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Jiaxin Chen – Psychology in the Schools, 2025
Life education is an essential element of suicide prevention in colleges. However, the existing practice of life education in China may be insufficient to match the new spectrum of students' knowledge needs. The study exemplified the participants' responses to common suicide myths with a 3-year follow-up investigation (Study 1), and the optimal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Attitudes, Bias
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Milne, Lisa C.; Greenway, Philip – Psychology in the Schools, 1999
Study aims to determine whether high scores on the Adolescent-School Problems (A-Sch) content scale and the Immaturity (IMM) supplementary scale were associated with cognitive performance as measured by the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children III (WISC-III). The association between IMM and the WISC-III was found to be a result of its…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Ability, High Schools, Learning Disabilities
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Kaplan, Harriett E.; Alatishe, Moses – Psychology in the Schools, 1976
Comparison of informants' ratings of 20 preschool children on the VSMS showed no significant correlations between either the social quotients or the rankings by mothers and daycare center teachers. Of significance was that the mothers consistently reported the social quotients of the children to be higher than did the teachers. (Author)
Descriptors: Children, Day Care, Evaluation, Maturity (Individuals)
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Cunningham, Bruce; Sugawara, Alan – Psychology in the Schools, 1989
Assessed factors contributing to 152 preservice teachers' choice of a helping or restrictive strategy to manage social immaturity and social defiance behavior among children. Regression analyses indicated that the costs of problem behavior significantly predicted the type of strategy the teachers would choose. (Author/TE)
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Classroom Techniques, Discipline, Maturity (Individuals)
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Dunleavy, Raymond A.; And Others – Psychology in the Schools, 1981
The Koppitz Human Figure Drawing (HFD) Test was examined for use in early identification of academically not-ready kindergarten children. HFD scores of children who later "passed" the Metropolitan Readiness Test were compared with HFD scores of children who later "failed." Results indicate that HFD scores are useful in…
Descriptors: Children, Disability Identification, Educational Diagnosis, Evaluation Methods
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Childers, Perry R.; Matusiak, Itzak – Psychology in the Schools, 1972
Descriptors: Achievement, Adjustment (to Environment), Child Development, Elementary School Students