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Metzger, Aaron; Smetana, Judith G. – Child Development, 2009
Judgments and justifications for different forms of civic involvement and their associations with organized and civic behavior were examined in 312 middle-class primarily White adolescents (M = 17.01 years). Adolescents applied moral, conventional, and personal criteria to distinguish involvement in community service, standard political, social…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Citizen Participation, Adolescents, Organizations (Groups)
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McHale, Susan M.; Kim, Ji-Yeon; Dotterer, Aryn M.; Crouter, Ann C.; Booth, Alan – Child Development, 2009
This study charted the development of gendered personality qualities and activity interests from age 7 to age 19 in 364 first- and second-born siblings from 185 White, middle/working-class families, assessed links between time in gendered social contexts (with mother, father, female peers, and male peers) and gender development, and tested whether…
Descriptors: Siblings, Mothers, Interests, Fathers
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Bartel, Nettie R. – Child Development, 1971
Results of this study were interpreted in terms of the social control function served by the public schools. (Author/RY)
Descriptors: Achievement, Behavioral Science Research, Correlation, Hypothesis Testing