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Bronk, Kendall Cotton; Finch, W. Holmes – Applied Developmental Science, 2010
Surveys were administered to adolescents (N = 144) to determine if young people varied based on the type of long-term aims they held. Using cluster analysis, four groups emerged from the data: youth without clear long-term aims, youth with self-oriented long-term aims, youth with other-oriented long-term aims, and youth with both self- and…
Descriptors: Life Satisfaction, Adolescents, Multivariate Analysis, Individual Characteristics
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Witherspoon, Dawn; Schotland, Marieka; Way, Niobe; Hughes, Diane – Applied Developmental Science, 2009
Cluster analyses and hierarchical linear modeling were used to investigate the impact of perceptions of connectedness to family, school, and neighborhood contexts on academic and psycho-social outcomes for 437 urban ethnically diverse adolescents. Five profiles of connectedness to family, school, and neighborhood were identified. Two profiles were…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Early Adolescents, Profiles, Urban Youth
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Konold, Timothy R.; Pianta, Robert C. – Applied Developmental Science, 2005
School readiness assessment is a prominent feature of early childhood education. Because the construct of readiness is multifaceted, we examined children's patterns on multiple indicators previously found to be both theoretically and empirically linked to school readiness: social skill, interactions with parents, problem behavior, and performance…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Early Childhood Education, Outcomes of Education, Predictive Validity