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Capdevielle-Mougnibas, Valérie; Courtinat-Camps, Amélie – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2017
This article examines the existing relations between the social background, the cognitive skills, the sense of schooling experience, the relation to learning and the professional project in the construction of the meaning of their course choice for French boys living in working-class families and guided to vocational studies. It presents the…
Descriptors: Educational Experience, Vocational Education, Foreign Countries, Socioeconomic Background
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Lai, Wen-Feng; Chen, Yen-Yu – Early Child Development and Care, 2016
The aim of this study was to determine the effects of age and family socioeconomic status (SES) on the evaluative language performance of Mandarin-Chinese-speaking young children and their mothers. The participants were 65 mother-child dyads recruited in Taiwan. Thirty-four of these dyads were from middle-class families and 31 were from…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Mandarin Chinese, Working Class, Mothers
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Córdova, David; Heinze, Justin E.; Mistry, Ritesh; Salas-Wright, Christopher P.; Zimmerman, Marc A. – Developmental Psychology, 2016
We examined the effects of family functioning trajectories on sexual risk behaviors and STI in adolescents. A sample of 850 predominantly (80%) Black adolescents from Michigan, United States, was assessed at baseline, 12, 24, and 36 months postbaseline. Adolescents were from working-class families with a mean age of 14.9 years (SD = 0.64, Range =…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Correlation
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Meteyer, Karen B.; Perry-Jenkins, Maureen – Family Relations, 2009
We explore dyadic parenting styles and their association with first-grade children's externalizing behavior symptoms in a sample of 85 working-class, dual-earner families. Cluster analysis is used to create a typology of parenting types, reflecting the parental warmth, overreactivity, and laxness of both mothers and fathers in two-parent families.…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Child Rearing, Parent Child Relationship, Multivariate Analysis
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Kan, Marni L.; McHale, Susan M.; Crouter, Ann C. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2008
This study examined dimensions of mothers' and fathers' involvement in adolescents' romantic relationships when offspring were age 17. Using cluster analysis, parents from 105 White, working and middle class families were classified as positively involved, negatively involved, or autonomy-oriented with respect to their adolescents' romantic…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Parenting Styles, Parent Child Relationship, Adolescents
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Lucas, Ceil; Bayley, Robert – Sign Language Studies, 2005
Variation in the parts of ASL signs (i.e., phonological variation) has been explained largely by reference to the influence of the preceding and the following segments. This article examines three linguistic variables in ASL: the sign deaf; the location of a class of signs represented by the verb know; and signs produced with a 1 handshape. For…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Grammar, Phonology, Form Classes (Languages)
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Lawrence, Valerie W.; Shipley, Elizabeth – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1996
Examined the speech of middle- and working-class black and white parents to their preschool children during picture identification, free play, and a meal. The study found the groups similar in the level and form of parental labeling and different in the information supplied by parents, parental direction of child behavior, and parental sensitivity…
Descriptors: Blacks, Child Language, Chronological Age, Developmental Stages