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Choi, Jeong-Kyun; Hatton-Bowers, Holly; Shin, Jiwon – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
Our study extends the understanding of how three distinct environments including home, childcare, and neighbourhood may influence young children's problematic behaviours among a sample of predominantly unmarried mothers residing in urban communities in the United States. With a sample of 791 mothers we examined whether neighbourhood disadvantage…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Toddlers, Behavior Problems, Poverty
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Tsai, Peng-Chou; Harrington, Rebecca A.; Lung, For-Wey; Lee, Li-Ching – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2017
The Social Communication Questionnaire is one of the most commonly used screening tools for autism spectrum disorder. The Social Communication Questionnaire is a caregiver-reported questionnaire with 40 items based on questions from the Autism Diagnostic Interview-Revised. This study collected Social Communication Questionnaire data from a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Questionnaires, Screening Tests, Autism
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Flouri, Eirini; Midouhas, Emily; Charman, Tony; Sarmadi, Zahra – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2015
We investigated the longitudinal relationship between socio-economic disadvantage (SED) and trajectories of emotional and conduct problems among children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) who had comorbid attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD; ASD + ADHD) or not (ASD-DHD). The sample was 209 children with ASD who took part in the UK's…
Descriptors: Poverty, Correlation, Socioeconomic Status, Economically Disadvantaged
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Goldman, Suzanne E.; McGrew, Susan; Johnson, Kyle P.; Richdale, Amanda L.; Clemons, Traci; Malow, Beth A. – Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2011
Multiple sleep problems have been reported in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The association of poor sleep with problematic daytime behaviors has been shown in small studies of younger children. We assessed the relationship between sleep and behavior in 1784 children, ages 2-18, with confirmed diagnosis of ASD participating in the…
Descriptors: Attention Span, Autism, Economically Disadvantaged, Sleep
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Ramchandani, Paul G.; Richter, Linda M.; Norris, Shane A.; Stein, Alan – Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2010
Objective: Findings from a number of cohort studies suggest that children who are exposed to maternal stress during pregnancy have an increased risk of behavioral problems. All of the research assessing this association to date has been conducted in developed countries; yet the majority of the child population, and the majority of the burden of…
Descriptors: Females, Psychopathology, Children, Questionnaires
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Connell, Arin; Bullock, Bernadette Marie; Dishion, Thomas J.; Shaw, Daniel; Wilson, Melvin; Gardner, Frances – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2008
This study used latent transition analysis (LTA) to examine changes in early emotional and behavioral problems in children age 2 to 4 years resulting from participation in a family-centered intervention. A sample of 731 economically disadvantaged families was recruited from among participants in a national food supplement and nutrition program.…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Emotional Problems, Behavior Problems, Intervention
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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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De Civita, Mirella; Pagani, Linda S.; Vitaro, Frank; Tremblay, Richard E. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2007
We examined the influence of income source within the context of persistent poverty on children's disruptive classroom behavior at age 12 and whether these associations were mediated by maternal supervision at ages 10 and 11. Using a subsample (N = 1,112) from the Quebec Longitudinal Study, we coded four economic circumstances indicating…
Descriptors: Children, Mothers, Child Rearing, Behavior Problems
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Child Development, 2005
Relations of duration and developmental timing of poverty to children's development from birth to age 9 were examined by comparing children from families who were never poor, poor only during the child's infancy (03 years of age), poor only after infancy (49 years of age), and chronically poor. Chronically poor families provided lower quality…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Grade 3, Infants, Behavior Problems
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Deater-Deckard, Kirby; Petrill, Stephen A.; Thompson, Lee A. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2007
Background: Individual differences in conduct problems arise in part from proneness to anger/frustration and poor self-regulation of behavior. However, the genetic and environmental etiology of these connections is not known. Method: Using a twin design, we examined genetic and environmental covariation underlying the well-documented correlations…
Descriptors: Twins, Behavior Problems, Persistence, Economically Disadvantaged
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Emerson, Eric; Hatton, Chris – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 2007
We examined the contribution of socioeconomic position to the health and mental health status of children and adolescents with intellectual disabilities in a sample of 10,438 British children. Intellectual disability was a significant risk factor for poorer general health, OR = 4.5, emotional disorders, OR = 2.0, and conduct disorders, OR = 7.7.…
Descriptors: Child Health, Adolescents, Emotional Disturbances, Mental Health
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Nowak-Fabrykowski, Krystyna – Childhood Education, 2004
Ongoing changes in the Polish political and economic sectors have led to tremendous changes in its education and health care systems that will likely bring reforms in the care of orphaned children. After the Second World War, many children in Poland were orphaned and an institutional system for their care and education became entrenched. Many…
Descriptors: Children, Economically Disadvantaged, Psychologists, Emotional Problems
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Ackerman, Brian P.; Schoff, Kristen; Levinson, Karen; Youngstrom, Eric; Izard, Carroll E. – Developmental Psychology, 1999
Examined relations between alternative representations of poverty cofactors and promotion processes, and problem behaviors of 6- and 7-year-olds from disadvantaged families. Found that single-index risk representations and promotion variables predicted aggression but not anxiety/depression. An additive model of individual risk indicators performed…
Descriptors: Aggression, Anxiety, At Risk Persons, Behavior Problems
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McCarthy, E. Doyle; And Others – Social Behavior and Personality, 1982
Investigated effect of father presence or absence in the home in New York City families: welfare AFDC families and lower-middle income families. Results indicated that children of surrogate fathers revealed significantly more behavioral difficulties. Cross-section children and mothers were more adversely affected by father absence than others.…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Children, Comparative Analysis, Economically Disadvantaged
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Sabin, Janice A.; Zatzick, Douglas F.; Rivara, Frederick P. – Journal of School Health, 2005
Injury represents the leading cause of death and disability for US children and adolescents. Almost 16 million children are evaluated for injury each year in the United States. Although childhood injury rates are decreasing, 70% of all deaths among children and adolescents aged 5 to 19 years are injury related. Nonfatal injury is the leading cause…
Descriptors: School Health Services, Health Personnel, Injuries, Children
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