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María del Carmen García-Mendoza; Águeda Parra Jiménez; Enrique Bernardino Arranz Freijo; Jeffrey Arnett; Inmaculada Sánchez Queija – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2024
During emerging adulthood, family relationships remain salient. This study examined, from a gender perspective, continuity/discontinuity and stability/instability in family relationships, in a two-time repeated-measures study with Spanish emerging adult college students. It also analyzed the implications of the quality of parent--child…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Young Adults, Family Relationship
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Bayly, Benjamin L.; Vasilenko, Sara A. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2021
To provide a comprehensive view of the unique contexts shaping adolescent development in the U.S., we utilized latent class analysis (LCA) with indicators of risk and protection across multiple domains (family, peers, school, neighborhood) and examined how latent class membership predicted heavy episodic drinking, illicit substance use, and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Risk, Resilience (Psychology), Substance Abuse
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Kingdon, Danielle; Serbin, Lisa A.; Stack, Dale M. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2017
Internationally, girls outperform boys in overall school performance. The gender gap is particularly large among those in at-risk groups, such as children from families at economic disadvantage. This study modeled the academic trajectories of a low-income sample of boys and girls from the Concordia Longitudinal Risk Project across the full course…
Descriptors: Low Income Students, Achievement Gap, Academic Achievement, Gender Differences
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Serbin, Lisa A.; Temcheff, Caroline E.; Cooperman, Jessica M.; Stack, Dale M.; Ledingham, Jane; Schwartzman, Alex E. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2011
This 30-year longitudinal study examined pathways from problematic childhood behavior patterns to future disadvantaged conditions for family environment and child rearing in adulthood. Participants were mothers (n = 328) and fathers (n = 222) with lower income backgrounds participating in the ongoing Concordia Longitudinal Risk Project. Structural…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Poverty, Mothers, Structural Equation Models
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Flouri, Eirini – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2004
This study used data from both 225 fathers and mothers as well as their secondary school age children to explore the role of child characteristics (sex, age, self-esteem, and emotional and behavioural well-being) in mother's and father's involvement in biological and restructured (stepfather) two-parent families after controlling for known…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Participation, Family Structure, Fathers
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Lamb, Michael E.; And Others – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1982
To further explore findings indicating that parental gender is a much more important predictor of caretaker behavior style than is involvement in parental role, 45 Swedish couples were observed at home interacting with their 16-month-old infants. Findings suggest that gender differences in parental behavior are much less amenable to social…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Family Life, Fathers, Foreign Countries