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Parenting Risk and Protective Factors in the Development of Conduct Problems in Seven Countries
(Springer US, 24-11-07)This study advances the understanding of risk and protective factors in trajectories of conduct problems in adolescence in seven countries that differ widely on a number of sociodemographic factors as well as norms related ... -
Psychological, socioeconomic burdens and coping mechanisms of caregivers of children with bronchoasthma in Kakamega County, Kenya
(2023-11-04)Childhood bronchoasthma consistently pose diverse caregiving burdens yet, magnitude of these and coping mechanisms adopted by caregivers are infrequently assessed during routine care only focused on index patients -
Stress Among the Undergraduate Students in Public Universities in Kenya
(IGI Global, 2024)Stress is an emotional feeling of tension. Stress is the body's reaction to a challenge or demand. The arising struggles of life in developing countries of the world has led to the increase of stress in instructions of ... -
Financial Stressors Among Students in Higher Educational Institutions
(IGI Global, 2024)It is expected that students in higher educational institutions should experience financial wellness. Contrarily, a majority of them are facing financial distress. The study adopted a literature review method. The objective ... -
Assessment of the Differences in Juvenile Crime Based on Family set-up among Secondary School Students in Kisii County, Kenya
(East African Scholars Multidisciplinary Bulletin, 2024-09-05)Juvenile crime is a huge concern across the world today. Young individuals engage in antisocial behaviors such as theft, robbery, rape, drug and substance misuse, drug trafficking, disdain for authority, and even murder. ... -
The development of prosocial behavior from late childhood to adolescence: a longitudinal and multicultural study
(Frontiers Media SA, 2024-10-15)Prosocial behavior (i.e., voluntary actions aimed at benefiting others, such as helping, comforting, and sharing) has proven beneficial for individuals' adjustment during the transition to adolescence. However, less is ... -
Investigating Longitudinal Trajectories of COVID-19 Disruption: Methodological Challenges and Recommendations
(Springer US, 2024-10-02)Relatively few studies have longitudinally investigated how COVID-19 has disrupted the lives and health of youth beyond the first year of the pandemic. This may be because longitudinal researchers face complex challenges ... -
Parents’ learning support and school attitudes in relation to adolescent academic identity and school performance in nine countries
(Springer Netherlands, 2024-03-22)An important question for parents and educators alike is how to promote adolescents’ academic identity and school performance. This study investigated relations among parental education, parents’ attitudes toward their ... -
Trauma Informed Interventions and Academic Adjustment among Adolescent Students in Public Secondary Schools in Kenya
(Nusantara Journal of Behavioral and Social Science, 2023-11-13)Globally, the problem of escalating incidences of trauma among adolescents has adversely affected their physical, behavioral, emotional and psychological functioning hence impairing their quality and ability to adjust in ... -
Cultural values, parenting and child adjustment in Kenya
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2024-01-03)Children's, mothers' and fathers' reports were used to assess whether mothers' and fathers' individualism, collectivism and conformity values are significantly related to parenting behaviours and child adjustment during ... -
How adolescents’ lives were disrupted over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal investigation in 12 cultural groups in 9 nations from March 2020 to July 2022
(Cambridge University Press, 2024-01-26)It is unclear how much adolescents’ lives were disrupted throughout the COVID-19 pandemic or what risk factors predicted such disruption. To answer these questions, 1,080 adolescents in 9 nations were surveyed 5 times from ... -
Adolescents' relationships with parents and romantic partners in eight countries
(Wiley, 2024-02-13)Creating romantic relationships characterized by high-quality, satisfaction, few conflicts, and reasoning strategies to handle conflicts is an important developmental task for adolescents connected to the relational models ... -
Relationships in Childhood
(MIT Press, 2023-09-19)This chapter focuses on early childhood experiences and how they may contribute to cooperative and peaceful behaviors and outcomes in the later childhood years and into adulthood. Five interrelated topics are explored:(a) ... -
Intraindividual variability in parental acceptance-rejection predicts externalizing and internalizing symptoms across childhood/adolescence in nine countries.
(American Psychological Association, 2023-09-21)Parenting that is high in rejection and low in acceptance is associated with higher levels of internalizing (INT) and externalizing (EXT) problems in children and adolescents. These symptoms develop and can increase in ... -
Developmental Trajectories of Parental Self-Efficacy as Children Transition to Adolescence in Nine Countries: Latent Growth Curve Analyses
(Springer US, 2023-11-13)Little is known about the developmental trajectories of parental self-efficacy as children transition into adolescence. This study examined parental self-efficacy among mothers and fathers over 3 1/2 years representing ... -
Expectations, Culture, and Adaptation to Higher Education Institutions by First-Year Students
(IGI Global, 2023)This chapter analyzed expectations, culture, and adaptation to higher education institutions by first-year students. By adopting a conceptual review as framework, data were obtained from published literature. The results ... -
Parenting, Adolescent Sensation Seeking, and Subsequent Substance Use: Moderation by Adolescent Temperament
(Springer US, 2023-03-24)Although previous research has identified links between parenting and adolescent substance use, little is known about the role of adolescent individual processes, such as sensation seeking, and temperamental tendencies for ... -
Effect of school category on adjustment of re-admitted teenage mothers in secondary schools
(scientific route, 2022)The study examined the adjustment of re-admitted teenage mothers on the bases of school categories in selected secondary schools in Kenya. -
An international perspective on parenting and family influences on adolescents and young adults.
(American Psychological Association, 2022)Parents and their adolescent and young adult offspring observe and participate in parent–offspring interactions in their communities and hold expectations about their own relationships derived in part from culturally shaped ... -
Positive Youth Development: Parental Warmth, Values, and Prosocial Behavior in 11 Cultural Groups
(NIH Public Access, 2021)The current cross-cultural study aimed to extend research on parenting and children’s prosocial behavior by examining relations among parental warmth, values related to family obligations (i.e., children’s support to and ...
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