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Karen Nylund-Gibson; Adam C. Garber; Jay Singh; Melissa R. Witkow; Adrienne Nishina; Amy Bellmore – Behavioral Disorders, 2023
Latent class analysis (LCA) is a useful statistical approach for understanding heterogeneity in a population. This article provides a pedagogical introduction to LCA modeling and provides an example of its use to understand youths' daily coping strategies. The analytic procedures are outlined for choosing the number of classes and integration of…
Descriptors: Coping, Multivariate Analysis, High School Students, Student Behavior
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Lambert, Matthew C.; Katsiyannis, Antonis; Epstein, Michael H.; Cullinan, Douglas – Behavioral Disorders, 2022
For years, the research and policy focus on Black students with emotional disturbance (ED) has been on racial disproportionality. The disproportionality issue has sparked professional debate and raised major questions about racial bias, cultural fairness, appropriateness of assessment instruments, the adequacy of special education programs,…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, African American Students, Emotional Disturbances, Student Behavior
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Degroote, Emma; Van Houtte, Mieke – Behavioral Disorders, 2022
School discipline research has demonstrated that the labeling of student behaviors as requiring disciplinary action is a selective process in which school staff take into account other factors than the characteristics of the behaviors. We argue that school staff react in a disciplinary way to students with negative attitudes toward the educational…
Descriptors: Discipline, Student Behavior, Negative Attitudes, Student Attitudes
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Behavioral Disorders, 2024
The recent increase in school shootings has brought about an urgency to renew efforts to understand and reduce them. In this article, the Division for Emotional and Behavioral Health reviews what is known about school shootings, including data related to incidence and shooter profiles. In addition, we describe responses to shootings, accompanied…
Descriptors: Violence, Weapons, School Safety, Emotional Disturbances
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Rose, Chad A.; Espelage, Dorothy L. – Behavioral Disorders, 2012
Bullying has been recognized as a dynamic process, where involvement is based on interactions between an individual and the social-ecological factors related to the individual's environment.While involvement in bullying is not exclusive to one population of students, evidence suggests that students with disabilities are overrepresented within the…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Bullying, Emotional Disturbances, Victims
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Deming, Annie M.; Lochman, John E. – Behavioral Disorders, 2008
This study attempted to discover how anger, locus of control, and impulsivity are related to aggression. Two pathways to aggression were examined: a cognitive/schema pathway and an emotion/impulsivity pathway. The sample included 242 fourth- and fifth-grade boys. Using data from several questionnaires, teachers reported on levels of reactive and…
Descriptors: Locus of Control, Conceptual Tempo, Aggression, Grade 5