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Bell, Edward C. – Journal of Special Education, 2012
This article reports on a mentoring project designed for transition-age youth (ages 16-26) who are persons with legal blindness. Youth were matched with adult mentors who were also persons with blindness but who have achieved academic and career success. Results demonstrate that youth who participated in the project for 2 years had significant…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Mentors, Blindness, Program Descriptions
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El-Sheikh, Mona; Kelly, Ryan J.; Bagley, Erika J.; Wetter, Emily K. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2012
Background: We used a multi-method and multi-informant design to identify developmental pathways through which parental depressive symptoms contribute to children's sleep problems. Environmental factors including adult inter-partner conflict and parent-child conflict were considered as process variables of this relation. Methods: An ethnically and…
Descriptors: Conflict, Sleep, Environmental Influences, Depression (Psychology)
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O'Neil, Kelly A.; Puleo, Connor M.; Benjamin, Courtney L.; Podell, Jennifer L.; Kendall, Philip C. – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2012
Evidence is mixed regarding an independent association between anxiety and suicidality in youth. Study 1 examined suicidal ideation in treatment-referred, anxiety-disordered youth (N = 312, aged 7-17). Forty-one percent of anxiety-disordered youth endorsed suicidal ideation. Anxiety disorder severity, global impairment, and current depressive…
Descriptors: Anxiety Disorders, Suicide, Depression (Psychology), Psychological Patterns
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Friedlander, Adam; Nazem, Sarra; Fiske, Amy; Nadorff, Michael R.; Smith, Merideth D. – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2012
Understanding self-concealment, the tendency to actively conceal distressing personal information from others, may be important in developing effective ways to help individuals with suicidal ideation. No published study has yet assessed the relation between self-concealment and suicidal behaviors. Additionally, most self-concealment research has…
Descriptors: Suicide, Depression (Psychology), At Risk Persons, Psychological Patterns
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Nikolajeva, Maria – Children's Literature in Education, 2012
This article considers how emotions can be conveyed through the interaction of word and image in picturebooks addressed to young readers. The theoretical framework employed in the article develops ideas from cognitive literary theory, adapting it to the specific conditions in which there is a significant difference between the sender's and the…
Descriptors: Empathy, Childrens Literature, Affective Behavior, Picture Books
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Baader, Meike S. – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2012
The subject of this paper is the construction of childhood as a time of happiness in different historical periods. It first analyses the construction of childhood as a time of happiness in the German romantic period in the eighteenth century. Secondly, the paper discusses the construction of happy mothers and children in "The Century of…
Descriptors: Modern History, Children, Foreign Countries, Educational History
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Heiman, Tali; Shemesh, Dorit Olenik – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2012
This study examined the extent and patterns of usage of web courses, and their contribution to the academic and social perceptions of 964 undergraduate students with and without learning disabilities studying in higher education. Students were asked to complete four questionnaires examining the usage patterns of various adaptive technologies and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Learning Disabilities, Assistive Technology, Online Courses
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Voordouw, Jantine; Antonides, Gerrit; Fox, Margaret; Cerecedo, Inmaculada; Zamora, Javier; de la Hoz Caballer, Belen; Rokicka, Ewa; Cornelisse-Vermaat, Judith; Jewczak, Maciej; Starosta, Pawel; Kowalska, Marek L.; Jedrzejczak-Czechowicz, Monika; Vazquez-Cortes, Sonia; Escudero, Cano; de Blok, Bertine Flokstra; Dubois, Anthony; Mugford, Miranda; Frewer, Lynn J. – Social Indicators Research, 2012
This study estimates the effects of food hypersensitivity on individuals' perceived welfare and well-being compared to non-food hypersensitive individuals. Study respondents were recruited in the Netherlands, Poland, Spain and UK. The difference in welfare between food hypersensitive respondents and those asymptomatic to foods was estimated using…
Descriptors: Spouses, Health, Measures (Individuals), Foreign Countries
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Thomas, Katherine M.; Wright, Aidan G. C.; Lukowitsky, Mark R.; Donnellan, M. Brent; Hopwood, Christopher J. – Assessment, 2012
In this study, the authors evaluated aspects of criterion validity and clinical utility of the grandiosity and vulnerability components of the Pathological Narcissism Inventory (PNI) using two undergraduate samples (N = 299 and 500). Criterion validity was assessed by evaluating the correlations of narcissistic grandiosity and narcissistic…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Test Validity, Predictive Validity, Psychopathology
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Van Dam, Nicholas T.; Hobkirk, Andrea L.; Danoff-Burg, Sharon; Earleywine, Mitch – Assessment, 2012
Mindfulness, a construct that entails moment-to-moment effort to be aware of present experiences and positive attitudinal features, has become integrated into the sciences. The Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ), one popular measure of mindfulness, exhibits different responses to positively and negatively worded items in nonmeditating…
Descriptors: Factor Structure, Measures (Individuals), Factor Analysis, Questionnaires
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Deveney, Christen M.; Brotman, Melissa A.; Decker, Ann Marie; Pine, Daniel S.; Leibenluft, Ellen – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2012
Background: Accurate identification of nonverbal emotional cues is essential to successful social interactions, yet most research is limited to emotional face expression labeling. Little research focuses on the processing of emotional prosody, or tone of verbal speech, in clinical populations. Methods: Using the Diagnostic Analysis of Nonverbal…
Descriptors: Sentences, Cues, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Patients
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Marques-Brocksopp, Lorna – British Journal of Visual Impairment, 2012
What is meant by the term "wellbeing"? Much has been written on the relationship between chronic illness and mental health outcomes, particularly in terms of "happiness", and the reciprocal relationship between physical and emotional health. Visual impairment research into wellbeing has tended to focus specifically on the concept of "emotional"…
Descriptors: Visual Impairments, Chronic Illness, Mental Health, Well Being
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Calvete, Esther; Orue, Izaskun – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2012
This longitudinal investigation assessed whether cognitive schemas of justification of violence, mistrust, and narcissism predicted social information processing (SIP), and SIP in turn predicted aggressive behavior in adolescents. A total of 650 adolescents completed measures of cognitive schemas at Time 1, SIP in ambiguous social scenarios at…
Descriptors: Aggression, Adolescents, Cognitive Processes, Males
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Walsh, Wendy A.; Cross, Theodore P.; Jones, Lisa M. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2012
Although the importance of parental support for child sexual abuse victims is well documented, the nature of parental support for victims sexually abused by adolescents is less understood. In this exploratory study, we examine whether parents differ in their levels of blame or doubt for their child when sexually abused by adolescents versus…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Child Abuse, Adolescents, Multivariate Analysis
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Braunstein-Bercovitz, Hedva; Benjamin, Benny A.; Asor, Shiri; Lev, Maya – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2012
The purpose of this study was to examine a theoretically-based model in which insecure attachment is related to career indecision through the mediation of negative emotions. Two hundred college students completed questionnaires measuring anxious and avoidant dimensions of insecure attachment, negative emotions (trait and career-choice anxiety,…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Psychological Patterns, Security (Psychology), Attachment Behavior
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