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Familism, Parent-Adolescent Conflict, Self-Esteem, Internalizing Behaviors and Suicide Attempts among Adolescent Latinas
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Kuhlberg, Jill A.; Pena, Juan B.; Zayas, Luis H. – Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 2010
Adolescent Latinas continue to report higher levels of suicide attempts than their African-American and White peers. The phenomenon is still not understood and is theorized to be the result of the confluence of many cultural, familial, and individual level factors. In Latino cultures, belief in the importance of the family, the value known as…
Descriptors: Intervention, Prevention, Conflict, Family Involvement
Familism, Family Environment, and Suicide Attempts among Latina Youth
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Pena, Juan B.; Kuhlberg, Jill A.; Zayas, Luis H.; Baumann, Ana A.; Gulbas, Lauren; Hausmann-Stabile, Carolina; Nolle, Allyson P. – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2011
In this study, we examined the relationship between familism and family environment type as well as the relationship between family environment type and suicide attempts among Latina youth. Latina teen attempters (n = 109) and nonattempters (n = 107) were recruited from the New York City area. Latent class analysis revealed three family…
Descriptors: Suicide, Family Environment, Hispanic Americans, Psychological Patterns
Quality of Family Context or Sibling Status? Influences on Cognitive Development
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Freijo, Enrique B. Arranz; Oliva, Alfredo; Olabarrieta, Fernando; Martin, Juan Luis; Manzano, Ainhoa; Richards, Martin P. M. – Early Child Development and Care, 2008
This study analyzes the influence of socioeconomic status, quality of family context and sibling status on cognitive development in a sample of 551 five-year-old children. The regression analyses confirmed the predictive value of socioeconomic status and quality of family context on cognitive development. The quality of family context mediates the…
Descriptors: Siblings, Socioeconomic Status, Cognitive Development, Family Environment
Advances in Technology, Education and Development
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Kouwenhoven, Wim, Ed. – InTech, 2009
From 3rd to 5th March 2008 the International Association of Technology, Education and Development organised its International Technology, Education and Development Conference in Valencia, Spain. Over a hundred papers were presented by participants from a great variety of countries. Summarising, this book provides a kaleidoscopic view of work that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Technology, Professional Training
Thinkers on Education. Volume 4.
Morsy, Zaghloul, Ed. – 1997
This collection of essays targets universities, social science research institutes, teacher training colleges, and those who lecture and carry out research on the history of ideas and of education. It is the fourth volume in a series that presents, in English, French, and Spanish, a comprehensive view of great educators of every age and culture.…
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Philosophy, Educational Theories, Elementary Secondary Education
Proceedings of the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM) (6th, Memphis, Tennessee, July 6-9, 2013)
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D'Mello, S. K., Ed.; Calvo, R. A., Ed.; Olney, A., Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2013
Since its inception in 2008, the Educational Data Mining (EDM) conference series has featured some of the most innovative and fascinating basic and applied research centered on data mining, education, and learning technologies. This tradition of exemplary interdisciplinary research has been kept alive in 2013 as evident through an imaginative,…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Educational Research, Educational Technology, Interdisciplinary Approach