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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"school attachment"”.
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Examining the importance of the family on pre-school attachment and children's social development
Contemporary accounts of attachment theory are usually provided in terms of the mother-child dyad, isolated from the family. This focus has served to ostracise the caregiving context, once viewed as central to understanding child attachment quality (Bowlby, 1969/1982). While a call for more …
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Effect of School Band Participation on School Attachment, Measured by Attendance and Academic Achievement in an Urban School Setting
… Absenteeism is a critical issue in urban school systems, with 15% of students in U.S. elementary and secondary schools considered chronically absent. The primary reason for absences is social anxiety, followed by being bullied and academic challenges. Chronic absenteeism contributes to …
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Contextualizing immigrant adolescents' high school outcomes by their school environments and friend groups.
… this dissertation looks at the effects of school environments and friend groups on immigrant adolescents' level of school attachment and GPA in high school. Past research suggests that immigrant adolescents' may be influenced by their surroundings to a greater degree than their peers when …
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Neighborhood Effects as Predictors of Hispanic Young Adult Outcomes
… effects, parent-child relationship, and school attachment upon young adulthood attainment among Hispanic adolescents. By 2060, the U.S. population will consist of nearly 12.8 million Hispanic persons and will constitute nearly a third of the U.S population (U.S. Census Bureau, 2012). …
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The Role Of Individual Character Strengths In Adolescent Academic Achievement And Risky School Behavior
… task in adolescence and reducing Risky School Behaviors is an important part of the process. Patterns of adolescent achievement and general development are the result of the cumulative process that includes a long history of experience and socialization in school, in the family, in the …
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The impact of school and parent attachment on rural adolescents' age at first intercourse: A comparison of contexts
… study investigates the relationship between school attachment (SA) and adolescents' age at first intercourse (DV), as well as the influence of SA on DV in comparison to the influences of parent attachment (PA), other parent and school factors, and individual factors. Early first intercourse …
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The lived experiences of resilience among Namibian children in middle childhood who have been exposed to parental divorce
… Quality Parent-Child Relationships, Healthy School Attachment, Strong Community Attachment as well as Effective Parent Conflict Resolution and Relationships. These results highlighted the multisystemic nature of resilience, emphasising the importance of individual, familial and …
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Measuring pathways to youth violence and the possible effects of a sports-based development intervention on youth in South Africa
… a higher Violence Propensity Score, and lower school attitude and attachment, in cross-sectional analysis. In Structural Equation Modelling with longitudinal data, a pathway emerged through which an unstable home environment, influenced by deprivation and violence, affects the quality and …
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Long term effects of video and computer game heavy use on health, mental health and education outcomes among adolescents in the U.S.
… A propensity score matching (PSM) method, adding school fixed effect and sampling weight components, was used to create two equivalent groups using different cut-off points in Wave 2 based on 29 matching variables in Wave 1. Matching variables included: demographics, personal characteristics, …