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Jager, Justin; Rauer, Amy; Staff, Jeremy; Lansford, Jennifer E.; Pettit, Gregory S.; Schulenberg, John E. – Developmental Psychology, 2022
Existing research focused on social role destabilization (historical increases in role instability) and destandardization (historical increases in variability of role instability) has primarily focused on discrete social roles during discrete periods of development. Building on this work, we applied a macro approach to elucidate the extent to…
Descriptors: Role, Adults, Adult Development, Age Differences
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Wray-Lake, Laura; Arruda, Erin H.; Schulenberg, John E. – Developmental Psychology, 2020
Despite a growing understanding about civic development, we know little about whether the developmental course of civic engagement is the same across different types of civic engagement or different groups of youth. To advance developmental science in this area, we documented age-related change in community service, political interest, electoral…
Descriptors: Individual Development, Citizen Participation, Age Differences, Racial Differences
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Martz, Meghan E.; Schulenberg, John E.; Patrick, Megan E.; Kloska, Deborah D. – Youth & Society, 2018
Adolescent boredom is associated with maladaptation and negative developmental outcomes, yet little is known about the prevalence and correlates of high boredom. Drawing from a broad psychosocial framework, the present study examined rates of high boredom and sociodemographic and contextual correlates among nationally representative samples of 8th…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Grade 8, Grade 10, National Surveys
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Jager, Justin; Keyes, Katherine M.; Schulenberg, John E. – Developmental Psychology, 2015
This study examines historical variation in age 18 to 26 binge drinking trajectories, focusing on differences in both levels of use and rates of change (growth) across cohorts of young adults over 3 decades. As part of the national Monitoring the Future Study, over 64,000 youths from the high school classes of 1976 to 2004 were surveyed at…
Descriptors: Late Adolescents, Young Adults, Drinking, Alcohol Abuse
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Jackson, Kristina M.; Schulenberg, John E. – Developmental Psychology, 2013
The movement from middle school to high school is a normative transition that is typically associated with increased stress and opportunity in social and academic domains. Theoretically, this transition may reflect a turning point in terms of initiating or sharply increasing heavy alcohol use, a notion that has received little attention in the…
Descriptors: Drinking, Middle School Students, High School Students, Incidence
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Patrick, Megan E.; Schulenberg, John E. – Developmental Psychology, 2011
Developmental changes in both alcohol use behaviors and self-reported reasons for alcohol use were investigated. Participants were surveyed every 2 years from ages 18 to 30 as part of the Monitoring the Future national study (analytic weighted sample size N = 9,308; 53% women, 40% college attenders). Latent growth models were used to examine…
Descriptors: Marital Status, College Attendance, Alcohol Abuse, Drinking