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Brown, Valerie – Gerontologist, 1995
Presents a conceptual model, the Urban Ecological Model of Aging, to be used by researchers to assess the impact of living in neighborhoods of concentrated and prolonged poverty on elderly residential satisfaction and subjective well-being. Demographic and personal characteristics are also included in the model as predictors. (JBJ)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Aging (Individuals), Disadvantaged Environment, Environmental Influences
Baratz, Joan C.; Baratz, Stephen S. – 1969
The absence of a meaningful conception of Negro culture has forced the interpretation of almost all psychology's data on the Negro into two seemingly dichotomous categories: either that of biological incapacity, i.e., genetic inferiority, or social deviance and pathology, i.e., environmental deprivation. The cultural difference theory asserts that…
Descriptors: Biological Influences, Black Attitudes, Black Culture, Cultural Awareness
Williams, Trevor – 1973
The concern of this investigation lies with the development and estimation of models explaining children's intellectual variability. Specifically, attention is directed to: (a) the role of parental status attainments and family environments in the transmission of intellectual advantage-disadvantage across generations; (b) the possibility that…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Disadvantaged Environment, Educational Diagnosis, Environmental Influences