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Stefansson, Kristjan K.; Gestsdottir, Steinunn; Geldhof, G. John; Skulason, Sigurgrimur; Lerner, Richard M. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2016
School engagement involves cognitive, emotional, and behavioral components that overlap conceptually. This conceptual ambiguity has led to measures that have either consisted of one general factor or separate correlated factors. However, neither approach can sufficiently account for both the uniqueness and the overlap of the subcomponents. The…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Adolescents, Academic Achievement, Correlation
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Gniewosz, Burkhard; Noack, Peter; Buhl, Monika – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2009
The present study examined how parental political attitudes, parenting styles, and classroom characteristics predict adolescents' political alienation, as feelings about the individual's ability to affect the political system's performance at the individual level. Participants were 463 families that included mothers, fathers, and their adolescent…
Descriptors: Role Models, Political Attitudes, Parenting Styles, Child Rearing
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Xin, Ziqiang; Chi, Liping; Yu, Guoliang – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2009
This study examined the mediation effect of cognitive appraisals and the moderation role of peer status in the association between interparental conflict and adolescents' affective well-being based on a sample of 549 Chinese adolescents from 7th to 12th grades. Interparental conflict properties, adolescents' cognitive appraisals of conflict,…
Descriptors: Social Status, Conflict, Parent Child Relationship, Adolescents