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Braima Salaam – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2024
This study investigated the interactive effects of maternal and paternal warmth as well as behavioral control on adolescents' anxiety in Ghana and whether these linkages varied between adolescents in rural and urban contexts. Participants were 211 junior high school students (61% girls; 39% boys; M[subscript age] = 13.43; SD[subscript age] = 2.03)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Junior High School Students, Early Adolescents, Anxiety
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Ching, Boby Ho-Hong; Wu, Hannah Xiaohan; Chen, Tiffany Ting – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2021
Using random intercept cross-lagged panel analysis, this study examined the longitudinal relations of mathematics anxiety to maternal achievement-oriented psychological control and academic contingent self-esteem in 336 Chinese adolescents from the age of 13 to 17. Results showed that, at the between-person level, adolescents who perceived their…
Descriptors: Mothers, Achievement, Parenting Styles, Self Esteem
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Zhang, Guangzhen; Eisenberg, Nancy; Liang, Zongbao; Li, Yi; Deng, Huihua – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2017
The main goals of the present study were (a) to compare Chinese migrant and nonmigrant adolescents on mean levels of parenting, positive adjustment, and academic functioning, and to assess whether socioeconomic status (SES) accounted for any obtained differences, (b) to examine whether the relations of SES and migrant status to youths' positive…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Middle School Students
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Barnes, J. C.; Beaver, Kevin M.; Connolly, Eric J.; Schwartz, Joseph A. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2016
There has been significant interest in examining the developmental factors that predispose individuals to chronic criminal offending. This body of research has identified some social-environmental risk factors as potentially important. At the same time, the research producing these results has generally failed to employ genetically sensitive…
Descriptors: Crime, Social Influences, Biology, Genetics
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Yaban, E. Helin; Sayil, Melike; Tepe, Yeliz Kindap – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2014
The current study examined whether adolescent-parent discrepancies in the perception of psychological control are associated with adolescent maladjustment. The sample consisted of 552 Turkish adolescents attending high school and their parents. Half of the adolescents had similar scores to their parents, while the remaining half thought…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Parents, Adjustment (to Environment)
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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