Estimating and interpreting latent variable interactionsInternational Journal of Behavioral Development - Tập 39 Số 1 - Trang 87-96 - 2015
Julie Maslowsky, Justin Jager, Douglas Hemken
Latent variables are common in psychological research. Research questions involving the interaction of two variables are likewise quite common. Methods for estimating and interpreting interactions between latent variables within a structural equation modeling framework have recently become available. The latent moderated structural equations (LMS) method is one that is built into Mplus so...... hiện toàn bộ
Counteracting bullying in Finland: The KiVa program and its effects on different forms of being bulliedInternational Journal of Behavioral Development - Tập 35 Số 5 - Trang 405-411 - 2011
Christina Salmivalli, Antti Kärnä, Elisa Poskiparta
In 2006, the Finnish Ministry of Education mandated our research group to develop an antibullying program for comprehensive schools. The new program, KiVa, includes both universal and indicated actions to reduce bullying. The present study reports the effects of KiVa on nine different forms of being bullied in a sample of 5,651 fourth to sixth graders from 78 schools (39 intervention, 39 ...... hiện toàn bộ
Interaction Between Mothers and Preschool Children when Reading a Novel and Familiar BookInternational Journal of Behavioral Development - Tập 11 Số 4 - Trang 489-505 - 1988
Jan V. Goodsitt, Jayne Grady Raitan, Marion Perlmutter
Interaction between mothers and their 2-, 31/2-, and 5-year old children was examined during book reading sessions. Sixteen dyads at each age level read a novel and familiar book. Formal reading and interchange about story content increased with age and book familiarity, while labelling decreased with age and book familiarity. The results highlighted the informal teaching that takes place...... hiện toàn bộ
German Children's Behavior Towards Their Mothers at 12 Months and Their Fathers at 18 Months in Ainsworth's Strange SituationInternational Journal of Behavioral Development - Tập 4 Số 2 - Trang 157-181 - 1981
Karin Grossmann, F.-X. Huber, Ulrike G. Wartner
Fourty-nine 12 months old children and their mothers were videotaped in Ainsworth's Strange Situation. Fourty-six of them were videotaped again in the same situation at 18 months with their fathers. Quality of attachment was determined by using Ainsworth's criteria. Fewer children had 'secure' relationships to their parents than in comparable U.S. samples. There was no correlation between...... hiện toàn bộ
Psychological reactions to Israeli occupation: Findings from the national study of school-based screening in PalestineInternational Journal of Behavioral Development - Tập 32 Số 4 - Trang 290-297 - 2008
Ziad Abdeen, Radwan Qasrawi, Shibli Nabil, Mohammad Shaheen
Children exposed to violent war-like and repeated political violence often experience a continued threat to life and their sense of safety, as well as a disruption of daily functioning. The purpose of the study was to examine the psychological impact of exposure to Israeli occupation on Palestinian school children in the West Bank and Gaza, Palestine. We assessed the association between e...... hiện toàn bộ
Resiliency factors predicting psychological adjustment after political violence among Palestinian childrenInternational Journal of Behavioral Development - Tập 25 Số 3 - Trang 256-267 - 2001
Raija‐Leena Punamäki, Samir Qouta, Eyad El‐Sarraj
The effects of cognitive capacity, perceived parenting, traumatic events, and activity, which were ” rst measured in the midst of the political violence of the Intifada in 1993, were examined on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), emotional disorders, school performance, and neuroticism three years later in more peaceful conditions among 86 Palestinian children of 14.04 ± 0.79 years of...... hiện toàn bộ
Future orientation in times of threat and challenge: How resilient adolescents construct their futureInternational Journal of Behavioral Development - Tập 32 Số 4 - Trang 272-282 - 2008
Rachel Seginer
Drawing on the importance of future orientation for adolescent development this analysis presents a model describing how future orientation is affected by high challenge (or resilience) in the face of political violence. The analysis consists of three parts. The first two present future orientation conceptualization and the psychological processes underlying threat and challenge/resilience...... hiện toàn bộ
Efficacy of a school-based primary prevention program for coping with exposure to political violenceInternational Journal of Behavioral Development - Tập 32 Số 4 - Trang 348-358 - 2008
Michelle Slone, Anat Shoshani
A paradigm conceptualizing resilience as factors moderating between political violence exposure and psychological distress administered in a 7-year research project yielded a profile of factors promoting Israeli children's coping in conflict conditions. Three factors — social support mobilization, selfefficacy, and meaning attribution — were incorporated into a school-based primary interv...... hiện toàn bộ
Reducing bias due to systematic attrition in longitudinal studies: The benefits of multiple imputationInternational Journal of Behavioral Development - Tập 38 Số 5 - Trang 453-460 - 2014
Jens B. Asendorpf, Rens van de Schoot, Jaap J. A. Denissen, Roos Hutteman
Most longitudinal studies are plagued by drop-out related to variables at earlier assessments (systematic attrition). Although systematic attrition is often analysed in longitudinal studies, surprisingly few researchers attempt to reduce biases due to systematic attrition, even though this is possible and nowadays technically easy. This is particularly true for studies of stability and th...... hiện toàn bộ
Mental state expressions in US and Japanese children’s booksInternational Journal of Behavioral Development - Tập 28 Số 6 - Trang 546-552 - 2004
Jennifer Dyer-Seymour, Marilyn Shatz, Henry M. Wellman, Miho Saito
US children’s books are a rich source of information about mental states (Dyer, Shatz, & Wellman, 2000). Examining books from other cultures can determine whether and how such information is conveyed by other languages. Forty US and 40 Japanese picture books for preschoolers were compared. The books were coded for references to mental state via expressions in the texts. The sentential...... hiện toàn bộ