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Worobey, John; Borrelli, Amanda; Espinosa, Carolina; Worobey, Harriet S. – Early Child Development and Care, 2013
Objective: Relatively few investigators have explored the role of maternal control in describing the feeding behaviour of nonwhite parents of preschool-age children. The present study was conducted to examine if controlling feeding behaviours (i.e. restriction and pressuring) varied by income (middle vs. low) and race/ethnicity (white vs.…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Mothers, Preschool Children, Questionnaires
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Graf, Frauke; Lamm, Bettina; Goertz, Claudia; Kolling, Thorsten; Freitag, Claudia; Spangler, Sibylle; Fassbender, Ina; Teubert, Manuel; Vierhaus, Marc; Keller, Heidi; Lohaus, Arnold; Schwarzer, Gudrun; Knopf, Monika – Infant and Child Development, 2012
Three-month-old Cameroonian Nso farmer and German middle-class infants were compared regarding learning and retention in a computerized mobile task. Infants achieving a preset learning criterion during reinforcement were tested for immediate and long-term retention measured in terms of an increased response rate after reinforcement and after a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Infants, Middle Class, Learning Processes
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Deb, Sibnath; Chatterjee, Pooja; Walsh, Kerryann – Australian Journal of Educational & Developmental Psychology, 2010
The broad objective of the study was to understand better anxiety among adolescents in Kolkata city, India. Specifically, the study compared anxiety across gender, school type, socio-economic background and mothers' employment status. The study also examined adolescents' perceptions of quality time with their parents. A group of 460 adolescents…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Employment Level, Mothers, Psychological Testing
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Legutko, Robert S. – Rural Educator, 2008
This study is a quantitative descriptive research design which compared 1995 and 2005 data regarding family influence on rural Pennsylvania high school seniors' postsecondary decisions. A chi-square analysis at p less than 0.05 determined that there was (a) an increase in students planning college attendance, (b) a decrease in students not…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Middle Class, Siblings, College Attendance
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Squires, Jane K.; Potter, LaWanda; Bricker, Diane D.; Lamorey, Suzanne – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 1998
Examined the use of the Ages and Stages Questionnaires with 96 low- and middle-income parents on their child from 4 to 30 months. Found that percent agreement between a professionally-administered standardized assessment and questionnaires completed by low and middle-income parents was 80% to 91% and 85% to 93%, respectively. (Author/KB)
Descriptors: Child Development, Comparative Analysis, Longitudinal Studies, Low Income Groups
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Lai, Mee-ling – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2001
Examined the attitudes of Hong Kong secondary school students toward English, Cantonese, and Putonghua. Compared the language attitudes of two main groups of Hong Kong students, middle class elite and working class low achievers. Findings showed that the former group was more inclined to use English while the latter group was more inclined to use…
Descriptors: Cantonese, Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries