Achievement

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A clinical review of outcomes of the multimodal treatment study of children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (MTA). 
  • A gradient of childhood self-control predicts health, wealth, and public safety. 
  • A novel tool for evaluating non-cognitive traits of doctor of physical therapy learners in the United States. 
  • A randomized trial of two promising computer-based interventions for students with attention difficulties. 
  • Academic Success for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Nursing Students: An Integrative Review. 
  • Achievement and maintenance of sustained response during the Treatment for Adolescents With Depression Study continuation and maintenance therapy. 
  • Achieving sufficient accrual to address the primary endpoint in phase III clinical trials from U.S. Cooperative Oncology Groups. 
  • Adjustment to college in students with ADHD. 
  • Attention Problems and Academic Achievement: Do Persistent and Earlier-Emerging Problems Have More Adverse Long-Term Effects? 
  • Automatic for the people: how representations of significant others implicitly affect goal pursuit. 
  • Behavior patterns of socially rejected and neglected preadolescents: the roles of social approach and aggression. 
  • Behavioral and emotional disturbances in the offspring of depressed parents with anger attacks. 
  • Changes in the relation of self-efficacy beliefs and behaviors across development. 
  • Cognitive and noncognitive predictors of success. 
  • Collaboration in young children. 
  • Comparison of performance achievement award recognition with primary stroke center certification for acute ischemic stroke care. 
  • Competent adolescents from different socioeconomic and ethnic contexts. 
  • Consistency of hand-preference across the early years: long-term relationship to verbal intelligence and reading achievement in girls. 
  • Context matters in child and family policy. 
  • Death anxiety, dissent, and competence. 
  • Declines Noted in Cognitive Processes and Association With Achievement Among Children With Leukemia. 
  • Developing a biodata measure and situational judgment inventory as predictors of college student performance. 
  • Development of experimental mood induction procedures for testing personality-event interaction models of depression. 
  • Discrepancies between academic achievement and intellectual ability in higher-functioning school-aged children with autism spectrum disorder. 
  • Does emotional intelligence influence success during medical school admissions and program matriculation?: a systematic review. 
  • Environmental contributors to the achievement gap. 
  • Examining the Effects of Changes in Classroom Quality on Within-Child Changes in Achievement and Behavioral Outcomes. 
  • Explaining the relation between IQ and delinquency: class, race, test motivation, school failure, or self-control? 
  • Factors associated with arithmetic-and-reading disability and specific arithmetic disability. 
  • Family dinner meal frequency and adolescent development: relationships with developmental assets and high-risk behaviors. 
  • Former Latchkey Children: Personality and Academic Correlates. 
  • Friendships with peers who are low or high in aggression as moderators of the link between peer victimization and declines in academic functioning. 
  • Genetic influences on childhood competencies: a twin study. 
  • How goal instrumentality shapes relationship evaluations. 
  • Hydrocephalus as a possible additional contributor to cognitive outcome in survivors of pediatric medulloblastoma. 
  • Imposter Syndrome in Surgical Trainees: Clance Imposter Phenomenon Scale Assessment in General Surgery Residents. 
  • Individual differences in executive function partially explain the socioeconomic gradient in middle-school academic achievement. 
  • Individual differences in self-regulatory failure and menstrual dysfunction predict upper respiratory infection symptoms and antibody response to flu immunization. 
  • Is past academic productivity predictive of radiology resident academic productivity? 
  • John Henryism and blood pressure differences among black men. 
  • Juvenile delinquency and attention deficit disorder: boys' developmental trajectories from age 3 to age 15. 
  • Learning to live in a therapeutic community: a study of elderly inpatients. 
  • Married with children: predictors of mental and physical health in middle-aged women. 
  • Maternal socialization goals, parenting styles, and social emotional adjustment among Chinese and European American young adults: testing a mediation model. 
  • Metacognition, risk behavior, and risk outcomes: the role of perceived intelligence and perceived knowledge. 
  • Motives and perceived consequences of nonmedical ADHD medication use by college students: are students treating themselves for attention problems? 
  • Neurocognitive consequences of risk-adapted therapy for childhood medulloblastoma. 
  • Neuropsychologic functioning of survivors of childhood medulloblastoma randomized to receive conventional or reduced-dose craniospinal irradiation: a Pediatric Oncology Group study. 
  • New destinations, new trajectories? The educational progress of Hispanic youth in North Carolina. 
  • Nonverbal display of emotion in public and in private: self-monitoring, personality, and expressive cues. 
  • On the relation between attitude to work and attitude to retirement. 
  • On the relation between motivation and retention in educational contexts: The role of intentional and unintentional mind wandering. 
  • Over and over again: rumination, reflection, and promotion goal failure and their interactive effects on depressive symptoms. 
  • Parent academic involvement as related to school behavior, achievement, and aspirations: demographic variations across adolescence. 
  • Parents' and teachers' concordance with children's self-ratings of suicidality: findings from a high-risk sample. 
  • Patterns of change in hostility from college to midlife in the UNC Alumni Heart Study predict high-risk status. 
  • Performance incentives and means: how regulatory focus influences goal attainment. 
  • Personal vulnerability, life events, and depressive symptoms: a test of a specific interactional model. 
  • Personality and oral health. 
  • Personality differences in childhood and adolescence: measurement, development, and consequences. 
  • Personality in the life course. 
  • Predicting developmental outcomes at school entry using a multiple-risk model: four American communities. The Conduct Problems Prevention Research Group. 
  • Predictors and Consequences of Aggressive-Withdrawn Problem Profiles in Early Grade School 
  • Predictors of the performance of foreign medical graduates on the 1982 certifying examination in internal medicine. 
  • Prognosis for psychophysiologic disorders in the naval service. 
  • Psychometric evaluation of 5- and 7-year-old children's self-reports of conduct problems. 
  • Relationships between meaning in life, social and achievement events, and positive and negative affect in daily life. 
  • Resilient, overcontrolled, and undercontrolled boys: three replicable personality types. 
  • School outcomes of aggressive-disruptive children: prediction from kindergarten risk factors and impact of the fast track prevention program. 
  • Selectivity of physiotherapist programs in the United States does not differ by institutional funding source or research activity level. 
  • Self-regulatory cognition and immune reactivity: idiographic success and failure feedback effects on the natural killer cell. 
  • Self-reported ADHD and adjustment in college: cross-sectional and longitudinal findings. 
  • Tackling NCD in LMIC: Achievements and Lessons Learned From the NHLBI-UnitedHealth Global Health Centers of Excellence Program. 
  • Teen-aged mothers in contemporary Britain. 
  • Testing an idealized dynamic cascade model of the development of serious violence in adolescence. 
  • The "little five": exploring the nomological network of the five-factor model of personality in adolescent boys. 
  • The American Board of Internal Medicine recertification examination: process and results. 
  • The Association of Health-Related Fitness and Chronic Absenteeism Status in New York City Middle School Youth. 
  • The Effects of Choice on Intrinsic Motivation and Related Outcomes: A Meta-Analysis of Research Findings 
  • The Life Trajectory Interview for Youth (LTI-Y): method development and psychometric properties of an instrument to assess life-course models and achievement. 
  • The Problem of Doping 
  • The academic lives of neglected, rejected, popular, and controversial children 
  • The boundary of social phobia. Exploring the threshold. 
  • The effects of a multiyear universal social-emotional learning program: The role of student and school characteristics. 
  • The effects of the fast track preventive intervention on the development of conduct disorder across childhood. 
  • The effects of the fast track program on serious problem outcomes at the end of elementary school. 
  • The initial examination for a Certificate of Added Qualifications in Surgery of the Hand. 
  • The misuse and diversion of prescribed ADHD medications by college students. 
  • The multi-dimensional nature of active coping: differential effects of effort and enhanced control on cardiovascular reactivity. 
  • The role of biomedical and psychosocial processes in the intellectual and academic functioning of children and adolescents with cystic fibrosis. 
  • The role of parental involvement in youth sport participation and performance. 
  • The roots of human altruism. 
  • The social adaptation of mainstreamed mildly retarded children 
  • Trajectories of internalizing, externalizing, and grades for children who have and have not experienced their parents' divorce or separation. 
  • Walking in Her Shoes: Pretending to Be a Female Role Model Increases Young Girls' Persistence in Science. 
  • Work-based antipoverty programs for parents can enhance the school performance and social behavior of children. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Asher, Steven R., Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Psychology & Neuroscience
  • Bentley-Edwards, Keisha Leanne, Associate Professor in Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine
  • Clotfelter, Charles T., Z. Smith Reynolds Distinguished Professor of Public Policy Studies, Economics
  • Dodge, Kenneth A., William McDougall Distinguished Professor of Public Policy Studies, Duke Science & Society
  • Ladd, Helen F., Susan B. King Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Public Policy, Economics