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1.	Atkins, Robert L. Hart, Daniel Donnelly, Thomas M.
1.	The Association of Childhood Personality Type With Volunteering During Adolescence Merrill-Palmer Quarterly 51, 2 (April 2005): 145-162 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult Publisher: Wayne State University Press Keyword(s): Adolescent Behavior; Child Self-Administered Supplement (CSAS); Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Religion; Temperament; Volunteer Work Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Using a longitudinal design, we investigated the relation of childhood personality type to volunteering during adolescence. We hypothesized that participants with more adaptive personality functioning during childhood would be more likely to volunteer during adolescence and that membership in social organizations would mediate the relation of personality to volunteering during adolescence. Participants from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) with complete data measures for the four time periods of study were categorized into one of three personality types during early childhood. Children assigned to the resilient personality type were more likely than children characterized by the overcontrolled and undercontrolled personality types to volunteer 8 and 10 years later in adolescence. Analyses demonstrated that the association of childhood personality to adolescent volunteering is not mediated by late-childhood membership in social institutions that may facilitate entry into volunteering. The findings are interpreted in terms of their implications for understanding personality and prosocial behavior.
	Bibliography Citation Atkins, Robert L., Daniel Hart and Thomas M. Donnelly. "The Association of Childhood Personality Type With Volunteering During Adolescence." Merrill-Palmer Quarterly 51, 2 (April 2005): 145-162.

2.	Heymann, S. Jody Penrose, Kate Earle, Alison
2.	Meeting Children's Needs: How Does the United States Measure Up? Merrill-Palmer Quarterly 52,2 (April 2006): 189-215. Also: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/merrill-palmer_quarterly/v052/52.2heymann.pdf Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Wayne State University Press Keyword(s): Children, Health Care; Education; Income Level; Maternal Employment; Parenthood; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Welfare Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The majority of parents in the United States today must balance work and caregiving responsibilities. Workplace policies and community supports markedly influence the ability of parents to care for their children's health and education while obtaining, retaining, and advancing in their jobs. The goal of this article is to analyze the dilemmas faced by working parents in general and by low-income families in particular, to present new data on how public policies in the United States compare to policies in over 150 other countries in addressing these dilemmas, and to suggest what more can be done to meet the needs of all working parents and their children across social class and residence.
	Bibliography Citation Heymann, S. Jody, Kate Penrose and Alison Earle. "Meeting Children's Needs: How Does the United States Measure Up?" Merrill-Palmer Quarterly 52,2 (April 2006): 189-215.

3.	Luster, Thomas Dubow, Eric F.
3.	Home Environment and Maternal Intelligence as Predictors of Verbal Intelligence: A Comparison of Preschool and School Age Children Merrill-Palmer Quarterly 38,2 (April 1992): 151-175. Also: http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=EJ441933&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=EJ441933 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Wayne State University Press Keyword(s): Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Child Development; Children; Children, Academic Development; Children, Home Environment; General Assessment; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Intelligence; Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. ERIC document: EJ441933 This study examines the extent to which home environment and maternal intelligence are predictive of verbal intelligence in two groups of children -- 3-5 year-olds and 6-8 year-olds. Data on approximately 2000 children from the NLSY merged mother-child data set were used for this study. Hierarchical regression was used to assess the relative contribution of home environment and maternal intelligence to children's verbal intelligence as measured by the PPVT-R. For both groups of children, there was a significant relation between home environment and children's verbal intelligence when the effect of maternal intelligence was statistically controlled. Likewise, maternal intelligence was a significant predictor of PPVT-R scores when the effect of home environment was partialled out. For the preschoolers, the effects of home environment and maternal intelligence were of comparable magnitude. For the elementary school children, maternal intelligence was a stronger predictor of PPVT-R scores than home environment. A developmental perspective is used to explain why earlier studies examining these relations have produced inconsistent results.
	Bibliography Citation Luster, Thomas and Eric F. Dubow. "Home Environment and Maternal Intelligence as Predictors of Verbal Intelligence: A Comparison of Preschool and School Age Children." Merrill-Palmer Quarterly 38,2 (April 1992): 151-175.

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