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Winsper, Catherine; Wolke, Dieter; Bryson, Alex; Thompson, Andrew; Singh, Swaran P. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2016
Background: Recently, school mobility was identified as a risk factor for psychotic symptoms in early adolescence. The extent to which this risk continues into late adolescence and the trajectories via which this risk manifests remain unexplored. Methods: Psychotic symptoms in 4,720 adolescents aged 18 were ascertained by trained psychologists…
Descriptors: Late Adolescents, Student Mobility, Psychosis, Early Adolescents
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Laible, Deborah; Carlo, Gustavo; Davis, Alexandra N.; Karahuta, Erin – Developmental Psychology, 2016
Longitudinal links between early childhood temperament, maternal sensitivity, and adolescents' adjustment have been proposed and found in several longitudinal studies, but the mechanisms of influence have not been explored. The authors examined the paths from maternal sensitivity and temperament in early childhood to adolescents' prosocial,…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Prosocial Behavior, Antisocial Behavior, Delinquency
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Krahe, Barbara; Moller, Ingrid – Journal of Adolescence, 2011
The relations between adolescents' habitual usage of media violence and their tendency to engage in aggressive and prosocial behavior in a school setting were examined in a cross-sectional study with 1688 7th and 8th graders in Germany who completed measures of violent media exposure and normative acceptance of aggression. For each participant,…
Descriptors: Prosocial Behavior, Violence, Aggression, Females
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Casey, Erin A.; Beadnell, Blair; Lindhorst, Taryn P. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2009
Data from male participants in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health are used to examine childhood predictors of late adolescent and early adulthood sexually coercive behavior and adolescent mediators of these relationships. A path analysis shows that experiencing sexual abuse as a child has a direct effect on perpetrating…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Prevention, Late Adolescents, Adolescents
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Mercer, Sterett H.; DeRosier, Melissa E. – Journal of School Psychology, 2008
This study assessed the importance of teacher preference of individual students, relative to peer rejection and student aggression, as an independent predictor of children's emotional adjustment and grades. First, a longitudinal, cross-lagged path analysis was conducted to determine the patterns of influence among teacher preference, peer…
Descriptors: Grades (Scholastic), Social Adjustment, Emotional Adjustment, Path Analysis
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Hill, Laura Griner; Werner, Nicole E. – Psychology in the Schools, 2006
School attachment is a robust predictor of adjustment in children and youth. Previous research has demonstrated effects of school context on student attachment, but individual-level contributions have not been explored. Our study examined the role of affiliative orientation in school attachment and aggressive behavior in children and youth from…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Motivation, Path Analysis, Aggression