Self-management training for Chinese obese children at risk for metabolic syndrome: Effectiveness and implications for school health
This article reviews the results of a school-based self-management intervention for Chinese obese children at risk for metabolic syndrome. Twenty-eight Chinese obese children (M age = 10 years) and their parents participated in the study. Metabolic syndrome risk factors were measured pre- and post-intervention. The risk factors included Body Mass Index, waist circumstance, systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, triglycerides, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, High-sensitivity C-reactive Protein, fasting plasma glucose, and fasting blood insulin. After 6 months of school-...
Source: School Psychology International - March 30, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ling, J., Anderson, L. M., Ji, H. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Recommendations for policy and practice of physical education in culturally and linguistically diverse Australian secondary schools based on a two-year prospective cohort study
This article provides implications and synthesized recommendations based on Phase One (systematic review) and Phase Two (prospective cohort study of students in six schools) of Physical Activity in Linguistically Diverse Communities for school leadership and psychologists targeting policy and practice changes on a systems level. (Source: School Psychology International)
Source: School Psychology International - March 30, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dudley, D. A., Pearson, P., Okely, A. D., Cotton, W. G. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Physical activity and play behaviours in children and young people with intellectual disabilities: A cross-sectional observational study
In conclusion, interventions designed from formative research are needed to promote physical activity within this population. Implications for school psychologists are discussed. (Source: School Psychology International)
Source: School Psychology International - March 30, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Boddy, L. M., Downs, S. J., Knowles, Z. R., Fairclough, S. J. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
A randomized controlled design investigating the effects of classroom-based physical activity on children's fluid intelligence and achievement
This study assessed via a randomized, controlled design whether additional curricular physical activity during the school day resulted in gains for children’s fluid intelligence and standardized achievement outcomes. Participants were children (N = 460) from four urban schools in the Southeast United States. Schools were randomly assigned to treatment and control conditions. Treatment schools received additional physical activity breaks throughout the school day while control schools maintained a typical schedule without curricular activity breaks. Results from the one-year study show positive effects for children&rs...
Source: School Psychology International - March 30, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Fedewa, A. L., Ahn, S., Erwin, H., Davis, M. C. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
The relationship between student health and academic performance: Implications for school psychologists
Children who are unhealthy are at higher risk for school problems than students who are free from medical problems. Students with poor health have a higher probability of school failure, grade retention, and dropout. The relationship between student health and academic success is complex. Common manageable factors of student health are nutrition, maintaining healthy weight, and physical fitness. Through a comprehensive literature review the relationships among school achievement and nutrition, maintaining healthy weight, and physical fitness are examined. Furthermore, the efficacy of educational programs to improve nutriti...
Source: School Psychology International - March 30, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Shaw, S. R., Gomes, P., Polotskaia, A., Jankowska, A. M. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
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Source: School Psychology International - January 16, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Call for papers Source Type: research
Impact of violent video games on the social behaviors of adolescents: The mediating role of emotional competence
Recently, research studies and media have reported on the detrimental effects violent video games have on the social behaviors of adolescents. For example, previous studies have found that playing video games is positively associated with aggressive behaviors and negatively associated with prosocial behaviors. However, very few studies have examined the mediating effects of personal characteristics between students playing video games and their social behaviors. Thus, using a sample of 1,242 seventh, eighth, and ninth grade Korean students, the authors aimed to determine how playing video games is related to aggressive and...
Source: School Psychology International - January 16, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: You, S., Kim, E., No, U. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Chinese teachers' perceptions of the roles and functions of school psychological service providers in Beijing
This study used a semi-structured interview with 94 teachers from 92 elementary and secondary schools in Beijing, China, to explore their perceptions of the roles, training, and challenges of school psychological service providers (SPs) as well as teachers’ satisfaction with the services provided by SPs. Results indicated that the SP to student ratio was 1:1360. Only 32 (34.8%) schools had SPs who were certified as mental health counselors or who had degrees in psychology, and 18 (19.6%) schools did not have SPs. Based on teacher report, SPs’ roles mainly focused on services for students (teaching mental health...
Source: School Psychology International - January 16, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Wang, C., Ni, H., Ding, Y., Yi, C. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Goal oriented and risk taking behavior: The roles of multiple systems for Caucasian and Arab-American adolescents
With Bronfenbrenner’s (1977) ecological theory and other multifactor models (e.g. Pianta, 1999; Prinstein, Boergers, & Spirito, 2001) underlying this study design, the purpose was to examine, simultaneously, key variables in multiple life contexts (microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem levels) for their individual and combined roles in predicting adolescent risk-taking and goal-oriented behaviors. Predictor variables were parenting behaviors (parenting style, monitoring, and involvement), the risk-taking and goal-oriented behavior of peers, and religiosity (attendance, involvement, and importance). General media con...
Source: School Psychology International - January 16, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tynan, J. J., Somers, C. L., Gleason, J. H., Markman, B. S., Yoon, J. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Academic achievement, self-concept and depression in Taiwanese children: Moderated mediation effect
The primary purpose of this study was to utilize a multidimensional perspective to examine whether children’s self-concept served as a mediator between academic achievement and depression, and to further investigate whether this mediation effect was moderated by the ages of children. The participants consisted of 632 Taiwanese children in the grades 3 to 6. In the mediation analyses, results found that self-concept, representing a multifaceted and hierarchical structure, was intermediate in the relationship between academic achievement and depression. In further moderated mediation analyses, results indicated that th...
Source: School Psychology International - January 16, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Wu, P.-C., Kuo, S.-T. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Social emotional learning in a Guatemalan preschool sample: Does socioeconomic status moderate the effects of a school-based prevention program?
Researchers evaluated the effectiveness of a universal social skills program and compared social emotional knowledge on individual skills interviews with 100 Guatemalan preschool children from resource rich (N = 47) and resource poor (N = 53) backgrounds. Participant ages ranged from 3- to 6-years-old. SEL was evaluated prior and subsequent to receiving a school-based social emotional educational program. Results were analysed in terms of effectiveness of SEL by error type. Data show that preschool children from both poor and wealthy families made significant gains in social-emotional knowledge as a result of SEL instructi...
Source: School Psychology International - January 16, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Clinton, A. B., Edstrom, L., Mildon, H. A., Davila, L. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
The effects of family cultural capital and reading motivation on reading behaviour in elementary school students
This study proposed and tested a structural model of the effects of family cultural capital and reading motivation on reading behaviour in elementary school students. Participants were 467 fifth and sixth graders from elementary schools in Changhua County, Taiwan. The instruments employed in this study included the Family Cultural Capital Scale, Reading Motivation Scale, and Reading Behaviour Scale. The analyses revealed: (a) The observed data fit the proposed model; (b) family cultural capital had a significant direct effect on reading motivation; (c) reading motivation had a significant direct effect on reading behaviour...
Source: School Psychology International - January 16, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Chiu, S.-I., Hong, F.-Y., Hu, H.-y. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
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Source: School Psychology International - November 18, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Call for papers Source Type: research
Peer victimization in youth from immigrant and non-immigrant US families
The phenomenology of peer victimization in youth from immigrant and non-immigrant US families was investigated in the current study. Specifically, differences in how youth were victimized, their responses to being victimized, and how peer bystanders responded to peer aggression incidents involving youth from these respective groups were investigated. Data were collected from two subsets of youth involved in a national research project. Results indicate that youth from immigrant families are more likely than their non-immigrant peers to report being victimized by physical aggression and to be victimized because of issues re...
Source: School Psychology International - November 18, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sulkowski, M. L., Bauman, S., Wright, S., Nixon, C., Davis, S. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Knowledge transfer or social competence? A comparison of German and Canadian adolescent students on their socio-motivational relationships in school
This cross-national study investigates the perception of the impact of students’ relationships towards teachers and peers on scholastic motivation in a total sample of 1477 seventh and eighth grade German (N = 1088) and Canadian (N = 389) secondary school students. By applying Multigroup Confirmatory Latent Class Analysis in Mplus we confirmed four different motivation types: (1) teacher-dependent; (2) peer-dependent; (3) teacher-and-peer-dependent; (4) teacher-and-peer-independent motivation types in Québec, Canada, as they were found in a preliminary study among German students in the state of Brandenburg (R...
Source: School Psychology International - November 18, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Hoferichter, F., Raufelder, D., Eid, M., Bukowski, W. M. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
