Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 108 for “"Child Outcomes"”.
-
Asset trajectories and child outcomes: Implications for asset-based policies
… recognized as an important determinant in children's human capital trajectories, and a number of countries have proposed or implemented asset-building policies targeting children. Much of the research on assets, however, has focused on the predictors of asset holding, and little is known …
-
Essays on Preschool Education, Family Economic Circumstances, and Child Outcomes
… of public programs and parental labor market outcomes child health and human capital accumulation. The first chapter studies the effects of attending state pre-kindergarten programs on child development and health up to eight years after preschool age. I find that the implementation of a pre-K …
-
Program Evaluation of Behavior Management Training for Preschool Teachers: Child Outcomes
<p>Due to the immense challenges faced by young children who exhibit emotion regulation problems, prevention programs have been designed to train teachers on strategies useful for improving classroom behavior. The current study examines the effects of a prevention program implemented in a blended …
-
Family structure, the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) and child outcomes
… policy are linked to health and developmental child outcomes. Each essay employs two or three waves of the National Survey of America's Families (NSAF) as the primary data source. The first essay broadly investigates how family structure, including the less typical non-traditional families such …
-
A Retrospective Analysis of Maternal and Child Outcomes Following an Obesity Intervention Program
Background: One of the highest risk groups for childhood obesity and associated co-morbidities in the United States are low-income Hispanic preschool children. To reduce obesity, effective interventions are being sought to improve health behaviors among high risks groups. Objectives: To evaluate a …
-
Influences on Parenting and Child Outcomes Among School -Age Children of Adolescent Mothers
… research on adolescent parenthood has found both children and their teenage mothers to be at a disadvantage compared to their counterparts who have children in early adulthood rather than adolescence. However, few studies have identified processes by which adolescent mothers' parenting affects the …
-
The Influence of Parental Mental Health on Child Outcomes: The Role of the Parenting Process
<p>Parents of children affected by developmental delays (DD) have been shown to experience elevated levels of parenting stress compared to parents of typically developing children. Recent studies suggest that higher levels of parenting stress can adversely impact child behavior and development, …
-
Sustaining Child Outcomes from the Early Childhood Initiative Project: Evaluation of School Age Developmentally Appropriate Practices
Research has shown that high quality early childcare can provide positive changes in children's academic, social, and behavioral development. These positive early experiences are essential for children who are at developmental risk. Unfortunately, the positive outcomes from early education programs …
-
Development of a School-Based Restorative Practices Training for Parents: Impacts on Parent and Child Outcomes
… training designed to elicit critical parent outcomes: knowledge of RP principles/strategies, parent selfefficacy to use RP, and social validity of RP as an approach to discipline. Hypotheses for increases in parent-reported child outcomes around relationship skills and decisionmaking skills …
-
Maternal mental health and child outcomes: a human-centered design perspective on preventive mental health care
The lifelong cost of mental health disorders to children, families, and society is substantial and far-reaching. Mental health conditions are also significant contributors to the global disease burden. To reduce this burden and improve well-being across the lifespan, a preventive approach to mental …
-
Coparenting Quality in Separated American Parents of Children Ages 1½ to 5: Anxiety, Social Support, Self-efficacy, and the Associations With Coparenting and Child Outcomes
… implications for the emotional and behavioral outcomes for their young children. The complex associations between parental anxiety, parental self-efficacy, social support, coparent relationship quality, and child problem behaviors were examined. Participants were recruited using Amazon …
-
Examining the Complex Relationships of Early Intervention on Language and Psychosocial Development in Families Facing Multiple Risks with a Focus on Children of Hispanic Immigrants
… that poverty has negative influences on young child academic and psychosocial development, and unfortunately, disparities in school readiness between low and high income children can be seen as early the first year of life. The largest federal early care and education intervention for these …
-
Differential Parenting Practices Within Families: Associations With Siblings' Academic And Behavioral Outcomes
… association between parenting behaviors and the outcomes of children has been widely studied, with results commonly linking parents' attitudes and behaviors with child outcomes. Few studies, however, have examined and analyzed the link between differential or inconsistent parenting within …
-
Improving outcomes for children with epilepsy
… family functioning among parents and families of children and adolescents with chronic illnesses. A secondary aim of the review was to evaluate the efficacy of parent and family only psychological interventions for improving behaviour, school/social functioning and adjustment, and medical symptoms …
-
Mental health in Middle Eastern refugees resettled in the Western countries
… if family/parental functioning influences child and youth psychosocial outcomes within refugee families from the Middle East who have resettled in high-income countries. Method: PRISMA guidelines were followed for the identification and selection of articles resulting in the inclusion of 19 …
-
Marital Conflict, Emotional Security, and Young Children's Social and Emotional Competence
… study examined the mediational role of young children's emotional security in relations between destructive and constructive marital conflict, and children's emotional and social competence and psychological adjustment. Participants were 91 mothers and their children aged 3-6 years (52 males …
-
The influence of negative beliefs about parenting on harsh couple interaction, harsh parenting, and child externalizing behavior: A longitudinal study from preconception to middle childhood
… harsh couple interaction, harsh parenting, and child externalizing behavior using a prospective longitudinal design. We assessed the influence of negative beliefs about parenting before becoming a parent on later family processes (e.g., harsh couple interaction and harsh parenting) in early …
-
Investigating the mediating effects of family emotional expressiveness, language skills, social skills, on relationship between the early caregiving environment and future adolescent behavior outcomes
… caregiving environment and the type of parent-child interactions that occur during development can have significant impact on future child outcomes for positive as well as negative outcomes (Ruffman, Slade, Devitt, & Crowe, 2006; Fonagy, Gergely, & Target, 2007). Language and emotional …
Page 1 of 6