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Xu, Yin; Norton, Sam; Rahman, Qazi – Developmental Psychology, 2019
This study tested the association between multiple prenatal and postnatal early life factors and adolescent sexual orientation in a longitudinal birth cohort. Factors included birth weight, gestational age, parental age at birth, number of older brothers and sisters, breastfeeding, maternal anxiety/depression, family socioeconomic position,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Correlation, Prenatal Influences, Perinatal Influences
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Dorn, Lorah D.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1990
A comparison of parent and adolescent subjects' ratings of the adolescent subjects' pubertal stage with a nurse practitioner's ratings indicated that adolescent and parent ratings of pubertal development can be used when precise assessment is not required. For questions requiring absolute accuracy, ratings by trained health care personnel are…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Nurse Practitioners, Parents, Perception
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Silverberg, Susan B.; Steinberg, Laurence – Developmental Psychology, 1990
Findings from a study of 129 families with a firstborn child 10 to 15 years old indicated only very modest direct relations between parental well-being and signs of adolescent development, such as pubertal status, mixed-sex social relations, and reasoning skills. Relations were moderated by the strength of parents' orientation toward their work…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Individual Development, Life Satisfaction, Parents
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Ge, Xiaojia; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1995
Examined mutual influences in parent and adolescent psychological distress reported independently by respondents in each of four parent-child dyads: mothers-sons, mothers-daughters, fathers-sons, and fathers-daughters. Found that parent and adolescent stress were reciprocally related across time, even after earlier emotional status was…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Emotional Problems, Family Influence, Parent Child Relationship
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Brody, Gene H.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1996
Tested a model linking parental formal religiosity to early adolescents' academic competence and socioemotional adjustment. Found that greater parental religiosity led to more cohesive family relationships, less interparental conflict, and fewer externalizing and internalizing problems in adolescents. Found that religiosity indirectly influenced…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Adolescents
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Bumpus, Matthew F.; Crouter, Ann C.; McHale, Susan M. – Developmental Psychology, 2001
Investigated ways in which indicators of parental autonomy granting (decision-making input and parental knowledge of adolescents' daily experiences) differed as a function of context and personal qualities. Found that firstborns were granted more autonomy than second borns, especially in families with firstborn girls and second-born boys. Girls in…
Descriptors: Adolescent Behavior, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Birth Order
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Taylor, Ronald D. – Developmental Psychology, 1996
Examined relationships among kinship support, family management, and adolescence in 135 African American adolescents, ages 14 to 19. Found that kin social support was positively related to self-reliance and grades, family organization, and parental involvement in schooling, and negatively associated with problem behavior. Poor kin relations were…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Blacks
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Molina, Brooke S. G.; Chassin, Laurie – Developmental Psychology, 1996
Examined the effect of puberty on the parent-adolescent relationship in association with ethnicity, parental psychopathology, and chronological age. Found that puberty effects on parent support and parent-adolescent conflict differ for Hispanic and non-Hispanic white boys. Parent alcoholism did not moderate the effect of puberty, and puberty…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Age Differences