Sentences with phrase «influenced early adolescents»

Path analyses indicated that parental expectations influenced early adolescents» self - concept of ability which in turn affected their grades and standardized scores in math and native language.

This investigation was part of a larger longitudinal research project, supported by a grant to Carol MacKinnon - Lewis from the William T. Grant Foundation, examining family and school factors that influence early adolescents» adjustment during the transition to middle school.

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A variety of studies suggest that fathers» engagement positively impacts their children's social competence, 27 children's later IQ28 and other learning outcomes.29 The effects of fathers on children can include later - life educational, social and family outcomes.1, 2,26 Children may develop working models of appropriate paternal behaviour based on early childhood cues such as father presence, 30,31 in turn shaping their own later partnering and parenting dynamics, such as more risky adolescent sexual behaviour32 and earlier marriage.33 Paternal engagement decreases boys» negative social behaviour (e.g., delinquency) and girls» psychological problems in early adulthood.34 Fathers» financial support, apart from engagement, can also influence children's cognitive development.35

The study by researchers from the Australian Council for Educational Research and the University of Western Australia is the first to examine the effects of the school environment and peer relationships on early adolescents» wellbeing after controlling for the influence of family factors.

The present study examined influences of 6th grade student - reported parent educational involvement on early adolescent peer group affiliations at 7th and 8th grade.

Parent and Family Types The Influence of Parenting Style on Adolescent Competence and Substance UseArticle by Baumrind (1991) Journal of Early Adolescence 11 (1) p. 56 - 95.

Second, it is more difficult to reduce excessive weight in adolescents and adults once it becomes established; therefore, it may be helpful to initiate obesity prevention interventions during early childhood.16 There is a growing consensus that the appropriate period to target obesity prevention interventions is the early years in a child's life.17 The aim of the present review was, therefore, to examine the evidence for environmental influences on dietary determinants of obesity, focusing on younger children (birth to 8 years).

Parental influence on early adolescent substance use: Specific and nonspecific effects.

Some observers have argued that female offenders can, in theory, be either adolescent - limited or life - course - persistent and that the relative scarcity of early - onset aggression in females indicates that they are generally less likely to follow the latter pathway.56 Others, however, have argued that the relative prevalence of adolescent - onset aggression in girls (compared with childhood - onset) indicates that persistent delinquency simply manifests at a later age in girls than it does in boys.57 In Persephanie Silverthorn and Paul Frick's model, girls and boys are influenced by similar risk factors during childhood, but the onset of delinquent behavior in girls is delayed by the more stringent social controls imposed on them before adolescence.

While peers are of particular salience during the school and adolescent years, for example, their influence is later subsumed by that of romantic relational partners in early adulthood.

Urban early adolescent narratives on sexuality: Accidental and intentional influences of family, peers, and the media.

The early adolescent life skills program is designed to influence the antecedents of risk - taking behaviour in later adolescent years and young adulthood, including suicide.

Overall the results suggest that early adolescent girls» relationships with their parents, as well as their own romantic relationship experiences, influence relationship security over time.

Additionally, earlier research suggests that adolescents not only react to parenting practices, but that parents are also influenced by adolescent behavior (Jaccard and Dittus, 1993; Ennett et al., 2001a; Engels et al., 2005).

To take just two examples, studies of hypothetical dilemmas requiring adolescents to choose between antisocial behavior suggested by their peers and positive social behavior of their own choosing show that peer influences increase between childhood and early adolescence as adolescents begin to separate from parental control, peak at age fourteen, and then decline slowly during the high school years.

Yes, peers are important, but parental influence is seen as primary because early experiences with parents supposedly influence later relationships with peers (Sroufe, Egeland, & Carlson, 1999; Vandell, 2000, pp. 703, 705), and the right sort of parenting can supposedly keep an adolescent from joining the wrong sort of peer group (Lykken, 1997; Steinberg, 1997).

The Influence of Parenting Style on Adolescent Competence and Substance Use Article by Baumrind (1991) Journal of Early Adolescence 11 (1) p. 56 - 95.

Development during the prenatal period, infancy and childhood is known to influence lifelong health, 1 — 4 and the link between early - life health and adult outcomes is strong and economically meaningful.5 Promotion of optimal child development and well - being comprises early detection and treatment of whole families, and it can potentially prevent the development of behavioural and emotional problems in children and adolescents.6

Journal: Nutrients, 2015 Volume: 7 Number: 5431 8783-8801 Article: Influence of Parenting Practices on Eating Behaviors of Early Adolescents during Independent Eating Occasions: Implications for Obesity Prevention Authors: Marla Reicks, Jinan Banna, Mary Cluskey, Carolyn Gunther, Nobuko Hongu, Rickelle Richards, Glade Topham and Siew Sun Wong Link: http://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/7/10/5431 MDPI provides reprints in high quality with convenient shipping to destinations worldwide.

Gender Differences in the Longitudinal Influence of Effortful Control on Academic Performance and Behavioral Problems in Early Adolescents: Mediating Effects of Social Skills.

This article examined the effects of Preparing for the Drug Free Years (PDFY)[now called Guiding Good Choices], the Iowa Strengthening Families Program (ISFP), and a minimal - contact control condition on enhance growth in or maintenance of family norms against alcohol and other drug use and proactive family management, and to reduce or curb the growth in family conflict and that it would improve or help to maintain adolescents» likelihood of resisting antisocial influence from peers as well as reduce or curb the growth in alcohol use during early adolescence.

The influence of early sexual debut and pubertal timing on psychological distress among Taiwanese adolescents.

Given those developments and the findings concerning the link between depressive symptoms and self - efficacy, this study was to our knowledge, the first to investigate the mutual influence between depressive symptoms and academic, social and emotional self - efficacy in a large adolescent sample, spanning 2.5 years over a period of early to mid adolescence.

This longitudinal investigation will examine profiles of early and later parents» approaches to sexuality communication and will assess their influence, along with other aspects of parent teen sexuality communication, on adolescent and emerging - adult risky sexual behaviors.

Moderators of negative peer influence on early adolescent externalizing behaviors.

Fathers may have heritable physiological impacts on their children via genetic and epigenetic mechanisms that begin to emerge shortly after conception12 and which may influence maternal investment during pregnancy.13 Older fathers tend to transmit more mutations to their offspring, 14 while early childhood paternal stressors predict children's adolescent gene methylation patterns (a type of chemical modification of DNA).15

A variety of studies suggest that fathers» engagement positively impacts their children's social competence, 27 children's later IQ28 and other learning outcomes.29 The effects of fathers on children can include later - life educational, social and family outcomes.1, 2,26 Children may develop working models of appropriate paternal behaviour based on early childhood cues such as father presence, 30,31 in turn shaping their own later partnering and parenting dynamics, such as more risky adolescent sexual behaviour32 and earlier marriage.33 Paternal engagement decreases boys» negative social behaviour (e.g., delinquency) and girls» psychological problems in early adulthood.34 Fathers» financial support, apart from engagement, can also influence children's cognitive development.35

Mother involvement as an influence on father involvement with early adolescents.

The agency's home visitation intervention used the Parent Aides Nurturing and Developing With Adolescents curriculum.25 The curriculum was based on theories of human ecology, attachment, and social support, which emphasize that positive child development is promoted by nurturing, empathetic parenting and is influenced by the characteristics of families and social networks.25 (pp1 - 9), 26 The home visitor was to use the curriculum in weekly home visits with the teenager to teach and model nurturing parenting behaviors, encourage the teenager to continue with her education, make general assessments of health and social problems, and initiate referral for early intervention when necessary.

Even though the general influence from parents to friends is stronger than vice versa in early to middle adolescence, the mutual influence between adolescent relationships with parents and friends becomes equally strong from middle adolescence onwards.

Risk - taking behavior in adolescent mice: Psychobiological determinants and early epigenetic influence

All in all, our results showed that relationship characteristics in adolescent relationships with parents and friends are mainly bidirectionally associated over time with a stronger influence from parent — adolescent relationships to friendships than vice versa in early to middle adolescence and an equal mutual influence in middle to late adolescence.

In the same manner, a consistent significant influence from adolescents» perceptions of relationships with friends to relationships with parents (except regarding negative interaction from early to middle adolescence) supported the friend effect model, as based on based on the differences between parent — adolescent relationships and friendships (Laursen and Collins 1994).

Path analyses mainly showed bidirectional associations between adolescents» perceptions of parent — adolescent relationships and friendships with a predominantly stronger influence from parent — adolescent relationships to friendships than vice versa in early to middle adolescence and an equal mutual influence in middle to late adolescence.

Adolescent - onset alcohol abuse exacerbates the influence of childhood conduct disorder on late adolescent and early adult antisocial Adolescent - onset alcohol abuse exacerbates the influence of childhood conduct disorder on late adolescent and early adult antisocial adolescent and early adult antisocial behaviour.

While parental sensitivity and attunement to infants and children's needs is very important in the early years, it is evident from the above that parenting also influences outcomes in older children and adolescents.