The authors used data from Waves 1 and 2 of the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH) to test the generality of the links between parenting practices and child outcomes for children in two age groups: 5-11 and 12-18.
High motivation and belief in a cause have been reported to be protective against posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), while below-average intellectual functioning and poor educational achievements have bee
Service members who live far away from their aging parents may have high levels of worry about their parents health and well-being, especially if military duties make in-person contact rare.
This study explores variables that influence worry and parent contact among senior military officers who face frequent moves, restricted housing, and overseas assignments, and who have been geographically separated from their parents most of their adult lives.
This article analyzed data from the National Educational Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88) to test the effect of participation in extracurricular activities on high school achievement. It also explored potential connections that linked such participation to academic success.
This article analyzes data from the National Educational Longitudinal Study of 1988 to test the effect of participation in extracurricular activities on high school achievement. It also explores potential mediating mechanisms that link such participation to academic success.
An assessment of ways in which school, neighborhood, nuclear family, and friendship group contexts jointly contribute to positive change during early adolescence was conducted. Middle school students, parents, teachers, and staff from one county bordering with Washington D.C.
This study assessed some ways in which schools, neighborhoods, nuclear families, and friendship groups jointly contribute to positive change during early adolescence. For each context, existing theory was used to develop a multiattribute index that should promote successful development.
Not unlike combat soldiers, peacekeepers are at risk for the development of significant symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD; B. T. Litz, S. Orsillo, M. Freidman, P.
When a parent has a mental health disorder, it may affect the environment in which children live, which may have certain effects on the children.
We investigated whether parental anxiety was related to anxiety sensitivity (AS) in offspring. Subjects were 261 offspring (aged 6–17 years) of parents with lifetime DSM-IV anxiety and/or mood disorders, and 79 offspring of parents with no lifetime anxiety, mood, or psychotic disorder.
Adolescents were assessed to determine the associations between anxiety sensitivity and anxiety symptoms, anxiety disorders, and anxiety comorbidity.
Examined the associations of adolescents' self-reported anxiety sensitivity with semistructured, interview-based anxiety and depressive symptoms and anxiety disorders.
Deployment can be a difficult time for families in many ways. This study focused on the experience of Sailors who were also mothers. Researchers compared the experience of deployed Navy mothers to those who were not deployed and examined predictors of mental health outcomes for deployed mothers.
This research examined the psychological adjustment and correlates of psychological well-being of deployed Navy mothers compared with a nondeployed control group of Navy women during the same period.
The aim of this study was to examine the associations between sleep and neurobehavioral functioning (NBF) in school-age children.
In response to public requests to improve the purpose and structure of discipline systems, schools have increased their emphases on “school-wide” positive behavior support.
Our objective was to describe racial/ethnic variations in Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) ambulatory care use and its association with the presence of unmet health care needs.
Although the merits of parents using corporal punishment to discipline children have been argued for decades, a thorough understanding of whether and how corporal punishment affects children has not been rea
This study examined four questions: (1) How does family structure (specifically, single parenthood, married parent, and cohabitating parent) affect children's delinquency and math test scores?
Families, as social systems, can be considered “resilient” in ways that parallel descriptions of individual resilience.
1,023 Veterans of the Somalia peacekeeping mission were evaluated over a period of 1.5 years to examine the relationship between perceived homecoming experiences and later posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms. Homecoming reception was positively related to fewer PTSD symptoms.
The primary purpose of this study was to determine if participation in the North Carolina Quality Enhancement Initiative (NC QEI) improved the overall quality of the 26 participating school-age child care pr
Objective: Epidemiological studies have shown that mental disorders are associated with reduced health-related quality of life, high levels of health care utilization, and work absenteeism.
This article investigates the impact of military service on the duration of a veteran's first marriage, a topic in the literature with both scant
The author meta-analyzed studies comparing child adjustment in joint physical or joint legal custody with sole-custody settings, including comparisons with paternal custody and intact families where possible
This study was designed to (a) test the psychometric properties of a new observation measure of developmentally appropriate classroom practices in kindergarten through third-grade classrooms, and (b) determi
Objectives: The geographic epidemiology of infectious diseases can help in identifying point source outbreaks, elucidating dispersion patterns, and giving direction to control strategies.