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Gamble, Wendy C.; Ramakumar, Sri; Diaz, Abel – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2007
The present study evaluated the degree of parental similarity-dissimilarity across parenting dimensions operationalized in terms of: (1) one's own and one's partner's style; (2) meta-emotion belief structures; (3) behavioral strategies in reaction to children's emotions; as well as (4) parental support and responsiveness. The first four dimensions…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Fathers, Mothers, Mexican Americans
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VanVoorhis, Carmen R. Wilson; Blumentritt, Tracie L. – Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2007
We examined the internal consistency reliability, convergent and divergent validity, and factor structure of the Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II) in a sample of 131 Mexican American youth. The BDI-II demonstrated excellent internal consistency reliability (alpha = 0.90) and solid convergent and divergent validity with various clinical scales…
Descriptors: Mexican Americans, Validity, Factor Structure, Psychopathology
Welch, Richard O. – 1977
A five-year bilingual, bicultural program, part of the Experimental Schools Program, employed by the Edgewood Independent School District, San Antonio, Texas, was designed to enhance the affective characteristics of the predominantly Mexican American student population, to train teachers to avoid socioeconomic and cultural biases, and to improve…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Affective Behavior, Bilingual Education, Comparative Analysis
Jones, Earl, Ed.; Davis, Peter B., Ed. – 1977
The Edgewood Independent School District (San Antonio, Texas), using a mini-system of one high school, one middle school, and four elementary schools, conducted an Experimental Schools Program from 1972-1977 to test a local decision making, long-term innovative program to effect substantial changes in the affective and cognitive characteristics of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Affective Behavior, Bilingual Education, Cognitive Development
Development Associates, Inc., Arlington, VA. – 1977
Prepared to assist professional educators and researchers who want greater detail on certain aspects of the evaluation of the five-year Experimental Schools Program conducted by the Edgewood Independent School District in San Antonio, Texas, this supplement to the Final Report on the Edgewood School Plan is composed of abstracts that give the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Affective Behavior, Bilingual Education, Communication Skills