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Supporting children who struggle with self-regulation : the role of early family risk and child care quality

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Pratt, Megan E.

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Children's early self-regulation skills have long-term implications for a variety of academic, social, and health outcomes. Unfortunately, children facing multiple family risk factors (e.g., harsh parenting, economic disadvantage) are more likely to struggle with early self-regulation. Despite early disparities in self-regulation, promising intervention evidence suggests that high quality prekindergarten experiences...

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Longitudinal changes in stress-related growth : relations with stress severity and depressive symptoms

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Bi, Xiaoyu

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Studies on the positive effects of stress, called stress-related growth (SRG), are increasing, and there are a variety of contradictory theoretical models and findings in the literature. This dissertation compared several of these models in two studies, using two waves of data from the Davis Longitudinal Study, a study of...

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age from 30 – 50 (cross- sectional N = 1140; longitudinal N = 509). The first study examined whether
The relationship between abortion and depression : evidence from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health

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Warren, Jocelyn T.

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A majority of states require parental consent or notification before a minor may have an abortion. Parental involvement laws are based in part on the assumption that abortion poses a risk to the psychological health of adolescents. Previous research has catalogued the risks to adolescent mothers and their children posed...

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sample for the study included all women for whom there were self-esteem measures in 1987 (N=5,295, 90