Descriptor
Source
Adolescence | 2 |
Publication Type
Journal Articles | 2 |
Reports - Research | 2 |
Education Level
Audience
Location
Canada | 2 |
Cambodia | 1 |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating

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

Ward, Margaret; Lewko, John H. – Adolescence, 1988
Administered questionnaire to adolescents concerning difficulties experienced with both newly adopted school-age siblings and with other children already in family. Difficulties with all siblings were seen primarily as hassles; however, adoptee was reported as creating more problems than "old" siblings, mostly involving invasion of turf…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Adopted Children, Adoption