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Social Competence in Late Elementary School: Relationships to Parenting and Neighborhood Context
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Caughy, Margaret O'Brien; Franzini, Luisa; Windle, Michael; Dittus, Patricia; Cuccaro, Paula; Elliott, Marc N.; Schuster, Mark A. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2012
Despite evidence that neighborhoods confer both risk and resilience for youth development, the existing neighborhood research has a number of methodological limitations including lack of diversity in neighborhoods sampled and neighborhood characteristics assessed. The purpose of this study was to address these methodological limitations of…
Descriptors: Females, Evidence, Adolescents, Adolescent Development
Music Taste Groups and Problem Behavior
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Mulder, Juul; ter Bogt, Tom; Raaijmakers, Quinten; Vollebergh, Wilma – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2007
Internalizing and externalizing problems differ by musical tastes. A high school-based sample of 4159 adolescents, representative of Dutch youth aged 12 to 16, reported on their personal and social characteristics, music preferences and social-psychological functioning, measured with the Youth Self-Report (YSR). Cluster analysis on their music…
Descriptors: Social Characteristics, Music, Multivariate Analysis, Group Membership
The Adolescent as Mother: Early Risk Identification.
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Klein, Helen Altman; Cordell, Antoinette S. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1987
This research identified easy-to-use maternal postpartum screening dimensions to predict two-month adjustment among 28 primipara adolescents. The results suggested several predictors: initial parenting attitudes, preparation for parenting, infant holding style, and aspects of social functioning. Postpartum risk screening may be a feasable way to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Rearing, Early Parenthood, Infants
Youthful Smoking and Drinking in a Longitudinal Perspective.
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Pulkkinen, Lea – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1983
The incidence and continuity of smoking and drinking, precursory social-behavioral characteristics of smokers and drinkers, and life conditions related to smoking and drinking are described. Part of an extensive Finnish longitudinal study of social development, the original sample consisted of eight-year-old subjects. Follow-up studies were made…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Drinking, Foreign Countries