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Bosson, Marlene; Maggiori, Christian; Gygax, Pascal Mark; Gay, Christelle – Journal of Youth Studies, 2012
The present study constitutes an investigation of tobacco consumption, related attitudes and individual differences in smoking or non-smoking behaviors in a sample of adolescents of different ages in the French-speaking part of Switzerland. We investigated three school-age groups (7th-grade, 9th-grade, and the second-year of high school) for…
Descriptors: Smoking, Drinking, Adolescents, Foreign Countries
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Rast, Philippe – Developmental Psychology, 2011
The present study aimed at modeling individual differences in a verbal learning task by means of a latent structured growth curve approach based on an exponential function that yielded 3 parameters: initial recall, learning rate, and asymptotic performance. Three cognitive variables--speed of information processing, verbal knowledge, working…
Descriptors: Verbal Learning, Predictor Variables, Individual Differences, Short Term Memory