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Rinaldi, Christina M.; Bulut, Okan; Muth, Tracy; Di Stasio, Maria – Journal of School Violence, 2023
Bullying by peers remains a serious problem facing adolescents. A key social support for adolescents is their parents. The unique contributions of specific dimensions comprising authoritative parenting, and adolescents' involvement in bullying situations was investigated. Self-report data were collected from 125 grade 7 students and 100 grade 8…
Descriptors: Bullying, Junior High School Students, Parent Role, Early Adolescents
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Morinaj, Julia; de Moll, Frederick; Hascher, Tina; Hadjar, Andreas; Grecu, Alyssa; Scharf, Jan – Youth & Society, 2023
Prior research has shown that socialization agents such as parents, peers, and teachers can play a significant role in adolescents' educational outcomes, both through direct support or indirectly via supportive attitudes that foster students' bonding to school and academic motivation. However, less is known about the effects of parent and peer…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Alienation, School Attitudes
Anna Marie Douglas – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this phenomenological study was to describe the experiences of active-duty, Reserve, and National Guard military parents concerning their efforts to cultivate an environment of academic success for their children diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Bowlby and Ainsworth's theory on attachment guided this…
Descriptors: Military Personnel, Parents, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Elementary Secondary Education
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Bradley, Vaughn M. – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2020
Middle school is a critical time in students' learning of mathematics, something a Learning Management System (LMS) is designed to help parents support. What remains unknown is how parents use an LMS to monitor their children's progress in mathematics. This qualitative case study explored how parents from one midAtlantic middle school with 543…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Parents, Parent Attitudes, Integrated Learning Systems
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Bradley, Vaughn M. – Online Submission, 2020
Middle school is a critical time in students' learning of mathematics, something a Learning Management System (LMS) is designed to help parents support. What remains unknown is how parents use an LMS to monitor their children's progress in mathematics. This qualitative case study explored how parents from one midAtlantic middle school with 543…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Parents, Parent Attitudes, Integrated Learning Systems
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Lee, Hedwig – Youth & Society, 2014
Parents play an important role in influencing adolescent health behaviors and parenting practices may be an important pathway through which social disadvantage influences adolescent health behaviors that can persist into adulthood. This analysis uses the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health to examine how parenting practices mediate…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Parent Role, Socioeconomic Background, Family Characteristics
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Stevenson, Matthew M.; Fabricius, William V.; Cookston, Jeffrey T.; Parke, Ross D.; Coltrane, Scott; Braver, Sanford L.; Saenz, Delia S. – Developmental Psychology, 2014
We evaluated maternal gatekeeping attitudes as a mediator of the relation between marital problems and father-child relationships in 3 waves when children were in Grades 7-10. We assessed each parent's contribution to the marital problems experienced by the couple. Findings from mediational and cross-lagged structural equation models revealed that…
Descriptors: Mothers, Marital Instability, Fathers, Parent Child Relationship
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Rimkute, Laura; Hirvonen, Riikka; Tolvanen, Asko; Aunola, Kaisa; Nurmi, Jari-Erik – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2012
The present study examined the extent to which mothers' and fathers' expectations for their offspring's future education, their level of education, and adolescents' academic achievement predict adolescents' educational expectations. To investigate this, 230 adolescents were examined twice while they were in comprehensive school (in the 7th and 9th…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Adolescents, Parent Role, Grade 7
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Honig, Alice Sterling; Zdunowski-Sjoblom, Nicole – Early Child Development and Care, 2014
Family interviews were conducted with 28 7-12-year-old children who had experienced various forms of bullying and relational aggression by their peers, as well as with their parent and with an older sibling. Interviews explored possible supportive strategies of older siblings, parents, and teachers. All bullied children reported negative feelings…
Descriptors: Interviews, Children, Preadolescents, Bullying
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Cheung, Cecilia Sin-Sze; Pomerantz, Eva M. – Child Development, 2011
This research examined parents' involvement in children's learning in the United States and China. Beginning in seventh grade, 825 American and Chinese children (mean age = 12.74 years) reported on their parents' involvement in their learning as well as their parents' psychological control and autonomy support every 6 months until the end of 8th…
Descriptors: Emotional Adjustment, Parent School Relationship, Foreign Countries, Grade 8
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Kakihara, Fumiko; Tilton-Weaver, Lauree; Kerr, Margaret; Stattin, Hakan – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2010
Recent research suggests that youths interpret parental control and that this may have implications for how control affects youths' adjustment. In this study, we propose that youths' feelings about being over-controlled by parents and feeling connected to parents are intermediary processes linking parental control and youths' adjustment. We used…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Parent Child Relationship, Statistical Data, Rejection (Psychology)
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Wang, Qian; Pomerantz, Eva M.; Chen, Huichang – Child Development, 2007
This research compared the effects over time of parents' control and autonomy support on children's functioning in the United States and China. American and Chinese (N = 806) seventh graders (mean age = 12.73 years) participated in a 6-month longitudinal study. Children reported on their parents' psychological control, psychological autonomy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 7, Psychology, Parent Role