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Autor:
Chrysalis L. Wright, Mary J. Levitt
Publikováno v:
Journal of Family Issues. 35:1754-1779
Academic outcomes as a function of parental absence were examined among 268 newly immigrant Latino youth from Argentina, Colombia, and Cuba. Participants experienced parental absence as a result of divorce, parental death, and serial migration. Stude
Autor:
Mary J. Levitt, Jennifer D. Santos
Publikováno v:
Journal of Social Issues. 63:827-843
Intergenerational relations among in-laws are involuntary ties emerging as a consequence of marriage. As such, these relations provide a window through which the dynamics involved in restructuring social networks following life transitions may be obs
Publikováno v:
Journal of Adult Development. 14:53-63
The transition from high school is a pivotal period for intergenerational relations, as the asymmetry characterizing pre-transition relations with parents is reconfigured. Changes in adolescent–parent relations across this transition have potential
Autor:
Avidan Milevsky, Mary J. Levitt
Publikováno v:
European Journal of Developmental Psychology. 2:299-320
The current study is an examination of how support from siblings relates to psychological adjustment and academic competence in early adolescence, with a focus on the buffering and compensatory effects of sibling support. Participants were 695 (357 f
Publikováno v:
Research in Human Development. 2:159-177
In this study of 429 newly immigrant children (ages 7–8 years) and their parents, we addressed generational variation in the stresses related to immigration. We also assessed whether child and parent psychological adjustment varied as a function of
Autor:
Gaston L. Bustos, Paige Telan, Jerome L. Levitt, Avidan Milevsky, Jennifer Hodgetts, Mary J. Levitt, Jennifer D. Santos, Noel A. Crooks
Publikováno v:
Social Development. 14:398-420
Children's social networks often include close family members, extended family members, and friends, but little is known about interindividual differences in the patterning of support from these sources. In this study, we used person-oriented analyse
Autor:
Mary J. Levitt
Publikováno v:
Human Development. 48:28-47
Research on the development of social relations has been largely fragmented along role-specific lines and dominated conceptually by attachment theory. The Convoy Model is presented as an alternative to traditional approaches that fail to capture the
Autor:
Mary J. Levitt, Avidan Milevsky
Publikováno v:
Mental Health, Religion & Culture. 7:307-321
The aim of the current study was to assess the influence of intrinsic and extrinsic religiosity (Allport & Ross, 1967) in a sample of preadolescents and adolescents. Participants for the study were 694 African-American, European-American, and Hispani
Publikováno v:
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied. 4:308-331
The effects of stress on children's long-term memory for a major hurricane were studied. Stress was objectively defined as low, moderate, or high according to the severity of damage to the child's home. One hundred 3and 4-year-old children received a
Autor:
Nathalie Franco, Mary J. Levitt
Publikováno v:
Social Development. 6:292-306
The focus of this study was on the social networks of preschool children and on the interface between network characteristics and the child's acceptance by peers and teachers. Fifty-six children and their mothers were interviewed about the child's so