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Associations between Preschool Cognitive and Behavioral Skills and College Enrollment: Evidence from the Chicago School Readiness Project
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Xinyu S. Pan; Chen Li; Tyler W. Watts – Developmental Psychology, 2023
The current article examines associations between preschool cognitive and behavioral skills and indicators of college enrollment in a sample (n = 379) of primarily Black and Hispanic youth growing up in low-income areas of Chicago. Although we found that most early cognitive and behavioral skills were only weakly or moderately related to later…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Thinking Skills, Behavior Patterns, College Enrollment
A Four-Wave, Cross-Lagged Model of Problematic Internet Use and Mental Health among Chinese College Students: Disaggregation of Within-Person and Between-Person Effects
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Zhou, Nan; Cao, Hongjian; Liu, Fenge; Wu, Lulu; Liang, Yue; Xu, Jianjie; Meng, Haoran; Zang, Ning; Hao, Ruining; An, Ye; Ma, Shanshan; Fang, Xiaoyi; Zhang, Jintao – Developmental Psychology, 2020
Based on 4 annual waves of data from a large sample of Chinese college students (N = 2,329, M[subscript age] = 18.40 years old, SD = 0.85; 63.10% females), this study examines the within-person and between-person effects in the association between problematic Internet use (PIU) and mental health issues. Results of analyses using the developmental…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Internet, Mental Disorders, Behavior Problems
Withdrawing to a Virtual World: Associations between Subtypes of Withdrawal, Media Use, and Maladjustment in Emerging Adults
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Nelson, Larry J.; Coyne, Sarah M.; Howard, Emily; Clifford, Brandon N. – Developmental Psychology, 2016
An approach-avoidance model of social withdrawal (Asendorpf, 1990) identifies 3 types of social withdrawal including shyness, unsociability, and avoidance. Each appears to be uniquely associated with varying indicators of maladjustment in emerging adulthood (Nelson, 2013) but little, if any, work has been done to see how they might be linked to…
Descriptors: Withdrawal (Psychology), Young Adults, Social Media, Electronic Mail
Social Anxiety and Alcohol Use across the University Years: Adaptive and Maladaptive Groups
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Brook, Christina A.; Willoughby, Teena – Developmental Psychology, 2016
University/college can be a challenging time as students face developmental tasks such as building new social networks and achieving academically. Social anxiety may be disadvantageous in this setting given that social situations often include drinking and individuals with social anxiety tend to self-medicate through alcohol use. However, findings…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Drinking, At Risk Students, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)