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Dekel, Rachel; Solomon, Dan – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2016
This study examined the contribution of maternal bonding to the adjustment of Israeli adolescents following the 2006 Lebanon War. In all, 2,858 seventh and eighth graders who lived in areas that were exposed to missile attacks completed the Parental Bonding Instrument (assessing maternal care and control) and questionnaires evaluating…
Descriptors: Mothers, War, Parent Child Relationship, Foreign Countries
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You, Sukkyung; Lee, June; Lee, Yunoug; Kim, Ann Y. – Psychology in the Schools, 2015
In efforts to increase the field and society's understanding of bullying, the authors investigated how various forms of attachment (mother, peer, and school) are directly and indirectly related to bullying behavior through empathy, and whether these relationships are moderated by gender. Adolescents, of grades 7 through 9, from one middle school…
Descriptors: Bullying, Foreign Countries, Grade 7, Grade 8
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Doyle, Anna Beth; Markiewicz, Dorothy – European Journal of Developmental Science, 2009
This paper examines the quality of attachment to father, mother and close others in early adolescence and associations with adolescents' later self-perceived peer competence. Early adolescents (n=205) reported their anxious and avoidant attachment (Brennan, Clark, & Shaver, 1998) to mother, father and close others twice, one year apart.…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Mothers, Fathers, Early Adolescents
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Liu, Yih-Lan – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2008
Three models of attachment relationships--the hierarchy model, the integrative model and the independent model--were compared in order to elucidate which best described the relationship between attachments to fathers versus mothers and its developmental consequences among 1,289 eighth grade students in Taiwan. These consequences included…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Child Relationship, Attachment Behavior, Adolescents
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Fiebig, Jennifer Nepper – High Ability Studies, 2008
This study assessed 43 gifted adolescent females in the United States and Germany over a 4-year period. Initially the girls were assessed during their 7th or 8th grade and again for this current study during their 11th or 12th grade. Factors that were examined included the daughters' attachment to and psychological separation from their mothers,…
Descriptors: Gifted, Mothers, Daughters, Foreign Countries
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Hallinan, Maureen T. – Sociology of Education, 2008
Research has shown that students who like school have higher academic achievement and a lower incidence of disciplinary problems, absenteeism, truancy, and dropping out of school than do those who dislike school. Thus, one way to improve academic outcomes is to increase students' attraction to school. This study focused on the role of teachers in…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Student Attitudes, Academic Achievement, Educational Change
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Liu, Yih-Lan – Adolescence (San Diego): an international quarterly devoted to the physiological, psychological, psychiatric, sociological, and educational aspects of the second decade of human life, 2006
The aim of this study was to investigate how paternal and maternal attachment might relate to adolescents' peer support, social expectations of peer interaction, and depressive symptoms; 1,144 8th graders in Taiwan participated in the study. The relationships were examined through a structural equating modeling. Consistent with theoretical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 8, Interaction, Early Adolescents