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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Growth Curve Models"”.
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Effects of Family Involvement: Early Childhood Cognitive Outcomes Using Longitudinal Growth Curve Models
… to literacy, numeracy, and family resources. Growth curve models suggested increased levels of involvement as children progressed from preschool to first grade. Higher levels of involvement for Literacy for observed for children in Head Start during the first data collection follow-up. The …
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Comparison of growth curve models for assessing height in a South African birth cohort
… babies between 0 and 4 years of age to construct growth curves, which serve as a tool for assessing the health and nutritional progress of children. We wish to characterise the way height changes over time and identify predictors of that change. Various mixed effect models were fit and compared to …
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Self-regulated Learning in Doctor of Physical Therapy Students
… literature, yet there are multiple theories and models from which to extrapolate information regarding learning in this population, including self-regulated learning theory and adult learning models. The first aim of this study was to explore these bodies of literature and provide a compelling …
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Developmental Trajectories of Physical and Relational Aggression and Their Relation to Delinquency and Substance Use in Adolescence
… minority sample of students (N = 2,822). Growth curves showed significant linear increases and quadratic trends for physical and relational aggression. Boys and girls had similar shaped trajectories, but boys reported significantly higher levels of physical aggression than girls. Bivariate …
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Exploring the Aurora Battery, a Gifted Identification Tool in a Small Sample of 4th, 5th and 6th Graders
… school grade point average through latent growth curve models that are extended into path models. Divergent validity will be demonstrated by establishing sensitivity and specificity between the Aurora Battery and the TerraNova tests. Finally, the current state of the field of giftedness and …
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The Development of Self-Perceptions of Aging: The Interplay Between Society and the Self Across the Lifespan
… are internalized. Utilizing parallel process growth curve models on four waves of data from the German Aging Study, Study 2 analyzed the average growth trajectories of positive and negative self-perceptions of aging and the factors associated with the growth trajectories. Differences in the …
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Bayesian model averaging for mathematics achievement growth rate trends
… use of Bayesian model averaging (BMA) for latent growth curve models. We used the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) to predict growth rates in 8th-grade students' mathematics achievement. The dataset on male and female students' mathematics achievement contained 6 …
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Comorbid ADHD: Implications for Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy of Youth with a Specific Phobia
… CBT targeting a specific phobia. Latent growth curve models were used to explore the association of ADHD symptoms, effortful control, sluggish cognitive tempo, maternal depression and the two treatment conditions (i.e., individual versus parent-augmented) with pre-treatment severity of …
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Methods for analysing complex panel data using multilevel models with an application to the Brazilian labour force survey
… Model framework which is reviewed. Longitudinal growth curve models accounting for the complex data hierarchy are fitted. Recognizing the need to account for the complex correlation structure present in the data, multivariate multilevel models are then adopted. Alternative modified correlation …
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The Impact of Prolonged Exposure Therapy on Medication Adherence and Quality of Life in People Living with HIV: A Randomized Controlled Trial
… completed the 6-month assessment. Multilevel growth curve models were conducted on the completer and intent-to-treat samples using the HLM software, and exploratory mediation analyses were conducted in SPSS. Compared to the controls, PE recipients did not experience direct benefits in …
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The Unified Approach for Model Evaluation in Structural Equation Modeling
… other model fit evaluation methods. Two types of models are included in this study: confirmatory factor analysis and growth curve models. The results show that the unified approach appropriately rejects severely misspecified models and retains trivially misspecified models across all types of …
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How Justice System Contact, Race, and Gender Intersect: Examining Their Short- and Long-Term Associations with Mental Health, Educational, and Occupational Outcomes
… were examined through lagged regression models, predicting outcomes one year later based on the status of JSC and race in a given year. Long-term associations were explored via growth curve models, tracing age-related trajectories of outcomes from early adulthood and analyzing differences …
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Trajectories of Emotional Problems in an Ethnically Diverse Sample of Immigrants
… results from multilevel logistic regression models indicated that immigrant parents have higher odds of reporting emotional problems in comparison to non-parent immigrants, and these differences are stable across the first four years following immigration. These effects were evident after …
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A six-year longitudinal study of the differential effects of abuse and neglect on executive functioning and emotion regulation
… approximately 18 to 20 years of age. Conditional growth curve models were utilized to test the differential effects of abuse and neglect on the growth trajectories of executive function abilities and emotion regulation difficulties and strategy use. The results revealed that neglect was associated …
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Changes in Self-Concept and Substance-Related Cognitions During Short-Term Residential Substance Use Treatment
… intake, mid-treatment, and discharge. Individual growth curve models were used to examine change over time at both the aggregate and individual levels on the four proximal outcomes. Several potential moderating influences (e.g., demographic information, substance use history, mental health …
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INVESTIGATING MODEL SELECTION AND PARAMETER RECOVERY OF THE LATENT VARIABLE AUTOREGRESIVE LATENT TRAJECTORY (LV-ALT) MODEL FOR REPEATED MEASURES DATA: A MONTE CARLO SIMULATION STUDY
… past several decades, several highly generalized models have been developed which can reduce, through parameter constraints, to a variety of classical models. One such framework, the Autoregressive Latent Trajectory (ALT) model, is a combination of two classical approaches to longitudinal …
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Sex Partners: Exploring Growth, Change and Impact Across Development
… partners, and how individual factors impact growth in partners. Even less is known about how patterns of sexual partner growth impact adjustment and substance use outcomes. The current study utilized 8 waves of data, starting in the 10th grade, from 200 individuals (100 males, 100 females). …
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The Changing Structure of Inequality in Canada: A Multi-Level Analysis of Licensing and Education Effects on Wages Within and Across Occupations
… closure model using two-level hierarchical models. I find that the entire wage premium associated with licensing can be explained by education and skill differences between occupations, suggesting licensing does not have independent effects on wages. Chapter 4 explores the question of how …
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Influences Of Early Child Characteristics And Health On Later Parent And Parent-Child Relationship Factors
… Youth Development (NICHD SECCYD). Longitudinal growth curve models were employed to evaluate influences of infant temperament and health at 6 months on maternal depression, employment, role satisfaction, parenting stress and marital satisfaction when the child was 6, 15, 24 and 36 months of age …
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Parental Caregiving Capacity and Reading, Math, and Working Memory Development During Elementary School
… children’s initial skill levels and the rate of growth of these three domains. I draw on a nationally representative sample of kindergarteners in the 2010–2011 school year in the United States (Early Childhood Longitudinal Study: 2010–11; N = 14,350; 52% girls; Mage = 6.1 years) to address the …
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