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Shneyderman, Yuliya; Schwartz, Seth J. – Health Education & Behavior, 2013
The present study was designed to test a model of contextual and intrapersonal predictors of adolescent risky sexual behaviors and of sexually transmitted infection diagnoses. Using Waves I and II from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, the authors estimated a structural model in which intrapersonal factors such as adolescents'…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Risk, Sexuality, Adolescents
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Harwood, Michelle D.; Eyberg, Sheila M. – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2006
The first phase of parent-child interaction therapy (PCIT), called child-directed interaction, teaches parents to use positive and differential social attention to improve the parent-child relationship. This study examined predictors of change in mother and child functioning during the child-directed interaction for 100 mother-child dyads. The…
Descriptors: Prediction, Parent Child Relationship, Mothers, Therapy
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Bost, Kelly K.; Vaughn, Brian E.; Washington, Wanda Newell; Cielinski, Kerry L.; Bradbard, Marilyn R. – Child Development, 1998
Two studies tested a model relating social competence to social support and child-parent attachment for Head Start children. Results supported the conjecture that social competence should be viewed as hierarchically organized. A model consistent with causal pathways from attachment security to support networks and social competence, and from…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Causal Models, Interpersonal Competence, Measurement Techniques