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Adolescent Participation in Structured and Unstructured Activities: A Person-Oriented Analysis
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2003-08)
The current study used a person-oriented approach to examine the participation of adolescents in both constructive, organized activities as well as relaxed leisure activities. The goal of this research was to identify ...
What Hillary Rodham Clinton really said about children's rights and child policy
(Elsevier, 1992)
As editors of a professional, scientific and scholarly journal in the children's field our interest is to promote fair, careful and objective discussion of children's issues. In this regard, we have been disturbed by recent ...
Psychological well-being Asian style: The perspective of Thai elders
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2001-09)
Psychological well-being is animportant aspect of life quality for olderadults. Asian elders may have a distinctlydifferent perspective from Westernersconcerning the meaning of psychologicalwell-being. Using qualitative ...
Race-Related Correlates of Young Adults' Subjective Well-Being
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2001-01)
We investigated how often young adults worry about race relationsand whether they perceive that white/black relations have beendeteriorating. We also explored the relationships betweenrace-related worry and pessimism, and ...
The prevention of psychopathology in African Americans: An epidemiologic perspective
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Human Sciences Press; Human Sciences Press ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1990-04)
Although improving the mental health status of African Americans is an important goal, it is not clear that this can be accomplished by increasing access to professional services. Many have argued that stressful social ...
Density, crowding, and satisfaction with the residential environment
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; D. Reidel Publishing Company ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1982-01)
The relationships between a set of measures of various components of environmental density and perceived crowding are examined in a data set from a sample of residents of a large metropolitan area. While there are meaningful ...
Racial Discrimination and Racial Identity as Risk or Protective Factors for Violent Behaviors in African American Young Adults
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2004-03)
This study examined the influences of racial discrimination and different racial identity attitudes on engaging in violent behavior among 325 African American young adults. The contributions of racial discrimination and ...
How did it work? An examination of the mechanisms through which an intervention for the unemployed promoted job-search behavior
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1992-10)
The transition to junior high school: Beliefs of pre- and posttransition teachers
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1988-12)
The beliefs of 107 teachers who students have for mathematics the last year of elementary school are compared to the beliefs of 64 teachers the same students have for mathematics the first year of junior high school. As ...