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Benson, Mark J.; Buehler, Cheryl – Child Development, 2012
Beginning in sixth grade at an average age of 11.9 years, 416 adolescents and their parents participated in 4 waves of data collection involving family observations and multiple-reporter assessments. Ecological theory and the process-person-context-time (PPCT) model guided the hypotheses and analyses. Lagged, growth curve models revealed that…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age, Aggression, Grade 6
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Marsh, R. W. – Child Development, 1985
Epstein (1974) claims evidence for regular two-year growth spurts in the development of brain and mind, a phenomenon he calls phrenoblysis. Unfortunately, repeated analysis of the data he presents as proof of his theory provides no support. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Cognitive Development, Data Analysis
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Heilbrun, Alfred B., Jr. – Child Development, 1972
A developmental model for paranoid behavior has been proposed which postulates that the attempt to adapt to sustained aversive maternal control by manipulative social approach behaviors (open adaptive style) leaves the person vulnerable to emerging paranoid tendencies. (Author)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Patterns, Developmental Psychology, Males
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Huntsinger, Carol S.; Jose, Paul E. – Child Development, 2006
A 2-wave longitudinal study of personality in adolescence was conducted with data obtained at ages 12 and 17 years from approximately 60 European American and 60 second-generation Chinese American youth. At Time 1 they completed the Children's Personality Questionnaire and at Time 2 they completed the High School Personality Questionnaire and…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Personality, Social Adjustment, Chinese Americans