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Mayberry, Megan L.; Espelage, Dorothy L.; Koenig, Brian – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2009
This study tested a social-ecological model of adolescent substance use. Multilevel modeling was used to investigate how systems, such as parents, peers, schools, and communities, directly influence and interact together to influence adolescent substance use. Participants included 14,548 (50.3% female) middle school students who were 78.6% White,…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Models, Adolescents, Middle School Students
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Coon, Hilary; And Others – Intelligence, 1992
Associations between community environment and cognitive ability were studied in 167 adoptive and 175 nonadoptive Colorado families. Seven families were omitted. A proposed model, tested by census measures, finds several aspects of communities showing environmental relationships with child IQ over parental influences. Rural communities have a…
Descriptors: Adopted Children, Cognitive Ability, Community Influence, Elementary Secondary Education
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Kim, Eun-Young – Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 1993
Examines the pattern of career choice among 23 female and 17 male Korean-American college students in California, and analyzes how this pattern reflects their immigrant parents' cultural model of success and subsequent educational strategies. Explores the model as a family and community force, and considers its costs. (SLD)
Descriptors: Career Choice, College Students, Community Influence, Cultural Differences