Sentences with phrase «measures of social»

The survey - based measures of social participation were not as fine - grained as in some other studies and were reported by parents.

Table 5 examines impacts on our measures of social mobility both across generations and within careers.

We examined 13 measures of social activity and participation divided into three categories: social participation with friends, general social participation, and disability - related social participation (described in detail in Table 1).

Finally, demonstration of efficacy on sociometric measures of peer regard, in addition to efficacy on measures of social behaviors, is important.

Effect sizes where somewhat greater for outcome measures of social competence than for measures of anti-social behaviour, particularly when delinquency was assessed

Participants included 410 early adolescents (53 % female; 51 % African American; Mean age = 12.84 years) who completed measures of social anxiety and depressive symptoms at three time points (Times 1 — 3), as well as measures of general interpersonal stressors, peer victimization, and emotional maltreatment at Time 2.

Most parenting research has assessed the efficacy of social support by evaluating relationships between retrospective measures of social support processes and general measures of psychological distress (i.e., depressive symptoms, stress).

The MRC National Survey of Health and Development (NSHD), the British 1946 birth cohort study, provides prospective measures of social class origin and attainment, childhood cognitive ability and educational attainment, and parenting practices and has measured cognitive ability in their first offspring.

In addition to outcome measures of social, emotional, behavioral functioning, and parenting, in this study, mindfulness process measures were used.

Children completed measures of social adjustment.

Baseline measures of social support and mental health for matched vs unmatched teens were similar except for a trend toward higher baseline social support need among those who were matched.

Measures of social economic position (SEP) were recorded by maternal self - report questionnaires during pregnancy.

Overall, the authors observed three patterns of unconditional growth across the eight measures of social — emotional development.

Similarly, child training group children outscored control group children on measures of social problem - solving, including positive responses to hypothetical conflict situations, and the variety of positive strategies (versus negative strategies) identified on a children's problem - solving test.

Dr. Clark has been Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator on numerous NIH funded studies including a randomized clinical trial examining the efficacy of a mother - infant relational approach for women experiencing major depression in the postpartum period and another investigating the validity of screening and assessment measures of social - emotional functioning in infants and young children.

An evaluation of the long - term impact of the Chicago Child - Parent Centers, for example, showed that children attending the program for a full day scored better on measures of social - emotional development, math and reading skills, and physical health than similar children attending the program part day.Arthur Reynolds et al. «Association of a Full - Day vs. Part - Day Preschool Intervention with School Readiness, Attendance, and Parent Involvement,» JAMA 312, no. 20 (2014): 2126 — 2134.

It showed weak or non-significant correlation with measures of social avoidance, fearfulness, and shyness, thus indicating discriminant validity.

To find out more about how WCSD, CASEL, and the University of Illinois - Chicago developed this measure in collaboration with students and teachers in the district, you can read our recently published article in the Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology or by reading an article by Education Week about the work entitled «Students Help Design Measures of Social - Emotional Skills.»

Together, CASEL and Washoe County partnered to improve and validate student self - report measures of social and emotional knowledge and skills.

The Social Provisions Scale subscales have demonstrated the expected relationships with other measures of social relationships, social networks, and satisfaction with relationships.

More in detail, vigilance and interpersonal distancing behaviors have been measured to obtain more accurate implicit measures of social approach / avoidance.

Teachers completed measures of social competence, social status, and aggression.

The posttest measures of social competence were significantly higher in the sixth - grade intervention group than in their comparison group.

At the same time, the control group showed no significant improvements in measures of social — emotional competence, prosocial skills, and coping, and actually showed higher ratings of problem behaviors at the posttest.

His groundbreaking research on psychotherapy involves the use of innovative platforms for recording psychophysiology combined with voice features; behavioral measures; and psychosocial measures of social - emotional processes, empathy and alliance during actual sessions.

Area - level explanatory variables will include: accessibility and remoteness, as measured by the Accessibility / Remoteness Index of Australia Plus (ARIA +); 54 socioeconomic disadvantage, as measured by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Socioeconomic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA); 55 presence of Aboriginal Medical Services; presence of an AMIHS; proportion of Aboriginal pregnancies / births in an area managed by an AMIHS; numbers of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children attending preschool; numbers of full - time equivalent health workers (including general medical practitioners, nurses, midwives and Aboriginal health workers) per 10 000 population; measures of social capital from the NSW Population Health Survey; 56 features of local communities (derived from ABS Census data), such as information on median personal and household income, mortgage repayment and rent; average number of persons per bedroom and household size; employment; non-school qualifications and housing type for Aboriginal residents in each area.57

The most recent follow - up study reported associations between duration of breastfeeding and childhood cognitive ability and academic achievement extending from 8 to 18 years in a New Zealand cohort of 1000 children.19 This study found that these effects were significant after controlling for measures of social and family history, including maternal age, education, SES, marital status, smoking during pregnancy, family living conditions, and family income, and measures of perinatal factors, including gender, birth weight, child's estimated gestational age, and birth order in the family.

A notable lack is in the area of large - scale mixed - method qualitative and process studies of adolescent sexual behavior and consequences, particularly studies that include in - depth, valid measures of social and institutional context that can be linked to quantitative outcomes.

Patients who received IPT with or without pharmacotherapy were doing significantly better on some measures of social functioning.

Panorama makes its 22 research - based measures of social - emotional learning available as a free, open - source resource for educators.

All measures of social support significantly and positively correlated with life satisfaction (see Table 2).

Validity was assessed against several established measures of social anxiety, global assessments of severity and improvement, and scales assessing physical health and disability.

In children at high risk of developing long term antisocial behaviour, the Fast Track preventive programme improved some measures of social, emotional, behavioural functioning, and academic skills at 1 year

Many of the scales demonstrated weak psychometrics in at least one of the following ways: (a) lack of psychometric data [i.e., reliability and / or validity; e.g., HFQ, MASC, PBS, Social Adjustment Scale - Self - Report (SAS - SR) and all perceived self - esteem and self - concept scales], (b) items that fall on more than one subscale (e.g., CBCL - 1991 version), (c) low alpha coefficients (e.g., below.60) for some subscales, which calls into question the utility of using these subscales in research and clinical work (e.g., HFQ, MMPI - A, CBCL - 1991 version, BASC, PSPCSAYC), (d) high correlations between subscales (e.g., PANAS - C), (e) lack of clarity regarding clinically - relevant cut - off scores, yielding high false positive and false negative rates (e.g., CES - D, CDI) and an inability to distinguish between minor (i.e., subclinical) and major (i.e., clinical) «cases» of a disorder (e.g., depression; CDI, BDI), (f) lack of correspondence between items and DSM criteria (e.g., CBCL - 1991 version, CDI, BDI, CES - D, (g) a factor structure that lacks clarity across studies (e.g., PSPCSAYC, CASI; although the factor structure is often difficult to assess in studies of pediatric populations, given the small sample sizes), (h) low inter-rater reliability for interview and observational methods (e.g., CGAS), (i) low correlations between respondents such as child, parent, teacher [e.g., BASC, PSPCSAYC, CSI, FSSC - R, SCARED, Connors Ratings Scales - Revised (CRS - R)-RSB-, (j) the inclusion of somatic or physical symptom items on mental health subscales (e.g., CBCL), which is a problem when conducting studies of children with pediatric physical conditions because physical symptoms may be a feature of the condition rather than an indicator of a mental health problem, (k) high correlations with measures of social desirability, which is particularly problematic for the self - related rating scales and for child - report scales more generally, and (l) content validity problems (e.g., the RCMAS is a measure of anxiety, but contains items that tap mood, attention, peer interactions, and impulsivity).

In the future, it will be important to obtain longitudinal assessments and examine the predictive power of measures of social supports in determining severity and persistence of depressive symptomatology over time.

Summary: In a review of state ESSA plans, no state has included measures of Social - Emotional Learning as an indicator.

The parent, peer, teacher and school subscales correlate with measures of social adjustment and emotional functioning in the expected direction (e.g positive correlations between parental attachment and emotional adjustment).

Panorama makes its 22 research - based measures of social - emotional learning available as a free, open - source resource for educators.

An 18 - week, cluster - randomized study was conducted to estimate effects measured by normative - referenced reading comprehension and vocabulary measures and researcher - and district - developed measures of social studies vocabulary and content.

This report explores some newer, less commonly used indicators, including measures of social and emotional learning; school climate and culture; and resource equity, which have recently caught the attention of state policymakers.

Many student - level measures of social and emotional skills, for example, naturally trend downward at certain ages, regardless of whether or not students» skills have actually declined.48 Research has also found that students are more candid when talking about, or rating, their peers than they are themselves.49 As a result, more research is needed to determine if and how states should use these measures to identify schools for improvement.

States should be cautious about using measures of social and emotional learning to classify schools because of measurement limitations.

RAND is gathering a wide range of data from both groups of students through the seventh grade, including school - year grades and attendance, student performance on standardized tests of math and reading and measures of social - emotional skills.

It says nothing about how self - report measures of social - emotional skills would perform in a high - stakes setting — or even with the very modest weight that will be attached to them this year within CORE.

CORE selected its measures of social - emotional learning based on evidence from other settings that they were valid predictors of academic success.

The failure of any other variable to add much to the achievement prediction simply shows that good reading habits are much more important to achievement than family income and other measures of social class.

' [Skills] such as perseverance, sociability and self - esteem have been shown to influence numerous measures of social outcomes, including better health, improved subjective wellbeing and reduced odds of engaging in conduct problems.

Hollywood pro William Wellman directed more than 80 films in every genre over the course of four decades, but for my money, he was never more interesting than in the early sound era, where his energy and audacity powered over a dozen short, sharp, street - smart films filled with saucy sexiness and startling violence and mixed with varying measures of social commentary.

Institute of Medicine Measures of Social and Behavioral Determinants of Health: A Feasibility Study.

Social support was negatively associated with distress by several studies; the review found that several different measures of social support (the tendency to use a partner, friends and / or family when experiencing difficulties and distress), were associated with far better emotional outcomes, both for the women who got pregnant and those who didn't.