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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"growth curve modeling"”.
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Longitudinal Associations among Adolescent Socioeconomic Status, Delay Discounting, and Substance Use
… This prospective longitudinal study used latent growth curve modeling (GCM) to examine the contributions of SES on adolescent delay discounting and substance use in a sample of 167 adolescents (52% male). Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was used to compute SES factor scores across three waves …
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Executive Functioning as a Prospective Moderator of the Relations between Maltreatment in Childhood and Externalizing Symptoms and Wellbeing in Young Adulthood
… The current study used a person-centered, latent growth-curve modeling approach to identify trajectories of (a) externalizing symptoms and (b) subjective wellbeing from late adolescence through young adulthood, determine whether types of childhood maltreatment and domains of EF are associated with …
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Social policy evaluation: How did the 1996 Welfare Reform Legislation influence unmarried Teen Birth rates in Texas Counties
… 1, 1994 through December 31, 1999. Two-stage growth curve modeling was used to examine the pattern of the unmarried teen birthrates pre- and post-welfare reform. During the first stage of the modeling, trajectories that represented the quarterly unmarried teen birthrates were estimated using …
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LAWFUL PATTERNS OF EARLY ATTACHMENT DISORGANIZATION ARE RELATED TO EXTERNALIZING BEHAVIORS ACROSS CHILDHOOD
… of change in disorganization, latent growth curve modeling was conducted and showed overall main effects of continuous attachment disorganization as a precursor for heightened externalizing behaviors across middle childhood – specifically for male children. To further disentangle the …
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Affective development from late childhood to late adolescence: Trajectories of mean-level change in negative and positive affect
… wellbeing. The present study used latent growth curve modeling (LGCM) to map trajectories of subjective mean-level negative (NA) and positive affect (PA) from late childhood to late adolescence in a sample of 652 community youth age 10 to 18 years (56.4% female) recruited in 3rd, 6th, and …
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Parents, Peers, and Developmental Trajectories toward Crime.
… and arrest. Analysis generated through latent growth curve modeling show that although parental influence appears to decrease significantly later in life, parental attachment delays the formation of delinquent peer networks, thereby indirectly reducing the total number of arrests. Even so, …
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Gender differences in symptom change for court-placed youth in residential treatment : a latent growth curve analysis
… symptom severity every four weeks. Latent Growth Curve Modeling (LGCM) was implemented to obtain growth trajectories of symptom change over time. The hypothesis that females would enter residential treatment with greater psychopathological symptoms was supported; however, no gender …
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The Influence of Parental and Parent-Adolescent Relationship Characteristics on Sexual Trajectories from Adolescence through Young Adulthood
… sexual script theory (Gagnon & Simon, 1973) and growth curve modeling, this study examined whether characteristics of parents and parent-adolescent connectedness influence change in lifetime number of sexual partners from adolescence through young adulthood. Living in a blended family, having at …
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Effects of Promoting Health Among Teens: A Brief General Health Program Intervention For African American Adolescents From A Multi-Site Trial
… and twelve months. Hierarchical linear growth curve modeling indicates that participants in PHAT had significantly greater health knowledge than controls. However, there were no growth curve differences in dietary behavior and modest differences regarding physical activity, and drug use …
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A latent growth curve model from the perspective of a structural equation model
Latent growth curve modeling (LGCM) is a multivariate technique suited for explaining change over time. In this dissertation, the theoretical background needed to address the specification and estimation of a latent growth curve model from the perspective of a structural equation model (SEM), is …
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Trajectories Of Emotion Regulation Into Middle Childhood: An Investigation Of Attachment, Temperament, And Language
… development over time. By utilizing latent growth curve modeling, the current study aimed to extend understanding of how child-centered factors (temperament and language skill) and socio-demographic factors (gender, ethnicity, and family resources) affect the development of emotion …
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A Hierarchical Examination of the Immigrant Achievement Gap: The Additional Explanatory Power of Nationality and Educational Selectivity Over Traditional Explorations of Race and Socioeconomic Status
… Four research questions were explored through growth curve modeling, factor analysis, and regression analysis based on a sample of participants in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort of 1998 (ECLS-K) from kindergarten to eighth grade (<em>N</em> = 6,861). Findings …
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Academic socialization and the transition to elementary school : parents' conceptions of school readiness, practices, and children's academic achievement trajectories
… and general knowledge was examined using latent growth curve modeling. Parents' school readiness beliefs predicted children's beginning academic achievement and growth over time. Parents' transition practices partially mediated the relationship between their own readiness beliefs and children's …
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Dynamic Relations Within and Between Early Communication Proficiencies and Key Skill Elements' Growth Trajectories of Infants and Toddlers
… intervention. The present study applied latent growth curve modeling (LGCM) in order to examine predictive relations within and between ECI key skill elements’ proficiencies and growth, extending previous research limited to the study of early expressive communication development measured by the …
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SOURCES OF STRENGTH AND RELATIONAL CATALYSTS: TWO MODELS TO REDUCE PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS AND PROMOTE THRIVING AMONG SEXUAL MINORITIES
… Analyses were conducted using mixed-effects growth curve modeling. Study 1 tested the Minority Community Model. Results largely did not support study one hypotheses. Community connectedness was not a buffer against victimization or discrimination. Study 2 tested the Minority Thriving Model. …
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Growth Trajectories of Neurocognitive Self-Regulation and Adolescent Adjustment
… it has yet to be examined how longitudinal growth in self-regulation may predict individual differences in symptomatology. That is, adolescents who develop self-regulatory capacities such as executive functioning (EF; including shifting, working memory, and inhibitory control) more slowly …
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Parenting Self-Efficacy and Dyadic Autonomic Responses During Parent-Child Conflict
… minority). In Study 1, I used latent growth curve modeling to examine parental RSA trajectories, demonstrating that parenting satisfaction—the affective component of parenting self-efficacy reflecting a sense of fulfillment—predicts changes in the trajectory of physiological affective …
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Parental Involvement during the College Transition: Trajectories and Associations with Academic Success, Well-Being, and Individuation
… year. Through this design and the use of latent growth curve modeling (LGM) in Mplus (Muthén & Muthén, 2010), the current study estimated trajectories (intercepts, linear slopes, and quadratic slopes) of parent involvement, student outcomes, and their joint associations. Fixed and random effects …
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Disentangling universal and cultural-specific risks to mental health among Asian Americans: A multi-site longitudinal investigation
… first six months of college. Results: Latent growth curve modeling and longitudinal SEM indicated that development-based conflict remained stable over time and was unrelated to internalizing symptoms; however, greater conflict predicted higher externalizing symptom levels. Acculturation-based …
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