Adolescent Defense Style as Correlate of Problem Behavior

Parenting Style Dimensions As Predictors of Adolescent Antisocial Behavior

Antisocial behavior is strongly associated with academic failure in adolescence. There is a solid body of evidence that points to parenting style as one of its main predictors. The objective of this work is to elaborate a reduced, valid, and reliable version of the questionnaire by Oliva et al. (2007) to evaluate the dimensions of parenting style and to analyze its psychometric properties in a ...

learning style, self efficacy and intrinsic motivation as predictors of iranian ielts reading comprehension

this thesis attempts to measure learning styles, self efficacy and intrinsic motivation as predictors of iranian ielts reading comprehension. in order to address this issue, a quantitative study was conducted on some randomly selected intact students at ferdowsi university. these two groups were assigned as they were undergraduate (ba=91) and graduate (ma =74) students; they were all aged betwe...

The Ethnic Minority Context of Child and Adolescent Problem Behavior:

Religious Affiliation as a Correlate of Linguistic Behavior

The current study examined whether religious affiliation in Utah County, Utah affected the production of several vowel mergers typical of the area (i.e., fell-fail, pool-pole-pull,card-cord). To do so, we asked selfidentified members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) and self-identified nonMormons to produce these vowel contrasts. Next, three naïve raters trained in p...

Parenting Style and Adolescent Adjustment

In order to test Maccoby and Martin's (1983) revision of Baumrind's (1967) conceptual framework, the families of approximately 4,100 14to 18-year-olds were classified into one of four groups (authoritative, authoritarian, indulgent, or neglectful) on the basis of the adolescents' ratings of their parents on two dimensions: acceptance/involvement and firm control. The youngsters were then contra...