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Orri, Massimiliano; Girard, Lisa-Christine; Pingault, Jean-Baptiste; Rouquette, Alexandra; Herba, Catherine; Falissard, Bruno; Côté, Sylvana M.; Berthoz, Sylvie – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2019
Children's early emotional environment strongly influences their later behavioural development. Yet, besides maternal depression, limited knowledge exists about the effect of other emotions and the role of fathers. Using 290 triads (mother/father/child), we investigated how positive (SEEKING, CARING, PLAYFULNESS) and negative (FEAR, ANGER,…
Descriptors: Correlation, Parenting Styles, Child Behavior, Parent Child Relationship
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Aitken, Madison; Martinussen, Rhonda; Wolfe, Richard G.; Tannock, Rosemary – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2015
The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) is a 25-item screening measure for emotional and behavioral problems in children and adolescents aged 4 to 16. Structural equation modeling was used to test the five-factor structure of teacher and parent ratings on the British version of the SDQ in a community sample of 501 Canadian children aged…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Factor Structure, Questionnaires, Elementary School Students
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Ogg, Julia; Volpe, Robert; Rogers, Maria – School Psychology Quarterly, 2016
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between inattention, academic enabling behaviors (i.e., motivation, engagement, and interpersonal skills), and early literacy outcomes. Kindergarten students (N = 181; 55.2% male; 62% white) from two research sites (Southeastern U.S. and Eastern Canada) were assessed using the Letter Naming…
Descriptors: Correlation, Student Behavior, Learner Engagement, Student Motivation
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Mills, Rosemary S. L.; Hastings, Paul D.; Helm, Jonathan; Serbin, Lisa A.; Etezadi, Jamshid; Stack, Dale M.; Schwartzman, Alex E.; Li, Hai Hong – Social Development, 2012
This study evaluated a comprehensive model of factors associated with internalizing problems (IP) in early childhood, hypothesizing direct, mediated, and moderated pathways linking child temperamental inhibition, maternal overcontrol and rejection, and contextual stressors to IP. In a novel approach, three samples were integrated to form a large…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Parenting Styles, Inhibition, Risk
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Larzelere, Robert E.; Ferrer, Emilio; Kuhn, Brett R.; Danelia, Ketevan – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2010
This study estimates the causal effects of six corrective actions for children's problem behaviors, comparing four types of longitudinal analyses that correct for pre-existing differences in a cohort of 1,464 4- and 5-year-olds from Canadian National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY) data. Analyses of residualized gain scores found…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Academic Achievement, Hyperactivity, Psychotherapy
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Boislard P., Marie-Aude; Poulin, Francois; Kiesner, Jeff; Dishion, Thomas J. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2009
In this study, two longitudinal models of early adolescent risky sexual behaviors (RSB) were compared using a pooled sample of 267 Canadian and Italian adolescents (55% females; 53% Canadians) assessed yearly from grade 8 to 10. We focused on parenting practices (monitoring, control, limit setting), adolescent problem behaviors (antisocial…
Descriptors: Socialization, Structural Equation Models, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Parenting Styles
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Ellefsen, Giselle; Beran, Tanya N. – Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 2007
The authors investigated the relationship between student academic achievement and individual child and family factors. The sample consisted of 10- to 11-year-olds (N = 2,081) from the Canadian National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth, which is a stratified random sample of 22,831 households in Canada. From scale and factor analyses,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Longitudinal Studies, Relationship, Academic Achievement