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Schonberg, Michael A.; Shaw, Daniel S. – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2007
The joint trajectory analysis version of Nagin's ("Group-based modeling of development." Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005) semiparametric, group-based approach for modeling trajectories was used to assess how boy's trajectories of conduct problems (CP) and neighborhood SES covaried from ages 5 to 12. Participants were…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Risk, Neighborhoods, Males
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Vondra, Joan I.; Hommerding, Katherine Dowdell; Shaw, Daniel S. – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1999
Investigated role of maternal characteristics and behavior, perceptions of social support, and infant characteristics to differentiate early patterns of infant security, organized insecurity and disorganization among socioeconomically disadvantaged families. Found a variety of correlations with different attachment patterns. Also found that change…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Behavior Development, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Theories
McLoyd, Vonnie; And Others – 1980
A study, as yet unfinished, sought to replicate, expand, and provide preliminary answers to questions raised in previous research on the development of fantasy play by black children as functions of age, sex, income level, and other environmental factors. Fantasy play involves the attribution to persons, objects, materials, or situations of…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Development, Black Youth, Child Development
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Klein, Pnina S.; Alony, Sari – Journal of Early Intervention, 1993
Forty-eight low socioeconomic status Israeli women were trained to optimize their infants' development through mediational strategies including increase in frequency of focusing, affecting, expanding, encouraging, and regulating behaviors. At three-year follow-up, maternal mediation behaviors were found to be related to specific children's…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Economically Disadvantaged
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Cecil, Henry S.; And Others – 1969
This study followed a small group of children exposed to pre- and perinatal health threats to determine whether any psychological effects of the health threat could be identified and if so, whether there is potential in pediatric care to prevent such consequences. The 67 infants were all members of low income families. The tests used included the…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Behavior Problems, Child Development, Economically Disadvantaged
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Grant, Roy – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 1991
This case study of 72 homeless families and their 78 children in day care at a large welfare hotel in New York City evaluates the children's health status, separation and attachment, sleep patterns, eating patterns, emotional status, attention span, gross motor development, speech and language development, and cognitive development. (JDD)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Case Studies, Child Development, Cognitive Development