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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Youth behavior"”.
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The Family Process Model: Predicting Youth Behavior Problems in Mexican American, African American, and European American Families
… suggests that economic hardship affects youth indirectly via its negative impact on several family processes. Specifically, parents' mental well-being, family relations, and ultimately parenting, can be adversely affected by the strain of economic hardship and can lead to deleterious …
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Deep play, urban space, adolescent place: a multi-sited study of the effects of settings on adolescent risk/reward behavior
<p>The extant literature on the play behavior of youth normalizes adolescent behavior in public space as transgressional, resistant, and in need of social control. The dissertation counters this trend by looking to see if physical qualities, peer effects, and neighborhood context of settings play a …
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Three Essays on Family Economics
Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data, my dissertation investigates several key issues in family economics. The first chapter studies the role of family relocation on children's schooling and youth behavior problems. By exploiting the variation in sibling's age at the time of family …
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Effects of a community outreach post-permanency program on behavior problems and placement stability of youth in adoptive/guardianship arrangements
… which aim to address service needs and prevent youth’s out-of-home placement. Three hypotheses were tested related to (1) examining the impact of the APAL program assignment and receipt on youth behavior problems, caregivers’ commitment, and out-of-home placement; and (2) identifying the …
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Association between Adversity and Prosociality in Children Exposed to Trauma in Four Sites in West Africa
The negative effects of trauma exposure on youth behavior and mental health has included internal disturbances that cause distress to the individual, as well as, externalizing behaviors that cause distress to others. Researchers have also argued that trauma exposure can have a positive impact on …
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Assessing Young Males' Perspectives On The Cultural Competency Of Juvenile Justice Staff And Predicting Psychosocial Functioning
… explains how social interactions influence behavior. In this study, it is reasoned that culturally sensitive interactions may be associated with adjudicated youth behavior. The purpose of this project is to (1) examine the differences in adjudicated male youths' perceptions of the level of …
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Incorporating Youth into the Political Arena: Elite Structures, Elite-youth Linkages, and Youth (De-) mobilization in post-1960 Turkey (1960-2016)
… why the Turkish state encountered sustained youth contention and failed to contain it in the 1960s and the 1970s, while it proved more capable in preventing the emergence/escalation of youth dissent in the post-1980 period. Studies on social movements have not treated youth as a central …
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Examining Mother and Father (Dis)agreement of Youth Mental Health Among Ethnically Diverse Families
… in the United States experience externalizing behavior problems identified as attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, and conduct disorder. These behavior problems cause disruptions in the youth’s socioemotional functioning and academic success. The assignment …
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Facebook as Transnational Space: Language and Identity among 1.5 and Second Generation Mexicans in Chicago
… fulfill their family roles (such as monitoring youth behavior), and strengthen ties and relationships with other members. Additionally, members of the network also use Facebook’s transnational space to construct identities and experiences together, or contest presentations of self that …
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The effect of a classroom wide positive behavior support used simultaneously with individualized intervention to students with ASD
… the effect that a classroom-wide positive behavior support (CW-PBS) has on decreasing the inappropriate behaviors of students with autism. In addition, individualized positive behavior strategies (e.g. teaching replacement behavior, self-monitoring) were provided simultaneously together …
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Physical exercise and the psychological well being of adoloscents with behaviour disorders
Behaviour problems in class rooms are an old story that has and will continue to bother teachers for many years. In some cases children and adolescents with severe behaviour disorders are admitted in schools of industry. Schools of industry offer different support programmes but none of these look …
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Autokinetics: a group intervention to mitigate at-risk behaviors in adolescents
This study explores whether introducing autokinetics (self-movement) to at-risk sophomore and junior high school students would increase their self-concept, school connectedness, perception of their academic performance, and GPA. In this study, at-risk' students are defined as students who have …
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Using ipads to self-monitor aggressive behavior of juvenile delinquents
… juvenile delinquents, b) increase appropriate behaviors and reduce verbal and physical aggression, and c) evaluate student satisfaction with the self-monitoring approach using iPads in behavior management. The participants included five African-American adjudicated males, aged 13, in a day …
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The effect of choice on the behavior of off task high school students in an alternative school setting
… done to examine the effect of choice on off task behaviors in high school students attending an alternative school. The participants were from various backgrounds, ability levels, and presence of disabilities. The students were observed performing three target behaviors; specifically talking off …
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Community composition, demographic change, and the impact of spatial proximity to disadvantage on violence and gang presence in New Jersey municipalities
… and gang prevention programs for at-risk youth in suburban communities; and 4) the implementation of intensive, mixed-methods investigations into how demographic change, proximity to disadvantaged areas, school size, and transfer students affect gang-related behavior, urban culture, and …