Participation in leisure activities is an important arena for the positive psychological development of adolescents. The present study set out to examine the relationship between adolescents’ satisfaction of the psychological needs for competence, relatedness, and autonomy in their participation in leisure activities and their perceived life satisfaction. The aim was to identify the extent to which satisfaction of the three needs explained the relationship between participation in leisure activities and life satisfaction. These proposed mechanisms were based on previous empirical work and the theoretical frameworks of self-determination theory, and were tested in a nationally representative sample of Norwegian adolescents (N = 3,273) aged 15 and 16 years (51.8 % boys). The structural equation analysis showed that competence and relatedness satisfaction fully mediated the association between participation in activities and life satisfaction. Autonomy satisfaction had a direct positive effect on life satisfaction but did not show any mediation effect. The positive processes of psychological need satisfaction, and especially the need for competence and relatedness, experienced in the leisure activity domain thus seem to be beneficial for adolescents’ well-being. These findings add to previous research investigating the positive impact of need satisfaction in other important domains in the lives of children and adolescents.
This study explored the extent to which adolescents’ motives for leisure activity participation are related to their perceptions
of competence and relatedness in different kinds of activities and aimed to provide new insight into boys’ and girls’ leisure experiences and their motivational orientations for activity participation. These proposed associations were based on previous empirical work and the theoretical frameworks of motive disposition approach and were tested in a nationally representative sample of Norwegian adolescents (N = 3273) aged 15 and 16 years (51.8% boys) from the World Health Organization’s crosssectional
survey, Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children 2005/06. The findings in the current study supported the hypothesis regarding matched correlations between specific motives and specific outcomes in that the adolescents seem to get (perceived competence and relatedness) what they want (competence and social motives) within leisure activities. Furthermore, the analysis
using structural equation modeling indicated different motivational orientations in types of leisure activity participation between girls and boys, although the mediating effects of leisure activity participation in different types of activities were not significant.
In 1992 and 2010 the group within the Laestadian tradition labeled “the firstborns” or “the firstborn group” published brochures in which they express their beliefs and identity. Using a discourse analytical approach the article aims to examine the Firstborn’s selfrepresentation in these brochures. A goal is to investigate whether or not the Firstborn self-representation has changed in the period between the two brochures. A main argument is that the group’s mediation and way of representing themselves in 2010 is characterized by a new use of established concepts which point to a possible secession from the Norwegian State Church and the establishment of a separate independent religious organization.
The article departs from a pilot survey among Norwegian teacher students that maps their usage, skills and attitudes in relation to the web based encyclopedia Wikipedia. The survey shows that the students are heavy users of Wikipedia content yet show a low level of knowledge as to how content is constructed or the ways in which Wikipedia differs from traditional, paper-based encyclopedias. The students also express little interest in parttaking in creating content or maintaining the site. The second part of the article argues that a way to remedy both lack of knowledge and interest among students is to bring Wikipedia actively into the classrooms and enable students to take part in creating and maintaining Wikipedia content. This way, Wikipedia may serve as an effective tool with which to address and enhance a range of central 21st century skills.
Tema i denne artikkelen er norsk-russisk flerspråklighet i den norske grunnskolen. Mer
konkret dreier denne artikkelen seg om prosjektet Russisk morsmål som andrespråk i Kirkenes i Sør-Varanger kommune. I analysen settes fokus på forholdet mellom språkvalg på mikroplan, og hvordan disse valgene henger sammen med språkpolitiske og språkideologiske prosesser både lokalt og nasjonalt. I tillegg vil analysen belyse hvordan en statsgrense virker inn på menneskenes daglige språkliv og den vil belyse hvordan erfaringene til tradisjonelle språklige minoriteter som samisk, kvensk og finsk blir
aktualisert i språkpolitikken knytta til ny migrasjon til Norge.