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Direct linkAlexander W. Luther; Scott T. Leatherdale; Joel A. Dubin; Mark A. Ferro – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2024
Background: Delinquent behaviours among youth harms health and social trajectories, and public health broadly. Despite evidence that engaging in and being victimized by delinquent behaviours often cluster, most studies have examined the clustering of delinquent behaviours or victimization experiences independently. Information on patterns of…
Descriptors: Delinquency, Children, Adolescents, Victims of Crime
Meral, Bekir F.; Wehmeyer, Michael L.; Palmer, Susan B.; Ruh, Anil B.; Yilmaz, Engin – American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2023
Parenting styles and practices are crucial in promoting the self-determination of children. The purpose of the current study was to investigate the role of parenting styles and practices in enhancing the self-determination of children with/without intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). The present study was carried out with a sample of…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Self Determination, Children, Intellectual Disability
Download full textBlack, Lindsey I.; Terlizzi, Emily P.; Vahratian, Anjel – National Center for Health Statistics, 2022
Sports team participation has been associated with increased levels of physical activity and improved physical and mental health among children and adolescents. Disparities in sports participation have been found across age, sex, race, disability, and socioeconomic subgroups. This report describes national estimates of parent-reported organized…
Descriptors: Children, Team Sports, Participation, Adolescents
Moshoeshoe, Ramaele – Education Economics, 2019
This paper examines the effect of birth order on educational attainment in Lesotho. Using family fixed effects models, I find robust negative birth order effects on educational attainment. These results are in sharp contrast with the evidence from many developing countries, but are consistent with that from developed countries. Further, these…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Birth Order, Educational Attainment, Family Size
Lansford, Jennifer E.; Malone, Patrick S.; Tapanya, Sombat; Tirado, Liliana Maria Uribe; Zelli, Arnaldo; Alampay, Liane Peña; Al-Hassan, Suha M.; Bacchini, Dario; Bornstein, Marc H.; Chang, Lei; Deater-Deckard, Kirby; Giunta, Laura Di; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Oburu, Paul; Pastorelli, Concetta; Skinner, Ann T.; Sorbring, Emma; Steinberg, Laurence – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2019
This study examined longitudinal links between household income and parents' education and children's trajectories of internalizing and externalizing behaviors from age 8 to 10 reported by mothers, fathers, and children. Longitudinal data from 1,190 families in 11 cultural groups in eight countries (Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Philippines,…
Descriptors: Family Income, Child Behavior, Behavior Problems, Socioeconomic Status
Preece, David; Murray, Jane; Rose, Richard; Zhao, Yu; Garner, Philip – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
Data were collected from heads of households across Bhutan to gain insights regarding children with disabilities up to 18 years in Bhutan. Fieldwork was conducted by local enumerators, trained by researchers from the UK who analysed and interpreted the data. Results indicate that whilst there are largely positive attitudes towards children with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Disabilities, Children, Adolescents
Rosenzweig, Mark R.; Zhang, Junsen – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2019
Obesity is an important global health problem. Although obesity is not directly related to access to health care or constrained by resource deprivation, overweight status is predominantly found in poor, less-educated populations. This paper seeks to identify the causal role of schooling in affecting obesity among children and adolescents, using…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Adolescents, Children
Kim, Sohyun An – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2023
This study explores Korean-American parents' perceptions on successful transition to kindergarten (TTK) for their child on the autism spectrum. It further examines challenges experienced during this process, and possible predictors for their challenges. Findings from an online survey (N = 212) indicate that participants consider their child's…
Descriptors: Korean Americans, Parent Attitudes, Children, Autism Spectrum Disorders
Aishworiya, Ramkumar; Goh, Tze Jui; Sung, Min; Tay, Stacey Kiat Hong – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2021
This study aimed to identify potential modifiable factors prior to early intervention that are associated with better adaptive skills in children with autism spectrum disorder. This cross-sectional study recruited patients with autism spectrum disorder, aged 5-12 years from two tertiary developmental programmes in Singapore. Demographics, family…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Children
Shumetie, Arega; Mamo, Kassahun – International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy, 2019
The study examined the relationship between child labour participation and household wealth (in terms of livestock and cropland) considering representative sample smallholders from four (Kurfa Chelie, Kersa, Fedis, and Melka Bello) districts in eastern Hararghe Zone of Oromia regional state of Ethiopia. The descriptive statics showed that average…
Descriptors: Agronomy, Ownership, Child Labor, Animals
Dhanaraj, Sowmya; Paul, Christy Mariya; Gade, Smit – Education Economics, 2019
Household income shocks in developing countries are known to have an impact on the education investments for children. In this paper, we explore the effects of various income and expenditure shocks on educational investment and cognitive outcomes of children using three rounds of household-level panel data from Young Lives survey conducted in two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Income, Developing Nations, Expenditures
Abuya, Benta A.; Mutisya, Maurice; Onsomu, Elijah O.; Ngware, Moses; Oketch, Moses – SAGE Open, 2019
Research shows that children living with two biological parents outperform those raised in other family structures. A growing number of children do not live with two biological parents in sub-Saharan Africa, but few studies have examined the consequences. In this article, data from the African Population and Health Research Center collected in the…
Descriptors: Family Structure, Children, Educational Attainment, Slums
Elaine Chiu – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
Background: Observation Studies, Unmeasured Confounding, and Sensitivity Analysis: An important part of educational research is identifying important, potentially causal, factors that influence children's learning from observational studies. However, it is well-known that discovering such factors from observational studies can be biased due to…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Research Methodology, Attribution Theory, Learning Processes
Sharma, Binita; Dangal, Megh R. – Journal of Education and Work, 2019
This study examines how child labour carried out in Nepal's brick kilns impacts classroom performance and achievement, while also exploring parents' perspectives towards it. To this end, a field study within select brick kilns was conducted among child labourers as well as adults whose offspring had previously worked as child labourers.…
Descriptors: Child Labor, Seasonal Laborers, Foreign Countries, Parent Attitudes
Rubio-Codina, Marta; Grantham-McGregor, Sally – Developmental Science, 2019
Large gaps in cognition and language on the Bayley-III between the top and bottom household wealth quartiles in 1,330 children aged 6-42 months in a representative sample of low- and middle-income families in Bogota were previously shown. Maternal education and the home environment mediated these wealth effects, whereas height-for-age mediated a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Development, Longitudinal Studies, Family Income
