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Some Practical Guidelines for Measuring Youth's Race/Ethnicity and Socioeconomic Status.
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Entwisle, Doris R.; Astone, Nan Marie – Child Development, 1994
Suggests that recent social changes and trends make it imperative to include demographics of all kinds in research on child development. Proposes guidelines to help child development researchers procure demographic information from their study population. Provides specific questions that may help researchers devise demographic indicators, and…
Descriptors: Biographical Inventories, Child Development, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Measuring Socioeconomic Status in Studies of Child Development.
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Hauser, Robert M. – Child Development, 1994
Comments on the ideas presented by Entwisle and Astone in this issue. Suggests that to produce sound measurements of children's socioeconomic background requires a substantial investment in coding, data collection, and management. Nevertheless, a standard set of racial-ethnic and socioeconomic variables, no matter how well measured, cannot serve…
Descriptors: Biographical Inventories, Child Development, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Activity Level and Hyperactivity in Twins
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Willerman, Lee – Child Development, 1973
Results indicate a significant genetic component for activity level in twins rivaling that found for intelligence. (Author)
Descriptors: Heredity, Hyperactivity, Physical Activity Level, Questionnaires
A Piagetian Questionnaire Applied to Pupils in a Secondary School
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Tisher, R. P. – Child Development, 1971
Author concludes that a Piagetian based paper-and-pencil technique can be successfully used for older subjects rather than the conversation-interview technique used for elementary school children. (MB)
Descriptors: Intellectual Development, Measurement Techniques, Questionnaires, Secondary School Students
A Longitudinal Investigation of Personality and Social Adjustment among Chinese American and European American Adolescents
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Huntsinger, Carol S.; Jose, Paul E. – Child Development, 2006
A 2-wave longitudinal study of personality in adolescence was conducted with data obtained at ages 12 and 17 years from approximately 60 European American and 60 second-generation Chinese American youth. At Time 1 they completed the Children's Personality Questionnaire and at Time 2 they completed the High School Personality Questionnaire and…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Personality, Social Adjustment, Chinese Americans