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Bronte-Tinkew, Jacinta; Ryan, Suzanne; Carrano, Jennifer; Moore, Kristen A. – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2007
Using data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort, 9-month resident father surveys (N= 6,816), this paper examines the association between male pregnancy intentions, prenatal behaviors, and postbirth father involvement. Findings indicate that prenatal behaviors are associated with five domains of father involvement. Men who did…
Descriptors: Pregnancy, Fathers, Longitudinal Studies, Correlation
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Bryce, T. G. K.; Blown, E. J. – International Journal of Science Education, 2007
This paper attempts to clarify several lines of research on gender in development and education, inter-relating findings from studies on intuitive/informal knowledge with those from research on achievements and attitudes in science. It acknowledges the declining proportions of male teachers world-wide and examination successes which indicate a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Males, Academic Achievement
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Ivanova, Masha Y.; Achenbach, Thomas M.; Rescorla, Leslie A.; Dumenci, Levent; Almqvist, Fredrik; Bilenberg, Niels; Bird, Hector; Broberg, Anders G.; Dobrean, Anca; Dopfner, Manfred; Erol, Nese; Forns, Maria; Hannesdottir, Helga; Kanbayashi, Yasuko; Lambert, Michael C.; Leung, Patrick; Minaei, Asghar; Mulatu, Mesfin S.; Novik, Torunn; Oh, Kyung Ja; Roussos, Alexandra; Sawyer, Michael; Simsek, Zeynep; Steinhausen, Hans- Christoph; Weintraub, Sheila; Winkler Metzke, Christa; Wolanczyk, Tomasz; Zilber, Nelly; Zukauskiene, Rita; Verhulst, Frank C. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2007
As a basis for theories of psychopathology, clinical psychology and related disciplines need sound taxonomies that are generalizable across diverse populations. To test the generalizability of a statistically derived 8-syndrome taxonomic model for youth psychopathology, confirmatory factor analyses (CFAs) were performed on the Youth Self-Report…
Descriptors: Psychopathology, Child Behavior, Check Lists, Age
Imhonde, Henry O.; Aluede, Oyaziwo – Educational Research Quarterly, 2007
This study examined smoking intensity among secondary school adolescent smokers. A total of 800 students, made up of 685 males and 115 females who have at least tasted a cigarette once, from twenty secondary schools (5 private and 15 public secondary schools) in Benin City, Nigeria participated in the study. A questionnaire was used in collecting…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, Delinquency, Smoking, Drinking
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Appleyard, Karen; Egeland, Byron; Sroufe, L. Alan – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2007
This study is unique in addressing developmental correlates of direct social support for young children in a high risk sample, in contrast to previous studies addressing social support for caregivers. Participants were drawn from a prospective, longitudinal study of at-risk children. Social support was rated from maternal interviews throughout…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Intervention, Mothers, Caregivers
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Fischer, Judith L.; Forthun, Larry F.; Pidcock, Boyd W.; Dowd, Duane A. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2007
This study tested associations between problems in parent-youth relationships and problems with alcohol use among college students (N = 1592) using structural equation modeling. Hypotheses were that relationships between both substance-specific parenting factors (parental drinking) and non-substance-specific parenting factors (parental intrusive…
Descriptors: Campuses, Maturity (Individuals), Structural Equation Models, Child Rearing
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Ringrose, Jessica – Gender and Education, 2007
This paper examines how an ongoing educational panic over failing boys has contributed to a new celebratory discourse about successful girls. Rather than conceive of this shift as an anti-feminist feminist backlash, the paper examines how the successful girl discourse is postfeminist, and how liberal feminist theory has contributed to narrowly…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Equal Education, Sexual Identity, Poverty
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Waner, Karen K.; Winter, Janet K.; Mansfield, Joan C. – Journal of Education for Business, 2007
Benefits and leave policies are important aspects of employment when employees attempt to balance career and family. These policies include salary, promotion, vacation, tuition reimbursement, sick leave, medical insurance, life insurance, maternity or paternity leave, elder-care leave, discriminatory leave, and company support and counseling. The…
Descriptors: Vacations, Student Attitudes, Statistical Analysis, Tuition
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Madnawat, A. V. Singh; Kachhawa, P. Singh – Death Studies, 2007
The present study examines the effect of age, gender, and living circumstances on elderly persons' death anxiety. For this purpose, 299 persons attending public parks (average age = 70 years) were interviewed using the Death Anxiety Survey Schedule, which is a set of 10 questions related to death anxiety from an Indian perspective. Women, those…
Descriptors: Death, Anxiety, Older Adults, Foreign Countries
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Stuhldreher, Wendy L.; Stuhldreher, Thomas J.; Forrest, Kimberly Y-Z – Journal of American College Health, 2007
Objective: The authors documented the prevalence of gambling and correlates to health among undergraduates. Methods: The authors analyzed data from a health-habit questionnaire (gambling questions included) given to students enrolled in a university-required course. Results: Gambling and problems with gambling were more frequent among men than…
Descriptors: Incidence, Health Behavior, Depression (Psychology), Debt (Financial)
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Hansen, Jo-Ida C.; Lee, W. Vanessa – Journal of Career Assessment, 2007
The validity of scores on the Strong Interest Inventory (SII) for Asian American college students has not been thoroughly investigated. This study examined the evidence of validity of the SII Occupational Scale scores for predicting college major choices of Asian American women and men and White women and men. The sample included 186 female and…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Females, College Students, Whites
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Rester, Carolyn H.; Edwards, Renee – Communication Education, 2007
Using a message interpretation perspective, this study (N = 379) examined how sex of the student, sex of the teacher, and the setting affect the messages students receive from a teacher's excessive use of immediacy. Results reveal that students interpret excessive immediacy from female teachers as caring, but the same behavior from male teachers…
Descriptors: Sexual Harassment, Gender Differences, Student Attitudes, Gender Issues
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Bornstein, Marc H.; Hahn, Chun-Shin – Early Child Development and Care, 2007
In this study, we defined three distinct groups based on the infant's principal childcare experience: infants reared exclusively at home by their mothers, infants reared in their own homes but by a non-familial childcare provider, and infants reared in non-familial homes in group care. At 4.5 years of age, we compared mothers' and teachers'…
Descriptors: Infants, Socialization, Adjustment (to Environment), Psychomotor Skills
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Warburton, Jeni; Stirling, Christine – Educational Gerontology, 2007
In the absence of large scale Australian studies of volunteering among older adults, this study compared the relevance of two theoretical approaches--social capital theory and sociostructural resources theory--to predict voluntary activity in relation to a large national database. The paper explores volunteering by older people (aged 55+) in order…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Older Adults, Volunteers, Social Capital
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Pilling, N.; McGill, P.; Cooper, V. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2007
Background: This study sought to gather information about the characteristics and experiences of children and young people with severe intellectual disabilities and severe challenging behaviour attending 52-week residential special schools. Method: Staff of nine schools completed postal questionnaires on the characteristics and experiences of 156…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Residential Schools, Communication Skills, Autism
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