Children and Youth Services Review

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Volume 118, issue C, 2020

Exploring subtypes of children’s exposure to intimate partner violence

Tara Black, Barbara Fallon, Kristina Nikolova, Sarah Tarshis, Stephanie Baird and Jessica Carradine

Child participation in child welfare removals through the looking glass: Estonian children’s and professionals’ perspectives compared

Judit Strömpl and Katre Luhamaa

Child fosterage in Namibia: The impact of informal care arrangements upon children’s health and welfare

Victoria Sharley, Emmerentia Leonard, Janetta Ananias and Heather Ottaway

Families Offering Children Unfailing Support (FOCUS) Fatherhood Program: Changing child welfare through child support and parenting skills

M. Angela Nievar, Suhasini Ramisetty-Mikler, Mahasin F. Saleh and Natasha Cabrera

Paternity denial and consequences on children in patriarchal society: Situation in consensual couples in Rwanda

Innocent Iyakaremye, Liberata Mukamana and Jane Umutoni

How a training team delivers simulation training of child protection investigators

Yu-Ling Chiu and Theodore P. Cross

Academic stress and smartphone dependence among Chinese adolescents: A moderated mediation model

Jin-Liang Wang, Detlef H. Rost, Ren-Jie Qiao and Rebecca Monk

Health risk behaviors and suicide attempt among adolescents in China and Tanzania: A school-based study of countries along the belt and road

Yu Zhou, Pauline Denis Nkomola, Qi Xue, Xin Li, Xinyan Xie, Fang Hou, Huaiting Gu and Ranran Song

Strengthening family retention and relationships in home visiting programs through early screening and assessment practices

Jared Barton, Pegah Naemi Jimenez, Jacklyn Biggs, Teri A. Garstka and Thomas C. Ball

The role of client empathy in treatment outcome in a sample of adolescents referred to forensic youth psychiatric services

Minet de Wied, Jolien van der Graaff, Guido de Rooij, Floor Scheepers, Pieter J. Hoekstra, Susan Branje and Rens van de Schoot

Rehabilitation intervention in an ice hockey context: What changes under the helmet

Michel-Alexandre Rioux, Catherine Laurier, Miguel M. Terradas, Marjorie Carrier and Maxime Labonté

Evidence of non-economic indicators as markers of success for youth in youth employability programs: Insights from a South African study

Leila Patel, Lauren Graham and Gina Chowa

Support Over Silence for KIDS: A bystander training program to address public child maltreatment

Nancy L. Weaver, Meghan E. Taylor, Terri L. Weaver and Timothy J. Kutz

“She gave me hope and lightened my heart”: The transition to motherhood among vulnerable (young) mothers

Eveline van Vugt and Pleuntje Versteegh

Mapping inequalities in school attendance: The relationship between dimensions of socioeconomic status and forms of school absence

Markus Klein, Edward M. Sosu and Shadrach Dare

Effectiveness of a school-based life skills program on emotional regulation and depression among elementary school students: A randomized study

Meng-Jung Lee, Wen-Chi Wu, Hung-Chieh Chang, Hsing-Jung Chen, Wen-Shan Lin, Joyce Yen Feng and Tony Szu-Hsien Lee

Problematic mobile phone use and altruism in Chinese undergraduate students: The mediation effects of alexithymia and empathy

Zejun Hao, Liangyi Jin, Ruibo Lyu and Hafiza Rabia Akram

Exploring the potential utility and impact of a universal, multi-component early parenting intervention through a community-based, controlled trial

Grainne Hickey, Sinead McGilloway, Yvonne Leckey, Shane Leavy, Ann Stokes, Siobhan O'Connor, Michael Donnelly and Tracey Bywater

The ups and downs of mentoring relationship formation: What to expect

Lara Spiekermann, Michael Lyons and Edith Lawrence

Foster children’s cognitive functioning: A follow-up comparison study at 8 years of age

Heidi Jacobsen, Tore Wentzel-Larsen and Hans Bugge Bergsund

Training providers at Children’s Advocacy Centers to treat early childhood trauma: Perspectives on barriers, facilitators, and sustainability

Allison B. Smith, Alex R. Dopp, Cameron M. Perrine, Kathryn E. Parisi, Karin L. Vanderzee, Sufna John, Nicola A. Edge and Teresa L. Kramer

Factors affecting reproductive health promotion behavior among late-adolescent girls in South Korea: A cross-sectional descriptive study

Minji Je, Hyeon Ok Ju and Jaeyoung Lee

What factors predispose the intention to become a foster family in Estonia: Applying the theory of reasoned action and planned behavior?

Madli Raudkivi

Media exposure to family planning contents and adult support for teaching children about condom use to prevent HIV/AIDS: Findings from 2003 to 2014 Ghana Demographic Health Surveys

Pascal Agbadi, Twumwaa Eunice Tagoe, F. Akosua Agyemang, Veronica Millicent Dzomeku, Herman Nuake Kofi Agboh and Ernest Darkwah

‘Are We Talking as Professionals or as Parents?’ Complementary views on supervisory neglect among professionals working with families in Quebec, Canada

Geneviève Grégoire-Labrecque, Vicky Lafantaisie, Nico Trocmé, Carl Lacharité, Patricia Li, Geneviève Audet, Richard Sullivan and Mónica Ruiz-Casares

Adverse childhood experiences and trauma informed practices in second chance education settings in the Republic of Ireland: An inquiry-based study

Grainne Hickey, Stephen Smith, Lorraine O'Sullivan, Lucy McGill, Mary Kenny, Deirdre MacIntyre and Mary Gordon

Bullying and subjective well-being: A hierarchical socioeconomical status analysis of Chilean adolescents

Jorge J. Varela, Jorge Fábrega, Gisela Carrillo, Mariavictoria Benavente, Jaime Alfaro and Carlos Rodríguez

Pathways to prevention: Early Head Start outcomes in the first three years lead to long-term reductions in child maltreatment

Beth L. Green, Catherine Ayoub, Jessica Dym Bartlett, Carrie Furrer, Rachel Chazan-Cohen, Katherine Buttitta, Adam Von Ende, Andrew Koepp and Eric Regalbuto

You and me and all of us: The significance of belonging in a continual community of children in long-term care in Norway

Inger-Lise Negård, Oddbjørg Skjær Ulvik and Inger Oterholm

Deconstructing doing well; what can we learn from care experienced young people in England, Denmark and Norway?

Elisiv Bakketeig, Janet Boddy, Tonje Gundersen, Jeanette Østergaard and Fidelma Hanrahan

Evaluating a No Hit Zone program and provider interventions at an urban academic pediatric practice

Erin Bertero, Lance B. Irons, Heidi Flatin, Turaj Vazifedan and John Harrington

Service providers’ understanding of cross-cultural differences in belief of myths about child sexual abuse: Results from a program evaluation study in Australia

Pooja Sawrikar

Associations between parental involvement and school readiness for children enrolled in Head Start and other early education programs

Hyun-Joo Jeon, Carla A. Peterson, Gayle Luze, Judith J. Carta and Carolyn Clawson Langill

The Interaction effect of traditional Chinese culture and ego identity exploration on the flourishing of rural Chinese children

Sijia Guo, Xuan Ning and Tianli Qin

Service needs of children exposed to domestic violence: Qualitative findings from a statewide survey of domestic violence agencies

Kristen A. Berg, Anna E. Bender, Kylie E. Evans, Megan R. Holmes, Alexis P. Davis, Alyssa L. Scaggs and Jennifer A. King

Strategies used by child and youth care workers in to develop belonging and foster healthy attachments with young people in care in child and youth care centers in Tshwane, South Africa

Mizeck Chimange and Sue Bond

Parental views on preventing and minimizing negative effects of cyberbullying

Emily L. Helfrich, Jennifer L. Doty, Yi-Wen Su, Jacqlyn L. Yourell and Joy Gabrielli

Ambivalence in how to address adolescent marijuana use: Implications for counseling

Lara M. Gunderson, Rachel R. Sebastian, Cathleen E. Willging and Mary M. Ramos

Exploration of factors associated with secondary traumatic stress in foster parents

Adrienne Whitt-Woosley, Ginny Sprang and Jessica Eslinger

Visits with fathers involved in the criminal justice system and behavioral outcomes among children in foster care

Lauren A. Hindt, Scott C. Leon and Arthur J. Lurigio

Examination of the effectiveness of Neuroscience-Informed Child Education (NICE) within Japanese school settings

Yuki Matsumoto, Yuma Ishimoto and Yu Takizawa

Parenting style and Chinese children’s school readiness outcomes: The moderating role of socioeconomic status

Xiaoying Xia

Latent profiles of offline/cyber bullying experiences among Korean students and its relationship with peer conformity

Bu Kyung Kim, Jisu Park, Hi Jae Jung and Yoonsun Han

Substance-related problems among adolescents in child welfare services: A comparison between individuals receiving in-home services and those in foster care

Ove Heradstveit, Nathalie Gjertsen, Anette Christine Iversen, Sondre Aasen Nilsen, Kristin Gärtner Askeland, Øivin Christiansen and Mari Hysing

Head Start family services: Family characteristics as predictors of service use by Latinx families

Melissa S. Dahlin, Guadalupe Díaz, Jade M. Jenkins and Stephanie M. Reich

Household economic instability: Constructs, measurement, and implications

Taryn W. Morrissey, Yun Cha, Sharon Wolf and Mariam Khan

A randomized controlled trial of the effects of parental involvement in supported playgroup on parenting stress and toddler social-communicative behavior

Kate E. Williams, Kin-Ting So and Tik-Sze Carrey Siu

“It was only me against the world.” Female African American Adolescents’ perspectives on their sexual and reproductive health learning and experiences while in foster care: Implications for positive youth development

Christina Ross, Susan Kools and Kathryn Laughon

The effect of technoference in parent-child relationships on adolescent smartphone addiction: The role of cognitive factors

Lu Qiao and Qinxue Liu

“If Somebody is Different”: A critical analysis of parent, teacher and student perspectives on bullying and cyberbullying

Faye Mishna, Jane E. Sanders, Sandra McNeil, Gwendolyn Fearing and Katerina Kalenteridis

How family crises may limit engagement of youth with disabilities in services to support successful transitions to postsecondary education and employment

Jean P. Hall, Catherine Ipsen, Noelle K. Kurth, Sara McCormick and Catherine Chambless

Labor contracts and parents’ educational expectations for children: Income effect or expected effect?

Yankun Kang, Shuyuan Liang, Caiquan Bai and Chen Feng

Sex differentials in under five mortality in India in last two decades: Evidence from pooled NFHS data

Priyanka Patel, Kaushalendra Kumar, Mayank Singh and Ajit Kumar Yadav

Interparental violence: Professionals’ perspectives in the child protection system

Tatiana Pereira, Eunice Magalhães, Carla Sofia Silva, Carla Antunes and Ana Prioste

Children mental health after the 2008 global economic crisis: Assessing the impact of austerity in Portugal

Diogo Costa, Marina Cunha, Cláudia Ferreira, Augusta Gama, Aristides M. Machado-Rodrigues, Vítor Rosado-Marques, Helena Nogueira, Maria-Raquel G. Silva and Cristina Padez

Individual and familial factors as mediators and moderators of young children’s aggressive behavior

Mona Khoury-Kassabri, Iris Zadok, Rana Eseed and Vazsonyi T. Alexander

Cultural matching factors, child factors and fostering factors associated with successful foster placement: An explorative study into the perspectives of unaccompanied refugee children, their foster carers and guardians

Jet Rip, Elianne Zijlstra, Wendy Post, Margrite Kalverboer and Erik J. Knorth

Determinants of complete immunizations coverage among children aged 12–23 months in Papua New Guinea

Eugene Budu, Abdul-Aziz Seidu, Bright Opoku Ahinkorah, Ebenezer Agbaglo, Louis Kobina Dadzie and Sanni Yaya

Health needs of youth in detention with limited justice involvement

Elizabeth Barnert, D. Michael Applegarth, Ektha Aggarwal, Christopher Bondoc and Laura S. Abrams

Mobile phone addiction and school performance among Chinese adolescents from low-income families: A moderated mediation model

Chen Bai, Xiaomeng Chen and Keqing Han

Children in care of grandparents and non-grandparents: Which have greater odds of high academic performance?

Tamar E. Shovali, Melissa A. Bright and Kerstin Gerst Emerson

Trust as an analytical concept for the study of welfare programmes to reduce child health disparities: The case of a Swedish postnatal home visiting programme

Cecilia Franzén, Eva-Lotta Nilsson, Johan R. Norberg and Tomas Peterson

Targeted child support enforcement and its association with child support payments: Evidence from a program evaluation

Daeyong Lee, Carl F. Weems, Heather L. Rouse, Janet N. Melby, Feng Zhao, Maya Bartel and Kathryn Goudy

False allegations and caseworker conflict: Stressors among long-term foster parents

Ande Nesmith

Improvements in self-acceptance for LGBTQ+ and straight allied youth and young adults enrolled in an affirming system of care program

Sally Stevens, Katie Haverly and Claudia Powell

The effect of family literacy programs on the development of children’s early literacy in kindergarten settings

Fathi Ihmeideh and Fatima Al-Maadadi

Interaction status, victimization and emotional distress of left-behind children: A national survey in China

Yueyue Zhou, Yulan Cheng, Yiming Liang, Jiazhou Wang, Changning Li, Weijing Du, Yufang Liu and Zhengkui Liu

Standardized assessment domains as predictors of prescription of trauma-focused treatment for youth in out-of-home care

A. Nathan Verbist, Andrew M. Winters, Crystal Collins-Camargo and Becky F. Antle

Spatial inequality and aspirations for economic inclusion among Latin American youth

Chiara Cazzuffi, Vivián Díaz, Juan Fernández and Cristian Leyton

Working together to protect women and children from domestic violence: Factors influencing willingness to collaborate between organizations

K. Nikolova, J.L. Postmus, C. Buttner and E.A. Bosk

Parental attendance in two early-childhood training programmes to improve nurturing care: A randomized controlled trial

Rafaela Costa Martins, Adriana Kramer Fiala Machado, Yulia Shenderovich, Tâmara Biolo Soares, Suélen Henriques da Cruz, Elisa Raquel Pisani Altafim, Maria Beatriz Martins Linhares, Fernando Barros, Iná S. Santos and Joseph Murray

Maternal incarceration trajectories and the intergenerational transmission of imprisonment: A nationwide study

Qianwei Zhao, Alice Cepeda, Chih-Ping Chou and Avelardo Valdez

Parental drug use and racial and ethnic disproportionality in the U.S. foster care system

Angélica Meinhofer, Erica Onuoha, Yohanis Angleró-Díaz and Katherine M. Keyes

Are there indicators for children and adolescents who prematurely end their stays in residential care?

Thea Rau, Sophia Mayer, Vera Kiesel, Jeannine Ohlert, Jörg M. Fegert and Ferdinand Keller

Acute and chronic stress among workers in residential treatment centers for youth: Effects on restraint and seclusion

Caroline A. Mathieu, Pierrich Plusquellec, Charles-Édouard Giguère, Sonia Lupien and Steve Geoffrion

Housing experiences of families with children living in poor and overcrowded housing in Korea

SeHee Lim and HeeJoo Kim

Adolescent sexual abuse victims' levels of perceived social support and delayed disclosure

Nilüfer Koçtürk and Samiye Çilem Bilginer

Systematic narrative review of pediatric-to-adult care transition models for youth with pediatric-onset chronic conditions

Husayn Marani, Jamie Fujioka, Sahar Tabatabavakili and Natasha Bollegala

Social constructs, late recognition and decision making for managing fast breathing in children

Peter Agyei-Baffour, Daniel Ansong, Francis Adjei Osei, Seth Christopher Yaw Appiah, Sandra Owusu Kwarteng, Isaac Nyanor, Joseph Bonney, Anthony Enimil, Dennis Odai Laryea, Jonathan Mensah Dapaah, Nicholas Mensah, Ida Osei-Peprah, Alfred Owusu, Emmanuel Addo-Yobo, Alex Osei-Akoto, Osei Asibey Owusu, Victoria Ampiah, Joana Osei Saahene, Evans Xorse Amuzu and Justice Sylverken

Uncontrollable and controllable negative life events and changes in mental health problems: Exploring the moderation effects of family support and self-efficacy in economically disadvantaged adolescents

Fang-Hua Jhang

Grandparental and overall social support as resilience factors in coping with parental conflict among children of divorce

Yoa Sorek

Are Chinese kindergarten teachers professionally qualified? Evidence from the triangulated perspectives of stakeholders

Wei Wang, Jing Luo and Hui Li

Motivation matters: Parents' path to adoption as related to their perceptions of open adoption

Yoa Sorek, Brachi Ben Simon and Fida Nijim-Ektelat

Steadfast benevolence: A new framework for understanding important adult-youth relationships for adolescents in care

Bridget Colacchio Wesley, Julia Pryce, Johanna Barry and Philip Young P. Hong

Expanding our understanding of intergenerational exposure to adversity

Sonya Negriff

Adolescent aggression and violent video games: The role of moral disengagement and parental rearing patterns

JiaYu Li, Qian Du and Xuemei Gao

“This is a place for girls; respect that”: How at-risk girls feel about male presence in locked residences

Tehila Hertz

Is winning at the start important: Early childhood family cognitive stimulation and child development

Xianfang Xiong, Lanfang Deng and Hongyi Li

Ecological factors influencing suicidal ideation-to-action among Latinx adolescents: An exploration of sex differences

Tatiana Villarreal-Otálora, Javier F. Boyas, Luis R. Alvarez-Hernandez and Mariam Fatehi

The association between parental marriage satisfaction and adolescent suicidal ideation: The moderating effect of breastfeeding duration

Jianwen Chen, Xintong Zheng, Congcong Li, Qing Xiong, Quanlei Yu, Shuping Shi and Yiqiu Hu

Concrete services usage on child placement stability: Propensity score matched effects

Drew E. Winters, Barbara J. Pierce and Teresa M. Imburgia

Peer victimization, self-compassion, gender and adolescent mobile phone addiction: Unique and interactive effects

Qing-Qi Liu, Xiu-Juan Yang, Yu-Ting Hu and Chen-Yan Zhang

The contribution of professional youth work to the development of socially vulnerable youngsters: A multiple case study

Jolanda Sonneveld, Jeremy Rijnders, Judith Metz, Tine Van Regenmortel and René Schalk

School climate and student-based contextual learning factors as predictors of school absenteeism severity at multiple levels via CHAID analysis

Victoria R. Bacon and Christopher A. Kearney

Moral disengagement, victimization, empathy, social and emotional competencies as predictors of violence in children and adolescents

Raquel Espejo-Siles, Izabela Zych, David P. Farrington and Vicente J. Llorent

Family socioeconomic status and Chinese young children’ social competence: Parenting processes as mediators and contextualizing factors as moderators

Qianqian Liu, Nan Zhou, Hongjian Cao and Xiumin Hong

Policy innovation on building child friendly cities in China: Evidence from four Chinese cities

Fang Nan

“CPS Sucks, but… I think I’m better off in the system:” Family, social support, & arts-based mentorship in child protective services

Gabriel T Cesar and Scott H. Decker

Stressors of COVID-19 and stress consequences: The mediating role of rumination and the moderating role of psychological support

Baojuan Ye, Dehua Wu, Hohjin Im, Mingfan Liu, Xinqiang Wang and Qiang Yang

Facebook addiction associated with internet activity, depression and behavioral factors among university students of Bangladesh: A cross-sectional study

Abu Sayeed, Md Nazmul Hassan, Md Hafizur Rahman, Samer El Hayek, Md. Hasan Al Banna, Trisha Mallick, Al-Riaj Hasan, Amatul Elah Meem and Satyajit Kundu

Criminal exploitation of child protection-involved youth

Susan Baidawi, Rosemary Sheehan and Catherine Flynn

Barriers, opportunities, and enablers to educate girls from Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs): A systematic review of literature

Apparao Thamminaina, Pallavi Kanungo and Seemita Mohanty

Adolescent peer processes in extracurricular activities: Identifying developmental opportunities

Christian Berger, Nancy Deutsch, Olga Cuadros, Eduardo Franco, Matias Rojas, Gabriela Roux and Felipe Sánchez

Service needs of young people affected by adverse childhood experiences (ACEs): A systematic review of UK qualitative evidence

Sarah Lester, Meena Khatwa and Katy Sutcliffe

School-based health centers, academic achievement, and school discipline: A systematic review of the literature

Casey L. Thomas, Olga Acosta Price, Stephen Phillippi and Ashley Wennerstrom

More than comfort and discomfort: Emotion work of parenting children with autism in Hong Kong

Kim Kwok and Diana K. Kwok

Effects of prosocial cartoon models on aggressive cognitions and aggressive behaviors

Qian Zhang, Yi Cao, JingJin Tian, Kim El-Lim and Douglas A. Gentile

Universal school-based intervention for increasing resilience, and its effect on substance use

Ali Bahramnejad, Abedin Iranpour, Ali Karamoozian and Nouzar Nakhaee

A strategy to rescue mothers from isolated parenting: Development of the “social connectivity of mother with people in the community scale”

Hikaru Honda, Toshiko Kita, Michiyo Hirano and Kazuko Saeki

What are the perspectives of children in child protection work among social workers in Norway and Chile?

Ida Bruheim Jensen

Self-efficacy and well-being in adolescents: A comparative study using variable and person-centered analyses

James R. Andretta and Michael T. McKay

Accessibility, affordability, accountability, sustainability and social justice of early childhood education in China: A case study of Shenzhen

Sha Xie and Hui Li

Gender-responsive practice and pregnant girls: A scoping review of America’s girls courts

Aubrey Jones, Dorothy Wallis and Ashlie Seibers

Interventions for children with neurocognitive impairments in resource-limited settings: A systematic review

Amelia E. Van Pelt, Matthew I. Lipow, J. Cobb Scott and Elizabeth D. Lowenthal

Transitions into and out of post-traumatic stress among children involved in the child welfare system

Rebeccah L. Sokol, Jason Goldstick, Marc A. Zimmerman, Maria Muzik, Katherine L. Rosenblum and Alison L. Miller

Transitional patterns when leaving care – Care leavers’ agency in a longitudinal perspective

Mattias Bengtsson, Yvonne Sjöblom and Peter Öberg

An evaluation of a dog-assisted reading program to support student wellbeing in primary school

Linda Henderson, Christine Grové, Felicia Lee, Louisa Trainer, Hannah Schena and Marcelle Prentice

The effect of problematic Internet use on mathematics achievement: The mediating role of self-efficacy and the moderating role of teacher-student relationships

Da Zhou, Jinqing Liu and Jian Liu

Parental technoference and smartphone addiction in Chinese adolescents: The mediating role of social sensitivity and loneliness

Qinxue Liu, Jiayin Wu, Zongkui Zhou and Weijun Wang

Changing considerations of matching foster carers and children: A scoping review of the research and evidence

Zoë Haysom, Gemma McKibbin, Aron Shlonsky and Bridget Hamilton

Applying target congruence theory to victimization risk of students from multicultural backgrounds: A comparison of South Korean, North Korean, and other multicultural family adolescents

Jaeyong Choi, Nathan Kruis and Julak Lee

Navigating sexual and reproductive health issues: Voices of deaf adolescents in a residential school in Ghana

Abigail Adubea Mills

Peer relationships, self-efficacy, academic motivation, and mathematics achievement in Zhuang adolescents: A moderated mediation model

Ling Li, Zhenfei Peng, Liucun Lu, Huan Liao and Hui Li

The impact of social media usage and lifestyle habits on academic achievement: Insights from a developing country context

Imad Bou-Hamad

Computational thinking and academic achievement: A meta-analysis among students

Hao Lei, Ming Ming Chiu, Feng Li, Xi Wang and Ya-jing Geng

Interrelationships of parental belief, parental investments, and child development: A cross-sectional study in rural China

Jingdong Zhong, Jingjing Gao, Tianyi Wang, Yang He, Chengfang Liu and Renfu Luo

Managing conflictual teacher-child relationship in pre-schools: A preliminary test of the job resources buffering-effect hypothesis in an emerging economy

Michael Osei Aboagye, Phillip Boateng, Kotor Asare, Frank Owusu Sekyere, Collins Opoku Antwi and Jinliang Qin

Financial support and financial well-being for vocational school students in China

Xiaoxia Xie, Meichun Xie, Huiying Jin, Shannon Cheung and Chien-Chung Huang

Impact of sanitation and clean drinking water on the prevalence of diarrhea among the under-five children in India

Rahul Mallick, Salim Mandal and Pradip Chouhan

Young children’s online learning during COVID-19 pandemic: Chinese parents’ beliefs and attitudes

Chuanmei Dong, Simin Cao and Hui Li

Individual and interpersonal factors associated with psychosocial functioning among adolescents in foster care: A scoping review

Brianne H. Kothari, Jennifer Blakeslee and Rebecca Miller

Educators’ views on the location of Pre-K programs and its relation to features of P-3 alignment: An exploratory study

Michael Little

Impact of “e-Learning crack-up” perception on psychological distress among college students during COVID-19 pandemic: A mediating role of “fear of academic year loss”

Najmul Hasan and Yukun Bao

Gender differentials and risk of infant and under five mortality in India. A comparative survival analysis

Anita Pal, Jeetendra Yadav, Dolly Kumari and Kh. Jitenkumar Singh

Does parent engagement enhance children’s emotional well-being in family team conference? Not a panacea for families with intimate partner violence

Jangmin Kim, Mi Jin Choi, Mark H. Trahan, Jennifer L. Bellamy and Barbara Pierce

Youth at risk: The alarming issue of drug addiction in academic institutions in Pakistan

Bilal Ahmed, Farhan Navid Yousaf, Muhammad Saud and Akhlaq Ahmad

Family’s social economic status and child educational outcomes in China: The mediating effects of parenting practices and children’s learning attitudes

Di Qi and Yichao Wu

Psychological distress among young adults exposed to armed conflict in Kashmir

Aehsan Ahmad Dar and Sibnath Deb

Growth and fixed mindsets about talent matter for career development self-efficacy in selected Filipino adolescents

Jet U. Buenconsejo and Jesus Alfonso D. Datu

Coverage and factors associated with complete polio vaccination among Indonesian children aged 0–18 months

Devi Mediarti, Rosnani Rosnani, Tintin Sukartini, Hidayat Arifin and Yulia Kurniawati

Is sexual assault breaking women’s spatial confidence in cities of India? Some explorations from Varanasi city

Rashmi Rai and Ambarish Kumar Rai

Does seasonal variation affect diarrhoea prevalence among children in India? An analysis based on spatial regression models

Himanshu Chaurasia, Shobhit Srivastava and Jiten Kumar Singh

COVID-19 pandemic and pediatric dentistry: Fear, eating habits and parent’s oral health perceptions

Ricardo Campagnaro, Giulia de Oliveira Collet, Mariana Podadeiro de Andrade, João Pedro da Silva Lopes Salles, Marina de Lourdes Calvo Fracasso, Debora Lopes Salles Scheffel, Karina Maria Salvatore Freitas and Gabriela Cristina Santin