In this study, we examined the internal consistency of informant discrepancies in reports of youth behavior and emotional problems and their unique relations with youth, caregiver, and family characteristics. In a heterogeneous multisite clinic sample of 420 youths (ages 11-17 years), high internal consistency estimates were observed across measures of informant discrepancies. Further, latent p...

This paper estimates peer effects on student achievement using a panel data set obtained from a middle school in China. Two unique features of the organization of Chinese middle schools (Grades 7 to 9) and the panel data allow us to identify peer effects at classroom level; in particular, we are able to overcome difficulties that have hindered the separation of peer effects from omitted individ...

BACKGROUND 10% to 30% of all children worldwide suffer from headaches at least once a week, potentially constituting a serious health problem that may lead to impairment in multiple areas. Therefore, one aim of the epidemiological longitudinal study "Children, Adolescents, and Headache" (KiJuKo) is the study of potential risk factors for the development of recurrent headaches. METHODS In the ...

After the broad industrialization of the US pork industry, there has been a development of niche markets for export and domestic pork; that is, there is a pork niche market phenomenon. The US pork niche market phenomenon is characterized, and 2 of the major markets are explained in detail. With the Midwest's tradition of a diversified family-based agriculture and record low hog prices of the la...

Children use electronic screens at ever younger ages, but there is still little empirical research on how and why parents mediate this media use. In line with Vygotsky's zone of proximal development, we explored whether children's media skills and media activities, next to parents' attitudes about media for children, and several child and parent-family characteristics, predicted parental mediat...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether individual and family characteristics of children with anxiety disorders who take psychotropic medications differ from those that are unmedicated and whether there is a differential response to cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT). METHOD Children ages 8 to 12 years (n = 102: 18 medicated, 84 unmedicated) were recruited in a specialized outpatient clinic over a 3...

Socioeconomic status (SES) is one of the most widely studied constructs in the social sciences. Several ways of measuring SES have been proposed, but most include some quantification of family income, parental education, and occupational status. Research shows that SES is associated with a wide array of health, cognitive, and socioemotional outcomes in children, with effects beginning prior to ...

label commonly used to refer to such children is resilient. This review of literature will examine what it is about these children that enable them to bounce right back from adversity, and what makes them immune to the factors that negatively affect others. More specifically, this review will examine protective factors that contribute to resilience. The literature has documented individual char...

This study examined genetic and environmental influences on harsh parenting of adopted 9-month-olds (N = 503), with an emphasis on positive child-, parent-, and family-level characteristics. Evocative gene-environment correlation (rGE) was examined by testing the effect of both positive and negative indices of birth parent temperament on adoptive parents' harsh parenting. Adoptive fathers' hars...

If a man has a matchmaking network, will this increase his chance of marrying? If so, do the different types of network ties play different roles? Using survey data from X County in Anhui Province (N = 412), we analyze the determinants of first marriage probability for 18 to 50year-old rural Chinese men in terms of their social networks. Age at first marriage for rural Chinese men is concentrat...