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Cognitive Skills and Discrimination in the Labor Market: A Commentary on Adolescent Cognitive Skills, Attitudinal/Behavioral Traits and Career Wages by M. Hall and G. Farkas

Abramov, Roman - In: Educational Studies (2013) 3, pp. 59-64

Roman Abramov, Ph.D. in Sociology, Associate Professor in the Analysis of Social Institutions Department, National Research University - Higher School of Education, Moscow, Russian Federation. Email: socioportal@yandex.ru The author demonstrates timeliness of the study performed by sociologists...

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Inégalités socio-spatiales de risque routier et mobilité à l'adolescence

Haddak, Mohamed Mouloud; Pochet, Pascal; Licaj, Idlir; … - HAL - 2012

Ces dernières années, la plupart des pays européens, dont la France, ont enregistré de nets progrès en matière de sécurité routière. Toutefois, ces progrès demeurent inégalement répartis. En France, la part des accidents impliquant des jeunes et des usagers vulnérables (piétons,...

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Specifics of literary development in adolescence: The dynamism of socio-cultural transformations

Sobkin, Vladimir; Plotkin, Dmitrij - In: Educational Studies (2006) 4, pp. 310-328

The article bases on an opinion poll we made in April 2005 in several Moscow comprehensive schools, where our 2,510 respondents studied in the 7th, 9th, 10th and 11th grades. The probe continued a research cycle to monitor the dynamics of school students' changing artistic preferences, which we...

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Economic evaluations of child and adolescent mental health interventions : a systematic review

Romeo, Renée; Byford, Sarah; Knapp, Martin - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

BACKGROUND : The need has grown over recent years for economic information on the impacts of child and adolescent mental helath problems and the cost-effectiveness of interventions. METHODS : A range of electronic databases were searched using a predefined search strategy. To identify economic...

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Social capital and adolescent smoking in schools and communities: A cross-classified multilevel analysis

De Clercq, Bart; Pfoertner, Timo-Kolja; Elgar, Frank J.; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 119 (2014) C, pp. 81-87

We sought to determine whether social capital at the individual-, school- and community-level can explain variance in adolescent smoking and accounts for social inequalities in smoking. We collected data as part of the 2005/6 Health Behavior in School-aged Children survey, a nationally...

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Association Between Adolescent Eudaimonic Behaviours and Emotional Competence in Young Adulthood

Hallam, W.; Olsson, C.; M. O’Connor; Hawkins, M.; … - In: Journal of Happiness Studies 15 (2014) 5, pp. 1165-1177

prospective relationships between adolescence eudaimonic values development and indicators of emotional competence and … psychopathology in young adulthood. We tested two related hypotheses: (1) that eudaimonic behaviours in adolescence (indicated by … distress in adolescence. Data were drawn from an on-going 15 wave population-based longitudinal study of health and development …

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A qualitative study investigating adolescents' understanding of aggression, bullying and violence

Hopkins, Lisa; Taylor, Laura; Bowen, Erica; Wood, Clare - In: Children and Youth Services Review 35 (2013) 4, pp. 685-693

There is a general consistency across the research literature regarding the definition of bullying. This has filtered down into the construction of governmental and school anti-bullying policies around the world. However, research suggests that children and adolescents are failing to accurately...

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Influence of animal-assisted therapy (AAT) on the attachment representations of youth in residential care

Balluerka, Nekane; Muela, Alexander; Amiano, Nora; … - In: Children and Youth Services Review 42 (2014) C, pp. 103-109

This study evaluates the influence of animal-assisted therapy (AAT) on the attachment representations of a group of adolescents in residential care who suffered traumatic childhood experiences and exhibited mental health problems. The participants of this study were 46 teenagers (mean age=15.41,...

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Stage-specific family structure models: implicit parameter restrictions and Bayesian model comparison with an application to prosocial behavior

Ottoni-Wilhelm, Mark; Bandy, Robert - In: Review of Economics of the Household 11 (2013) 3, pp. 313-340

. Substantive results are that family structure transitions during adolescence are negatively associated with subsequent giving, and …

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Health in All Policies as a Strategic Policy Response to NCDs

Lin, Vivian; Jones, Catherine; Wang, Shiyong; Barbd, Enis - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

The aim of Health in All Policies (HiAP) is to bring diverse sectors together to find shared solutions; it focuses on identifying 'win-win' or 'cobenefits' such that policy measures contribute not only to improved health outcomes but also to outcomes desired by other sectors, such as education,...

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