Parental interest in children's education, children's self-esteem and locus of control, and later educational attainment: Twenty-six year follow-up of the 1970 British Birth Cohort

Resolution of presenting problems at three-month follow-up was studied in 228 parasuicides. ‘Non-resolvers' presented with less severe problems, but prodromes were longer, prior episodes more frequent, and they experienced more powerlessness and internally directed hostility than the resolvers. At follow-up resolvers had improved more on measures of depression, externally and internally directed hostility, locus of control, powerlessness, self-esteem, sensitivity to criticism, and social adjustment. Baseline problem severity, powerlessness (negatively), and ‘normlessness' ‘predicted’ degree of problem resolution, while baseline problem severity, the number of previous parasuicide episodes, and baseline internal hostility (the latter two variables negatively) were associated with problem resolution as a dichotomous variable. Resolvers improved more in social functioning during the follow-up than non-resolvers, but a similar proportion (16%) in each group reported repeat episodes of parasuicide at follow-up.

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Does Familial Educational Attainment Predict Sleep Quality Trajectories for Older Adults in Mexico?

Innovation in Aging ◽

10.1093/geroni/igab046.2271 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽

pp. 594-594

Author(s):

Margarita Osuna ◽

Connor Sheehan

Keyword(s):

Older Adults ◽

Sleep Quality ◽

Educational Attainment ◽

Healthy Aging ◽

Population Level ◽

Mixed Effects ◽

Children's Education ◽

Quality Sleep ◽

Aging Study ◽

Children’S Education

Abstract Researchers have stressed the importance of sleep for healthy aging and longevity. However, there are few population-level studies of sleep quality focusing on older adults in Latin America and Mexico in particular. The objective of this study is to examine the associations between personal and familial educational attainment on sleep quality. We utilized data from the 2001-2015 Mexican Health and Aging Study (N=4,164; MHAS). Our sample consisted of older adults (aged 50+), married with children. We predicted longitudinal reports of restless sleep across four waves of MHAS using mixed-effects logistic regression. We found that lower levels of respondents’ education, their spouses’ education, and their children’s’ education were associated with lower levels of sleep quality. When the measures of education were included in the same model, one’s own education and children’s education remained significantly associated with quality sleep. Our results stress the importance of familial educational attainment for sleep in Mexico.

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Parental Incarceration and Children's Educational Attainment

Review of Economics and Statistics ◽

10.1162/rest_a_01129 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-45

Author(s):

Carolina Arteaga

Keyword(s):

Educational Attainment ◽

Low Income ◽

Parental Incarceration ◽

Random Assignment ◽

Criminal Records ◽

Children's Education ◽

Children’S Education ◽

New Evidence ◽

Standard Framework

Abstract This paper presents new evidence showing that parental incarceration increases children's education. I collect criminal records for 90,000 low-income parents who have been convicted of a crime in Colombia, and link the educational attainment of their children. I exploit exogenous variation resulting from the random assignment of judges, and extend the standard framework to incorporate both conviction and incarceration decisions. I show that the effect of incarceration for a given conviction threshold can be identified. My results indicate that parental incarceration increases educational attainment by 0.78 years for the children of convicted parents on the margin of incarceration.

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Cohort profile: South Australian Aboriginal Birth Cohort (SAABC)—a prospective longitudinal birth cohort

BMJ Open ◽

10.1136/bmjopen-2020-043559 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (2) ◽

pp. e043559

Author(s):

Lisa M Jamieson ◽

Joanne Hedges ◽

X Ju ◽

Kostas Kapellas ◽

Cathy Leane ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Educational Attainment ◽

Birth Cohort ◽

Well Being ◽

Population Estimates ◽

Dental Disease ◽

Australian Aboriginal ◽

Aboriginal Child ◽

Prospective Longitudinal ◽

Over Time

PurposeThe South Australian Aboriginal Birth Cohort (SAABC) is a prospective, longitudinal birth cohort established to: (1) estimate Aboriginal child dental disease compared with population estimates; (2) determine the efficacy of an early childhood caries intervention in early versus late infancy; (3) examine if efficacy was sustained over time and; (4) document factors influencing social, behavioural, cognitive, anthropometric, dietary and educational attainment over time.ParticipantsThe original SAABC comprised 449 women pregnant with an Aboriginal child recruited February 2011 to May 2012. At child age 2 years, 324 (74%) participants were retained, at age 3 years, 324 (74%) participants were retained and at age 5 years, 299 (69%) participants were retained. Fieldwork for follow-up at age 7 years is underway, with funding available for follow-up at age 9 years.Findings to dateAt baseline, 53% of mothers were aged 14–24 years and 72% had high school or less educational attainment. At age 3 years, dental disease experience was higher among children exposed to the intervention later rather than earlier in infancy. The effect was sustained at age 5 years, but rates were still higher than general child population estimates. Experiences of racism were high among mothers, with impacts on both tooth brushing and toothache. Compared with population estimates, levels of self-efficacy and self-rated oral health of mothers at baseline were low.Future plansOur data have contributed to a better understanding of the environmental, behavioural, dietary, biological and psychosocial factors contributing to Aboriginal child oral and general health, and social and emotional well-being. This is beneficial in charting the trajectory of cohort participants’ health and well-being overtime, particularly in identifying antecedents of chronic diseases which are highly prevalent among Aboriginal Australians. Funding for continued follow-up of the cohort will be sought.Trial registration numberACTRN12611000111976; Post-results.

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Program SGK sebagai upaya pembentukan karakter yang kreatif dan berbudaya berbudi luhur di Kadipiro Surakarta

Indonesian Journal of Community Services ◽

10.30659/ijocs.1.2.152-164 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 152

Author(s):

Krisdayanti Krisdayanti ◽

Anita Trisiana

Keyword(s):

Positive Influence ◽

Children's Education ◽

Central Java ◽

Virtuous Character ◽

Children’S Education ◽

Central Java Province

AbstrakTujuan kegiatan yang dilakukan ini adalah untuk menumbuhkan karakter anak yang kreatif dan berbudi luhur melalui kegiatan �SGK (Sekolah Gencar Karakter)� serta memberikan wadah kepada anak-anak Kelurahan Kadipiro untuk bermain, berkarya dan belajar bersama para pendidik dan Karang Taruna setempat dalam kehidupan masyarakat sehari-hari di Desa Kadipiro, Kecamatan Banjarsari, Kabupaten Surakarta Solo, Provinsi Jawa Tengah. Metode yang sudah dilaksanakan dalam kegiatan ini adalah melalui beberapa tahap, yaitu: 1) Persiapan dan sosialisasi, 2) Realisasi program, dan 3) Evaluasi dan tindak lanjut. Hasil dari penelitian ini ialah terbentuknya anak-anak yang memiliki kreativitas, berbudi luhur serta karakter yang baik. Dengan terbentuknya anak-anak yang berkualitas di Kelurahan Kadipiro akan dapat memberikan pengaruh positif serta perubahan stigma negatif dalam pendidikan anak bagi kaum marginal di seluruh Indonesia, dan di Surakarta pada khususnya. Maka dari itu, dapat disimpulkan bahwa SGK (Sekolah Gencar Karakter) Upaya Pembentukan Karakter yang Kreatif dan Berbudaya Berbudi Luhur di Kadipiro dapat terwujud nyata di lingkup masyarakat.�Kata Kunci: karakter; kreatif; budaya; Sekolah Gencar Karakter�AbstractThe purpose of this activity is to grow the character of children who are creative and virtuous through the activities of "SGK (character Gencar school)" and give the children a container Kadipiro village to play, work and learn together Teachers and the local coral Taruna in the life of daily society in Kadipiro Village, Banjarsari District, Surakarta Solo Regency, Central Java province. The method that will be done in this activity is through several stages, namely: 1) Preparation and socialization, 2) Program realization, and 3) evaluation and follow-up. The result of this study was the formation of children with creativity, nobility and good character. With the formation of quality children in Kelurahan Kadipiro will be able to give positive influence as well as changes in the negative stigma in children's education for the marginal people throughout Indonesia, and in Surakarta in particular. Therefore, it can be concluded that SGK (the school of character Gencar) efforts to build to build creative and culturally-virtuous character in Kadipiro can be realized in real society.�Keywords: Character; Creative; Culture; Sekolah Gencar Karakter

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Women’s Suffrage and Children’s Education

American Economic Journal Economic Policy ◽

10.1257/pol.20180677 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (3) ◽

pp. 374-405

Author(s):

Esra Kose ◽

Elira Kuka ◽

Na’ama Shenhav

Keyword(s):

Educational Attainment ◽

Early Life ◽

Economic Outcomes ◽

Women's Suffrage ◽

Education Spending ◽

Children's Education ◽

Investment In Children ◽

Children’S Education ◽

Women’S Suffrage

While a growing literature shows that women, relative to men, prefer greater investment in children, it is unclear whether empowering women produces better economic outcomes. Exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in US suffrage laws, we show that exposure to suffrage during childhood led to large increases in educational attainment for children from disadvantaged backgrounds, especially Blacks and Southern Whites. We also find that suffrage led to higher earnings alongside education gains, although not for Southern Blacks. Using newly digitized data, we show that education increases are primarily explained by suffrage-induced growth in education spending, although early-life health improvements may have also contributed. (JEL H75, I21, I22, J13, J15, J16, N32)

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Unequal Families, Unequal Effects: How Parental Divorce Differentially Impacts Children's Educational Attainment

10.31235/osf.io/3j62e ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Jennie Brand ◽

Ravaris Moore ◽

Xi Song ◽

Yu Xie

Keyword(s):

Educational Attainment ◽

Cognitive Skills ◽

Family Income ◽

Parental Divorce ◽

Causal Effects ◽

Children's Education ◽

Family Disruption ◽

Psychosocial Skills ◽

Children’S Education ◽

Lower Educational Attainment

A substantial literature suggests that family disruption leads to lower educational attainment among children. We focus on how the effects of parental divorce on children’s education differ across families with varying likelihoods of disruption. Using U.S. panel data, with careful attention to the assumptions and methods needed to estimate total and mediating causal effects, we find a significant effect of parental divorce on educational attainment among children whose parents were unlikely to divorce, for whom divorce was thus a relative shock. We find no effect among children whose parents were likely to divorce and for whom divorce was one of many disadvantages, and thus less economically and socially disruptive. We also find that the observed effect of divorce on children’s education is strongly mediated by post-divorce family income. Children’s psychosocial skills also explain a portion of the effect among children with a low propensity for parental divorce, while cognitive skills play no role in explaining the negative association between divorce and children’s education. Our results suggest that family disruption does not uniformly disrupt children’s attainment.

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Psychological health and well-being among young Irish adults

Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine ◽

10.1017/s0790966700010569 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 24 (4) ◽

pp. 139-144 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

Anne Cleary ◽

Elizabeth Nixon ◽

Michael Fitzgerald

Keyword(s):

Locus Of Control ◽

Suicidal Ideation ◽

Alcohol Use ◽

Young People ◽

Educational Attainment ◽

Psychological Health ◽

Well Being ◽

Self Esteem ◽

Economic Disadvantage ◽

Health And Well Being

AbstractObjectives: The aim of this study was to examine and describe levels of psychological health and well-being in a group of young people living in Dublin.Method: A sample of 97 young people (50 males, 47 females) were assessed for psychological status, suicidal ideation, substance misuse, contact with the law, self-esteem and locus of control as well as various social indicators such as educational attainment and social connectedness. A screening version of the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis Diagnosis (SCID) was used to assess psychological functioning and the Beck Scale for Suicide Ideation was employed to ascertain suicidal ideation. Self-esteem was measured using the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale and locus of control was measured using a scale devised by Pearlin, Menaghan, Lieberman and Mullan (1981).Results: Symptom levels were high and approximately one fifth of respondents had a probable psychiatric condition (most commonly depression or anxiety). Yet, only a small percentage was receiving treatment for psychiatric difficulties. Over half of the participants had used nonprescription drugs at some time. Alcohol consumption was high, especially amongst male respondents. Over half of those interviewed were categorised as misusing alcohol and/or drugs and participants greatly underestimated their level of alcohol use. Approximately one-quarter had had some contact with the law which was related to deficits in educational attainment and the latter variable was associated with childhood economic disadvantage.Conclusions: These findings suggest that among a sample of 97 young Irish people, a high level of psychiatric symptomatology and excessive use of alcohol is evident. This remains largely untreated as only a small percentage of the group had sought help for psychological difficulties which suggests a need to address the issues of mental health awareness, alcohol use and the accessibility of services. The paper also underlines the association between economic disadvantage and lack of educational attainment with associated linkages to offending.

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Parental Aspirations for Children’s Education: Is There a “Girl Effect”? Experimental Evidence from Rural Ethiopia

AEA Papers and Proceedings ◽

10.1257/pandp.20191072 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 109 ◽

pp. 127-132

Author(s):

Tanguy Bernard ◽

Stefan Dercon ◽

Kate Orkin ◽

Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse

Keyword(s):

Social Norms ◽

Experimental Evidence ◽

Role Models ◽

Educational Aspirations ◽

Male And Female ◽

Children's Education ◽

Rural Ethiopia ◽

Catching Up ◽

Children’S Education

We report on an experiment with poor rural households in Ethiopia, which aimed to boost aspirations for a better future through exposure to documentaries featuring local male and female role models. We explore effects on parents' educational aspirations and investment in children's education. At baseline, educational aspirations are high but biased against girls. At a six-month follow-up, the intervention increased parents' aspirations for their children's education and increased enrollment, time spent in school, and schooling expenditures. There was no catching up of girls relative to boys. Results are consistent with broader local social norms that value education but disfavor women.

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Counseling Adolescents With Hearing Loss Using a Narrative Therapy Approach

Perspectives on Administration and Supervision ◽

10.1044/aas19.2.72 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 19 (2) ◽

pp. 72-78

Author(s):

Rebecca L. Nelson Crowell ◽

Julie Hanenburg ◽

Amy Gilbertson

Keyword(s):

Hearing Loss ◽

Process Evaluation ◽

Narrative Therapy ◽

Daily Life ◽

Hearing Aid ◽

Self Esteem ◽

Therapy Approach ◽

Self Worth ◽

Counseling Adolescents

Abstract Audiologists have a responsibility to counsel patients with auditory concerns on methods to manage the inherent challenges associated with hearing loss at every point in the process: evaluation, hearing aid fitting, and follow-up visits. Adolescents with hearing loss struggle with the typical developmental challenges along with communicative challenges that can erode one's self-esteem and self-worth. The feeling of “not being connected” to peers can result in feelings of isolation and depression. This article advocates the use of a Narrative Therapy approach to counseling adolescents with hearing loss. Adolescents with hearing loss often have problem-saturated narratives regarding various components of their daily life, friendships, amplification, academics, etc. Audiologists can work with adolescents with hearing loss to deconstruct the problem-saturated narratives and rebuild the narratives into a more empowering message. As the adolescent retells their positive narrative, they are likely to experience increased self-esteem and self-worth.

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