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Analyzing Repeated Measures Data on Individuals Nested within Groups: Accounting for Dynamic Group Effects
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Bauer, Daniel J.; Gottfredson, Nisha C.; Dean, Danielle; Zucker, Robert A. – Psychological Methods, 2013
Researchers commonly collect repeated measures on individuals nested within groups such as students within schools, patients within treatment groups, or siblings within families. Often, it is most appropriate to conceptualize such groups as dynamic entities, potentially undergoing stochastic structural and/or functional changes over time. For…
Descriptors: Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Data Analysis, Science Achievement, High School Students
Self-Cognitions, Risk Factors for Alcohol Problems, and Drinking in Preadolescent Urban Youths
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Corte, Colleen; Szalacha, Laura – Journal of Child & Adolescent Substance Abuse, 2010
In this study we examine relationships between self-structure and known precursors for alcohol problems in 9- to 12-year-old primarily black and Latino youths (N = 79). Parental alcohol problems and being female predicted few positive and many negative self-cognitions and a future-oriented self-cognition related to alcohol ("drinking possible…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Alcoholism, Drinking, Risk
Paternal Alcoholism, Family Functioning, and Infant Mental Health
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Fitzgerald, Hiram E.; Eiden, Rina Das – Zero to Three, 2007
The authors share results from two longitudinal studies exploring the impact of father's alcohol use on child development. The Michigan Longitudinal Study (MLS) has followed a sample of alcoholic families with 3-5 year old children for 20 years. The Buffalo Longitudinal Study (BLS) has followed a sample of alcoholic and nonalcoholic families…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Alcoholism, Young Children, Psychopathology
Age of Alcohol-Dependence Onset: Associations with Severity of Dependence and Seeking Treatment
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Hingson, Ralph W.; Heeren, Timothy; Winter, Michael R. – Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2007
Objective: We explored whether people who become alcohol dependent at younger ages are more likely to seek alcohol-related help or treatment or experience chronic relapsing dependence. Methods: In 2001-2002 the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism completed a face-to-face interview survey with a multistage probability sample of 43…
Descriptors: Probability, Depression (Psychology), Alcoholism, Age Differences
The Development of Aggression in 18 to 48 Month Old Children of Alcoholic Parents
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Edwards, Ellen P.; Eiden, Rina D.; Colder, Craig; Leonard, Kenneth E. – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2006
This study examined the development of aggressive and oppositional behavior among alcoholic and nonalcoholic families using latent growth modeling. The sample consisted of 226 families assessed at 18, 24, 36, and 48 months of child age. Results indicated that children in families with nonalcoholic parents had the lowest levels of aggressive…
Descriptors: Aggression, Alcoholism, Behavior Development, Child Behavior
Natural Recovery from Drug and Alcohol Addiction among Israeli Prisoners
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Chen, Gila – Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 2006
This study examined differences in the sense of coherence, anxiety, depression, hostility, behavior, and meaning in life among Israeli prisoners recovering from drug and alcohol addiction over various time periods (6-24 months), and without therapeutic intervention (natural recovery). Ninety-eight abstinent prisoners were divided into two groups:…
Descriptors: Counseling Techniques, Substance Abuse, Alcoholism, Depression (Psychology)