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Bogan, Yolanda K. H. – Negro Educational Review, The, 2004
Parents are potentially the most influential individuals in children's lives. The 21st Century parent has to compete, however, with multiple sources of information, both human and nonhuman, (e.g. children's peers, non-familial adults, TV, technology gadgets, Internet) in shaping the minds, values, and beliefs of children. In the absence of a…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Adolescents, Parenting Styles, Community Involvement
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Jones, Deborah J.; Olson, Ardis L.; Forehand, Rex; Gaffney, Cecelia A.; Zens, Michael S.; Bau, J. J. – Behavior Therapy, 2005
Four years of longitudinal data from 2,153 families with a 5th- or 6th-grade preadolescent participating in a family-focused pediatric primary-care-based prevention program were used to examine whether prevention effects were moderated by positive parenting and/or adolescent gender. Alcohol and tobacco use, internalizing problems, and…
Descriptors: Smoking, Child Rearing, Parent Child Relationship, Prevention
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Stoolmiller, Mike; Snyder, Jim – Behavior Therapy, 2004
We demonstrate graphical and analytical methods for multilevel (2- and 3-level) models using the analysis of observed microsocial interaction between parent-child dyads as an example. We also present multilevel path diagrams and argue that while not as compact as equations, path diagrams may communicate results better to a wider audience. The…
Descriptors: Discipline, Antisocial Behavior, Parents, Psychometrics
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Little, Michelle; Steinberg, Laurence – Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 2006
This study examined a model of the simultaneous and interactive influence of social context, psychosocial attitudes, and individual maturity on the prediction of urban adolescent drug dealing. Five factors were found to significantly increase adolescents' opportunity for drug selling: low parental monitoring, poor neighborhood conditions, low…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Maturity (Individuals), Adolescents, Peer Groups
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Allen, David; Hawkins, Sarah; Cooper, Viv – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2006
Background: Although training staff supporting people with challenging behaviour in physical interventions has become accepted practice, parents are often left to fend for themselves while managing equivalent behaviours. The study explores parents' experience of managing severe challenging behaviours, their use of physical interventions and access…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Intervention, Measures (Individuals), Parenting Styles
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Jarvis, Charlotte – Journal of Child Psychotherapy, 2005
This paper aims to explore factors influencing the parenting of adolescents and investigate what constitutes a helpful therapeutic intervention for a parent whose adolescent refuses or fails to engage in therapeutic treatment. Three areas of research and theory are explored: findings from the socialization approach to parenting and from attachment…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Adolescents, Therapy, Parent Child Relationship
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Xu, Yiyuan; Farver, Jo Ann M.; Zhang, Zengxiu; Zeng, Qiang; Yu, Lidong; Cai, Beiying – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2005
Parenting styles and mother-child interaction were examined with 97 Mainland Chinese mothers (M age = 29.64 years, SD = 3.64) and their young children (M = 24.30 months, SD = 4.57). Mothers completed questionnaires about their parenting styles, orientation to Chinese cultural values, perceived parenting stress, and sources of social support. The…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parenting Styles, Child Rearing, Questionnaires
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Wells, Karen C.; Chi, Terry C.; Hinshaw, Stephen P.; Epstein, Jeffery N.; Pfiffner, Linda; Nebel-Schwalm, Marie; Owens, Elizabeth B.; Arnold, L. Eugene; Abikoff, Howard B.; Conners, C. Keith; Elliott, Glen R.; Greenhill, Laurence L.; Hechtman, Lily; Hoza, Betsy; Jensen, Peter S.; March, John; Newcorn, Jeffrey H.; Pelham, William E.; Severe, Joanne B.; Swanson, James; Vitiello, Benedetto; Wigal, Timothy – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2006
The present study examined treatment outcomes for objectively measured parenting behavior in the Multimodal Treatment Study of Children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Five hundred seventy-nine ethnically and socioeconomically diverse children with ADHD-combined type (ages 7.0-9.9 years) and their parent(s) were recruited …
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Attention Deficit Disorders, Hyperactivity, Outcomes of Treatment
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Bean, Roy A.; Barber, Brian K.; Crane, D. Russell – Journal of Family Issues, 2006
Associations among three dimensions of parenting (support, behavioral control, psychological control) and measures of adolescent depression, delinquency, and academic achievement were assessed in a sample of African American youth. All data were adolescent self-reports by way of school-administered questionnaires in random samples of classrooms in…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Path Analysis, Metropolitan Areas, Depression (Psychology)
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O'Sullivan, Katherine R.; Russell, Heather – Reclaiming Children and Youth: The Journal of Strength-based Interventions, 2006
When interventions with youth are not successful, it is easy to point fingers of blame. Professionals may see parents as uninvolved while parents feel unsupported. Such polarization leads to adversarial relationships that undermine parenting, education, and treatment. This article considers common defensive reactions of parents and professionals…
Descriptors: Parent Role, Parent Attitudes, Parenting Styles, Child Rearing
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Claes, Michel; Lacourse, Eric; Ercolani, Anna-Paula; Pierro, Antonio; Leone, Luigi; Presaghi, Fabio – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2005
The objective of this study was to investigate the links between maternal and paternal bonding, parental practices, orientation toward peers, and the prevalence of drug use and antisocial behavior during late adolescence. A model was tested using structural equation modeling in order to verify the robustness of the investigated links across 3…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Antisocial Behavior, Drug Use, Child Rearing
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Pearce, Richard R.; Lin, Zeng – Educational Review, 2007
In this article, the authors compare Chinese American post-secondary educational attainment with that of White Americans and, in identifying those factors that most strongly account for success, argue that commonalities exist among social structural factors, while distinct differences are evident among cultural capital factors. The article rejects…
Descriptors: High Achievement, Cultural Influences, Educational Attainment, Chinese Americans
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Prokhorova, O. G. – Russian Education and Society, 2007
Ethnographic scientists have determined that there are about 300 ethnic communities in Russia. The number of indigenous peoples in the North barely adds up to 200,000, and they make up less than 2 percent of the total population of the Russian North. They have been designated in different ways in official documents, for example "the small…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Urban Areas, Rural Areas, Indigenous Populations
Dishion, Thomas J.; Patterson, Scot G. – 1996
Infants and toddlers need to learn a wide range of skills from their parents to prepare them for their experiences outside the home. This guide is designed to provide parents with practical, future-oriented suggestions on raising toddlers and preschool-age children. It provides a step-by-step approach to handling everyday problems, promoting the…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Child Development, Child Rearing, Discipline
Fthenakis, Wassilios E. – 1994
Within the European community, demographic changes have been occurring that have particularly affected children. These major transitions, which have direct implications for early childhood care and education, include: (1) increases in life expectancy and reductions in birth rates; (2) a strong overall movement toward individualization of personal…
Descriptors: Childhood Needs, Compensatory Education, Coping, Early Childhood Education
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