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Zachrisson, Henrik D.; Dearing, Eric; Lekhal, Ratib; Toppelberg, Claudio O. – Child Development, 2013
Associations between maternal reports of hours in child care and children's externalizing problems at 18 and 36 months of age were examined in a population-based Norwegian sample ("n" = 75,271). Within a sociopolitical context of homogenously high-quality child care, there was little evidence that high quantity of care causes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Care, Behavior Problems, Context Effect
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Georgiades, Katholiki; Boyle, Michael H.; Duku, Eric – Child Development, 2007
Data from a nationally representative sample of 13,470 children aged 4-11 years were used to study contextual influences on children's mental health and school performance, the moderating effects of family immigrant status and underlying family processes that might explain these relationships. Despite greater socioeconomic disadvantage, children…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Immigrants, Children, Academic Achievement
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Crosnoe, Robert; Needham, Belinda – Child Development, 2004
This study treated a key relationship in the developmental ecology of adolescence, friendships, as multidimensional and context specific. First, it examined 4 characteristics of friends (academic achievement, alcohol use, emotional distress, and extracurricular participation) as independent factors and as components in holistic friendship group…
Descriptors: Friendship, Drinking, Adolescent Development, Adolescents
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Stormshak, Elizabeth A.; And Others – Child Development, 1999
Examined relationship between child behavior and peer preference from the person-group similarity and the social-skill models with 2,895 first graders. Found support for both predictive models, with the acceptability aggression and withdrawal varying across classrooms and the effects of inattentive/hyperactive behavior and prosocial behavior…
Descriptors: Aggression, Behavior Problems, Context Effect, Elementary School Students
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Brody, Gene H.; Chen, Yi-Fu; Murry, Velma McBride; Ge, Xiaojia; Simons, Ronald L.; Gibbons, Frederick X.; Gerrard, Meg; Cutrona, Carolyn E. – Child Development, 2006
Longitudinal links between perceived racial discrimination and later conduct problems and depressive symptoms were examined among 714 African American adolescents who were 10-12 years old at recruitment. Data were gathered 3 times over a 5-year period. Hypotheses were tested via latent curve modeling and multiple-group latent growth modeling.…
Descriptors: Racial Discrimination, African American Children, Longitudinal Studies, Behavior Problems
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McElhaney, Kathleen Boykin; Allen, Joseph P. – Child Development, 2001
Examined the moderating effect of risk on the relation between autonomy processes and family and adolescent functioning. In families in low-risk contexts, behavior undermining autonomy was negatively related to relationship quality; adolescents' autonomy expressions related to positive social functioning. In high-risk-context families, undermining…
Descriptors: Adolescent Behavior, Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Attachment Behavior