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Direct linkAdams, Ryan E.; Bukowski, William M. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2008
Background: The current study examined the pathway from peer victimization to depressive symptoms and body mass index (BMI) as mediated by self-concept for physical appearance in both obese and non-obese adolescents. It was thought that this pathway would be particularly important for obese adolescents because, compared to non-obese adolescents,…
Descriptors: Obesity, Body Composition, Adolescents, Victims of Crime
Du, Ping – Chinese Education and Society, 2008
This study used sampling survey data from rural elementary schools in western China to analyze school adaptability, which is the representative noncognitive development of rural elementary students. It also investigated factors influencing the school adaptability of elementary school students at an individual and school level by using production…
Descriptors: Productivity, Elementary School Students, Models, Foreign Countries
Boat, Barbara W.; Forman, Sarah B. – Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 2008
According to these authors, it is correct to assume that mental health professionals, including psychologists, may not have adequate literature that provides an evidence-informed basis for making decisions about a parent's contact with a child whom he/she has sexually molested. Indeed, there are several sources of information that may negatively…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Psychologists, Mental Health Workers, Courts
Petersen, Nancy S. – Applied Psychological Measurement, 2008
This article discusses the five studies included in this issue. Each article addressed the same topic, population invariance of equating. They all used data from major standardized testing programs, and they all used essentially the same statistics to evaluate their results, namely, the root mean square difference and root expected mean square…
Descriptors: Testing Programs, Standardized Tests, Equated Scores, Evaluation Methods
Graham, George – Elementary School Journal, 2008
This article offers a brief review of research that has examined the perceptions of physical education held by 2 groups: (1) adults (including parents, teachers, and school administrators), and (2) children and adolescents. Most surveys of adults reveal generally positive perceptions of physical education, as well as the corollary belief that the…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Psychomotor Skills, Student Attitudes, Parent Attitudes
Wall, Andrew F. – NASPA Journal, 2008
Building on the promise of interactive, multimedia education, this evaluation study examines an alcohol abuse prevention program, AlcoholEdu, delivered through an interactive Web-based format for the purpose of reducing the harm associated with student alcohol abuse. The study uses a clustered, randomly assigned post-test only evaluation design…
Descriptors: Health Education, Prevention, Health Behavior, Alcohol Abuse
Su, Chwen-Yng; Lin, Yueh-Hsien; Wu, Yuh-Yih; Chen, Ching-Chiang – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2008
Few studies have specifically investigated the cognitive correlates of employment for persons with mental retardation. To evaluate the relationship of cognitive and adaptive functioning to work status, 56 competitively employed and 55 unemployed individuals with mental retardation underwent a comprehensive neuropsychological and adaptive…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Visual Perception, Adjustment (to Environment), Cognitive Ability
Sanchez-Leguelinel, Caridad – College Student Journal, 2008
Previous research and retention interventions have been primarily targeted towards the freshmen, first-year experience (Gardner, Pattengale, & Schreiner, 2000; Pattengale & Schreiner, 2000) and yet, sophomores are a uniquely vulnerable group with increasing levels of dissatisfaction and attrition (Boivin, Fountain, & Baylis, 2000).This article…
Descriptors: Counseling Services, Program Evaluation, Academic Persistence, Program Effectiveness
Foster, Cynthia Ewell; Webster, Melissa C.; Weissman, Myrna M.; Pilowsky, Daniel J.; Wickramaratne, Priya J.; Talati, Ardesheer; Rush, A. John; Hughes, Carroll W.; Garber, Judy; Malloy, Erin; Cerda, Gabrielle; Kornstein, Susan G.; Alpert, Jonathan E.; Wisniewski, Stephen R.; Trivedi, Madhukar H.; Fava, Maurizio; King, Cheryl A. – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2008
Family functioning and parenting were hypothesized to mediate the relation between remission of maternal depression and children's psychosocial adjustment. Participants were 114 mother-child dyads participating in the Sequenced Treatment Alternatives to Relieve Depression Child 3-month follow-up. All mothers had been diagnosed with major…
Descriptors: Mothers, Depression (Psychology), Parent Influence, Adjustment (to Environment)
Carlo, Gustavo; McGinley, Meredith; Roesch, Scott C.; Kaminski, Jennifer W. – Journal of Moral Education, 2008
Scholars have noted the need to examine the psychometric properties of measures that can be used in evaluating moral education programs. The present study was designed to examine the best-fitting factor model of a commonly-used measure of prosocial moral reasoning (PROM) across samples from Brazil and the USA, gender and adolescent age groups. The…
Descriptors: Ethical Instruction, College Students, Middle School Students, Factor Structure
Henry, Carolyn S.; Merten, Michael J.; Plunkett, Scott W.; Sands, Tovah – Family Relations, 2008
Self-report questionnaire, school records, and census block group data for 502 Latino adolescents in immigrant families were examined using multilevel modeling to test how structural neighborhood adversity, in addition to perceived neighborhood, parental, and adolescent factors, explained grade point average (GPA). The results showed perceived…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Grade Point Average, Academic Achievement, Adolescents
Baker, Laura A.; Raine, Adrian; Liu, Jianghong; Jacobson, Kristen C. – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2008
While significant heritability for childhood aggression has been claimed, it is not known whether there are differential genetic and environmental contributions to proactive and reactive forms of aggression in children. This study quantifies genetic and environmental contributions to these two forms of aggression in an ethnically diverse urban…
Descriptors: Aggression, Mothers, Ethnic Groups, Gender Differences
Schmidt, Peter – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
This article describes the results of a report released last week by the Council of Graduate Schools. The report, "Ph.D. Completion and Attrition: Analysis of Baseline Demographic Data From the Ph.D. Completion Project," is based on data from 24 universities in the United States and Canada. According to this report, women and members of…
Descriptors: Universities, Females, Doctoral Programs, Foreign Countries
Hughes, Clarissa; Julian, Roberta; Richman, Matthew; Mason, Ron; Long, Gillian – Youth Studies Australia, 2008
This paper outlines early findings from the Tasmanian-based Social Norms Analysis Project (SNAP). The Social Norms model is presented as a theoretically informed, evidence-based model for reducing alcohol-related harm in youthful populations by utilising the complex and often positive contributions peer groups make to adolescent health and…
Descriptors: Health Behavior, Rural Areas, Alcohol Abuse, Drinking
Adams, Troy B.; Colner, Willa – Journal of American College Health, 2008
Few college students meet fruit and vegetable intake recommended requirements, and most receive no information from their institutions about this issue. The avoidable disease burden among students is large, the necessary information infrastructure exists, and "Healthy People 2010" objectives indicate efforts should be taken to increase intake.…
Descriptors: College Students, Physical Activity Level, Sleep, Daily Living Skills
