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Parents' Conceptions of School Readiness, Transition Practices, and Children's Academic Achievement Trajectories
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Puccioni, Jaime – Journal of Educational Research, 2015
The author empirically tests the conceptual model of academic socialization, which suggests that parental cognitions about schooling influence parenting practices and child outcomes during the transition to school (Taylor, Clayton, & Rowley, 2004). More specifically, the author examines associations among parents' conceptions of school…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Parent Attitudes, Parents, Socialization
Developmental Differences in Structure of Attention-Deficit/hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) between Childhood and Adulthood
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Martel, Michelle M.; von Eye, Alexander; Nigg, Joel – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2012
The current paper utilizes a bifactor modeling approach to evaluate the structure of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in adulthood and assess developmental continuity of ADHD structure between childhood and adulthood. The study compared traditional one-factor, two-factor, three-factor, and second-order factor models of ADHD with a…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Developmental Continuity, Developmental Stages, Children
Evidence against a Maximum Response Model of Exogenous Visual Orienting during Early Infancy and Support for a Dimensional Switching Model
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Dannemiller, James L. – Developmental Science, 2005
Very young infants orient overtly with eye and head movements to salient events in their visual environments, but those events rarely occur in the absence of competing visual stimuli. Two different models of how this kind of orienting is related to number and distribution of elements in the stimulus field were tested with infants across the age…
Descriptors: Infants, Visual Stimuli, Nonverbal Communication, Eye Movements
Parent-Child Attachment Working Models and Self-Esteem in Adolescence.
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McCormick, Cynthia B.; Kennedy, Janice H. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1994
Continuity over time in parent-child attachments and the relationship between these attachments and current self-esteem were studied for 218 nonparent college students. Results indicate continuity over time of attachment. Self-esteem is related to childhood and adolescent styles of attachment and dimensions of independence encouragement and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attachment Behavior, College Students, Developmental Continuity
Stages of Friendship Growth in Preadolescence as Related to Attachment History.
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Shulman, Shmuel; And Others – Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 1994
Thirty-two preadolescents were observed in a longitudinal study of attachment and subsequent social development, and case studies of four friendship pairs were conducted. Findings suggest a process model of friendship formation based on repetition of infant attachment history in establishing children's preadolescent friendships. Proposes a 3-stage…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Developmental Continuity, Developmental Stages
The Role of Race in the Development of Plans for a Graduate Degree
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Pascarella, Ernest T.; Wolniak, Gregory C.; Pierson, Christopher T.; Flowers, Lamont A. – Review of Higher Education, 2004
Analyzing three-year longitudinal data from 18 diverse four-year institutions, this study investigated the role of race in the solidifying plans for a graduate degree. Net of other influences, African American and Hispanic students were significantly less likely than their White classmates to lower their plans for a graduate degree. However,…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Racial Factors, African American Students, Hispanic American Students