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Correction to: Understanding Students' Transition to High School: Demographic Variation and the Role of Supportive Relationships.

J Youth Adolesc

May 2020

Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station Stop A2702, Austin, TX, 78712, USA.

The original version of the article was published with few errors in Tables 2 and 4. The correct version of the tables are presented along in this erratum.

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Understanding Students' Transition to High School: Demographic Variation and the Role of Supportive Relationships.

J Youth Adolesc

October 2017

Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station Stop A2702, Austin, TX, 78712, USA.

The transition to high school is disruptive for many adolescents, yet little is known about the supportive relational processes that might attenuate the challenges students face as they move from middle to high school, particularly for students from more diverse backgrounds. Identifying potential buffers that protect youth across this critical educational transition is important for informing more effective support services for youth. In this study, we investigated how personal characteristics (gender, nativity, parent education level) and changes in support from family, friends, and school influenced changes in socioemotional adjustment and academic outcomes across the transition from middle to high school.

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Parental Involvement and Adolescents' Educational Success: The Roles of Prior Achievement and Socioeconomic Status.

J Youth Adolesc

June 2016

Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station Stop A2702, Austin, TX, 78712, USA.

Parental educational involvement in primary and secondary school is strongly linked to students' academic success; however; less is known about the long-term effects of parental involvement. In this study, we investigated the associations between four aspects of parents' educational involvement (i.e.

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Adolescents' perceptions of the prejudice in their social environments can factor into their developmental outcomes. The degree to which others in the environment perceive such prejudice-regardless of adolescents' own perceptions-also matters by shedding light on the contextual climate in which adolescents spend their daily lives. Drawing on the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, this study revealed that schoolwide perceptions of peer prejudice, which tap into the interpersonal climate of schools, appeared to be particularly risky for adolescents' academic achievement.

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Links between schools' demographic composition and students' achievement have been a major policy interest for decades. Using a racially/ethnically diverse sample from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (N = 6,302; 54% females; 53% White, 21% African American, 15% Latino, 8% Asian American, 2% other race/ethnicity), we examined the associations between demographic marginalization, students' later social integration (loneliness at school, school attachment), and educational performance and attainment. Adolescents who were socioeconomically marginalized at school [i.

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Do men and women show love differently in marriage?

Pers Soc Psychol Bull

November 2012

Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station Stop A2702, Austin, TX 78712, USA.

In Western societies, women are considered more adept than men at expressing love in romantic relationships. Although scholars have argued that this view of love gives short shrift to men's ways of showing love (e.g.

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