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Dahlgren, J.; Healy, S.; MacDonald, M.; Geldhof, J.; Palmiere, K.; Haegele, J. A. – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2021
To date, studies using cross-sectional methodologies make up a majority of the literature surrounding children with autism spectrum disorders and participation in physical activity and screen time. Longitudinal studies are needed to examine how physical activity and screen time behaviors co-develop for children with and without an autism spectrum…
Descriptors: Physical Activity Level, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Children
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Roberts, Jane; Crawford, Hayley; Hogan, Abigail L.; Fairchild, Amanda; Tonnsen, Bridgette; Brewe, Alexis; O'Connor, Shannon; Roberts, Douglas A.; Abbeduto, Leonard – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2019
Fragile X syndrome (FXS) is characterized by both social approach and social avoidance. However, the age of emergence and developmental trajectory of social avoidance has not been examined. This study investigates the longitudinal developmental trajectory and dynamic nature of social avoidance in males with FXS from infancy through young adulthood…
Descriptors: Infants, Genetic Disorders, Age Groups, Longitudinal Studies
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Silles, Mary A. – Economics of Education Review, 2010
This article, using longitudinal data from the National Child Development Study, presents new evidence on the effects of family size and birth order on test scores and behavioral development at age 7, 11 and 16. Sibling size is shown to have an adverse causal effect on test scores and behavioral development. For any given family size, first-borns…
Descriptors: Family Size, Birth Order, Scores, Child Development
Coch, Donna, Ed.; Fischer, Kurt W., Ed.; Dawson, Geraldine, Ed. – Guilford Publications, 2010
This volume brings together leading authorities from multiple disciplines to examine the relationship between brain development and behavior in typically developing children. Presented are innovative cross-sectional and longitudinal studies that shed light on brain-behavior connections in infancy and toddlerhood through adolescence. Chapters…
Descriptors: Infants, Personality, Short Term Memory, Recognition (Psychology)
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Criss, Michael M.; Shaw, Daniel S.; Moilanen, Kristin L.; Hitchings, Julia E.; Ingoldsby, Erin M. – Social Development, 2009
The purpose of this study was to test direct, additive, and mediation models involving family, neighborhood, and peer factors in relation to emerging antisocial behavior and social skills. Neighborhood danger, maternal depressive symptoms, and supportive parenting were assessed in early childhood. Peer group acceptance was measured in middle…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Prosocial Behavior, Antisocial Behavior, Child Rearing
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Freeberg, N. E.; Rock, D. A. – Human Development, 1973
Dimensional continuity was examined in adolescents in grades 7, 9, and 11. Demonstrated changes in dimensional configurations raise challenging issues for longitudinal study practices that assume uniform interpretability of the same scales at differing developmental stages. (ST)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Development, Developmental Stages, Factor Analysis
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Bookstein, Fred L.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1996
Discusses the use of new statistical procedures in a study of the enduring effects of prenatal alcohol exposure upon the neurobehavioral development of some 500 children born in 1975-76. Explains how the Partial Least Squares (PLS) methodology can summarize the data powerfully while avoiding familiar inferential pitfalls. (MDM)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Development, Child Development, Children
Bates, Marsha E.; And Others – 1985
Although recent research suggests that drug misuse involves multiple etiologies, more information is needed to aid in the development of individualized treatment regimens. Individuals with high sensation-seeking (SS) needs do not appear to respond well to traditional counseling approaches. Adolescents (N=584) aged 15 or 18 at time 1 (T1) and 18 or…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Behavior Development, Cross Sectional Studies
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Bell, Robert; Pavis, Stephen; Amos, Amanda; Cunningham-Burley, Sarah – Journal of Adolescence, 1999
Reports the third wave of a longitudinal study that followed 106 15-year-olds from their last compulsory year at school for 22 months. Study shows that this is a period of considerable flux in smoking behavior. Highlights the role of friendship groups and social contexts and suggests that smoking prevention programs should be developed to meet the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Development, Foreign Countries, Health Education
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Mahoney, Joseph L.; Stattin, Hakan; Lord, Heather – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2004
This study involves a two-year longitudinal investigation of adolescent participation in unstructured youth recreation centres and the development of antisocial behaviour. Participants were 1163 adolescents who represented 92% of all eighth-grade students in the town of Orebro, Sweden, during the fall of 1999. Antisocial young people and those…
Descriptors: School Activities, Antisocial Behavior, Adolescents, Social Environment
Eron, Leonard D.; And Others – 1973
This document, presented at a symposium on violence and aggression in America, reports a longitudinal study of environmental influences in the development of aggressive behavior. Subjects were 875 third graders when originally assessed with a peer nomination technique in 1960. High, moderate, and low degrees of aggression were identified in the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Aggression, Antisocial Behavior, Behavior Development
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Engels, Rutger C. M. E.; Vitaro, Frank; Blokland, Endy Den Exter; de Kemp, Raymond; Scholte, Ron H. J. – Journal of Adolescence, 2004
Concerning the role of parental smoking on development of adolescent smoking, most studies have exclusively focused on the direct effects of parents' smoking on youths' smoking. However, parental smoking may also play an indirect role by affecting youths' susceptibility to peer influences and by affecting friendship selection. Data were from a…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Friendship, Smoking, Peer Influence
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Pratt, Michael W.; Skoe, Eva E.; Arnold, Mary Louise – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2004
Over the past 20 years, care reasoning has been increasingly recognised as an important aspect of moral development. Skoe has developed an interview measure of levels of care reasoning about the needs of self and other in relationships, the Ethic of Care Interview or ECI. In the present longitudinal research, we investigated developmental changes…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Parenting Styles, Child Rearing, Adolescents
Baydar, Nazli; And Others – 1994
Data from a 20-year longitudinal study of 125 males and 126 females born to Black teenage mothers in a Baltimore hospital between 1966 and 1968 were analyzed to identify early childhood, middle childhood, and early adolescence determinants of functional literacy. All 251 subjects were interviewed in 1987, and 202 of them completed a document…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Adult Literacy, Behavior Development
Cairns, Robert B.; Cairns, Beverly D. – 1989
Changes from the expected life course can arise from at least three different reasons in longitudinal work: developmental novelty, errors in diagnosis, and errors in expectation. This longitudinal study examined the social development of 220 fourth graders and 475 seventh graders over a period of 10 years with over 98 percent of the original…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Aggression, Behavior Change, Behavior Development
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