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Garbacz, S. Andrew; Santiago, Rachel T.; Kosty, Derek; Zahn, Miranda; Stormshak, Elizabeth A.; Smolkowski, Keith; Seeley, John R. – Psychology in the Schools, 2021
The purpose of this study was to examine parent-teacher congruent perceptions of middle school structures to support parent monitoring of children's behavior. We examined family educational involvement and school's communication and support to families as predictors of congruence, as well as congruence as a predictor of children following school…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Congruence (Psychology), Middle School Teachers
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Tina M. Durand; Ronnie Blackwell – Psychology in the Schools, 2025
Contemporary scholars of race contend that the long-heralded "American Dream" rhetoric continues to thrive within the ideology of colorblindness, whereby race is deemed insignificant. Public schools are not insulated from this, and recent political assaults the teaching of "divisive" concepts have already had a chilling effect…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Minority Group Students, Public Schools, Ethnic Diversity
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Zhang, Hong; Tang, Hanwei; Zhang, Mengnan; Wang, Fuyan – Psychology in the Schools, 2023
The present study investigated how students' attitudes toward bullying were influenced simultaneously by personal and contextual factors in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taipei. Participants included 25,338 students (15-year-olds, from grade 7 to 12) and 663 schools from Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taipei drawn from the Program for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Secondary School Students
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Bearman, Sarah K.; Bailin, Abby; Rodriguez, Erin; Bellevue, Alison – Psychology in the Schools, 2020
Schools are well positioned to provide access to youth mental health services, but implementing effective programs that promote emotional and behavioral functioning in school settings is complicated by the poor fit of interventions developed in research settings to complex school contexts. The current study formed a research-practice partnership…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Intervention, Urban Schools, Public Schools
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Stachowitz, Annie L.; Choi, Hee-Sook; Schweinle, Amy – Psychology in the Schools, 2014
Eating disorders, disordered eating, and body dissatisfaction prevalence rates are on the rise among adolescent females. The present study examined the potential use of a commonly used social--emotional instrument, the Behavior Assessment System for Children-Second Edition (BASC-2), for detecting the presence of possible eating disorders in…
Descriptors: Eating Disorders, At Risk Persons, Females, Self Concept
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Pittard, Caroline M.; Pössel, Patrick; Smith, Rosamond J. – Psychology in the Schools, 2015
Teaching behavior impacts student psychopathology. This study explored the associations between teaching behavior types and depressive symptoms in students. The Teaching Behavior Questionnaire (TBQ) and the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) were completed by 763 middle and 976 high school students from private Catholic…
Descriptors: Teacher Behavior, Middle School Students, High School Students, Private Schools
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Kert, Allison S.; Codding, Robin S.; Tryon, Georgiana Shick; Shiyko, Mariya – Psychology in the Schools, 2010
This study examined whether the definition and use of the word "bully" would result in lower self-reports of bullying behavior by providing students with one of three versions of a self-report measure with: (a) no reference to the word bully or its definition, (b) the definition of the word bully followed by use of the word in each item, or (c)…
Descriptors: Bullying, Antisocial Behavior, Definitions, Student Behavior