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Randolph, Karen A.; Russell, David; Tillman, Kathryn Harker; Fincham, Frank D. – Youth & Society, 2010
The prevention of underage drinking and related outcomes focuses on strengthening protective factors. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health ( N = 3,862), the authors examine the effects of protective factors from three domains of adolescents' lives (individual, familial, and extrafamilial) on experiencing negative…
Descriptors: Drinking, Risk, Adolescents, Social Environment
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Carr, Deborah; Khodyakov, Dmitry – Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 2007
Dying persons are encouraged to name as durable power of attorney for health care (DPAHC) someone who will thus be empowered to make end-of-life treatment decisions for them in the event that they become incapacitated. We use data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study to investigate whether and whom older adults designate as their DPAHC. DPAHC…
Descriptors: Terminal Illness, Decision Making, Empowerment, Death
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Kaltenborn, Karl-Franz – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 2001
Describes a longitudinal study examining children's attachment and relationship preferences and residence wishes as a custody decision criterion in divorced families. Advocates constituting by law the child's attachments and residence wishes as custody criterion for children of any age and for establishing appropriate social and legal contexts to…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Child Custody, Childhood Attitudes, Children