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A Cross-Cultural Comparison of the Dimensions of Child and Adolescent Life Satisfaction reports
The factorial invariance of the Multidimensional Students’ Life Satisfaction Scale (MSLSS: Huebner, 1994) across two divergent cultures...
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Self-Reported Depressive Symptoms in a School Sample of Italian Children and Adolescents
This study reports on self-reported depressive symptoms, assessed with the Children's Depression Inventory (CDI), in a school sample of 685 Italian...
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Multicultural Issues and Nontraditional Families
Evaluations take place in the context of cultural, ethnic, regional, and system dynamics. Families live in varying stages of acculturation,...
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Gender Role Development in Japanese Culture: Diminishing Gender Role Differences in a Contemporary Society
This paper presents the development of the Japanese Gender Role Index (JGRI) and Japanese men's and women's self-ratings on the scale. Two hundred...
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A Short-Term Longitudinal Study of Pubertal Change, Gender, and Psychological Well-Being of Mexican Early Adolescents
This study examined the role of pubertal development on depression, externalizing behavior problems, self-esteem, and body-image of 951 Mexican early...
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Children's Conceptual Knowledge of Lying and Its Relation to Their Actual Behaviors: Implications for Court Competence Examinations
Child witnesses must undergo a competence examination in which they must show appropriate conceptual understanding of lying and truth-telling, and...
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Adolescent Problem Behavior and Depressed Mood: Risk and Protection Within and Across Social Contexts
This study examined risk and protection for adolescent problem behavior and depressive symptomatology in an average-risk sample of 11th graders....
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Classroom Context Effects on Young Children’s Motivation
Learning is an active process requiring conscious and deliberate activity. Even the most able students will not learn if they do not attend to...
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Understanding Cultural and Ethnic Influences in Research with Child Clinical and Pediatric Psychology Populations
It is becoming increasingly necessary for child clinical and pediatric psychologists to possess the skills and knowledge necessary to conduct...
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Women’s Empowerment
Equal opportunity and equal rights have long been important parts of this country’s ideological heritage. Support for these ideals, however, was not...
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Resilience in Adolescents: Protective Role of Social Support, Co** Strategies, Self-Esteem, and Social Activities on Experience of Stress and Depression
In this study, 297 adolescents (141 eighth graders and 156 eleventh graders) were classified into 3 groups created from crossing scores of depressive...
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Preadolescents' Social Judgments: The Relationship Between Self-Endorsement of Traits and Gender-Related Judgments of Female Peers
The present study investigated therelationship between preadolescents' and earlyadolescents' inferences and judgments of a target girl,their...
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Temperament and Behavioral Precursors to Oppositional Defiant Disorder and Conduct Disorder
In this chapter we discuss the role played by early temperament and behavioral characteristics of the child in the development of Disruptive Behavior...
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Developmental Epidemiology of the Disruptive Behavior Disorders
Epidemiology is both a scientific discipline and a powerful set of investigative methods that have been adopted by other fields, including the fields...
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Theory and Research in the Study of Childhood Exceptionalities
Theory and research in the study of childhood exceptionalities are currently in a state of rapid change (Adelman, 1995; Kazdin & Kagan, 1994; Mash &...
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Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Research: Developmental Issues
Describes developmental issues that pose current challenges to the design of treatment outcome investigation with children and adolescents. Normal...
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Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorders
On first meeting a hyperactive boy, you are likely to be charmed by his outgoing and enthusiastic nature. He looks and behaves like any other child...