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La Salle, Tamika P.; Parris, Leandra; Morin, Melissa; Meyers, Joel – School Psychology Forum, 2016
School connectedness has been shown to be an integral part of students' perceptions of school climate, which in turn affects their mental health functioning. Research has suggested that student perceptions of school connectedness may be related to their experiences with peer victimization. However, there is limited evidence of the moderating…
Descriptors: Victims, Bullying, Peer Relationship, Student School Relationship
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Brock, Laura L.; Curby, Timothy W. – Early Education and Development, 2014
Teachers' ratings of conflict and closeness as well as observed emotional support are known predictors of children's social functioning. Consistency in emotional support represents an emerging line of research. The goal of the present study is to understand whether the relation between the consistency of teachers' emotional support and children's…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Preschool Children, Kindergarten, Teacher Student Relationship
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Roberts, Megan E.; Gibbons, Frederick X.; Gerrard, Meg; Weng, Chih-Yuan; Murry, Velma M.; Simons, Leslie G.; Simons, Ronald L.; Lorenz, Frederick O. – Developmental Psychology, 2012
This study investigated how early experience with racial discrimination affected the subsequent risky sexual behaviors of a diverse sample of African American youths (N = 745). The analyses focused on 3 risk-promoting factors thought to mediate the hypothesized discrimination--risky sex relation: negative affect, affiliation with deviant peers,…
Descriptors: African Americans, Youth, Structural Equation Models, Racial Discrimination
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McLoyd, Vonnie C.; Toyokawa, Teru; Kaplan, Rachel – Journal of Family Issues, 2008
Using data from a sample of 455 African American children (ages 10 to 12 years) and their parents, this study tests a hypothesized model linking (a) maternal work demands to family routines through work-family conflict and depressive symptoms and (b) maternal work demands to children's externalizing and internalizing problems through family…
Descriptors: African American Children, Behavior Problems, Mothers, Conflict