Stressful events in the lives of 309 10- to 15-year-olds and stressful events and psychological symptoms reported by their parents were examined in a 9-month study. Ss' self-reported emotional/behavioral problems were predicted by their reports of stressful events and their fathers' reports of psychological symptoms in cross-sectional analyses. Analyses at follow-up after controlling for initia...

From the United Nations Convention on the rights of the Child (1989) to the Healthy Lives, Brighter Futures strategy (Department of health (Dh) and Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) 2009), there is overwhelming support for the involvement of children and young people in any decisions that may affect them. the requirement to take account of their views and experiences whenever...

OBJECTIVE This study examined whether neighbourhood level socioeconomic variables have an independent effect on reported child behaviour problems over and above the effect of individual level measures of socioeconomic status. DESIGN AND SETTING Multilevel analysis of cross sectional survey data relating individual level child behavioural problems and parental measures of socioeconomic status ...

The environment greatly influences acquirement of the behavior on the artificial life creature (AC) and artifact object (AO). However, the conventional studies like Karl Sims’ ones have not accurately considered in an environmental influence. Instead, these influences are considered by replacing them into a simple environment. In this study, we accurately model the under-water environmental inf...

Over the past decade, there has been growing interest in real-time assessment of student engagement and motivation during interactions with educational software. Detecting symptoms of disengagement, such as offtask behavior, has shown considerable promise for understanding students’ motivational characteristics during learning. In this paper, we investigate the affective role of off-task behavi...