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Hoffman, Adam J.; Kurtz-Costes, Beth; Rowley, Stephanie J.; Adams, Elizabeth A. – Developmental Psychology, 2017
For many African Americans, racial identity is an important aspect of their individual identity. We explored developmental change and stability of individual differences in the racial centrality of African American youths and their mothers as well as the relation between maternal and child racial centrality across time. African American youths (N…
Descriptors: African Americans, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Racial Identification
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Rinn, Anne N.; Mendaglio, Sal; Rudasill, Kathleen Moritz; McQueen, Kand S. – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2010
The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between gifted adolescents' forms of overexcitabilities and self-concepts. Clusters of adolescents were formed on the basis of their overexcitabilities, and these clusters of adolescents were then compared with regard to their self-concept scores. Gender differences were also examined. The…
Descriptors: Gifted, Females, Self Concept Measures, Adolescents
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Takakura, Minoru; Wake, Norie; Kobayashi, Minoru – Journal of School Health, 2010
Background: The importance of school contextual effects on health and well-being among young people is currently recognized. This study examines the contextual effects of school satisfaction as well as the effects of individual-level school satisfaction on health-risk behaviors in Japanese high school students. Methods: Self-administered…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Student Attitudes, Smoking, Statistical Significance
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Furnham, Adrian; Monsen, Jeremy; Ahmetoglu, Gorkan – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2009
Background: Both ability (measured by power tests) and non-ability (measured by preference tests) individual difference measures predict academic school outcomes. These include fluid as well as crystalized intelligence, personality traits, and learning styles. This paper examines the incremental validity of five psychometric tests and the sex and…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Intelligence Tests, Test Results, Predictor Variables
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Blom, Sarah; Severiens, Sabine – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2008
In order to examine and explain differences in self-regulated (SR) deep learning of successful immigrant and non-immigrant students we investigated a population of 650 high track 10th grade students in Amsterdam, of which 39% had an immigrant background. By means of a questionnaire based on the MSLQ of Pintrich and De Groot (1990) the students…
Descriptors: Females, Factor Analysis, Urban Areas, Grade 10
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Yakmaci-Guzel, Buket; Akarsu, Fusun – High Ability Studies, 2006
The study compares overexcitability scores of Turkish 10th graders who are grouped in terms of their intellectual abilities, motivation, creativity and leadership as well as gender. 711 students who were administered Raven Advanced Progressive Matrices Test (APM) were divided into three intellectual ability categories. From this pool, 105 subjects…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Academically Gifted, Foreign Countries, Grade 10