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Phillips, Deborah A.; Anderson, Sara; Gormley, William T., Jr. – Applied Developmental Science, 2018
To examine associations between participation in Tulsa's preschool programs and a set of middle-school attitudes, we used propensity score weighting to compare the Tulsa Public Schools (TPS) pre-K participants and, separately, the Community Action Project (CAP) Head Start participants to students who had attended neither TPS pre-K nor Head Start…
Descriptors: Correlation, Preschool Education, Middle School Students, Comparative Analysis
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Goble, Priscilla; Pianta, Robert C.; Sabol, Terri J. – Applied Developmental Science, 2019
A person-oriented approach examined the extent to which patterns of school readiness across social and cognitive domains in 944 typically-developing 54-month-old children forecast academic achievement, social-emotional development, risk taking, and executive functioning at age 15. Prior work identified six distinct profiles of school readiness at…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Young Children, Predictor Variables, Academic Achievement
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Mahadevan, Meena; Fisher, Celia B. – Applied Developmental Science, 2010
The toll of HIV/AIDS and drug abuse on economically disadvantaged women of color in the United States is a public health problem of epidemic proportions. Malnutrition, believed to be pervasive in this population, exacerbates the devastating health effects of addiction and HIV. This study documented dietary deficiencies in this population and…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Food Service, Qualitative Research, Intervention
Schulenberg, John; Maggs, Jennifer L. – Applied Developmental Science, 2001
This multivariate panel study examines longer-term effects of a prevention program on trajectories of alcohol misuse and related risk factors. Analyses showed susceptibility, exposure, and alcohol misuse increased mostly linearly across adolescence and covaried positively within and across time, arguing that they exist in a mutually reinforcing…
Descriptors: Adolescent Behavior, Adolescents, Drinking, Health Behavior
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Willoughby, Teena; Chalmers, Heather; Busseri, Michael A.; Bosacki, Sandra; Dupont, Diane; Marini, Zopito; Rose-Krasnor, Linda; Sadava, Stan; Ward, Anthony; Woloshyn, Vera – Applied Developmental Science, 2007
Based on the conceptualization of successful development as the joint maximization of desirable outcomes and minimization of undesirable outcomes (Baltes, 1997), the present study examined connections between adolescent non-involvement in multiple risk behaviors and positive developmental status. Results from a survey of 7290 high school students…
Descriptors: Friendship, Adolescents, Sexuality, Risk