This report examines the importance and multidimensional nature of well-being, in general, and the well-being of Black, Native, Latinx, and Asian youth involved in systems of care, in particular. These young people must navigate three significant challenges: typical developmental issues and stressors associated with child and adolescent…

Students are embedded in a stochastic world. Postmodern practitioners of fragmentation accept this, however they dispute Jungian and Eriksonian wholeness. The existential representation ego as a two-dimensional thing, the Kantian-, Jungian- I-formation is questioned. Similarly, Gardnerian frames of mind and MI are questioned as functional…

China's higher education system has been marked by dramatic growth since 1999. In response to calls for quality assurance, substantial efforts have been made to improve collegiate environments and enhance student learning. However, only limited empirical research has been conducted to investigate the effects of the college environment on student…

Evidence from twin studies points to substantial environmental influences on intelligence, but the specifics of this influence are unclear. This study examined one developmental process that potentially causes intelligence differences: learning to read. In 1,890 twin pairs tested at 7, 9, 10, 12, and 16 years, a cross-lagged…

Objective: This study examined the temporal stability (i.e. test-retest reliability) of the Salutogenic Wellness Promotion Scale (SWPS) using intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC). Current intraclass results were also compared to previously published interclass correlations to support the use of the intraclass method for test-retest…

The detrimental effects of lead exposure in children have been known for over 100 years. Although a few initial measures implemented about 30 years ago were effective in somewhat reducing levels of lead exposure in children, relatively little has been done recently from a policy perspective to protect children from lead. We now know from recent…

Describes some sources and conditions of curiosity and examines these in light of their implications for human values. (ED)

Author asserts that curriculum specialists have generally neglected "school settings," or the psychological climate which fosters both intellectual and emotional growth. (HB)

Reports two experiments to assess the usefulness of an alternative position to the "deficit hypothesis" and the "differences hypothesis," namely, that environmental/situational factors attenuate the performance of lower-class children, but that their competence, while genotypically equivalent to that of middle-class children,…

The ways in which the mind creates new worlds, new contexts, and possible alternate realities are described. It is proposed that with this information, facility in devising new worlds and realities may be enhanced and imaginative reach expanded. (MSE)

It was the purpose of this investigation to examine intellectual commitment as an outcome of commonly occurring interests and circumstances, and to attempt to understand some of the circumstances and conditions influencing the development of intellectual commitment. For the purposes of this study, intellectual commitment is defined as an intense…

This project investigated patterns of IQ change in normal, middle class children between ages 2 1/2 to 17 in a longitudinal study. The children changed an average of 28.5 IQ points during the course of the study. Parental influences and general environmental circumstances were seen as influential variables shaping a child's intellectual growth.…

The term experience'' has been used by developmental psychologists to refer both to effects of environmental stimulation and to opportunity for the acquisition of a particular behavior. Differing conceptions of the role of experience and their consequences for various issues in the field are discussed. (ST)

Examines the question of whether environmental factors restrict only the capacity to perform the type of tasks schools require, or if they inhibit the general capacity to learn. (NH)