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Sam Trejo – Grantee Submission, 2024
Birth weight is a robust predictor of valued life course outcomes, emphasizing the importance of prenatal development. But does birth weight act as a proxy for environmental conditions in utero, or do biological processes surrounding birth weight themselves play a role in healthy development? To answer this question, we leverage variation in birth…
Descriptors: Body Weight, Prenatal Influences, Genetics, Hypothesis Testing
Yixin Chen; Jingjin Shao; Zhi Wang – Journal of Adolescence, 2025
Background: Relational victimization (RV) is a significant threat to adolescent mental health and social adaptation in China. However, its developmental characteristics during the school transition period are poorly understood. Finkelhor's developmental victimology framework provides a comprehensive lens to explore factors influencing RV's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Victims, Behavior Problems, Longitudinal Studies
Guang Guo; Meng-Jung Lin; Kathleen Mullan Harris – npj Science of Learning, 2022
This research examines how the human genome and SES jointly and interactively shape verbal ability among youth in the U.S. The youth are aged 12-18 when the study starts. The research draws on findings from the latest GWAS as well as a rich set of longitudinal SES measures at individual, family and neighborhood levels from Add Health (N = 7194).…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Adolescents, Early Adolescents, Late Adolescents
Thorsen, Cecilia; Yang Hansen, Kajsa; Johansson, Stefan – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2021
Background: Students with low socio-economic status (SES) are typically depicted as low performers and more likely to fail in school. However, a group of students, despite their background, manage to succeed in school. The capacity to overcome adversities and achieve successful educational outcomes is referred to as Academic Resilience. Research…
Descriptors: Student Interests, Predictor Variables, Academic Persistence, Academic Achievement
Chia S. Her – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Asian Americans are generally perceived to be disproportionately enrolled in four-year postsecondary education institutions despite evidence of Asian Americans being concentrated at both two-year and four-year postsecondary education institutions. This perception of Asian Americans has contributed to limited attention to Asian Americans'…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Asian Americans, Predictor Variables, College Attendance
King, Ronnel B.; Trinidad, Jose Eos – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2021
There is a heated debate about the efficacy of growth mindsets in predicting achievement and other key learning-related outcomes with some studies supporting and others failing to find evidence of growth mindset's adaptive effects. Moreover, past studies on mindsets have mostly examined it as a psychological variable with little attention to how…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Advantaged, Student Development, Academic Achievement
Ellen Bryer – Grantee Submission, 2025
Given the dramatic risks and rewards to different graduate pathways, it is imperative to understand disparities in access to the highest levels of education. This paper responds to a tension between the traditional understanding that parents' education ceases to influence children's educational trajectories after college and the more recent…
Descriptors: Correlation, Graduate Students, Masters Programs, Parent Child Relationship
Jennings, Anthony Edward – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Constructs like socioeconomic status (SES), college readiness, and self-efficacy have been studied primarily in context of their relationship to student academic performance outcomes. This study recognizes the gap in the literature of research focus on the influence such factors can have on test takers of standardized admissions tests. The public…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Secondary School Students, College Readiness, Academic Achievement
Vanluydt, Elien; Verschaffel, Lieven; Van Dooren, Wim – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2022
The present study longitudinally investigated proportional reasoning abilities in early elementary school before the start of its instruction. Three aims were put forward: (a) distinguishing the different developmental states in young children's understanding of missing-value proportional situations, (b) investigating how children transition…
Descriptors: Logical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Young Children, Elementary School Students
Oyefuga, Emiola; Shakeshaft, Charol – Youth & Society, 2023
This article aims to show the influence of social capital on the academic achievement of American students. Using data from Waves I and IV of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health), this study explored how one of the domains of social capital, the family, makes a difference to educational outcomes in higher…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Outcomes of Education, Family Income, Academic Achievement
Entrich, Steve R.; Byun, Soo-yong – International Journal for Research on Extended Education, 2020
The current study seeks to expand our knowledge on extended education and its potential contribution to social inequality by examining socioeconomic disparities in supplementary education (SE) at college and its impact on labor market outcomes. Using data from the United States Education Longitudinal Study, logistic and linear regressions deliver…
Descriptors: Supplementary Education, College Students, Outcomes of Education, Employment Potential
Silletti, Fabiola; Salvadori, Eliala A.; Presaghi, Fabio; Fasolo, Mirco; Aureli, Tiziana; Coppola, Gabrielle – Developmental Psychology, 2022
Mind-mindedness (MM) refers to caregivers' proclivity to treat a child as having an active and autonomous mental life. It has been shown to be a powerful predictor of many developmental outcomes and to mitigate the impact of risk conditions. However, longitudinal studies on MM reporting changes over time and individual differences among mothers…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Parent Child Relationship, Socioeconomic Status, Play
Sakiz, Halis; Özdas, Faysal; Göksu, Idris; Ekinci, Abdurrahman – SAGE Open, 2021
Achievement in higher education is gaining importance and attracting attention among educational psychologists who seek for determining its correlates. This study examined longitudinal associations between academic achievement in higher education, university entrance exam performance, the psychosocial climate of the campus, and instructional…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Academic Achievement, Correlation, Higher Education
Olivera-Aguilar, Margarita; Kell, Harrison J.; Ezzo, Chelsea; Robbins, Steven B. – ETS Research Report Series, 2022
This study examined how high school course-taking patterns (i.e., career and technical education [CTE] vs. academic vs. no concentration), personal characteristics embedded in a social cognitive theory framework (e.g., self-efficacy, academic expectations), and contextual variables (e.g., parental expectations, socioeconomic status [SES]) interact…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, High Schools, Course Selection (Students), Job Performance
Fraysier, Kathleen; Reschly, Amy L. – Psychology in the Schools, 2022
The purpose of this study was to examine whether secondary student engagement was predictive of college attendance. Data were drawn from the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 9th grade (n = 21,444) and 11th grade (n = 20,549) cohorts. Multilevel modeling was used to analyze whether demographic, academic, financial, and engagement variables…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, High School Students, Learner Engagement, Predictor Variables