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- <p>Behavior disorders in children. </p> <p>Psychological tests for children.</p> <p>Emotional or Behavior Disorder Scale.</p> (1)
- <p>Child care - West Virginia.</p> <p>Obesity - Childhood.</p> <p>Overweight children - West Virginia.</p> <p>School-age child care - Supervision - West Virginia.</p> <p>Children of working parents - West Virginia.</p> (1)
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The Level Of Parental Conflict And Children's Behavioral Reactions To Divorce, Cindi Jo Settle
The Level Of Parental Conflict And Children's Behavioral Reactions To Divorce, Cindi Jo Settle
Theses, Dissertations and Capstones
This research investigated the level of parental conflict as a contributor to children’s behavioral difficulties up to one year after parental separation. Participants were parents who had been court ordered to attend the parent education class sponsored by the Kanawha County Family Court in Charleston, West Virginia. The Conflict Tactics Scale 2 (CTS2) was used to identify marital conflict and the Achenbach Child Behavior Checklist/6-18 (CBCL) parent report was used to determine childhood behavior problems. Correlation and multiple linear regression analysis found that children who were traumatized by domestic violence suffered from anxiety, depression, withdrawal symptoms, attention problems, somatic complaints, …
Exploring Obesity And After-School Supervision With Adolescents In Rural West Virginia, Sallie Dawn Richards
Exploring Obesity And After-School Supervision With Adolescents In Rural West Virginia, Sallie Dawn Richards
Theses, Dissertations and Capstones
Both childhood obesity and the number of children in self-care have increased during the past several decades. Child care arrangements for working parents of middle school children can be a complex problem because unsupervised children who “hang out” with peers after school are more likely to engage in risky behaviors, although unsupervised children at home after school tend to watch more television than their supervised peers. Because children in self-care at home after school tend to engage in more sedentary activities, they may be at greater risk for becoming overweight or obese. The purpose of the present study was to …
Cross-Informant Agreement Among Parents And Children, Staci S. Mullins
Cross-Informant Agreement Among Parents And Children, Staci S. Mullins
Theses, Dissertations and Capstones
Rating scales are often used by school psychologists to assess for emotional and behavioral disorders in students. While one advantage of rating scales is that data can be collected and assessed from multiple informants, research has shown that agreement between multiple informants is usually low to moderate, with the lowest being between parents and youth. The Conners Comprehensive Behavior Rating Scale (CBRS) is a new multi- dimensional rating scale claiming to have moderate parent/youth agreement. The purpose of this study was to analyze the cross-informant agreement between youth and parents using the Conners CBRS and then compare the correlations from …