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Weiss, Jonathan A.; Wingsiong, Aranda; Lunsky, Yona – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2014
Parents of children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder often report higher levels of depression, anxiety, and mental health-related issues. The combination of stressors and family adjustment difficulties can cause distress which may develop into a crisis. Understanding crisis in the family is important to mental health practice since it can…
Descriptors: Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Autism, Family Environment, Family Life
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Rescorla, Leslie A.; Achenbach, Thomas M.; Ivanova, Masha Y.; Bilenberg, Niels; Bjarnadottir, Gudrun; Denner, Silvia; Dias, Pedro; Dobrean, Anca; Dopfner, Manfred; Frigerio, Alessandra; Goncalves, Miguel; Guomundsson, Halldor; Jusiene, Roma; Kristensen, Solvejg; Lecannelier, Felipe; Leung, Patrick W. L.; Liu, Jianghong; Lobel, Sofia P.; Machado, Barbara Cesar; Markovic, Jasminka; Mas, Paola A.; Esmaeili, Elaheh Mohammad; Montirosso, Rosario; Pluck, Julia; Pronaj, Adelina Ahmeti; Rodriguez, Jorge T.; Rojas, Pamela O.; Schmeck, Klaus; Shahini, Mimoza; Silva, Jaime R.; van der Ende, Jan; Verhulst, Frank C. – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2012
This study tested societal effects on caregiver/teacher ratings of behavioral/emotional problems for 10,521 preschoolers from 15 societies. Many societies had problem scale scores within a relatively narrow range, despite differences in language, culture, and other characteristics. The small age and gender effects were quite similar across…
Descriptors: Emotional Problems, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Caregivers, Theory Practice Relationship
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Paterson, Ashley D.; Babb, Kimberley A.; Camodeca, Amy; Goodwin, Jacqueline; Hakim-Larson, Julie; Voelker, Sylvia; Gragg, Marcia – Early Education and Development, 2012
Research Findings: Parents' meta-emotion philosophy guides their approach to teaching their children about emotions (J. M. Gottman, L. F. Katz, & C. Hooven, 1997) and is measured with the Emotion-Related Parenting Styles Self-Test-Likert (Gottman et al., 1997, modified by J. Hakim-Larson, A. Parker, C. Lee, J. Goodwin, & S. Voelker, 2006).…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Developmental Disabilities, Child Rearing, Psychometrics
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Fovet, Frederic – Emotional & Behavioural Difficulties, 2009
This study investigates the use made of humour by teachers during classroom interventions with adolescent students with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties (SEBD). Literature mentions the use of humour as a key tool in successful classroom interventions with students with SEBD and yet there is little quantified research on this topic.…
Descriptors: Inclusive Schools, Disabilities, Classroom Techniques, Humor
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Marcotte, Julie – Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 2008
Using the new "emerging adulthood" developmental period (Arnett, 2000) as a theoretical framework, this article emphasizes the challenges faced by emerging adults (17- to 24-year-olds) enrolled in adult education. First, emerging adulthood as a developmental period and the additional difficulties experienced by youths with emotional,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Young Adults, Foreign Countries, Intervention
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McColl, Mary Ann; Jarzynowska, Anna; Shortt, S. E. D. – Disability & Society, 2010
The present study examined population level data on unmet needs for adults with physical, sensory and cognitive disabilities, using the National Population Health Survey. The study revealed that disabled adults (aged 20-64) reported more than three times as many unmet health care needs as their non-disabled counterparts. Even after controlling for…
Descriptors: Health Needs, Emotional Problems, Hearing Impairments, Foreign Countries
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Duchesne, Stephane; Ratelle, Catherine – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2010
Recent literature on the determinants of academic motivation has shown that parenting and emotions are central elements in understanding students' achievement goals. The authors of this study set out to examine the predictive relationship between parental behaviors during the last year of elementary school and adolescents' achievement goals at the…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Elementary School Students, Emotional Problems, Structural Equation Models
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Ho, Caroline; Bluestein, Deborah N.; Jenkins, Jennifer M. – Developmental Psychology, 2008
Parent and teacher data for 14,990 children from the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth were used in multilevel analyses to examine the relationship between ethnicity, children's aggression and emotional problems, and parenting. Using parent and teacher report, relationships between ethnicity and child behavior were present but…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Emotional Problems, Aggression, Child Rearing
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Duchesne, Stephane; Ratelle, Catherine F.; Poitras, Sarah-Caroline; Drouin, Evelyne – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2009
This study examines how attachment to mother and father predicts worries about academic demands and relationships with teachers generated by the transition from elementary to middle school through its contribution to adolescents' emotional problems (depression and anxiety). The study sample includes 626 young adolescents (289 boys and 337 girls)…
Descriptors: Emotional Problems, Middle Schools, Mothers, Structural Equation Models
France, Norman – Saskatchewan Journal of Educational Research and Development, 1970
Descriptors: Children, Emotional Problems, Learning Problems, Questionnaires
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Cote, Sylvana M.; Borge, Anne I.; Geoffroy, Marie-Claude; Rutter, Michael; Tremblay, Richard E. – Developmental Psychology, 2008
The authors examined the role of familial risk and child characteristics in the association between the type of child care in infancy (maternal care [MC]) versus nonmaternal care [NMC]) and emotional/behavioral difficulties at 4 years old. Canadian families (N=1,358) with children between 1 and 12 months old were followed over 4 years. Family…
Descriptors: Emotional Problems, Aggression, Family Characteristics, Infants
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Rourke, Byron P. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1988
Reviews research on the relation between socioemotional functioning/disturbance and learning disabilities in children, examining the hypotheses that: (1) socioemotional disturbance causes learning disabilities; (2) learning disabilities cause socioemotional disturbance; and (3) specific patterns of central processing abilities and deficits cause…
Descriptors: Children, Emotional Problems, Foreign Countries, Interpersonal Competence
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George, Leonard; Neufeld, Richard W. J. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1987
Administered the Eckblad and Chapman (1983) Magical Ideation Scale to groups of paranoid and nonparanoid schizophrenics and control subjects. Schizophrenics scored significantly higher than nonschizophrenic patients (mainly cases of affective disorder) and normal control subjects. Discusses theoretical and prognostic utility of this finding.…
Descriptors: Emotional Problems, Foreign Countries, Paranoid Behavior, Personality Assessment
Davenport, Harold T.; Werry, John S. – Amer J Orthopsychiat, 1970
Descriptors: Anesthesiology, Emotional Adjustment, Emotional Problems, Exceptional Child Research
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Rousseau, Cecile; Drapeau, Aline – Adolescence, 2000
Central American and Cambodian students in six Canadian high schools and their parents were interviewed to assess the students' emotional problems and pre- and postmigration family environment. Findings indicate that the relationship between the emotional problems and scholastic achievement of teenaged refugees was tenuous. (Author/MKA)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Emotional Problems
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