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Peer reviewedParker, Zillah; Stewart, Elisabeth – Adolescence, 1994
Discusses need for comprehensive assessment involving ability, personality, and motivation when young people are referred to mental health service with problems of school failure. Reviews traits associated with obsessive-compulsive personality style and explores impact on school performance. Presents three case examples to illustrate how this…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Classroom Techniques, Foreign Countries, Personality Traits
Peer reviewedStevens, Renee; Pihl, R. O. – Adolescence, 1987
Compared 51 seventh-graders considered at-risk for school failure with 51 classmates. Students with a history of school failure, although of normal intelligence, were found to be significantly less intellectually, academically, and affectively competent than their more successful peers and were rated by their teachers as significantly less able to…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Competence
Peer reviewedde Man, Anton F.; And Others – Adolescence, 1993
French-Canadian high school students (n=558) participated in study of relationship between suicidal ideation and selected personality variables, stress, and social support. Results indicated that suicidal ideation was positively related to depression, negative stress, and drug and alcohol use and negatively related to self-esteem, satisfaction…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attendance, Depression (Psychology), Drinking
