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Vallorani, Alicia; Gunther, Kelley E.; Anaya, Berenice; Burris, Jessica L.; Field, Andy P.; LoBue, Vanessa; Buss, Kristin A.; Pérez-Edgar, Koraly – Developmental Psychology, 2023
Developmental theories suggest affect-biased attention, preferential attention to emotionally salient stimuli, emerges during infancy through coordinating individual differences. Here we examined bidirectional relations between infant affect-biased attention, temperamental negative affect, and maternal anxiety symptoms using a Random Intercepts…
Descriptors: Infants, Attention, Personality Traits, Affective Behavior
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Mandelbaum, Toni – Journal of Character Education, 2018
This research intended to further our understanding of the construct grit, defined as maintaining persistence and passion when pursuing long-term goals (Duckworth et al., 2007). The study had 2 aims: first to confirm a correlation between the construct of grit and an individual's attachment style and second, to examine this relationship in high…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, High School Seniors, Attachment Behavior, Goal Orientation
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Nayman, Samuel J.; Elias, Maurice J.; Selby, Edward A.; Fishman, Daniel B.; Linsky, Arielle C. V.; Hatchimonji, Danielle R. – Journal of Character Education, 2019
Despite the intuitive appeal of purpose as a subject of inquiry and its associations with positive life outcomes, empirical research on adolescent purpose is limited. This exploratory study examined several dimensions of purpose--classification, engagement, and commitment--based on essay and survey responses from a sample of 124 low-SES and…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Socioeconomic Status, Urban Schools, Grade 7
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Zieger, Laura; Farber, Matthew – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2012
Technological advances on the Internet now enable students to develop participation skills in virtual worlds. Similar to controlling a character in a video game, multi-user virtual environments, or MUVEs, allow participants to interact with others in synchronous, online settings. The authors of this study created a link between MUVEs and…
Descriptors: Virtual Classrooms, Social Studies, Grade 7, Citizen Participation
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Lovegrove, Peter J.; Henry, Kimberly L.; Slater, Michael D. – Journal of School Violence, 2012
This study employs latent class analysis to construct bullying involvement typologies among 3,114 students (48% male, 58% White) in 40 middle schools across the United States. Four classes were constructed: victims (15%); bullies (13%); bully/victims (13%); and noninvolved (59%). Respondents who were male and participated in fewer conventional…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Bullying, Victims, Student Behavior
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Resenhoeft, Annette; Villa, Julie; Wiseman, David – Journal of American College Health, 2008
Objective: Health researchers have claimed that perceptions toward a person with a tattoo are more negative than are perceptions toward nontattooed persons. However, support for this has been obtained almost completely by nonexperimental research. Participants: In 2 experiments with 158 community college student participants, the authors found…
Descriptors: College Students, Photography, Social Attitudes, Student Attitudes
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Mariano, Jennifer Menon; Savage, Jessica – Journal of Research in Character Education, 2009
This study used an exploratory mixed methods design to address the questions: (1) "Is there a positive language of youth purpose, and if so, what is it like?" and (2) "Which kinds of purpose best predict reports of positive states and coping styles?" Qualitative coding identified references to positive states and coping…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Coping, Language, Goal Orientation
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Payne, Yasser Arafat; Starks, Brian Chad; Gibson, LaMar Rashad – New Directions for Youth Development, 2009
This participatory action research project worked with four street-life-oriented black men to document how a community sample of street-life-oriented black adolescents between the ages of sixteen and nineteen frame street life as a site of resiliency inside schools based on 156 surveys, 10 individual interviews, and 1 group interview. Data…
Descriptors: Action Research, Negative Attitudes, Adolescents, Educational Experience
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Arafat Payne, Yasser – Journal of Black Psychology, 2008
This study organized a participatory action research team of four street life-oriented Black men to examine attitudes toward opportunity in a community sample of street life-oriented Black men ranging between the ages of 16 and 65. Data were collected in the form of 371 surveys and two group interviews. Most of the data collection took place…
Descriptors: Action Research, Negative Attitudes, Economic Opportunities, Educational Experience
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Reiger, Robert C.; Rees, Richard T. – Educational Research Quarterly, 1993
Whether specific motivational traits (social concern, goal directedness, self-reliance, external and intrinsic qualities, and task involvement) are related to gender, race, and religion was studied for 74 New Jersey educators. Gender differences in motivation are not found, but racial differences for some variables are discussed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Blacks, Context Effect, Educational Environment, Motivation