Eric Dion
Biographic Data
| ID | 5760666 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eric Dion |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eric |
| FAMILY NAME | Dion |
| SIGNATURE | DION E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université du Québec à Montréal |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9296-738X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Clinician Perceptions of Somali-American Patients in Specialized Maternal-Fetal Care
Impacts of Covid-19 on primary and secondary school students: A case study in Quebec
Diseases of despair in early adulthood: The complex role of social relationships
Diseases of despair," most prominently depressive and substance-related problems, diminish the prospects of many young adults, especially those with lower levels of education. Yet many young adults in that situation avoid these problems. Close relationships are thought to be a key factor underpinning risk and resilience among this group. To examine this premise, this study explored links, beyond potential confounders assessed in adolescence, betw…
School Mobility and High School Dropout: Seasonal and Developmental Timing Matters
Non-promotional school changes are fairly common, and although most mobile students successfully adjust to new peers, routines, and teachers, school mobility can sometimes indicate risk of disengagement and even dropout. To identify which mobile students are at risk and in need of support, it is important to differentiate when mobility may pose a threat and when it does not. The goal of this study was to examine the role of temporality in the rel…
School-based extracurricular activity involvement and high school dropout among at-risk students: Consistency matters
Encouraging involvement in school-based extracurricular activities (ECA) may be important for preventing high school dropout. However, the potential of these activities remains underexploited, perhaps because studies linking ECA involvement and dropout are rare and based on decades-old data. Previous studies also ignore key parameters of student involvement. The present study expands and updates this limited literature by using recent data from a…
Social contagion and high school dropout: The role of friends, romantic partners, and siblings
Social contagion theories suggest that adolescents in relationships with same-age high school dropouts should be at a greater risk of dropping out themselves. Yet, few studies have examined this premise, and none have considered all potentially influential same-age intimates, focusing instead on only either friends or siblings. Moreover, a key influence in adolescents’ social worlds, romantic partners, has been ignored. The goal of this study was…
Why do extracurricular activities prevent dropout more effectively in some high schools than in others? A mixed-method examination of organizational dynamics
This study describes policies and practices implemented in 12 high schools (Quebec, Canada) that more or less effectively leveraged extracurricular activities (ECA) to prevent dropout among vulnerable students. Following an explanatory sequential mixed design, three school profiles ( Effective, Ineffective , and Mixed ) were derived based on quantitative student-reported data. Qualitative interviews with frontline staff revealed that in Effective…
Adaptation and Validation of the Life Events and Difficulties Schedule for Use With High School Dropouts
The Life Events and Difficulties Schedule (LEDS) is considered the standard for measuring psychosocial stressor exposure, but it has not been used with academically at-risk adolescents, including high school dropouts. The goal of this study was to (1) adapt the LEDS for use with this population, and (2) examine the reliability (interrater) and validity (concurrent and predictive) of this adaptation among a sample of vulnerable adolescents (N = 54…
Stressors and Turning Points in High School and Dropout: A Stress Process, Life Course Framework
High school dropout is commonly seen as the result of a long-term process of failure and disengagement. As useful as it is, this view has obscured the heterogeneity of pathways leading to dropout. Research suggests, for instance, that some students leave school not as a result of protracted difficulties but in response to situations that emerge late in their schooling careers, such as health problems or severe peer victimization. Conversely, othe…
School mobility and school-age children’s social adjustment
This study explored how nonpromotional school changes, a potentially major event for children, were associated with 3 forms of social maladjustment: isolation/withdrawal, affiliation with maladjusted peers, and aggression toward peers. Given that school mobility frequently co-occurs with family transitions, the moderating role of these transitions was investigated. These issues were examined in 2 longitudinal samples of U.S. (N = 1,364) and Canad…
Canada’s Comprehensive Approach in Afghanistan: A Critical Review of Literature, 2001–2011
Following a critical review of the extensive literature on the topic of Canada’s Comprehensive Approach in Afghanistan, from 2001 to 2011, this article traces the genealogy of the approach, identifies three major contributions as well as three serious limitations. A subsequent qualitative analysis of the content of this literature, as well as a quantitative meta-analysis provide a deeper than ever understanding of the complexity of Canada’s so-ca…
Understanding the positive role of neighborhood socioeconomic advantage in achievement: The contribution of the home, child care, and school environments
The goal of this study was to examine the mechanisms underlying associations between neighborhood socioeconomic advantage and children's achievement trajectories between ages 54 months and 15 years. Results of hierarchical linear growth models based on a diverse sample of 1,364 children indicate that neighborhood socioeconomic advantage was nonlinearly associated with youths' initial vocabulary and reading scores, such that the presence of educat…
Understanding the positive role of neighborhood socioeconomic advantage in achievement: The contribution of the home, child care, and school environments
The goal of this study was to examine the mechanisms underlying associations between neighborhood socioeconomic advantage and children's achievement trajectories between ages 54 months and 15 years. Results of hierarchical linear growth models based on a diverse sample of 1,364 children indicate that neighborhood socioeconomic advantage was nonlinearly associated with youths' initial vocabulary and reading scores, such that the presence of educat…
School mobility and school-age children’s social adjustment
This study explored how nonpromotional school changes, a potentially major event for children, were associated with 3 forms of social maladjustment: isolation/withdrawal, affiliation with maladjusted peers, and aggression toward peers. Given that school mobility frequently co-occurs with family transitions, the moderating role of these transitions was investigated. These issues were examined in 2 longitudinal samples of U.S. (N = 1,364) and Canad…
Diseases of despair in early adulthood: The complex role of social relationships
Diseases of despair," most prominently depressive and substance-related problems, diminish the prospects of many young adults, especially those with lower levels of education. Yet many young adults in that situation avoid these problems. Close relationships are thought to be a key factor underpinning risk and resilience among this group. To examine this premise, this study explored links, beyond potential confounders assessed in adolescence, betw…
Adaptation and Validation of the Life Events and Difficulties Schedule for Use With High School Dropouts
The Life Events and Difficulties Schedule (LEDS) is considered the standard for measuring psychosocial stressor exposure, but it has not been used with academically at-risk adolescents, including high school dropouts. The goal of this study was to (1) adapt the LEDS for use with this population, and (2) examine the reliability (interrater) and validity (concurrent and predictive) of this adaptation among a sample of vulnerable adolescents (N = 54…
Understanding the positive role of neighborhood socioeconomic advantage in achievement: The contribution of the home, child care, and school environments
The goal of this study was to examine the mechanisms underlying associations between neighborhood socioeconomic advantage and children's achievement trajectories between ages 54 months and 15 years. Results of hierarchical linear growth models based on a diverse sample of 1,364 children indicate that neighborhood socioeconomic advantage was nonlinearly associated with youths' initial vocabulary and reading scores, such that the presence of educat…
Canada’s Comprehensive Approach in Afghanistan: A Critical Review of Literature, 2001–2011
Following a critical review of the extensive literature on the topic of Canada’s Comprehensive Approach in Afghanistan, from 2001 to 2011, this article traces the genealogy of the approach, identifies three major contributions as well as three serious limitations. A subsequent qualitative analysis of the content of this literature, as well as a quantitative meta-analysis provide a deeper than ever understanding of the complexity of Canada’s so-ca…
Stressors and Turning Points in High School and Dropout: A Stress Process, Life Course Framework
High school dropout is commonly seen as the result of a long-term process of failure and disengagement. As useful as it is, this view has obscured the heterogeneity of pathways leading to dropout. Research suggests, for instance, that some students leave school not as a result of protracted difficulties but in response to situations that emerge late in their schooling careers, such as health problems or severe peer victimization. Conversely, othe…
School mobility and school-age children’s social adjustment
This study explored how nonpromotional school changes, a potentially major event for children, were associated with 3 forms of social maladjustment: isolation/withdrawal, affiliation with maladjusted peers, and aggression toward peers. Given that school mobility frequently co-occurs with family transitions, the moderating role of these transitions was investigated. These issues were examined in 2 longitudinal samples of U.S. (N = 1,364) and Canad…
Adaptation and Validation of the Life Events and Difficulties Schedule for Use With High School Dropouts
The Life Events and Difficulties Schedule (LEDS) is considered the standard for measuring psychosocial stressor exposure, but it has not been used with academically at-risk adolescents, including high school dropouts. The goal of this study was to (1) adapt the LEDS for use with this population, and (2) examine the reliability (interrater) and validity (concurrent and predictive) of this adaptation among a sample of vulnerable adolescents (N = 54…
Why do extracurricular activities prevent dropout more effectively in some high schools than in others? A mixed-method examination of organizational dynamics
This study describes policies and practices implemented in 12 high schools (Quebec, Canada) that more or less effectively leveraged extracurricular activities (ECA) to prevent dropout among vulnerable students. Following an explanatory sequential mixed design, three school profiles ( Effective, Ineffective , and Mixed ) were derived based on quantitative student-reported data. Qualitative interviews with frontline staff revealed that in Effective…
Social contagion and high school dropout: The role of friends, romantic partners, and siblings
Social contagion theories suggest that adolescents in relationships with same-age high school dropouts should be at a greater risk of dropping out themselves. Yet, few studies have examined this premise, and none have considered all potentially influential same-age intimates, focusing instead on only either friends or siblings. Moreover, a key influence in adolescents’ social worlds, romantic partners, has been ignored. The goal of this study was…
School Mobility and High School Dropout: Seasonal and Developmental Timing Matters
Non-promotional school changes are fairly common, and although most mobile students successfully adjust to new peers, routines, and teachers, school mobility can sometimes indicate risk of disengagement and even dropout. To identify which mobile students are at risk and in need of support, it is important to differentiate when mobility may pose a threat and when it does not. The goal of this study was to examine the role of temporality in the rel…
School-based extracurricular activity involvement and high school dropout among at-risk students: Consistency matters
Encouraging involvement in school-based extracurricular activities (ECA) may be important for preventing high school dropout. However, the potential of these activities remains underexploited, perhaps because studies linking ECA involvement and dropout are rare and based on decades-old data. Previous studies also ignore key parameters of student involvement. The present study expands and updates this limited literature by using recent data from a…
Impacts of Covid-19 on primary and secondary school students: A case study in Quebec
Diseases of despair in early adulthood: The complex role of social relationships
Diseases of despair," most prominently depressive and substance-related problems, diminish the prospects of many young adults, especially those with lower levels of education. Yet many young adults in that situation avoid these problems. Close relationships are thought to be a key factor underpinning risk and resilience among this group. To examine this premise, this study explored links, beyond potential confounders assessed in adolescence, betw…
Clinician Perceptions of Somali-American Patients in Specialized Maternal-Fetal Care
Psychology (11 works) · Developmental psychology (9 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Clinical Psychology (4 works) · Demography (4 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (4 works) · Mathematics education (4 works) · School dropout (4 works)