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Murphy, Marina – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Social skills and academic competence are key factors influencing children's development and functioning across early childhood and through adolescence. There is a great need to understand the longitudinal patterns of growth in social and academic skills in order to further inform intervention, particularly for at-risk groups such as individuals…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Disabilities, Children, Comparative Analysis
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Engberg, Mark E.; Jourian, T. J.; Davidson, Lisa M. – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2016
This study examines the mediating role of intercultural wonderment in relation to students' development of a global perspective. We utilize both confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling to validate the intercultural wonderment construct and test the direct and indirect effects of the structural pathways in the model,…
Descriptors: Role, Study Abroad, Cultural Awareness, Experiential Learning
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Strand, Paul S.; Downs, Andrew – Developmental Psychology, 2018
We investigated the role of sociocultural (between-groups) and individual (within-group) factors on the development of preschoolers' resource-allocation preferences. We tested claims of the "joint impact hypothesis" of social values development that social-emotional understanding skills would predict the transition from simpler…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Hispanic American Students, English, Spanish
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Bennett, Teresa A.; Szatmari, Peter; Georgiades, Katholiki; Hanna, Steven; Janus, Magdelena; Georgiades, Stelios; Duku, Eric; Bryson, Susan; Fombonne, Eric; Smith, Isabel M.; Mirenda, Pat; Volden, Joanne; Waddell, Charlotte; Roberts, Wendy; Vaillancourt, Tracy; Zwaigenbaum, Lonnie; Elsabbagh, Mayada; Thompson, Ann – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2015
Background: Differences in how developmental pathways interact dynamically in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) likely contribute in important ways to phenotypic heterogeneity. This study aimed to model longitudinal reciprocal associations between social competence (SOC) and language (LANG) pathways in young children with ASD. Methods:…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Child Development, Longitudinal Studies
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El, Ron Pat; Tillema, Harm; van Koppen, Sabine W. M. – Learning and Individual Differences, 2012
In this study we investigate the influence of ethnic differences on student motivation when learning from formative feedback. Interpersonal teacher behavior and student motivational needs are used to explain the effects of assessment for learning on intrinsic motivation by comparing students from different ethnic backgrounds. The final study's…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Teacher Behavior, Structural Equation Models, Student Motivation
McIntosh, Eric James – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Despite increased access to higher education for previously underrepresented ethnic groups, the graduation rates of African Americans and Latinos in higher education pale in comparison to their Caucasian and Asian peers (Aud, Fox, & KewalRamani, 2010). In contrast, Asians are graduating at rates higher than Caucasians; however, the literature…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, African American Students, Hispanic American Students, Asian American Students
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Ryan, Sarah M.; Boxmeyer, Caroline L.; Lochman, John E. – Behavioral Disorders, 2009
Although preventive interventions that include both parent and child components produce stronger effects on disruptive behavior than child-only interventions, engaging parents in behavioral parent training is a significant challenge. This study examined the effects of specific risk factors for child disruptive behavior on parent attendance in…
Descriptors: Intervention, Structural Equation Models, At Risk Persons, Parents
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Kats-Gold, Inna; Besser, Avi; Priel, Beatriz – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2007
Poor social skills and behavioral problems are a major component of ADHD. The different explanations offered so far, such as cognitive deficits and deficient self regulation, have not been able fully to account for the various aspects of the social dysfunction, suggesting that other mechanisms might underlay this impairment. Our study sought to…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Structural Equation Models, Males, Interpersonal Competence
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Porter, Christian L.; Hart, Craig H.; Yang, Chongming; Robinson, Clyde C.; Olsen, Susanne Frost; Zeng, Qing; Olsen, Joseph A.; Jin, Shenghua – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2005
The purpose of this investigation was to examine comparable dimensions and linkages between child temperament and parenting styles with samples from Beijing, China and the western United States. Participants included 404 mothers and fathers from Beijing, China and 325 mothers and fathers from the western United States. Both mothers and fathers…
Descriptors: Mothers, Daughters, Parenting Styles, Child Rearing