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Wu, Qiaobing – Youth & Society, 2017
Drawing upon a sample of 772 migrant children and their parents in Shanghai, China, this study used an ecological framework to investigate how social capital embedded in a range of social contexts (i.e., family, school, peer, and community) influenced the psychosocial adjustment of Chinese migrant children. Using structural equation modeling with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Capital, Migrant Children, Adjustment (to Environment)
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Fitzpatrick, Kevin M.; Willis, Don; O'Connor, Gail – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2014
Obesity continues to plague U.S. school-age populations. A number of individual/structural circumstances have been identified as increasing the risk of poor health among children. The article's aim is to examine some of these circumstances and their relationship to students being overweight/obese, while highlighting resource variables as potential…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Obesity, Regression (Statistics), Body Weight