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Direct linkPeters, S. Colby; Woolley, Michael E. – Children & Schools, 2015
Data from the School Success Profile generated by 19,228 middle and high school students were organized into three broad categories of risk and protective factors--control, support, and challenge--to examine the relative and combined power of aggregate scale scores in each category so as to predict academic success. It was hypothesized that higher…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Success, Risk, Risk Assessment
Russo, Silvia; Roccato, Michele; Vieno, Alessio – Social Indicators Research, 2013
In a national sample of the Italian population, surveyed four times between October 2002 and January 2007 (N = 2,008), we performed a multilevel longitudinal study aimed at predicting the increase in crime risk perception as a function of three families of independent variables, respectively lying at the within individual level (direct…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Longitudinal Studies, National Surveys, Risk
Pasch, Keryn E.; Velazquez, Cayley E.; Cance, Jessica Duncan; Moe, Stacey G.; Lytle, Leslie A. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2012
Both substance use and obesity are prevalent among youth. As youth age, substance use rates increase and over the past three decades, obesity rates among youth have tripled. While these two factors have both short- and long-term health impacts, little research has explored how substance use and obesity among youth may be related. This study…
Descriptors: Obesity, Body Composition, Structural Equation Models, Drinking
Lee, Pai-Lin; Lan, William; Lee, Charles C.-L. – Educational Gerontology, 2012
This study examined the association between three types of physical activities (PA) and depression, and the relationship between PA and later mortality. Previous studies rarely assessed these associations in one single study in randomly selected population samples. Few studies have assessed these relations by adjusting the covariate of…
Descriptors: Correlation, Longitudinal Studies, Data Analysis, Physical Activities
Download full textLasorsa, Dominic L.; Shoemaker, Pamela J. – 1988
To examine risk for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in terms of risk-related behaviors, and to investigate the factors that may be involved in putting one at risk, a study conducted telephone interviews with 493 randomly selected adults (18 years or older) in Austin, Texas in the fall of 1987. Respondents answered approximately 40…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Communication Research, Health, Health Behavior
Peer reviewedGerevich, Jozsef; Bacskai, Erika – Journal of Drug Education, 1996
Examines the relationship of 2 dimensions of the theory of social development--vulnerability and protectivity--in 2 samples, schoolchildren aged 10 to 15 (n=1,454) and addictive drug users (n=170). Finds that the most important protective factors act against substance use. Finds that among the predictors of the addicts some forms of escape from…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Drug Abuse, Drug Addiction, Drug Use
