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Yu Bao; Jin Liu; Christine DiStefano; Ruyi Ding – Psychology in the Schools, 2025
Behavioral and emotional disorders in childhood can have lasting impacts in areas such as education and future employment, often extending into adulthood. Identifying the potential disorders in children's early grades is beneficial to provide proactive assistance. In this study, we employed a well-validated scale - the Strengths and Difficulties…
Descriptors: Identification, Behavior Problems, Emotional Disturbances, Goodness of Fit
Gao, Ruiqin – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This multiple-manuscript dissertation explored the measurement invariance (MI) testing with multiple-group confirmatory factor analysis (MG-CFA) approach from different perspectives. Study 1 explored MI from a theoretical perspective by conducting a systematic review study on MI practices in education. The findings of this study indicated…
Descriptors: Error of Measurement, Factor Analysis, Simulation, Elementary School Students
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Aguinaga San José, Iñigo; Martinez-Pampliega, Ana; Santamaría, Txemi; Merino Ramos, Laura – International Journal of Emotional Education, 2023
This paper presents a model that analyses the relationship between the coach's emotional competences and the training climate as predictors of the youngsters' emotional competences and psychological well-being. In the present study, 309 athletes and 17 coaches participated in the study. A general predictive model was estimated with path analysis…
Descriptors: Athletes, Children, Adolescents, Athletic Coaches
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Toseeb, Umar; Oginni, Olakunle Ayokunmi; Dale, Philip S. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2022
There is considerable variability in the extent to which young people with developmental language disorder (DLD) experience mental health difficulties. What drives these individual differences remains unclear. In the current article, data from the Twin Early Development Study were used to investigate the genetic and environmental influences on…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Correlation, Psychopathology, Mental Health
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Gniewosz, Burkhard; Gniewosz, Gabriela – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2018
The present article aims to show how to model longitudinal change in cohort sequential data applying latent true change models using Mplus' multi-group approach. The underlying modeling ideas are described and explained in this article. As an example, change in internalizing problem behaviors between the age of 8 and 13 years is modeled and…
Descriptors: Models, Data, Behavior Problems, Children
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Farmer, Elizabeth M. Z.; Seifert, Heather; Wagner, H. Ryan; Burns, Barbara J.; Murray, Maureen – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2017
Group homes are a frequently used but controversial treatment setting for youth with mental health problems. Within the relatively sparse literature on group homes, there is some evidence that some models of treatment may be associated with more positive outcomes for youth. This article explores this possibility by examining differences across…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Treatment, Mental Health, Intervention, Youth
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Chauvin, Bruno; Leonova, Tamara – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2016
Key concerns about the psychometric properties of the 25-item version of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) have consistently been raised in the literature. The present study aimed at examining the meaningfulness of an alternative model to the SDQ in which 7 problematic items are excluded. French-speaking parents of 262 boys and…
Descriptors: French, Psychometrics, Behavior Problems, Emotional Disturbances
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Niclasen, Janni; Dammeyer, Jesper – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2016
More knowledge is needed about the characteristics of mental health problems among deaf or hard of hearing (D/HH) children. This study investigates the factor structure of one of the most widely used screening tools, the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ), and the prevalence of mental health problems among D/HH children. Our data were…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Questionnaires, Mental Health, Mental Disorders
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Ubha, Neerose; Cahill, Sharon – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2014
Despite the wide implications of attachment theory there remains a lack of research exploring interventions which encapsulate the principles of an attachment-based framework in the school context. The aim of this research was to address this gap by implementing an intervention for a group of five primary-aged pupils with identified insecure…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Security (Psychology), Intervention, Elementary School Students
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Spilt, Jantine L.; Koomen, Helma M. Y.; Harrison, Linda J. – Developmental Psychology, 2015
This longitudinal study examined developmental links between closeness in teacher-child relationships and children's receptive language ability from the end of the preschool years into the early elementary years, while controlling for changes in peer interaction quality and child behavioral functioning. The sample included children and their…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Teacher Student Relationship, Preschool Children, Preschool Teachers
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Poulou, Maria – International Journal of Educational Psychology, 2015
In this study, the role of teacher-student relationships and students' social and emotional skills as potential predictors of students' emotional and behavioural difficulties was investigated by tapping into 962 primary school students' perceptions via questionnaires. While significant correlations were found linking teachers' interpersonal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Student Relationship
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Camilleri, Liberato; Cefai, Carmel – World Journal of Education, 2013
Multiple linear regression and ANOVA models are widely used in applications since they provide effective statistical tools for assessing the relationship between a continuous dependent variable and several predictors. However these models rely heavily on linearity and normality assumptions and they do not accommodate categorical dependent…
Descriptors: Regression (Statistics), Models, Predictor Variables, Predictive Measurement