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Exploring Psychosocial Mechanisms and Interactions: Links between Adolescent Emotional Distress, School Connectedness, and Educational Achievement
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Pate, Christina M.; Maras, Melissa A.; Whitney, Stephen D.; Bradshaw, Catherine P. – School Mental Health, 2017
Internalizing mental health issues are a significant developmental and clinical concern during adolescence, but rarely identified as a problem among school staff. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, this study examined the associations between adolescent emotional distress, school connectedness, and educational…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Interaction, Adolescents, Adolescent Attitudes
Distress Resulting from Perceivers' Own Intimate Partner Violence Experiences Predicts Culpability Attributions toward a Battered Woman on Trial for Killing Her Abuser: A Path Model
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Stein, Michelle L.; Miller, Audrey K. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2012
Intimate partner violence (IPV) constitutes the majority of assaults against women in the United States, and greater than one third of female homicide victims are murdered by an intimate partner. In a small percentage of cases, battered women kill their abusers, and evidence of battering and its effects may be used to support a plea of…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Females, Family Violence, Psychological Patterns
S/He's a Rebel: Toward a Sequential Stress Theory of Delinquency and Gendered Pathways to Disadvantage in Emerging Adulthood.
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Hagan, John; Foster, Holly – Social Forces, 2003
Data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health on 11,506 high school students were used to test a gendered and age-graded sequential stress theory in which delinquency can play an additive and intervening role in adolescents' movement from early anger through rebellious or aggressive forms of behavior to later depressive symptoms…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Delinquency, Depression (Psychology)