Sentences with phrase «testing of adolescence»

The antics and testing of adolescence dogs are just more than some owners are willing to handle.

Participants were evaluated by a French Canadian adaptation of the Separation - Individuation Test of Adolescence (SITA).

Not exact matches

The design of this study made it possible to examine 1) the extent to which benefits of breastfeeding on cognitive ability and achievement were evident throughout middle childhood, adolescence, and into young adulthood; and 2) the extent to which breastfeeding was related to a range of indices of academic achievement that included performance on standardized tests, teacher ratings of academic achievement, and levels of success in examinations on leaving school.

[Morikawa's team] trained and tested their animals during adolescence, a period associated with greater reinforcing effects of drugs.

«Instead of doing a cross-sectional study like this, where we tested children at various ages, we would prefer to do a longitudinal study that would involve the same kids who'd be followed over the years from childhood through adolescence,» Dr. Foxe said.

Adult rats that consumed the sugar - sweetened beverages for one month performed normally in tests of cognitive function; however, when consumption occurred during adolescence the rats were impaired in tests of learning and memory capability.

To test that theory, Robins investigated if mice exposed to caffeinated alcohol during adolescence would consume higher amounts of a similarly pleasurable substance — saccharine, an artificial sweetener.

«Assisted reproduction not associated with reduced academic performance in adolescence: US Nationwide analysis of more than 8,000 ART children finds no difference in educational test scores.»

Because students enter adolescence during their middle - school years, examining the effect of start times as students age allows me to test this theory.

Epstein would let them «test out» of adolescence.

Teachers who hold a Middle Childhood - Early Adolescence (grades 1 - 8) regular education license and have at least four semesters of teaching experience in grades 1 or 2 can add a regular education license at the Early Childhood level (birth to grade 3) by passing the Praxis II Elementary Education Content Knowledge test and the Foundations of Reading Ttest and the Foundations of Reading TestTest.

Breath is an extraordinary evocation of an adolescence spent resisting complacency, testing one's limits against nature, finding like - minded souls, and discovering just how far one breath will take you.

While you will have to have more patience than in an instant - gratification pet store purchase, you'll also be able to meet at least the mother and possibly the father of your puppy, seen the conditions in which your puppy was bred and raised, see the documentation of what health testing was done on your puppy's parents and grandparents — and have someone to call when you're tearing your hair out because Puppy is going through teething or has hit adolescence.

We tested this theory using structural equation modeling of data collected from 335 families over a 4 - year period of time, from the target children's early adolescence into their middle adolescence.

We tested for evidence that self - reported alcoholism, depressed affect, and illicit drug use mediate this relationship and examined the relationship between the number of adverse childhood experiences and suicide attempts during childhood / adolescence and adulthood.

Moderation hypotheses were tested by investigating whether the statistical interaction of maladaptive parenting or abuse during childhood or early adolescence and interpersonal difficulties during middle adolescence predicted suicide attempts during late adolescence or early adulthood.

If the effect of neighborhood disadvantage is cumulative, lags, or is most salient early in life, as recent evidence suggests for adolescent mental health (25), moving out of that context in adolescence may not provide the best test of the causal effect of the social environment.

The study will first use a prospective design to test a mediational model of developmental risk factors (family, peer, youth adjustment) in childhood and adolescence to intimate partner violence (IPV) in young adulthood, including physical, psychological, and sexual IPV and injuries.

Up until about grade six, girls» performance in science and math are on par with that of boys, but during adolescence girls» test scores and level of expressed interest declines.

Anxiety and Depression During Childhood and Adolescence: Testing Theoretical Models of Continuity and Discontinuity.

A test of life - course explanations for stability and change in antisocial behavior from adolescence to young adulthood

Thus, the current study capitalizes on multiple informants as well as a 3 - wave longitudinal design to test associations between early pubertal timing, peer reputation, and psychological distress among an ethnically diverse sample of girls transitioning through the emotionally «risky» period of early adolescence.

The moderating role of prepubertal individual factors (emotional problems in late childhood) and interpersonal factors (deviant peer affiliation, early dating, perceived peer popularity, and perceived parental rejection during adolescence) were tested.

The objective of this study was to test a comprehensive model of biologic (pubertal status), family (communication and conflict), and psychological influences (behavioral autonomy) on diabetes management and glycemic control in a sample of youth (N = 226) with type 1 diabetes recruited during late childhood / early adolescence (ages 9 — 11 years).

The findings on the alternative model we tested suggested that in spite of being positively associated with conduct problems in adolescence, internalizing problems and substance use did not add to the prediction of adult APP over and above the effects of adolescent conduct problems.

Another important difference between the model suggested by Loeber and colleagues and the model we tested is that we tested the model's dotted paths (see Fig. 1) as direct paths, that is, we examined the direct effects of ODD symptoms in early childhood on depression in adolescence and we also examined the direct effects of ADHD symptoms in early childhood on CD symptoms in adolescence.

Work included: a large growth in library work; establishment of a semi-autonomous test division; conferences of test users; research into test theory; Australia - wide curriculum survey; university study to determine predictions of academic success; and the beginning of studies into adolescence and unemployment.

Testing limits, fighting for independence, and separating identity from parents is all very typical of adolescence and pre-teens.

In two recent papers, he described patterns of young males» suicidal thinking from early adolescence to early adulthood, and then tested a model wherein thoughts of suicide are self - perpetuating.

In prior work we used a longitudinal design to test whether the interaction between internalizing and externalizing symptoms in early adolescence (11 — 12 years old) predicted adolescent alcohol and drug use (a composite of cigarette, marijuana, and other illicit SU) 2 years later (Scalco et al. 2014).

More specifically, we tested whether (1) self - esteem in early adolescence predicted depressive symptoms in late adolescence and early adulthood; (2) self - esteem predicted approach and avoidance motivation; (3) approach and avoidance motivation predicted social contact with peers, social problems, and social support from peers; and (4) the social factors served as mediators of the relation between approach and avoidance motivation and depressive symptoms.

Testing the Direction of Longitudinal Paths between Victimization, Peer Rejection, and Different Types of Internalizing Problems in Adolescence.

The goal of this study was to test a mediation model in which having other - sex friends during mid-adolescence mediates the relationships between parental monitoring in early adolescence and substance use during late adolescence.

[jounal] Gest, S. D. / 1993 / Parenting quality, adversity, and conduct problems in adolescence: Testing process - oriented models of resilience / Development and Psychopathology 5: 663 ~ 682

The present study used a longitudinal community sample (N = 387, 55 % female, 83 % White) to test whether externalizing symptoms moderated the relationship between internalizing symptoms and trajectories of alcohol and marijuana use from early (age 11 — 12 years old) to late (age 18 — 19 years old) adolescence.

The objectives of the present study were (a) to investigate whether clique isolation from age 11 to 13 years is a social risk factor for subsequent depressive symptoms in early adolescence; (b) to test the potential role of loneliness and perceived social acceptance as cognitive and emotional constructs underlying the link between clique isolation and depressive symptoms; and (c) to explore possible sex differences in the association between clique isolation and depressive symptoms.

Alongside parents» cognitive support, global measures of the affective quality (e.g., warmth, positivity, responsiveness) of parent - child interactions appear positively related to: (i) preschool children's early academic skills (as measured by tests of language ability and parent - rated school - readiness)(Leerkes et al., 2011); (ii) literacy, mathematics and teacher - rated academic competence in middle childhood (e.g., NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2008); and (iii) academic achievement in adolescence (Jimerson et al., 2000).

Tests of linear and nonlinear relations between cumulative contextual risk at birth and psychosocial problems during adolescence.

Attachment and depressive symptoms in middle childhood and early adolescence: Testing the validity of the emotion regulation model of attachment

Classic and comfortable, the resulting space is chic and airy yet rugged enough to withstand the test of male adolescence.