students Information Behavior in the Changing Technological Era

Advances in Library and Information Science - Information Access and Library User Needs in Developing Countries ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-4353-6.ch014 ◽

2014 ◽

pp. 211-226

Author(s):

Naifa Eid Al-Saleem

Keyword(s):

Undergraduate Students ◽

Information Seeking ◽

Faculty Members ◽

Information Seeking Behavior ◽

Sultan Qaboos University ◽

Study Results ◽

Seeking Behavior ◽

Google Search ◽

Academic Year

There has been a great deal of research conducted to investigate the information-seeking behavior of difference group of users. A search of current literature, however, reveals few studies dealing with information-seeking strategies of undergraduates in the electronic era. This chapter presents the results of a preliminary study of information-seeking among 675 undergraduates at Sultan Qaboos University (SQU). The study was designed to 1) explore undergraduates’ information-seeking behavior with e-resources; 2) identify the role of faculty members and librarians in assisting undergraduates to attain search skills; and 3) discover the differences between undergraduates in terms of their age, gender, academic year, and college. The study results indicated that only 3% of undergraduates use the electronic services and databases subscribed to by the SQU main library. In addition, the results showed that 57.7% of the undergraduate students at SQU used the Google search engine for their initial search. There is a statistical difference between undergraduate students in terms of their age and use of e-resources. Finally, this study found the role of faculty members and librarians in assisting undergraduates to learn search strategies is almost absent.

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Exploring the Relationship between Facebook and Self-Esteem among Turkish University Students

International Journal of Cyber Behavior Psychology and Learning ◽

10.4018/ijcbpl.2015100105 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 5 (4) ◽

pp. 62-72 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Sevinç Mersin ◽

Ali Acılar

Keyword(s):

University Students ◽

Undergraduate Students ◽

Self Esteem ◽

Business Administration ◽

Research Data ◽

Significant Difference ◽

Facebook Use ◽

Turkish University Students ◽

The Relationship ◽

Academic Year

The main purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between the use of Facebook and self-esteem among Turkish university students. Research data were obtained by surveying the undergraduate students in the Business Administration and Economics Departments of Bilecik Seyh Edebali University, in the academic year of 2013-2014. A questionnaire, including Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, was used to collect the data. According to the results of the study, self-esteem of Turkish university students does not have significant association with Facebook use. It was found that there was no statistically significant difference between self-esteem of those who use and those do not use Facebook. In addition, there was also no relationship found between characteristics of Facebook use and self-esteem among Facebook users either.

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Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Knowledge and Sexual Behavior among University Students in Ambo, Central Ethiopia: Implication to Improve Intervention

Journal of Sexually Transmitted Diseases ◽

10.1155/2015/890202 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 2015 ◽

pp. 1-6 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Zekariyas Sahile ◽

Mulugeta Mekuria ◽

Abenezer Yared

Keyword(s):

Sexual Behavior ◽

University Students ◽

Risky Sexual Behavior ◽

Transmitted Disease ◽

Intervention Group ◽

Comprehensive Knowledge ◽

Significant Difference ◽

Comparative Group ◽

Aids Knowledge ◽

Hiv Aids

Background. Ethiopia has one of the lowest HIV prevalence rates in East Africa, but there are still more than one million people estimated to be living with HIV in Ethiopia. This study was aimed at assessing the comprehensive HIV/AIDS knowledge and sexual behavior among university students. Methodology. A cross-sectional comparative study was done with quantitative and qualitative data collection with a stratified sampling technique. The quantitative data were edited, coded, entered, and analyzed using SPSS software version 20. Result. Both comprehensive knowledge of HIV/AIDS transmission and prevention method were higher in the intervention group (75.8% and 48.5%) than comparative group (68.6% and 42.5%) which had a significant difference (P<0.05). Life time sexual intercourse was higher in the intervention group (40.8%) as compared to the comparative group (34.6%). But sexual condom utilization in the past 12 months was higher in the intervention group (73.2%) as compared to the comparative group (56.9%) which had a significant difference (P<0.05). Similarly, history of sexual transmitted disease report was higher in the comparative group (6.3%) as compared to the intervention (4.6%). Among sexual experience respondents in the last 12 months, 32% of them in the intervention and 35.5% of them in the comparative group have had multiple sexual partners. Conclusion. The intervention group had higher comprehensive knowledge of HIV/AIDS and condom utilization. But a higher percentage of students were engaged in risky sexual behavior. Therefore, emphasis should be given on designing different strategy to reduce risky sexual behavior and increase comprehensive HIV/AIDS knowledge.

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