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Pallavi Kanungo; Seemita Mohanty; Apparao Thamminaina – Educational Review, 2024
Parental involvement in educating children remains a crucial first step in building an informed citizen. It becomes a routine matter for children to follow the footsteps of educated parents. However, for the first-generation learners, e.g. particularly vulnerable tribal groups (PVTGs), it is an arduous task because they belong to the least…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Early Adolescents, Preadolescents
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Starr, Christine R.; Zurbriggen, Eileen L. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2019
We investigated the relationship of self-sexualization to self-objectification, weight concerns, self-efficacy, academic outcomes, and career aspirations among preadolescent girls. Participants were 89 six- to nine-year-old girls; parental reports were also obtained. Two thirds of girls showed signs of self-sexualization by choosing a sexualized…
Descriptors: Females, Sexuality, Body Weight, Parent Aspiration
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Tseng, Wan-Ling; Kawabata, Yoshito; Gau, Susan Shur-Fen; Banny, Adrienne M.; Lingras, Katherine A.; Crick, Nicki R. – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2012
This study examined the structural relations of preadolescents' inattention and hyperactivity/impulsivity, aggressive and prosocial behaviors, and peer functioning. There were 739 fourth (n = 239) and fifth (n = 500) graders (52.23% boys) in Taiwan who participated in this study. Preadolescents' inattention and hyperactivity/impulsivity were…
Descriptors: Females, Rating Scales, Preadolescents, Prosocial Behavior
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Loeber, Rolf; Pardini, Dustin A.; Hipwell, Alison; Stouthamer-Loeber, Magda; Keenan, Kate; Sembower, Mark A. – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2009
Relatively little is known about the factor structure of disruptive behavior among preadolescent girls. The present study reports on exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses of disruptive girl behavior over four successive data waves as rated by parents and teachers in a large, representative community sample of girls (N = 2,451). Five factors…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Females, Mental Disorders, Behavior Disorders
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Ohan, Jeneva L.; Johnston, Charlotte – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2007
This study explores the social impact of ADHD, with and without opposition-defiant behaviour [ADHD+ODD (n= 22) and ADHD-only (n= 18)], in 9- to 12- year old girls compared to girls without ADHD (n= 40). Girls played a computer game involving simulated players, and mothers and teachers completed rating scales. In general, mothers and teachers saw…
Descriptors: Social Influences, Rating Scales, Mothers, Attention Deficit Disorders
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Brunnekreef, J. Agnes; De Sonneville, Leo M. J.; Althaus, Monika; Minderaa, Ruud B.; Oldehinkel, Albertine J.; Verhulst, Frank C.; Ormel, Johan – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2007
Background: The present study explores the relationships between several information processing capacities and internalizing and externalizing behavior problems in a general population sample of 10- to 12-year olds (N = 2,037 51% girls). Methods: Parent-reported behavior problems as assessed by the Child Behavior Checklist were used to form four…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Behavior Problems, Females, Child Behavior
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Duncan, Pam; Kilpatrick, Doreen L. – Child Study Journal, 1991
Parents rated their children on two behavioral rating scales that were designed to evaluate problem and antisocial behaviors. When rating only one child, parents agreed in rating sons' behaviors. Differences were found in mothers' and fathers' prosocial behavior ratings of daughters. When parents rated one child of each sex, no differences in…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Behavior Rating Scales, Elementary Education, Fathers