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Attachment and Attention: Protection in Relation to Gender and Cumulative Social-Contextual Adversity
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Pasco Fearon, R. M.; Belsky, Jay – Child Development, 2004
Data from 918 children from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Study of Early Child Care were examined to test the interrelation of attachment and attentional performance and 2 known risks for poor attentional performance: male gender and social-contextual adversity. Attachment was measured using the Strange…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Measures (Individuals), Predictor Variables, Social Environment
Identification of Which High-Risk Youth Smoke Cigarettes Regularly.
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Sussman, Steve; And Others – Health Values: The Journal of Health Behavior, Education & Promotion, 1993
Researchers investigated which questionnaire items would differentiate high-risk adolescents from others, noting which items would differentiate high-risk youth at various tobacco use levels. Though several variables distinguished high-risk youths, only close friends' tobacco use and value placed on health significantly predicted regular smoking…
Descriptors: Health Behavior, High Risk Students, High School Students, High Schools
The Student Integration Survey: Development of an Early Alert Assessment and Reporting System.
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Dowaliby, Fred J.; And Others – Research in Higher Education, 1993
Development of a self-report rating scale providing information about students with academic/social integration difficulties is reported. The questionnaire was tested with 192 incoming first-year students at a technical institute for the deaf. Results show the instrument useful in early evaluation and diagnosis of adjustment problems and helpful…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Deafness, High Risk Students, Higher Education
Historical Highlights of the Three-Year Nor Cal Attrition Reduction Effort: An Overview, from a Perspective That Overlooks Ten Years, of the Highlights of a Three-Year, California Community College Research Consortium Effort to Reduce Attrition Among First-Time, Full-Time Freshmen.
Kester, Donald L. – 1980
Methodology and findings are summarized for a three-year research project undertaken by a consortium of 28 Northern California (Nor Cal) community colleges to identify and help the potential dropouts among full-time, entering freshmen. The report first discusses the creation of the Nor-Cal consortium and then examines each of the three research…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Freshmen, College Role, Community Colleges
Non-Traditional Predictors of Academic Success for Special Action Admissions.
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Tom, Alice K. – 1982
The use of nontraditional college admission variables in the prediction of academic success was assessed with 444 freshmen entering the University of California, Davis, under the Special Action process (wavering of admission requirements). For fall 1978, 1979, 1980 special entrants, attention was directed to college applications, including high…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Admission Criteria, Basic Skills
The Role of Self-Concept in Predicting the Success of Academically and Financially Disadvantaged Students within Higher Education Opportunity Programs.
Martel, Laurence D.; Richman, Joel – 1985
The relationship between a standard measure of self-concept and withdrawal from college was studied with students at private New York colleges who were admitted through the Higher Education Opportunity Programs (HEOP). HEOP students are educationally and financially disadvantaged. The objective of the study was to promote policy formation and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Ancillary School Services, Change Strategies, College Attendance