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Di Lonardo Burr, Sabrina M.; LeFevre, Jo-Anne; Arnold, L. Eugene; Epstein, Jeffrey N.; Hinshaw, Stephen P.; Molina, Brooke S. G.; Hechtman, Lily; Hoza, Betsy; Jensen, Peter S.; Vitiello, Benedetto; Pelham, William E., Jr.; Howard, Andrea L. – Child Development, 2022
We examined developmental trajectories of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms, standardized achievement, and school performance for adolescents with and without ADHD who did and did not enroll in postsecondary education (PSE; N = 749; 79% boys; 63% White, 17% non-Hispanic Black, 10% Hispanic, and 10% other ethnicities). In a…
Descriptors: Enrollment, College Bound Students, High School Students, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
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Gönültas, Seçil; Mulvey, Kelly Lynn – Child Development, 2021
This study examined how intergroup processes and social-cognitive factors shape bystander responses to bias-based and general bullying. Participants included sixth and ninth graders (N = 179, M = 13.23) who evaluated how likely they would be to intervene if they observed bullying of immigrant-origin and nonimmigrant-origin peers. Adolescents'…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Adolescents, Grade 6, Grade 9
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Torppa, Minna; Niemi, Pekka; Vasalampi, Kati; Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina; Tolvanen, Asko; Poikkeus, Anna-Maija – Child Development, 2020
This study examines associations between leisure reading and reading skills in data of 2,525 students followed from age 7 to 16. As a step further from traditional cross-lagged analysis, a random intercept cross-lagged panel model was used to identify within-person associations of leisure reading (books, magazines, newspapers, and digital…
Descriptors: Leisure Time, Recreational Reading, Reading Skills, Correlation
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Knight, George P.; Carlo, Gustavo; Mahrer, Nicole E.; Davis, Alexandra N. – Child Development, 2016
The socialization of cultural values, ethnic identity, and prosocial behaviors is examined in a sample of 749 Mexican-American adolescents, ages 9-12; M (SD) = 10.42 years (0.55); 49% female, their mothers, and fathers at the 5th, 7th, and 10th grades. Parents' familism values positively predicted their ethnic socialization practices. Mothers'…
Descriptors: Mexican Americans, Adolescents, Social Values, Ethnicity
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Wang, Ming-Te; Sheikh-Khalil, Salam – Child Development, 2014
Parental involvement in education remains important for facilitating positive youth development. This study conceptualized parental involvement as a multidimensional construct--including school-based involvement, home-based involvement, and academic socialization--and examined the effects of different types of parental involvement in 10th grade on…
Descriptors: High School Students, Mental Health, Academic Achievement, Parent Participation
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Hurd, Noelle M.; Stoddard, Sarah A.; Zimmerman, Marc A. – Child Development, 2013
This study explored how neighborhood characteristics may relate to African American adolescents' internalizing symptoms via adolescents' social support and perceptions of neighborhood cohesion. Participants included 571 urban, African American adolescents (52% female; "M" age = 17.8). A multilevel path analysis testing both direct and…
Descriptors: Path Analysis, Adolescent Development, Mental Health, African American Students
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Knafo, Ariel; Daniel, Ella; Khoury-Kassabri, Mona – Child Development, 2008
This study tested the hypothesis that values, abstract goals serving as guiding life principles, become relatively important predictors of adolescents' self-reported violent behavior in school environments in which violence is relatively common. The study employed a students-nested-in-schools design. Arab and Jewish adolescents (N = 907, M age =…
Descriptors: Jews, Arabs, Adolescents, Foreign Countries