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Socioemotional Behavior and School Achievement in Relation to Extracurricular Activity Participation in Middle Childhood
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Metsapelto, Riitta-Leena; Pulkkinen, Lea – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2012
This 3-year longitudinal study investigated the associations of student (aged 9 to 10 years at the beginning of the study; n = 281; 51% girls) participation in extracurricular activities with teacher-rated socioemotional behavior and school achievement. MANOVA results showed that, after controlling for the grade level and the initial level of the…
Descriptors: Extracurricular Activities, Team Sports, Music Activities, Academic Achievement
Ten Pillars of a Good Childhood: A Finnish Perspective
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Pulkkinen, Lea – Childhood Education, 2012
The organizers of the Decade for Childhood have formulated Ten Pillars of a Good Childhood as basic requirements for an optimal childhood. The pillars can be used to analyze the quality of childhood in homes and nations, and to guide policies and practices related to the experience of childhood. In this article, the author shall illustrate, pillar…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Rearing, International Education, Family Environment
Is Social Capital a Mediator between Self-Control and Psychological and Social Functioning across 34 Years?
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Pulkkinen, Lea; Lyyra, Anna-Liisa; Kokko, Katja – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2011
The aim of this study was to investigate the role of social capital assessed in early adulthood in linking self-control in childhood with psychological and social functioning in middle age. Data collected at ages 8, 27, and 42 years were based on the Jyvaskyla Longitudinal Study of Personality and Social Development (159 females, 177 males).…
Descriptors: Psychology, Social Networks, Social Capital, Social Development
Intensity of Aggression in Childhood as a Predictor of Different Forms of Adult Aggression: A Two-Country (Finland and the United States) Analysis
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Kokko, Katja; Pulkkinen, Lea; Huesmann, L. Rowell; Dubow, Eric F.; Boxer, Paul – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2009
This study examined the prediction of different forms of adult aggression in 2 countries from child and adolescent aggression. It was based on 2 longitudinal projects: the Jyvaskyla Longitudinal Study of Personality and Social Development (JYLS; N = 196 boys and 173 girls) conducted in Finland and the Columbia County Longitudinal Study (CCLS; N =…
Descriptors: Aggression, Children, Foreign Countries, Social Development
Middle Childhood and Adolescent Contextual and Personal Predictors of Adult Educational and Occupational Outcomes: A Mediational Model in Two Countries
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Dubow, Eric F.; Huesmann, Rowell L.; Boxer, Paul; Pulkkinen, Lea; Kokko, Katja – Developmental Psychology, 2006
The authors examined the prediction of occupational attainment by age 40 from contextual and personal variables assessed during childhood and adolescence in 2 participant samples: (a) the Columbia County Longitudinal Study, a study of 856 third graders in a semirural county in New York State that began in 1960, and (b) the Jyvaskyla Longitudinal…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Outcomes of Education, Prediction, Achievement
Patterns of Boys' Social Adjustment in Two Cultures and at Different Ages: A Longitudinal Perspective.
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Pulkkinen, Lea; Tremblay, Richard E. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1992
Studied patterns of boys' social development by examining data from two longitudinal studies: a Finnish study of eight year olds begun in 1968; and a French Canadian study of six year olds begun in 1984. Patterns were identified using variables of aggression, hyperactivity, inattentiveness, anxiety, and lack of prosocial behavior. (LB)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Aggression, Antisocial Behavior, Anxiety
Socialization and the Child Rearing Practice. [Proceedings from the] Fenno-Hungarian Conference on Developmental Psychology (4th, Debrecen, Hungary, October 4-6, 1995).
Sugar-Kadar, Julia, Ed. – ACTA Psychological Debrecina, 1997
The fourth meeting of the Fenno-Hungarian Conferences on Developmental Psychology had as its theme "Socialization and the Child-Rearing Practice. The conference consisted of three Symposia. The first symposium, "Results of the collaborations on the basis of the series of the Fenno-Hungarian conferences," contains the following…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Aggression, Child Rearing, Children