NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing 7,816 to 7,830 of 18,207 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Jokela, Markus; Power, Chris; Kivimaki, Mika – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2009
Background: Childhood externalizing and internalizing behaviors have been associated with injury risk in childhood and adolescence, but it is unknown whether this association continues to hold in adulthood. We examined whether externalizing and internalizing behaviors expressed in childhood predict injuries in childhood, adolescence, and…
Descriptors: Social Class, Family Size, Injuries, Children
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Williams, K. P.; Mullan, P. B.; Todem, D. – Health Education Research, 2009
This paper presents the rationale and findings of a feasibility and process study of the Kin Keeper[superscript SM] Cancer Prevention Intervention. An observational cohort study design was implemented with African-American women in synergistic female family relationships. Community health workers (CHWs) from two Michigan public health programs…
Descriptors: Females, Prevention, Focus Groups, Health Programs
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Feeny, Norah C.; Silva, Susan G.; Reinecke, Mark A.; McNulty, Steven; Findling, Robert L.; Rohde, Paul; Curry, John F.; Ginsburg, Golda S.; Kratochvil, Christopher J.; Pathak, Sanjeev M.; May, Diane E.; Kennard, Betsy D.; Simons, Anne D.; Wells, Karen C.; Robins, Michele; Rosenberg, David; March, John S. – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2009
This article explores aspects of family environment and parent-child conflict that may predict or moderate response to acute treatments among depressed adolescents (N = 439) randomly assigned to fluoxetine, cognitive behavioral therapy, their combination, or placebo. Outcomes were Week 12 scores on measures of depression and global impairment. Of…
Descriptors: Conflict, Cognitive Restructuring, Adolescents, Family Environment
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Axelsson, Gun B. M. – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2009
Mathematical identity and its relationship to mathematical achievement, educative ability and study support were studied among 133 women enrolled in the Swedish adult education system. A model of mathematical identity was constructed including self-perceived mathematical knowledge, ability, motivation and anxiety. This model was transformed into a…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Females, Family Relationship, Adult Education
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Kanahara, Shunsuke – International Journal of Behavioral Consultation and Therapy, 2009
The behavioral counseling of a withdrawn and noncompliant schizophrenic South American person, who is an immigrant, by an Asian counselor taking place in the United States is introduced. Although some difficulties, such as a language barrier, exist in the clinical setting, a behavioral assessment to analyze the client's issues through focusing on…
Descriptors: Intervention, Schizophrenia, Behavior Modification, Asian Americans
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Kuchmaeva, O. V.; Maryganova, E. A.; Petriakova, O. L. – Russian Education and Society, 2009
The formulation of a vigorous family policy requires that a careful study be made of issues such as the need to raise the perceived value of the family way of life and of parenthood, to strengthen the social norms of marriage and family. These will not be possible without reliable information about how the family performs its function of…
Descriptors: Public Policy, Family Characteristics, Family Life, Family Problems
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Bascoe, Sonnette M.; Davies, Patrick T.; Sturge-Apple, Melissa L.; Cummings, E. Mark – Developmental Psychology, 2009
This study examined children's peer information processing as an explanatory mechanism underlying the association between their insecure representations of interparental and parent-child relationships and school adjustment in a sample of 210 first graders. Consistent with emotional security theory (P. T. Davies & E. M. Cummings, 1994), results…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Student Adjustment, Grade 1, Peer Relationship
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Tang, Tze-Chun; Ko, Chih-Hung; Yen, Ju-Yu; Lin, Huang-Chi; Liu, Shu-Chun; Huang, Chi-Fen; Yen, Cheng-Fang – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2009
A representative sample of 10,233 adolescent students was recruited to examine the rate of suicidal attempt and its correlates in the adolescents living in southern Taiwan. Five questions from the Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia (Kiddie-SADS-E) were used to inquire about the participants' suicidality. The associations…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Suicide, Correlation
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Teten, Andra L.; Sherman, Michelle D.; Han, Xiaotong – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2009
Among male veterans and their female partners seeking therapy for relationship issues, three violence profiles were identified based on self-reports of physical violence: nonviolent, in which neither partner reported perpetrating physical violence (44%); one-sided violent, in which one partner reported perpetrating violence (30%); and mutually…
Descriptors: Family Violence, Aggression, Marital Satisfaction, Females
Dechenes, Sarah; Malone, Helen Janc – Harvard Family Research Project, 2011
Learning consists of all the ways that youth acquire new knowledge, skills, values, and behaviors. It happens not just in school, but also through afterschool and summer activities, time spent with the family, and increasingly, through interaction with digital media. Broadening ideas about where, when, and how learning happens helps communities to…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, After School Education, Summer Programs, Enrichment Activities
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Killewald, Alexandra – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2011
It has been proposed that the negative association between wives' earnings and their time in housework is due to greater outsourcing of household labor by households with high-earning wives, but this hypothesis has not been tested directly. In a sample of dual-earner married couples in the Consumption and Activities Mail Survey of the Health and…
Descriptors: Spouses, Labor, Mail Surveys, Housework
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Michel, Jesse S.; Clark, Malissa A.; Jaramillo, David – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2011
The present meta-analysis examines the relationships between the Five Factor Model (FFM) of personality and negative and positive forms of work-nonwork spillover (e.g., work-family conflict and facilitation). Results, based on aggregated correlations drawn from 66 studies and 72 independent samples (Total N = 28,127), reveal that the FFM is…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Structural Equation Models, Personality, Personality Measures
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Bower, Heather A.; Bowen, Natasha K.; Powers, Joelle D. – Children & Schools, 2011
The degree to which parents and teachers perceive they are working together in the best educational interests of children is a critical aspect of school culture. In previous work by Hoy, Tarter, and Woolfolk Hoy, the phenomenon was named "faculty trust" and was measured with data from teachers. The current study builds on Hoy et al.'s work by…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), School Culture, Profiles, School Social Workers
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Forry, Nicole D.; Hofferth, Sandra L. – Journal of Family Issues, 2011
With the passage of welfare reform, support for low-income parents to not only obtain but also maintain work has become imperative. The role of child care subsidies in supporting parents' job tenure has received little attention in the literature. This article examines the association between receiving a child care subsidy and experiencing a child…
Descriptors: Grants, Welfare Services, Child Care, Financial Support
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Wiese, Bettina S.; Freund, Alexandra M. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2011
This study (N = 520 high-school students) investigates the influence of parental work involvement on adolescents' own plans regarding their future work involvement. As expected, adolescents' perceptions of parental work behavior affected their plans for own work involvement. Same-sex parents served as main role models for the adolescents' own…
Descriptors: Role Models, Adolescents, Employed Parents, Parent Child Relationship
Pages: 1  |  ...  |  518  |  519  |  520  |  521  |  522  |  523  |  524  |  525  |  526  |  ...  |  1214