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Direct linkMetcalfe, Lindsay A.; Harvey, Elizabeth A.; Laws, Holly B. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2013
Existing research suggests that there is a relation between academic/cognitive deficits and externalizing behavior in young children, but the direction of this relation is unclear. The present study tested competing models of the relation between academic/cognitive functioning and behavior problems during early childhood. Participants were 221…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Cognitive Ability, Academic Ability, Behavior Problems
Nunez, Anne-Marie; Bowers, Alex J. – American Educational Research Journal, 2011
This study examined the student and high school contextual factors associated with high school students' enrollment in Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs). The authors drew on a conceptual framework of college choice involving the concepts of multiple capitals and individual and organizational habitus to examine the postsecondary trajectories of…
Descriptors: College Choice, High School Graduates, Longitudinal Studies, Student Educational Objectives
Does Father Absence Place Daughters at Special Risk for Early Sexual Activity and Teenage Pregnancy?
Peer reviewedEllis, Bruce J.; Bates, John E.; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Fergusson, David M.; Horwood, L. John; Pettit, Gregory S.; Woodward, Lianne – Child Development, 2003
Longitudinal studies in two countries investigated impact of father absence on girls' early sexual activity (ESA) and teenage pregnancy. Findings indicated that greater exposure to father absence strongly related to elevated ESA and adolescent pregnancy risk. Elevated risk was not explained (U.S. sample) or only partly explained (New Zealand…
Descriptors: Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Causal Models, Disadvantaged
da Silva, Lisa; Sanson, Ann; Smart, Diana; Toumbourou, John – Journal of Community Psychology, 2004
The development of civic responsibility is considered to be an important component of healthy adolescent development. However, the study of its development has been relatively neglected and few studies have attempted to ground understanding of its development in a theoretical framework. The present study operationalized civic responsibility as…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Causal Models, Service Learning, Adolescents
Peer reviewedReynolds, Arthur J.; Walberg, Herbert J. – Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 1992
Tested a structural model of mathematics achievement and attitude with a probability sample of 3,116 adolescents from the Longitudinal Study of American Youth. Concluded that prior achievement and home environment influenced subsequent achievement most powerfully and that previous attitude had the most powerful influence on subsequent attitude.…
Descriptors: Causal Models, Classroom Environment, Family Environment, Family Influence
