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Successful Children of Adolescent Mothers: Identifying Microsystem Factors Impacting the Adjustment of Children Ph.D. Dissertation, Michigan State University, 1997 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning Keyword(s): Adolescent Fertility; Age at First Birth; Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Behavior Problems Index (BPI); CESD (Depression Scale); Child Self-Administered Supplement (CSAS); Children, Academic Development; Children, Adjustment Problems; Children, Behavioral Development; Depression (see also CESD); Family Influences; Hispanics; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Mothers, Adolescent; Neighborhood Effects; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT); Racial Differences; Variables, Independent - Covariate The purpose of this study was to examine specific microsystem factors which predict the academic achievement and behavioral adjustment of children of adolescent mothers with a special emphasis on those children who are academically and behaviorally successful. Data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth on 476 mothers between the ages of 15 and 19 years at the birth of their first child with first born children between the ages of 13 and 17 years in 1992 were used for this study. Of the sample mothers and children, 224 were African American, 155 were Caucasian, and 97 were Hispanic. There were 19 independent variables identified in this study including 6 microsystems categories (15 variables) and 4 individual child characteristic variables. There were 3 dependent variables measured in the study: Academic achievement, Behavioral Adjustment, and Overall Success. Both bivariate analyses and multiple step logistic regression analyses were completed employing the enter method to examine the effects of the predictor variables on each of the three dependent variables. |
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Wheeler, Susan Elizabeth. Successful Children of Adolescent Mothers: Identifying Microsystem Factors Impacting the Adjustment of Children. Ph.D. Dissertation, Michigan State University, 1997. |