While children's orientations to achievement are strong predictors of attainments, little is known about how parental economic hardship during recessionary times influences children's orientations to their futures. The Youth Development Study has followed a community sample of young people in St Paul, Minnesota from mid-adolescence through their mid-thirties with near-annual surveys, and has re...

Objective: The purpose of the present study was to investigate the association of metacognitive beliefs and perfectionism with test anxiety among students.  Methods: The present study was a cross sectional research. Study population comprised all male and female students of Kermanshah City. A total of 440 students (200 males and 240 females, aged 17-18 years) in the third or fourth grade ...

Amaç: Bu araştırmanın amacı, çocukların spora katılımına ilişkin ebeveynlerin beklentilerini ve çocuklarında gözlemledikleri davranış değişikliklerini incelemektedir. Gereç Yöntemler: Araştırma; Ankara ili, Çankaya ilçesinde faaliyetlerini basketbol voleybol spor dallarında yürüten bir kulübünde gerçekleştirilmiştir. Katılımcıların seçiminde kolay ulaşılabilir durum örneklemesi kullanılmıştır. ...

Expectancy-Value Theory predicts that expectancy of success and subjective task value (STV) underlie differences in motivation achievement. This study investigated how gender SES related to achievement mediated by success, STV, their interaction. The sample consisted 396 participants final year upper secondary education. Self-report measures were completed expectancy, socio-economic indicators....

The authors investigate the relationship between family policy and women's attachment to the labor market, focusing specifically on policy feedback on women's subjective work commitment. They utilize a quasi-experimental design to identify normative policy effects from changes in mothers' work commitment in conjunction with two policy changes that significantly extended the length of statutory ...

BACKGROUND The current study examined parental factors related to risk of adolescent obesity within the context of a family systems framework. METHODS Seventy predominantly African American, low-income caregiver-adolescent dyads participated in the study. Validated measures of parental perceived child risk for development of type 2 diabetes mellitus, parental limit setting for sedentary behav...

BACKGROUND Parental overprotection has commonly been implicated in the development and maintenance of childhood anxiety disorders. Overprotection has been assessed using questionnaire and observational methods interchangeably; however, the extent to which these methods access the same construct has received little attention. Edwards et al. (2008, 2010) developed a promising parent-report measur...

This study aims to explore the relationship between electronic games, children, and parents, as well issue of parental prejudice towards games. While society’s attitude games has become more rational inclusive, many parents still hold a negative toward their children’s exposure Existing literature focuses on studying addiction behavior or its characteristics, neglecting deep-seated contradictio...