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Chen, Ji-Kang; Astor, Ron Avi – Journal of Community Psychology, 2011
Educational tracking based on academic ability accounts for different school dynamics between vocational versus academically-oriented high schools in Taiwan. Many educational practitioners predict that the settings of vocational schools and academic schools mediate school violence in different ways. Alternatively, some researchers argue the actual…
Descriptors: Vocational Schools, High Schools, Violence, Structural Equation Models
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Prezza, Miretta; Pacilli, Maria Giuseppina – Journal of Community Psychology, 2007
A structural equation model was used to examine the role of autonomous mobility and play in public and semipublic places in childhood to predict adolescents' sense of community, fear of crime, and, through the mediation of these two last psychosocial factors, feelings of loneliness. Participants included 789 Italian students (469 females and 320…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Fear, Crime, Psychological Patterns