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Taylor Heffer; Meghan E. Borg; Teena Willoughby – Journal of Adolescence, 2025
Introduction: There is widespread concern that contemporary global issues (e.g., climate change, technology use) are exacerbating a "youth wellbeing crisis." However, we have heard little about this issue from youth themselves. To ascertain whether youth themselves are worried about global issues, their mental health, or other aspects of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescent Attitudes, Psychological Patterns, Anxiety
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Sercan Mansuroglu – Psychology in the Schools, 2025
Today, the increase in digital addiction (DA) and the impact of helicopter parenting on adolescents' mental health are becoming increasingly evident. While dissociative experiences (DE) draw attention as a problem that negatively affects the individual's perception of reality, the relationship of these two factors with such experiences gains…
Descriptors: Addictive Behavior, Parent Child Relationship, Adolescents, Computer Use
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Anna Parola; Jenny Marcionetti – Journal of Adolescence, 2025
Introduction: Career transitions are considered to be the most challenging tasks in adolescence. Personal resources are important factors in coping with the difficulties encountered during transitions and help individuals to adjust more smoothly to these transitions. Using a person-centered approach, this study aims to identify typologies of…
Descriptors: Career Change, Adolescents, Coping, Resources
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Mette Lindahl-Wise – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2025
Using a post-structural lens which situates gender as discursively produced, this study investigates how four 12-year-old girls read feminist fairy tales and what feminist issues and concerns they discern and relate to in these texts. The study used a dialogic approach in Action Research informed reading groups to stimulate their thinking and…
Descriptors: Reading, Feminism, Females, Early Adolescents
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Stathis Grapsas; Judith van de Wetering; Jenna Spitzer; Astrid M. G. Poorthuis; Sander Thomaes – Applied Developmental Science, 2024
The sustainability motive-alignment hypothesis posits that adolescents will be motivated to act sustainably when they view sustainable behavior as aligned with their motives for autonomy and peer status. Based on this hypothesis, we developed the Sustainability Motive-Alignment Scale (SMAS), a brief self-report scale of individual differences in…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Adolescents, Motivation, Measures (Individuals)
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Kylie Trask-Kerr; Tan-Chyuan Chin; Dianne A. Vella-Brodrick – Australian Educational Researcher, 2024
The educational approach known as positive education emerged from positive psychology and frequently attributes its conception of flourishing to Aristotelian eudaimonia. This is a point of contention between scholars who see positive psychology's flourishing as an epithet of Aristotelian virtues and others who have identified critical divergences…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Life Satisfaction, Psychology, Philosophy
Yu, Xiaoqian; Langberg, Joshua M.; Becker, Stephen P. – Grantee Submission, 2022
Objectives/Background: This study examined whether dispositional mindfulness moderates the association between brooding rumination and sleep problems in adolescents with and without attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Participants/Methods: Participants were 137 adolescents (ages 13-15 years; 64% male). Approximately half (47.4%; n=65)…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Adolescent Attitudes, Psychological Patterns, Sleep
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Marbella Uriostegui; Taylor Lay; Amanda L. Roy; Samantha Villasanta – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2025
The goal of this research is to document and contextualize sources of happiness for Black and Latinx youth living in economically disenfranchised, Chicago neighborhoods. We examined youth's open-ended responses to the question, "What makes you happiest in life?" The sample consists of 409 Black (73%) and Latinx (27%) youth (54% female;…
Descriptors: African Americans, Latin Americans, Adolescents, Economically Disadvantaged
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Coplan, Robert J.; McVarnock, Alicia; Hipson, Will E.; Bowker, Julie C. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2022
In this study, we examined how technology impacts adolescents' perceptions of, and affective responses to solitude, as well as how adolescents' own motivations for solitude (shyness, affinity for aloneness) were related to these reactions. Participants were N = 437 adolescents (297 girls; M[subscript age] = 16.15 years, standard deviation (SD) =…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Interpersonal Relationship, Social Media, Shyness
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Margaret L. Schmitt; Christine Hagstrom; Caitlin Gruer; Azure Nowara; Katie Keeley; Nana Ekua Adenu-Mensah; Marni Sommer – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2024
The aim of this study was to better understand the role of school bathrooms in shaping the menstrual experiences of adolescents in the U.S.A. The participants were Black and Latina, low-income adolescent girls (15-19) and adults interacting closely with youth in three U.S.A. cities (Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City). Data collection methods…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adolescent Attitudes, Females, Poverty Areas
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Candice M. Mills; Thalia R. Goldstein; Pallavi Kanumuru; Anthony J. Monroe; Natalie B. Quintero – Developmental Psychology, 2024
Two studies examined the process and aftermath of coming to disbelieve in the myth of Santa Claus. In Study 1, 48 children ages 6-15 answered questions about how they discovered Santa was not real and how the discovery made them feel, and 44 of their parents shared their perspectives and how they promoted Santa. In Study 2, 383 adults reflected on…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Mythology, Children, Adolescents
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Myers, Sarah; Elliot, Fiona; Maguire, Sabine; Barber, Michelle – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2023
Among the estimated 800,000 children in the United Kingdom with disability, challenges include lack of access to leisureactivities, opportunities for independent development and social contact. Short breaks and residential trips (RTs) provide positive experiences, and help improve mental and physical wellbeing. However, evaluations involving young…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Daily Living Skills, Outdoor Education, Foreign Countries
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Griffin, Autumn A. – Urban Education, 2022
This piece builds on scholarship in African American parading and Black Girls' Literacies by presenting parading as a metaphor to analyze a website created by nine Black adolescent girls. I draw on multimodal analysis frameworks to understand the symbolic nature of the site and its components, as well as how the girls use it as a platform to speak…
Descriptors: African Americans, Females, Adolescents, Adolescent Attitudes
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Cunha, Marina; Oliveira, Sara; Coimbra, Maria; Ferreira, Cláudia – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2023
Psychological inflexibility has been associated with several mental health indicators. The Avoidance and Fusion Questionnaire for Youth (AFQ-Y) has been the most used measure to assess psychological inflexibility in adolescents, having been adapted to several different languages, including Portuguese. However, the short 8-item version of this…
Descriptors: Correlation, Psychological Patterns, Mental Health, Adolescents
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Rajan S. Hayre; Carlos Sierra Hernandez; Natalie Goulter; Marlene M. Moretti – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2024
Background: Research has demonstrated that parent-child attachment security and school connectedness (SC) are protective factors against substance use, depression, and suicidality during adolescence. However, past research has examined these factors independently, and little is known about how attachment security and SC work in conjunction to…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Student School Relationship, Substance Abuse, Parent Child Relationship
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