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Pan, Jingtong; Zaff, Jonathan F.; Porche, Michelle – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2020
Childhood adversities tend to impact development in a cumulative way. However, extant research on childhood adversities has focused on a variable-centered approach to examine the cumulative effect of adversity. Using Latent Class Analysis (LCA) and adopting a pattern-centered approach, the authors investigate how different youth may experience…
Descriptors: Social Support Groups, Outcomes of Education, Early Experience, Longitudinal Studies
Wilkinson, Andra; Lantos, Hannah – Child Trends, 2018
Youth involved in both the child welfare and juvenile justice systems--a specific high-needs population--often experience a host of negative outcomes beyond those experienced by their peers involved in only one (or neither) system. These outcomes include higher rates of homelessness, mental health problems, and joblessness. These "dually…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Juvenile Justice, Child Welfare
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Marszalek, Jacob M.; Hamilton, Jessica L. – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2012
Four maltreatment items were examined from Wave III (N = 13,516) of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. Item analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, cross-validation, reliability estimates, and convergent validity coefficients strongly supported the validity of using the four items as a unidimensional composite. Implications for…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Test Items, Validity, Item Analysis
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Shin, Sunny Hyucksun; Miller, Daniel P. – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2012
Objectives: We sought to explore the association between childhood maltreatment (e.g., neglect, physical and sexual abuse) and longitudinal growth trajectories of body mass index (BMI) from adolescence to young adulthood. Methods: We used latent curve modeling to examine data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (N = 8,471),…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Adolescents, Obesity
Courtney, Mark E.; Charles, Pajarita; Okpych, Nathanael J.; Napolitano, Laura; Halsted, Katherine – Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, 2014
This report presents findings from the "Baseline Youth Survey of the California" Youth Transitions to Adulthood Study (CalYOUTH). CalYOUTH is an evaluation of the impact of the California Fostering Connections to Success Act on outcomes during the transition to adulthood for foster youth. CalYOUTH includes collection and analysis of…
Descriptors: Foster Care, Program Effectiveness, Late Adolescents, Longitudinal Studies