Analyzing University Students’ Representations of Language Learning for Developing Plurilingual Competences in a Monolingual Context

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Perceived health and quality of life: the effect of exposure to atmospheric pollution

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Measuring Quality of Life in the Neighborhood: The Cases of Air-Polluted Cities in Tunisia

The objective of this paper is to study the quality of life in the neighborhood by developing a scale to measure the perceived environmental quality of life. Items of the scale were produced using semi-structured interviews. Three main dimensions of environmental quality of life (EQL) were recognized by an exploratory factor analysis applied on 732 participants. This factor structure was then subjected to a confirmatory factor analysis performed on a second sample of 791 people. The satisfactory internal consistency of the three EQL dimensions, the good fit of the measurement model to the data and the stability of the factorial structure all confirm the excellent psychometric qualities of the designed scale

Development and Validation of an Environmental Quality of Life Scale: Study of a French Sample

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L'estime de soi globale et physique à l'adolescence

International audienceObjective. From a data collection conducted among junior high-school students, we propose to assess global and physical self-esteem. Indeed, profound physical changes, psychological and social affect this phase of development of the person and the object of this article is to clarify what are the potential impacts of these changes on self-esteem as a function of age and gender. Methods. 579 junior high-school students of the Midi Pyrenees region, aged 11 to 17 years (M = 13.34, SD = 1.20) have informed the Rosenberg self-esteem scale (1965) and the physical self-inventory (Ninot, Delignières and Fortes, 2000). Results. The reliability of both tools is confirmed from our study sample. The results allow to update significant differences in global and physical self-esteem according to the age and gender of the adolescents. Conclusion. The discussion focuses on the interpretation of gender differences in the assessment of global self-esteem and physical interpretation of the differences in the development of the person.Objectif de l'étude : À partir d'un recueil de données réalisé auprès d'élèves de collège, nous proposons d'évaluer l'estime de soi dans les domaines global et physique. En effet, de profondes modifications physiques, psychologiques et sociales affectent cette phase de développement de la personne et l'objet de cet article est de préciser quelles sont les répercussions possibles de ces transformations sur l'estime de soi en fonction de l'âge et du genre. Sujets : 579 collégien(ne)s de la région Midi Pyrénées, âgés de 11 à 17 ans (M = 13,34 ; ET = 1,20) ont renseigné l'échelle unidimensionnelle de Rosenberg (1965) et l'Inventaire de Soi Physique de Ninot, Delignières et Fortes (2000). Résultats. La fiabilité des deux outils utilisés est confirmée auprès de notre échantillon d'étude. Les résultats permettent de mettre à jour des différences significatives d'estime de soi globale et physique en fonction de l'âge et du genre des adolescent(e)s. Conclusion. La discussion s'oriente sur l'interprétation des différences de genre dans l'évaluation de l'estime de soi globale et physique et sur l'interprétation de différences au cours du développement de la personne

Place-Identity in a School Setting: Effects of the Place Image

Studies on place identity show positive relationships between the evaluation of a place and mechanisms involved in place identification. However, individuals also identify with places of low social prestige (places that bear a negative social image). Few authors investigate the nature of place identity processes in this case. The goal of this study is to highlight the specific connections between the three components of place identification, place attachment, place dependence, and group identity, which depend on the social evaluation of the environmental context (negative vs. positive image). The author uses self-administered questionnaires to interview 542 high-school students, to collect data on the basis of these three dimensions of their high school place identity, and their evaluation of their high school\u27s image. Results show positive relationships between the students\u27 evaluation of his or her high-school\u27s image and his or her place identity. However, findings show that some students reported strong place identification even though they had rated their high school as having low social prestige (negative image). Findings also show that such place identification occurred through strong attachment ties, which were a strong influence. (Contains 6 tables.