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Lam, Chun Bun; Greene, Kaylin M.; McHale, Susan M. – Developmental Psychology, 2016
The developmental course, family correlates, and adjustment implications of youth housework participation from age 8-18 were examined. Mothers, fathers, and 2 siblings from 201 European American families provided questionnaire and/or daily diary data on 6 occasions across 7 years. Multilevel modeling within an accelerated longitudinal design…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Parents, Adolescents, Working Hours
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Sanik, Margaret Mietus; Stafford, Kathryn – Adolescence, 1985
Develops a model to predict the contribution adolescent males and females make to household work, based upon family characteristics, human capital of the adolescent, geographic location, and societal expectations. Adolescent females worked longer than males, regardless of birth order. Time use for household work was largely unaffected by family…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Family Characteristics, Geographic Location, Housework
Taylor, Lorraine C.; And Others – 1992
Previous research has indicated that African-American students, particularly those from low-income environments tend to be at greater risk for low academic achievement. However, income level is only one factor that contributes to low academic achievement. This study investigated the influence of other factors, including parental use of nurturant…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Black Family, Black Students
Phillip, Di-Ann G.; And Others – 1992
The amount and type of household responsibility expected of African-American children continues to be overlooked in the literature. This study examined the relationship between familial structure and the amount and type of assigned child household duties. Data was obtained from a subset utilized in the National Survey of Family Household data,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Black Family, Blacks
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Cooney, Teresa M.; Mortimer, Jeylan T. – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 1999
Used panel data in event history analysis examining association between family structure and departure from parental home, specifically possible mediators (parent-child relationship quality, household work efforts, psychological efficacy, family/personal income, peer involvement, childbearing). Single-parent family structure (and for girls,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Early Parenthood, Family Environment, Family Structure
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Barnes, Grace M.; Hoffman, Joseph H.; Welte, John W.; Farrell, Michael P.; Dintcheff, Barbara A. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2007
Using an integration of social control theory and the routine activity perspective, adolescent time use was examined for effects on problem behaviors. We examined a wide variety of time use categories, including homework, extracurricular activities, sports time, alone time, paid work, housework, television watching, as well as indices of family…
Descriptors: Drug Use, Social Control, Smoking, Sexuality