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Peng, Anqi; Patterson, Meagan M. – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2022
As the number of international students in the United States increases, many researchers show interest in understanding how international students adapt to the local society and what factors influence this process. Cultural identity and language proficiency, as two important factors for international students in adaptation, cannot be ignored. The…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Motivation, Language Proficiency
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Phang, Ayoung; Fan, Weihua; Arbona, Consuelo – Journal of Career Development, 2020
Over the past few decades, researchers have been trying to understand the career decision-making process from interpersonal and affective perspectives. Previous findings suggest that secure attachment is negatively linked to career indecision, but the extent to which other variables mediate this relation is less clear. The present study was…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Emotional Intelligence, Decision Making, Interpersonal Relationship
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Li, Manyu; Frieze, Irene Hanson; Nokes-Malach, Timothy J.; Cheong, Jeewon – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2013
Previous studies suggest that social relations can increase one's motivation to learn in school. However, other evidence showed that having more friends may also distract from one's academic involvement. To understand the mechanisms behind this apparent contradiction, this study identified and tested the effects of a potentially important positive…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Evidence, Drinking, School Policy
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Benner, Aprile D.; Wang, Yijie – Developmental Psychology, 2015
We investigated the links between racial/ethnic marginalization (i.e., having few same-race/ethnic peers at school) and adolescents' socioemotional distress and subsequent initiation of substance use (alcohol and marijuana) and substance use levels. Data from 7,731 adolescents (52% female; 55% White, 21% African American, 16% Latino, 8% Asian…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Substance Abuse, Depression (Psychology), Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
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Chen, Bin-Bin – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 2012
The purpose of this study was to examine relations between mother-child attachment and social initiative and withdrawal in Chinese urban children. Participants were 487 school-aged children (247 boys, 240 girls) in Shanghai, the People's Republic of China. Data on mother-child attachment styles were collected from children's self-reports.…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Shyness, Foreign Countries, Mothers
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Al-Yagon, Michal – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2011
This study examined a cumulative model of vulnerability and protective factors at the individual level (children's attachment relationships with father and children's sense of coherence) and at the family level as manifested by fathers' coping resources (fathers' sense of coherence, fathers' active and avoidant coping strategies) in helping to…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Attachment Behavior, Coping, Path Analysis
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Gaylord-Harden, Noni K.; Taylor, Jeremy J.; Campbell, Cynthya L.; Kesselring, Christine M.; Grant, Kathryn E. – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2009
The current study examined coping strategies as mediators of the relation between maternal attachment and depressive symptoms in a sample of urban youth. Participants included 393 adolescents (M age = 12.03, SD = 0.85) participating in a larger study of the impact of stressful life experiences on low-income urban youth. Participants completed…
Descriptors: Females, Attachment Behavior, Adolescents, Coping
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Hill, Laura Griner; Werner, Nicole E. – Psychology in the Schools, 2006
School attachment is a robust predictor of adjustment in children and youth. Previous research has demonstrated effects of school context on student attachment, but individual-level contributions have not been explored. Our study examined the role of affiliative orientation in school attachment and aggressive behavior in children and youth from…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Motivation, Path Analysis, Aggression
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Wood, Jeffrey J.; Emmerson, Natasha A.; Cowan, Philip A. – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2004
The association between early parent-child attachment security and peer rejection among preschool children was examined. Children in three preschool classrooms (N = 37) participated. Mothers rated their children's attachment security at age 3 years on the Attachment Q-Set (Waters, 1987). Sociometric ratings were collected from classmates at age 4…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Attachment Behavior, Rejection (Psychology), Security (Psychology)