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Sean T. Wachsmuth; Timothy J. Lewis; Nicholas A. Gage – Behavioral Disorders, 2023
A large body of research has reported a positive relation between participation in extracurricular activities (ECA) and improved academic performance, social competence, and school engagement. This study explored the relation between ECA, social competence, and school engagement for students with and at risk of emotional and behavioral disorders…
Descriptors: Extracurricular Activities, Student Participation, Learner Engagement, Interpersonal Competence
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Talbott, Elizabeth; Zurheide, Jaime L.; Karabatsos, George; Kumm, Skip – Behavioral Disorders, 2021
Valid and reliable teacher ratings serve as the foundation for screening and assessment of youth with behavioral disorders and twin studies offer an opportunity to study those ratings. We conducted a meta-analysis of 15 empirical investigations of aggressive and rule-breaking behavior using teacher ratings in the context of a twin research design.…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Twins, Teacher Attitudes, Predictor Variables
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Cho, Minhae; Lee, Chi Hyun – Youth & Society, 2022
Juvenile recidivism is a serious public health concern. Using statewide administrative data, this study examined the independent predictive value of childhood maltreatment on repeat offending and compared risk factors for recidivism between 698 first-time juvenile offenders with maltreatment and their propensity score matched sample of 698 without…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Correlation, Juvenile Justice, Comparative Analysis
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Kristin Romvig Overgaard; Beate Oerbeck; Svein Friis; Are Hugo Pripp; Heidi Aase; Christine Baalsrud Ingeborgrud; Guido Biele – Journal of Attention Disorders, 2025
Objective: Children with ADHD often experience functional impairments across various aspects of daily life. This study addresses the dearth of longitudinal research on functional impairment trajectories from preschool to school age in children with symptoms of ADHD and comorbid disorders. Methods: We investigated the extent to which functional…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Preschool Children, Elementary School Students
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Rokeach, Alan; Wiener, Judith – School Mental Health, 2022
The purpose of this study was to identify predictors of friendship quality in adolescents with and without ADHD. The participants were 115 adolescents (61 ADHD, 54 non-ADHD), ages 13-18. The adolescents completed questionnaires assessing the quality of their relationships with their best friends, social perspective taking, anxiety and depression.…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Friendship, Clinical Diagnosis, Anxiety
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Tural Hesapcioglu, Selma; Ceylan, Mehmet Fatih; Kasak, Meryem; Yavas, Cansu Pinar – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2021
The aim of this study was to investigate the psychiatric disorders that accompany mild intellectual disability (ID) in school-aged children in a clinical setting. The Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for School-Age Children-Present and Lifetime Version interview was conducted with the children with mild ID and their…
Descriptors: Mental Disorders, Mild Intellectual Disability, Comorbidity, Attention Deficit Disorders
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Michelle M. Cumming; Yuxi Qiu; Rachel Oblath; Stacy L. Frazier; Cristina Criado; Sharde Theodore; Gabriel Placido – Grantee Submission, 2024
Middle schoolers with or at risk for emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD) typically have a trajectory of difficult outcomes (e.g., school dropout, incarceration). Growing evidence suggests that the continuum of behavioral competence to challenges is closely linked to students' neurocognitive executive function (EF) capacities, perceived stress…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Executive Function, Middle School Students, At Risk Students
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Iratzoqui, Amaia – Youth & Society, 2020
Criminological literature has examined the potential for gendered pathways of offending, while also recognizing the gendered risk for victimization. General strain theory explicitly recognizes this gendered risk as strains that structure differences in these experiences for males and females. The current article tests the longitudinal risk for…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, At Risk Persons, Child Abuse, Family Violence
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Siu, Michelle T.; Goodman, Sarah J.; Yellan, Isaac; Butcher, Darci T.; Jangjoo, Maryam; Grafodatskaya, Daria; Rajendram, Rageen; Lou, Youliang; Zhang, Rujun; Zhao, Chunhua; Nicolson, Rob; Georgiades, Stelios; Szatmari, Peter; Scherer, Stephen W.; Roberts, Wendy; Anagnostou, Evdokia; Weksberg, Rosanna – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2021
Many neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) share common learning and behavioural impairments, as well as features such as dysregulation of the oxytocin hormone. Here, we examined DNA methylation (DNAm) in the 1st intron of the oxytocin receptor gene, "OXTR," in patients with autism spectrum (ASD), attention deficit and hyperactivity (ADHD)…
Descriptors: Genetics, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Biochemistry
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Bell, G. Ronald; Crothers, Laura M.; Hughes, Tammy L.; Kanyongo, Gibbs Y.; Kolbert, Jered B.; Parys, Kristen – Journal of Applied School Psychology, 2018
The authors examined the degree to which callous-unemotional traits and narcissism predict relational aggression, social aggression, and prosocial skills in a sample of 79 adolescent offenders (13-18 years old; 26% girls; 74% boys) attending a school for youth with behavior disorders in the Mid-Atlantic United States. Narcissism made a significant…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Personality Traits, Aggression, Maturity (Individuals)
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Hellberg, Samantha N.; Ladis, Ilana E.; Shepherd, Caitlin B. – Journal of American College Health, 2019
Objective: To conduct a pilot test of the validity of using empirically derived personality types to characterize eating disorder (ED) risk in college students and resolve discrepancies regarding the role of perfectionism and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) symptoms. Participants: Man and woman undergraduate students (N = 169) at a small,…
Descriptors: Eating Disorders, Personality Traits, Risk, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
Kern, Lee; Harrison, Judith R.; Custer, Beth E.; Mehta, Paras D. – Behavioral Disorders, 2019
School engagement is an important predictor of graduation. One strategy to enhance student engagement is mentoring. Check & Connect is a structured mentoring program that has resulted in favorable outcomes for many students, including those with emotional and behavioral disorders. Effectiveness, however, depends on the quality of the…
Descriptors: Mentors, Interpersonal Relationship, Learner Engagement, Program Effectiveness
Moore, Joann L.; Schnieders, Joyce Z. – ACT, Inc., 2022
This study examined the performance, demographics, and contextual factors of students taking the ACT® test with accommodations compared to students taking the ACT without accommodations. We examined the prevalence of accommodations provided and disability categories as well as performance by disability type. We also examined demographic…
Descriptors: Testing Accommodations, College Entrance Examinations, Context Effect, Student Characteristics
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Wagner, Nicholas; Mills-Koonce, Roger; Willoughby, Michael; Propper, Cathi; Rehder, Peter; Gueron-Sela, Noa – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2017
Extant literature suggests that oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) and callous-unemotional (CU) behaviors in childhood and adolescence are associated with distinct patterns of psychophysiological functioning, and that individual differences in these patterns have implications for developmental pathways to disorder. Very little is known about the…
Descriptors: Infants, Correlation, Behavior Disorders, Emotional Disturbances
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Martin-Storey, Alexa; Temcheff, Caroline; Dery, Michele; Poirier, Martine; Verlaan, Pierrette; Lemelin, Jean-Pascal – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2018
Children with conduct problems are at greater risk for internalizing problems. The objectives of this study were to (1) examine trajectories of internalizing problems among children with and without clinically significant conduct problems during the transition to adolescence; and (2) identify how academic achievement, peer rejection, parent…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Developmental Stages, Mother Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes
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