Sentences with phrase «of current study»

The objective of the current study was to gather further reliability and validity evidence concerning the teacher and parent versions of the screeners.

The novel finding of the current study is the demonstration that the character of parents can play an important role in predicting problem behaviors of children.

A number of limitations of the current study made it difficult to address some of the underlying mechanisms that could explain the high occurrences of violence in families of problem gamblers.

The aim of the current study was to investigate whether, and to what extent, RF during preadolescence is associated with maternal attachment security and RF, and with the child's attachment security.

One of the shortcomings of the current study is that exclusively self - reports were used to examine psychopathic traits.

The aim of the current study was to further the knowledge about stress experienced by Chinese mothers of children with ASD by examining maternal parenting stress in Heilongjiang province of China.

The aim of the current study was to describe the scale development, explore the factor structure and evaluate the psychometric properties of the Gastric Banding Aftercare Attendance Questionnaire (GBAAQ)-- a tool that measures barriers to aftercare attendance in LAGB patients.

Therefore, a contribution of the current study is that it does identify one indicator (parents» delinquency) potentially responsible for producing variability in trajectories of antisocial behavior via identity endorsements.

The purpose of the current study was to examine the relationship between psychopathic traits and self - reported non-violent and violent offenses in a high - risk sample for juvenile delinquency as well as in a general population sample and how gender influences this relationship.

The aim of the current study was to investigate the relationship between parents» personality and children's problem behaviors.

Findings of the current study also suggest that problem gambling precedes both victimisation and perpetration of family violence.

Against this background, the aims of the current study were to (a) confirm the six - factor structure of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS; Gratz & Roemer, Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 23 (4), 253 — 263, 2004) in a sample of adolescent inpatients (N = 218); (b) explore the relation between different aspects of emotion dysregulation and lifetime NSSI while controlling for psychopathology and sex; and (c) assess the clinical utility of the DERS in detecting lifetime NSSI status.

Therefore, an aim of the current study was to examine whether adherence mediated the relationship between externalizing problems and glycemic control.

In line with these findings, the results of the current study confirm that maternal derogation of attachment is specifically associated with impaired RF in children.

The aim of the current study is to investigate the relationship between the personality characteristics of parents and their children's problem behaviors.

The aim of the current study was to investigate risk factors for the development of comorbid ODD along with ADHD.

Thus, the results of the current study highlight that irrespective of the directionality, parent - child relationships and their association with antisocial behavior remain fluid and dynamic well into adolescence and young adulthood.

The aim of the current study was to investigate potential risk factors for the development of comorbid ODD in individuals with ADHD (ADHD + ODD), and to identify whether risk factors differed for individuals with ADHD - only and individuals with ADHD + ODD.

The aim of the current study was to examine the moderating effect of emotion regulation on treatment efficacy following a parent - training intervention, parent — child interaction therapy, for young children born preterm.

The findings of the current study are in line with previous studies showing that more anxious children have greater difficulties in regulating their emotions (e.g., Carthy et al., 2010), and experience attachment relationships with their parents as less secure (e.g., Colonnesi et al., 2011).

The purpose of the current study was to provide a more comprehensive quantitative examination of the social functioning of siblings of children with cancer by contrasting them with matched comparison peers across a range of measures completed by multiple informants (peers, teachers, parents, and self) in the school and home settings.

Therefore, one aim of the current study was to longitudinally examine whether pathological gaming among adolescents predicted an increase in the frequency and duration of gaming sessions.

Notwithstanding these limitations, the findings of the current study contribute to the theoretical understanding of how relations with peers may affect youths» behaviors, by demonstrating that the way in which adolescents and young adults talk about sexuality - related topics with their friends (i.e., the amounts of normativity and deviance) relates to their individual perceptions of peer norms regarding sexual behavior, which, in turn, have been found to be related to adolescents» actual sexual behavior (van de Bongardt et al., 2015).

Finally, future studies should aim to extend the cross-sectional nature of the current study to longitudinal designs for a better understanding of the long - term relations between FEEL - KJ emotion regulation strategies and psychopathology.

While there are a number of strengths of the current study including the use of a multi-wave, longitudinal design and examining hypotheses with both Canadian and Chinese adolescents, it also important to recognize limitations.

The objective of the current study was therefore to systematically review randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of parenting programmes for the treatment of children (≤ 18 yrs) with conduct problems to investigate i) the overall effectiveness of parenting programmes, and; ii) the relative effectiveness of different approaches to delivery.

The goal of the current study (N = 164, 50.9 % boys, M age = 47.75 months, SD = 7.37) was to test a bifactor model of aggression, which allows for aggression to be assessed dimensionally, and postulates a co-occurring aggression factor as well as unique relational and physical aggression factors, during early childhood.

The strengths of the current study are the large sample size, the overall high participation rate, the use of validated headache outcomes and the assessment of the impact of a range of commonly experienced types of interpersonal violence, loneliness, psychological distress, and family cohesion within a population - based cohort of adolescents.

The aim of the current study was to extend this evidence base to investigate if CBT is an effective intervention to reduce symptoms of anxiety and social worry in a community derived sample of adolescents with ASD when delivered within a school setting.

These two overarching scales represent respectively emotional and behavioral problems and will be the focus of the current study.

Finally, together, the findings of the current study and the previous study of Busse et al. (2010) suggest that both investigated aspects of sexual communication between friends (i.e., frequency and manner) relate to youths» individual perceptions of sexual peer norms in different ways.

The objective of the current study was to systematically review randomised controlled trials of parenting programmes for the treatment of children with conduct problems.

One strength of the current study involves the use of multiple informants; parents and caregivers reported on outcome measures, and youth reported on friendship qualities, thus reducing the potential confounds of shared - method variance.

Using clinical data from 137 caregiver - child dyads, the main goal of the current study was to test the psychometric properties of an adapted version of the Crowell Procedure among preschoolers.

Notably, at the age of the current study sample sexual behavior can be considered normative (De Graaf et al., 2012; Tolman & McClelland, 2011), and thus perceiving friends as sexually active (i.e., descriptive norms) or as approving thereof (i.e., injunctive norms) would not necessarily be problematic at this age.

Hence, the goal of the current study was to investigate the relation between the amounts of normativity and deviance during sexual communication among the16 — 21 - year - old friendship dyads and individual dyad members» perceptions of four types of sexual peer norms (i.e., descriptive, injunctive, and risk norms, and peer pressure).

The purpose of the current study was to validate the factor structure and psychometric properties of the PANSI (Osman et al., 1998) in a sample of clinical outpatients in Malaysia.

Results of the current study showed a relation between parent - DHH child communication and parenting behavior, yet, more careful exploration is required.

The results of the current study support previous findings to show that CBT is an effective intervention for reducing symptoms of anxiety and social worry in a community sample of adolescents diagnosed with ASD, and where positive effects were maintained 6 weeks following the intervention.

Because the analytic focus of the current study was the relationship of bullying behaviors to overall psychosocial adjustment, frequencies of bullying behaviors in and out of school were combined for all analyses.

Thepurpose of the current study was to identifyparticular dimensions of authoritativeparenting (strictness - supervision, socialsupport / involvement, and psychological autonomygranting) that are related to LS during early, middle, and late adolescence, as well as toexplore the hypothesis that LS serves as amediator between authoritative parenting andadolescent internalizing and externalizingbehavior.

Examining use - related problems was beyond the scope of the current study, in part because our sample is just now aging into a high risk period for the development of SU problems.

Finally, it should be noted that the relationship between adolescent adjustment and parenting is likely to be bidirectional, and the cross-sectional nature of the current study does not allow us to test the direction of effects.

The goal of the current study was to investigate whether peer rejection and peer victimization mediated the relation between children's aggressive behaviors and depressive symptoms.

The limitations of the current study provide directions for future research.

The finding by Milyavskaya et al. (2009) about the positive relationship between need satisfaction with friends and well - being, as well as the results of the current study demonstrate that need satisfaction with peers and friends plays an important role in well - being at this stage of life, and that need satisfaction occurs in leisure activity involvement with peers, as well as in the school and the family (Milyavskaya and Koestner 2011; Sheldon et al. 2009; Veronneau et al. 2005).

The purpose of the current study was to investigate the fit of a bifactor model of the Anxiety Sensitivity Index - 3 (ASI - 3; Taylor et al..

Before additional work on the ACE scale is undertaken, some important issues are worth discussing, even beyond the findings of the current study.

Results of the current study add to this literature by illuminating how levels of trait mindfulness may be tied to partner propensities to use certain kinds of conflict strategies.

The purpose of the current study was to evaluate the efficacy of two delivery strategies of the AOP: SLS and OTS programs in combination with the self - directed AOP for PF.