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Under the Same Label: Adopted Adolescents' Heterogeneity in Well-Being and Perception of Social Contexts
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Paniagua, Carmen; Moreno, Carmen; Román, Maite; Palacios, Jesús; Grotevant, Harold D.; Rivera, Francisco – Youth & Society, 2020
This study compares a sample of 223 adopted adolescents with a nonadopted reference group representative of the Spanish adolescent population from the "Spanish Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children (HBSC) study." Variables related to the family context, peers, school context, and emotional well-being are compared. Adoptees are not…
Descriptors: Adoption, Well Being, Adolescents, Comparative Analysis
The Heterogeneous Effects of Income Changes on Happiness
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Becchetti, Leonardo; Corrado, Luisa; Rossetti, Fiammetta – Social Indicators Research, 2011
We investigate the relationship between money and happiness across the waves of the British Household Panel Study by using a latent class approach which accounts for slope heterogeneity. Our findings reveal the presence of a vast majority of "Easterlin-type" individuals with positive but very weak relationship between changes in income…
Descriptors: Social Indicators, Reference Groups, Income, Probability
Interactive Effects of Delayed Bedtime and Family-Associated Factors on Depression in Elementary School Children
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Lin, Jin-Ding; Tung, Ho-Jui; Hsieh, Yu-Hsin; Lin, Fu-Gong – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2011
Shorter sleep time was reported to be associated with psychological functioning in children. We intended to examine the relationship between nocturnal sleep duration and depression status by investigating if delayed bedtime could be one of the enhancement factors for depression in children. A cross-sectional study was performed to investigate the…
Descriptors: Sleep, Elementary School Students, Reference Groups, Prevention
Peer Devaluation in British Secondary Schools: Young People's Comparisons of Group-Based and Individual-Based Bullying
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O'Brien, Catherine – Educational Research, 2007
Background: Bullying has usefully been described as demonstrations of the norms of young people's social groups, outlawing and punishing those who do not conform. The way a person appraises bullying strongly influences the coping process, how the person reacts emotionally and bystander behaviour. A social-psychological perspective was used to…
Descriptors: Individual Characteristics, Data Analysis, Young Adults, Secondary School Students
Issues in the Measurement of Contextual Effects: Homogeneity of Associations and Multiple Reference Populations.
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Karweit, Nancy – 1977
An argument is made against the use of school averages as composition measures by documenting the non-random nature of peer associations and by presenting evidence that different students are influenced by different reference groups. The structure of friendship associations among some 20,000 students in the McDill Twenty High School Sample is…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Friendship, Group Dynamics, Group Membership
Sources of Career Support for University Faculty.
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Parson, L. Alayne; And Others – Research in Higher Education, 1992
A faculty (n=347) survey at a research-oriented public university identified four major sources of faculty support: off-campus personal relationships; colleagues within the academic unit; professional support outside the academic unit; and an ethnic/minority network, on and off campus. Differences related to gender and rank were investigated.…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Family Role, Helping Relationship, Higher Education