children

Measuring collective efficacy among children in community-based afterschool programs: Exploring pathways toward prevention and positive youth development

Citation: Smith EP, Osgood DW, Caldwell L, Hynes K, Perkins DF: Measuring collective efficacy among...

Effectiveness of a universal classroom-based preventive intervention (PAX GBG): A research protocol for a matched-pair cluster-randomized controlled trial

Introduction The PAX Good Behavior Game (PAX GBG) is a universal classroom-based program that promotes...

Proximal Impact of Two First-Grade Preventive Interventions on the Early Risk Behaviors for Later Substance Abuse, Depression, and Antisocial Behavior

We assessed the immediate effects of two universal, first-grade preventive interventions on the proximal targets...

Proximal impact of two first-grade preventive interventions on the early risk behaviors for later substance abuse, depression, and antisocial behavior.

We assessed the immediate effects of two universal, first-grade preventive interventions on the proximal targets...

Proximal impact of two first-grade preventive interventions on the early risk behaviors for later substance abuse, depression, and antisocial behavior.

We assessed the immediate effects of two universal, first-grade preventive interventions on the proximal targets...

Preventing Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Disorders Among Young People: Progress and Possibilities

Mental health and substance use disorders among children, youth, and young adults are major threats...

Double jeopardy: Child and school characteristics that predict aggressive-disruptive behavior in first grade

High rates of aggressive-disruptive behavior exhibited by children during their initial years of elementary school...

Rational snacking: Young children’s decision-making on the marshmallow task is moderated by beliefs about environmental reliability

Children are notoriously bad at delaying gratification to achieve later, greater rewards (e.g., Piaget, 1970)—and...

Meaningful differences in the everyday experience of young American children: Paul H Brookes Publishing: Baltimore; 1995

This . . . work establishes a scientifically substantiated link between children's early family experience...

Motivational-emotional vulnerability and difficulties in learning to read and spell

Background: Although the relationship between motivation and learning problems has been studied in older children,...