Cluster analyses with the three global scores of the Resiliency Scales for Children and Adolescents™ (RSCA) were used to determine personal resiliency profiles within normative (641) and outpatient clinical (285) samples of youth aged 9 to 18 years.
Survey data were used to determine resiliency profiles of a normative and an outpatient clinical sample of youth. This research examined the background characteristics associated with each profile and compared the profiles of the normative sample to those of the clinical samples.
The longitudinal associations between maternal parenting behavior and toddler risk with children's emotional and social competence were examined during the transition to kindergarten, in a sample of 253 children.
Observational and survey data were used to explore the interactions between maternal parenting behavior and toddler risk (i.e., externalizing behaviors such as aggression and destructive behavior and poor emotion regulation) as predictors of individual differences in children's emotional and
Children and adolescents of National Guard members who recently returned from deployment participated in the Passport Towards Success (PTS) program, which teaches youth strategies for effective coping, problem-solving, and emotional expression.
Although recent scholarship has emphasized the importance of examining the rewards of raising children in understanding variations in psychological consequences of parenthood, empirical research remains focused on the demands of parenthood.
A nationally representative random sample of parents participated in a study examining the association between age of children and adult psychological well-being.
Objective: Members of the US armed forces have been heavily deployed in support of wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. This study examined the affect of a parent's deployment to war on the rate of psychiatric hospitalization among their children. Methods: This was a retrospective cohort study.
In this retrospective cohort study of children of Active Duty military personnel, administrative records were evaluated to assess the effect of parental deployment on the rate of psychiatric hospitalization among children ages 9-17.