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Disabilities and Degrees: Identifying Health Impairments That Predict Lower Chances of College Enrollment and Graduation in a Nationally Representative Sample
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Rosenbaum, Janet E. – Community College Review, 2018
Objective: Colleges have increased postsecondary educational access for youth, including individuals with disabilities, but completion rates remain low. This study tests the hypothesis that health conditions that reduce social integration predict lower educational attainment among college students. Method: The sample from the nationally…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Physical Disabilities, Hearing Impairments, Visual Impairments
The Contribution of Extracurricular Activities to Adolescent Friendships: New Insights through Social Network Analysis
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Schaefer, David R.; Simpkins, Sandra D.; Vest, Andrea E.; Price, Chara D. – Developmental Psychology, 2011
Extracurricular activities are settings that are theorized to help adolescents maintain existing friendships and develop new friendships. The overarching goal of the current investigation was to examine whether coparticipating in school-based extracurricular activities supported adolescents' school-based friendships. We used social network methods…
Descriptors: Extracurricular Activities, Network Analysis, Friendship, Adolescents
Protective Influences on the Negative Consequences of Drinking among Youth
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Randolph, Karen A.; Russell, David; Tillman, Kathryn Harker; Fincham, Frank D. – Youth & Society, 2010
The prevention of underage drinking and related outcomes focuses on strengthening protective factors. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health ( N = 3,862), the authors examine the effects of protective factors from three domains of adolescents' lives (individual, familial, and extrafamilial) on experiencing negative…
Descriptors: Drinking, Risk, Adolescents, Social Environment
The Influence of Future Certainty and Contextual Factors on Delinquent Behavior and School Adjustment among African American Adolescents
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Caldwell, Roslyn M.; Wiebe, Richard P.; Cleveland, H. Harrington – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2006
This study examined the ability of future certainty--an individual's perception of future stability, operationalized as the likelihood of certain life outcomes--to explain variance in delinquency and school adjustment, while controlling for economic, neighborhood, and family factors, among a cross-sectional sample of 1422 male and 1562 female…
Descriptors: Delinquency, Student Adjustment, African Americans, Adolescents