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Carey, Alexis; Povey, Rachel; Taylor, Jennifer – Preventing School Failure, 2023
Early school leaving (ESL) is considered a significant societal issue globally due to the negative effect on young people's health, affect, and quality of life. Continued absenteeism is a risk factor for ESL. This study aimed to explore Irish children's health and wellbeing experiences during school closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic. These…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Jackson-Roe, Katie; Murray, Craig; Brown, Gill – Drugs: Education, Prevention & Policy, 2015
Aims: Previous research has documented a clear association between drinking alcohol and engaging in criminal activity. However, it is unclear how this relationship is formed and maintained in young people. Such knowledge could be instructive in the appropriate design and effectiveness of prevention and intervention strategies. The aim of the…
Descriptors: Drinking, Phenomenology, Prevention, Intervention
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Kokkinos, Constantinos M.; Hatzinikolaou, Stamatia – Journal of Adolescence, 2011
The present study examined the role of adolescents' self-esteem and perceptions of family and classroom contexts on their domain specific self-perceptions. 345 Greek junior high school adolescents aged 14-16 completed measures of domain specific self-perceptions, self-esteem, parenting styles and classroom climate. Hierarchical regression analyses…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Child Rearing, Adolescents, Classroom Environment
Galloway, D. – Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines, 1983
Truants living in a depressed urban area were compared with other absentees from school living in the same area. Results, discussed in reference to research differentiating truants and school refusers, showed few differences in the social and financial circumstances of the two groups, but reflected considerable differences in the children's…
Descriptors: Attendance, Behavior Patterns, Comparative Analysis, Disadvantaged Youth
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Cancian, Francesca M. – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1971
Studies of family interaction in Zinacantan, Mexico and Cambridge, Massachusetts, are used to test four hypotheses: (1) affection elicits affection; (2) dominance elicits submission; (3) all group members will exhibit the same degree of affection, and (4) all group members will exhibit the same degree of dominance submission. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Family Relationship, Foreign Countries, Interaction
Thomas, Antoinette D. – 1993
Empirical findings have supported an inverse relationship between closeness to extended family and friends versus spouse. The three foregoing interpersonal relationships in terms of affective quality, direction and dominance were investigated, using an objective test as well as the TAT. Bellak (1986) considered that the strength of the TAT lies in…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Emotional Adjustment, Extended Family, Family Relationship
Baar, Deborah E. – 1979
The interpersonal conditions which may maintain a child's aggression in the family were investigated by observing immediate, ongoing interactions in families of normal and aggressive adolescent sons. Normal-son families (N=6) and aggressive-son families (N=6) were videotaped engaging in a 50-minute discussion of questionnaire items designed to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Aggression, Antisocial Behavior, Behavior Patterns
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Yahav, Rivka – American Journal of Family Therapy, 2002
Investigated families of children with internalized versus externalized symptoms according to linear and curvilinear conceptions of circumplex model. It was hypothesized that externalized symptoms would result in family being classified as chaotic and disengaged, whereas internalized symptoms would result in being classified as rigid and enmeshed.…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Development, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems