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Bao, Wan-Ning; Haas, Ain; Chen, Xiaojin; Pi, Yijun – Youth & Society, 2014
In Agnew's general strain theory, repeated strains can generate crime and delinquency by reducing social control and fostering social learning of crime. Using a sample of 615 middle-and high-school students in China, this study examines how social control and social learning variables mediate the effect of repeated strains in school and at home on…
Descriptors: Crime, Delinquency, Social Theories, Middle School Students
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Chapman, Thandeka K.; Bhopal, Kalwant K. – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2013
Commonsense understandings of school practices have historically painted parents of color as inattentive and non-participatory actors in public school settings. Racist implementations of policy and individual actions, based on teacher ideology and deficit paradigms of race, force parents of color to take an oppositional stance in public school…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Racial Bias, Parenting Styles, Minority Groups
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Hoang, Thienhuong N. – International Journal of Whole Schooling, 2007
There are many factors that influence the academic success and motivation of students. Social cognitive theory contends that individuals learn and perform based upon a triadic reciprocality of personal factors, behavior, and the environment. Personal factors such as beliefs, behaviors, and the environment equally influence one another. Existing…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Academic Achievement, Parenting Styles, Child Rearing