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New Approaches to Studying Problem Behaviors: A Comparison of Methods for Modeling Longitudinal, Categorical Adolescent Drinking Data
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Feldman, Betsy J.; Masyn, Katherine E.; Conger, Rand D. – Developmental Psychology, 2009
Analyzing problem-behavior trajectories can be difficult. The data are generally categorical and often quite skewed, violating distributional assumptions of standard normal-theory statistical models. In this article, the authors present several currently available modeling options, all of which make appropriate distributional assumptions for the…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Behavior Problems, Student Behavior, Adolescents
Influence of Modeling, Exhortative Verbalization, and Surveillance on Children's Sharing
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Poulos, Rita W.; Liebert, Robert M. – Developmental Psychology, 1972
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Data Analysis, Elementary School Students, Females
Effect of a Child's Sex on Adult Interpretations of its Behavior
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Meyer, John W.; Sobieszek, Barbara I. – Developmental Psychology, 1972
Videotapes of two 17-month old children -- each child sometimes described as a boy and sometimes as a girl -- were shown to 85 adult middle-class subjects, who rated attributes of the children on questionnaires containing sex role items. (Authors/RY)
Descriptors: Adults, Data Analysis, Females, Hypothesis Testing
Questions About Social Class, Internality-Externality and Test Anxiety
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Entwisle, Doris R.; Greenberger, Ellen – Developmental Psychology, 1972
Major finding from this survey is that both anxiety and locus of control do not seem to bear consistent relationships to social class. (Authors)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Grade 9, Intelligence Quotient, Locus of Control