The Influence of Learning Motivation and Learning Strategies on College Achievement: Results of a Longitudinal AnalysisSummary: Existing research on the prediction of college achievement suffers from a lack of both longitudinal analyses and complex ...
Abstract: The concept of kinship orientation (nepotism) refers to the tendency to emotionally prefer kin over non-kin, and closer kin over less close kin. This tendency can be operationalized by the correlation of differential genetic relatedness with ...
Zusammenfassung: Der big-fish-little-pond effect beschreibt das Phänomen, dass vergleichbar leistungsstarke Schülerinnen und Schüler in leistungsstärkeren Lerngruppen infolge sozialer Vergleiche niedrigere Fähigkeitsselbstkonzepte ausbilden als in Gruppen ...
Zielsetzung: Untersuchung des Einflusses der wahrgenommenen Verfügbarkeit von Alkohol auf die Initiierung des Rauschtrinkens im Kindes- und Jugendalter Methodik: Es handelt sich um eine längsschnittliche Beobachtungsstudie mit drei Erhebungszeitpunkten ...
Pubertal stage at first drink as a risk factor for harmful alcohol use in adulthood: is parenting a protective factor?Abstract.Aims: The pubertal stage at first drink has been shown to be a robust risk factor of subsequent alcohol-related problems ...
Alcohol Advertising and frequent, risky, Single-occasion Drinking in AdolescentsAbstract.Objective: To study the effect of the exposure to advertising on the initiation of frequent, risky, single-occasion drinking in adolescents. Methods: This was an ...
Long-term effects of a school-based prevention programAbstract.Aims: With the aim to influence social norms, school classes participating in the non-smoking competition “Be Smart – Don’t Start” commit themselves ...
Spelling Development from Early Elementary School Age to Early AdulthoodAbstract. Findings from the Munich Longitudinal Study of the Genesis of Individual Competencies (LOGIC) are presented that describe spelling development from late childhood to early ...
Predicting Teachers' Stress Experience: Findings from a 4-Year Longitudinal StudyAbstract: We advance a theoretical model of self-regulation for the analysis of teachers' stress experiencing, and we test this model in a prospective longitudinal study ...
Inclusion vs. Exclusion: School Setting and the Development of Reading and Writing Skills in Students with Mild Learning DifficultiesAbstract. The present study examines the development of reading and writing performance in ...
Development of competence in Educational Science studies: the impact of individual aspects on the acquisition of pedagogical knowledge of student teachersAbstract. Longitudinal studies that record educational science ...
Psychiatric Problems in Children of Alcoholic FathersSummary:Objectives: In spite of a growing interest in recent years in epidemiological research on behavior problems of children of alcoholics (COAs), few prospective longitudinal child psychiatric ...
Maternal smoking during pregnancy: risk factor for ADHD in the offspring?Summary:Objective: To examine the specifity of the association between maternal smoking during pregnancy and child behaviour problems. Method: In a prospective longitudinal study ...
Early onset of alcohol and tobacco use - indicator of enhanced risk of addiction?Summary:Objectives: The early onset of substance use is considered to be one of the best predictors of later addiction problems according to a number of U.S.-American ...
The Importance of Critical Life Events During Childhood for the Mental Health of Adolescents – Results of a 10-Year CatamnesisAbstract.Objective: This longitudinal study examines the influence of critical life ...
PsyCoLaus: A Prospective Study of the Links between Mental Health and Cardiovascular DiseasesAbstract. PsyCoLaus, which includes an investigation of mental disorders and cognitive functioning, aims to determine ...
Effects on Language Learning GainsBackground: Insufficient language proficiency is assumed to be one of the most important predictors for later school performance of children with German as a second language as well as of children from underprivileged ...
Mathematical difficulties in elementary school children: Persistence and school-related success after five yearsAbstract.Objective: The present study examines the 5 years course of mathematics learning disabilities (MLD) and ...
Psychosocial problems among young ethnic German immigrants - a longitudinal studyAbstract. Previous, cross-sectional studies of adolescent immigrants’ problem behavior seemed to indicate that psychosocial adaptation decreases with time of residence in ...
From birth to 25: Rostock longitudinal study (ROLS)Abstract. Evoked by child psychiatry the Rostock Longitudinal Study started in 1970 to clarify interactions of perinatal and environmental risk factors influencing personality development. Since their ...