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Scharf, Miri; Mayseless, Ofra; Kivenson-Baron, Inbal – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2011
Adjustment to the transition from high school to military service in Israel was examined in a longitudinal study with a sample of 120 late-adolescent girls. During their senior year in high school (Time 1) the young women were administered the Adult Attachment Interview. Their coping and adjustment to the new environment were assessed (at two…
Descriptors: Military Service, Females, Attachment Behavior, Foreign Countries
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Wadsworth, Martha E.; Raviv, Tali; Santiago, Catherine DeCarlo; Etter, Erica M. – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2011
This study tested the Adaptation to Poverty-related Stress Model and its proposed relations between poverty-related stress, effortful and involuntary stress responses, and symptoms of psychopathology in an ethnically diverse sample of low-income children and their parents. Prospective Hierarchical Linear Modeling analyses conducted with 98…
Descriptors: Poverty, Psychopathology, Children, Coping
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Li, Xiaoming; Barnett, Douglas; Fang, Xiaoyi; Lin, Xiuyun; Zhao, Guoxiang; Zhao, Junfeng; Hong, Yan; Zhang, Liying; Naar-King, Sylvie; Stanton, Bonita – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2009
Cross-sectional data were gathered from 1,625 children (M age = 12.85, SD = 2.21) which included 755 AIDS orphans, 466 vulnerable children, and 404 comparison children. Participants completed self-report measures of exposure to traumatic events, and psychosocial adjustment including behavior problems, depression, self-esteem, and future…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Foreign Countries, Depression (Psychology), Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
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Dunn, Judy; O'Connor, Thomas G.; Cheng, Helen – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2005
Children who have experienced parental separation have potentially 3 sets of parents whose relationships may impact on them: mother and former partner, mother and stepfather, and father and new partner. Children's accounts of their response to conflict between these different parental dyads were studied, in relation to the quality of their…
Descriptors: Mothers, Fathers, Conflict, Children
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Kliewer, Wendy; Sullivan, Terri N. – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2008
Validity data are presented for a new measure of threat appraisals in response to community violence. Adolescents (N = 358; 45% male; 91% African American, M = 12.10 years, SD = 1.63) and their maternal caregivers participated in two waves of a longitudinal interview study focused on the consequences of exposure to community violence. Structural…
Descriptors: Violence, Structural Equation Models, Caregivers, Validity
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Conrod, Patricia J.; Stewart, Sherry H.; Comeau, Nancy; Maclean, A. Michael – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2006
Sensation seeking, anxiety sensitivity, and hopelessness are personality risk factors for alcohol use disorders, each associated with specific risky drinking motives in adolescents. We developed a set of interventions and manuals that were designed to intervene at the level of personality risk and associated maladaptive coping strategies,…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Behavior Modification, Cognitive Restructuring, Personality Traits