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Ray, Brian D.; Shakeel, M. Danish – Journal of School Choice, 2023
Opponents of homeschooling associate it with unchecked and unreported abuse and neglect of children, often arguing for more regulation of or an outright ban of home education. Do homeschool students experience more maltreatment than those in schools and, if so, is it happening in or outside the home? Empirical evidence to answer this question is…
Descriptors: Home Schooling, Control Groups, Student Experience, Adults
Hannah Sutton-Adams – Religious Education, 2023
Despite the growing awareness of child abuse, little academic research examines religious abuse and trauma during childhood. This paper constructs an interdisciplinary and intersectional heuristic of childhood religious trauma and abuse (RTA) by weaving together psychological and theo-philosophical literature with Rebecca Nye's theory of childhood…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Religious Factors, Trauma, Spiritual Development
Bander Almohammadi – International Research and Review, 2023
Child marriage in Tanzania is a critical human rights issue in Tanzania and around the globe. This article focuses on the legal structure of Tanzania to show that Tanzania's Law of Marriage Act, Sections 13 and 17, enacted in 1971, violates its constitution and obligations in international human rights treaties and the Universal Declaration of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Marriage, Child Abuse, Childrens Rights
Dodge, Kenneth A.; Bai, Yu; Godwin, Jennifer; Lansford, Jennifer E.; Bates, John E.; Pettit, Gregory S.; Jones, Damon – Child Development, 2022
The hypothesis was tested that some children develop a defensive mindset that subsumes individual social information processing (SIP) steps, grows from early experiences, and guides long-term outcomes. In Study 1 (Fast Track [FT]), 463 age-5 children (45% girls; 43% Black) were first assessed in 1991 and followed through age 32 (83% retention). In…
Descriptors: Defense Mechanisms, Personality Traits, Emotional Response, Social Cognition
Hu, Yiqiu; Zeng, Zihao; Peng, Liyi; Zhan, Lin; Liu, Shuangjin; Ouyang, Xiaoyou; Ding, Daoqun; Li, Zhihua – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2022
Based on both positive psychology and the gene × environment research paradigm, the current study constructed a moderated mediation model to explore the relationship between childhood maltreatment and college students' depression symptoms. The sample comprised 301 college students (74 males and 227 females; average age = 19.15 ± 0.63 years of age,…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Correlation, College Students, Depression (Psychology)
Scott Edwin Shipley – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this study was to determine if groups of educators differed in their ability to adequately recognize and report cases of child abuse. Furthermore, if there were any differences in the perception of preparedness level (pre-service training and in-service training) among the educators. This study applied a quantitative method which…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Disclosure, Teacher Education, Readiness
Manda Sue Foster – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore the perception of educators that moved away from a traditional learning environment with little movement and high academic stress through the introduction of project-based learning activities noting (a) the perception on behaviors specifically for students, ranging in age from 8 to 17…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Student Behavior, Child Abuse
Kour, Prabhjyot; Sachdeva, Pallavi – Journal on Educational Psychology, 2019
Childhood maltreatment is any behavioral conduct by parents or guardian or any known or unknown person which causes physical, emotional, sexual pain to the child and hurts him/her immensely. Suicide ideation can be defined as the intention or desire to kill oneself. Suicide ideation is largely prevalent among youngsters. The aim of the present…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Suicide, College Students, Gender Differences
Walsh, Kerryann; Howard, Sarah; Hand, Kirstine; Ey, Lesley; Fenton, Angela; Whiteford, Chrystal – International Journal of Educational Methodology, 2019
Child maltreatment is a serious problem, worldwide. Children and young people who have experienced maltreatment face multiple physical and mental health challenges which hinder their success at school and these adverse experiences makes them more challenging to teach than their non-maltreated peers. Increasingly, teachers are considered as an…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Child Safety, Child Abuse, Educational Research
Anna Aluffi Pentini – Intercultural Education, 2024
The contribution deals critically with the issue of citizenship and children's rights, identifying a silent void starting from the change we have witnessed with the progressive questioning of the principles, secular, and religious, of adult authority and the sacrosanct affirmation rights of minors and their defence against violence and abuse. This…
Descriptors: Childrens Rights, Citizenship, Religious Factors, Child Abuse
Szojka, Zsofia A.; Nicol, Annabelle; La Rooy, David – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2020
This study investigated the narrative coherence of children's accounts elicited in multiple forensic interviews. Transcriptions of 56 police interviews with 28 children aged 3-14 years alleging physical and sexual abuse were coded for markers of completeness, consistency and connectedness. We found that multiple interviews increased the…
Descriptors: Interviews, Children, Observation, Crime
Stolzenberg, Stacia N.; Morse, Stephanie J.; Haverkate, Danielle L.; Garcia-Johnson, Anastacia M. – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2020
The present study assessed how attorneys questioned children in cases of child sexual abuse in the United States tried between 2005 and 2015. Trial testimonies (N = 134) of 5- to 17-year-olds (M = 12 years old) were coded for the linguistic form of attorneys' questions and children's subsequent responses. Three fourths of all questions were closed…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Sexual Abuse, Questioning Techniques, Court Litigation
Stephens, Jacquelyn E.; Kessler, Courtenay L.; Buss, Claudia; Miller, Gregory E.; Grobman, William A.; Keenan-Devlin, Lauren; Borders, Ann E.; Adam, Emma K. – Grantee Submission, 2020
Stress during pregnancy affects maternal health and well-being, as well as the health and well-being of the next generation, in part through the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis. Although most studies have focused solely on proximal experiences (i.e., during the pregnancy) as sources of prenatal stress, there has been a recent surge in…
Descriptors: Early Experience, Pregnancy, Stress Variables, Economic Status
Xu, Yanfeng; Jedwab, Merav; Lee, Kerry A.; Levkoff, Sue E. – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2023
This study aims to examine the (1) prevalence of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) among children in kinship care; (2) relationships between the number and type of ACEs and children's internalizing and externalizing problems; and (3) moderating role of kinship caregivers' mental health on the relationships between ACEs and children's…
Descriptors: Children, Experience, Family Role, Caregivers
Amirazizi, Samira; Dowdy, Erin; Sharkey, Jill; Barnett, Miya – Psychology in the Schools, 2023
Childhood exposure to adversity and its consequences is a significant public health challenge. Schools are beginning to understand the impact of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and some schools are considering screening for ACEs. However, dissemination of the ACEs screener and subsequent interventions may lead to challenges and iatrogenic…
Descriptors: Trauma, Early Experience, Stress Variables, Child Abuse