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Models of Pre-Service Teachers' Academic Achievement: The Influence of Cognitive Motivational Variables
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Castro-Villarreal, Felicia; Guerra, Norma; Sass, Daniel; Hseih, Pei-Hsuan – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2014
Theoretical models were tested using structural equation modeling to evaluate the interrelations among cognitive motivational variables and academic achievement using a sample of 128 predominately Hispanic pre-service teachers enrolled in two undergraduate educational psychology classes. Data were gathered using: (1) a quantitative questionnaire…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Hispanic Americans, Student Motivation, Cognitive Processes
An Evaluation of a Theoretical Model Predicting Dieting Behaviors: Tests of Measurement and Structural Invariance across Ethnicity and Gender
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Boie, Ioana; Lopez, Anna L.; Sass, Daniel A. – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2013
This study evaluated a model linking internalization and dieting behaviors in a sample ("n" = 499) of Latina/o and White college students. Analyses revealed that the scales were invariant across ethnic and gender groups and generally supported the invariance of the proposed model across these groups. Analyses also revealed no ethnic mean…
Descriptors: Dietetics, Eating Habits, Hispanic American Students, White Students
Toward a Transactional Model of Parent-Adolescent Relationship Quality and Adolescent Psychological Adjustment
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Fanti, Kostas A.; Henrich, Christopher C.; Brookmeyer, Kathryn A.; Kuperminc, Gabriel P. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2008
The present study includes externalizing problems, internalizing problems, mother-adolescent relationship quality, and father-adolescent relationship quality in the same structural equation model and tests the longitudinal reciprocal association among all four variables over a 1-year period. A transactional model in which adolescents'…
Descriptors: Marital Status, Mothers, Fathers, Structural Equation Models
Parent Relationships, Emotion Regulation, Psychosocial Maturity and College Student Alcohol Use Problems
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Fischer, Judith L.; Forthun, Larry F.; Pidcock, Boyd W.; Dowd, Duane A. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2007
This study tested associations between problems in parent-youth relationships and problems with alcohol use among college students (N = 1592) using structural equation modeling. Hypotheses were that relationships between both substance-specific parenting factors (parental drinking) and non-substance-specific parenting factors (parental intrusive…
Descriptors: Campuses, Maturity (Individuals), Structural Equation Models, Child Rearing
Testing a Four-Factor Model of Psychopathy and Its Association With Ethnicity, Gender, Intelligence, and Violence
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Vitacco, Michael J.; Neumann, Craig S.; Jackson, Rebecca L. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2005
Although a 2-factor model has advanced research on the psychopathy construct, a 3-factor model was recently developed that emphasized pathological personality and eliminated antisocial behavior. However, dropping antisocial behavior from the psychopathy construct may not be advantageous. Using a large sample of psychiatric patients from the…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Ethnicity, Factor Analysis, Antisocial Behavior
Family and Child Characteristics, Child-Rearing Factors, and Cognitive Competence of Young Children.
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Driessen, Geert W. J. M. – Early Child Development and Care, 2003
A model of family, child, and parental childrearing characteristics was developed and tested for predicting the cognitive competence in a sample of 10,774 six-year-olds from The Netherlands. Results of LISREL analyses showed that parent education level played a central role in explaining differences in children's cognitive competence. Family…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Cognitive Development, Competence, Dutch