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Efficacy of Schoolwide Programs to Promote Social and Character Development and Reduce Problem Behavior in Elementary School Children. Report from the Social and Character Development Research Program. NCER 2011-2001
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Ruby, Allen; Doolittle, Emily – National Center for Education Research, 2010
The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) and the Division of Violence Prevention in the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) collaborated to conduct a rigorous impact evaluation of programs aimed at improving students' behavior. For this evaluation, such programs were termed Social…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Student Behavior, Elementary School Students, School Activities
The Relationship between Perceived Family Health and Personality Functioning among Australian Adolescents.
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Heaven, Patrick; Searight, H. Russell; Chastain, Julie; Skitka, Linda J. – American Journal of Family Therapy, 1996
Focuses on the relationship between family climate and personality structure, as well as the relationship between family of origin and self-esteem. Results indicate that sociability was positively and moderately related to healthy family functioning. Life satisfaction and self-esteem were much more strongly associated with perceived family…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Behavior, Adolescents, Family Characteristics
Family Process and Child Development: Some Preliminary Findings.
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Bell, Linda G.; Ericksen, Lena – 1976
Relationships between patterns of family interaction and child development are investigated in this study on how family environment and quality of interaction relate to an adolescent's psychological and social functioning. A sample of 99 white middle-class families participated in a 2-hour structured interview in their homes. The interview…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Emotional Development, Family Characteristics, Family Environment
A Report on Two National Samples of Head Start Classes: Some Aspects of Child Development of Participants in Full Year 1967-68 and 1968-69 Programs. Final Report.
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Research Triangle Inst., Durham, NC. – 1972
Some characteristics of children, their families, the programs they attended, and the relationship of these experiences to their development are covered in this national report on the immediate changes associated with participation in full year Head Start programs. Major emphasis was placed on the child's cognitive and social development in the…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Child Development, Classroom Environment, Cognitive Development
Being a Closely Spaced Second Child Is Not So Bad. Child-Spacing Effects on Intelligence, Personality, and Social Competence.
Nuttall, Ronald L.; Nuttall, Ena Vazquez – 1978
This study focuses on the effects of family size and spacing on intellectual, social, and personality development of children. The sample consisted of 533 suburban, middle class, large family (five or more) and small two child family children. The children, 233 boys and 300 girls, were teenagers attending either junior or senior high school.…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Age Differences, Behavioral Science Research, Birth Order