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Xiao Pan Ding; Joey Kei Teng Cheng; Qiqi Cheng; Gail D. Heyman – Applied Developmental Science, 2024
Stories are widely used around the world to try to teach children moral lessons. However, it is often difficult for children to figure out how lessons from stories can be applied to real-life settings. In the present research, we tested whether encouraging children to be like the protagonists helps explain the success of positive moral stories…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Values Education, Story Telling, Ethics
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Liang, Yue; Tudge, Jonathan R. H.; Cao, Hongjian; Freitas, Lia B. L.; Chen, Yu; Zhou, Nan – Applied Developmental Science, 2022
Gratitude has been previously defined as a tendency to appreciate positives in life, thus conflating gratitude and components of well-being. Accordingly, current measures assessing "gratitude" are primarily based on this conflated conceptualization, and do not adequately assess gratitude as a moral virtue. The Gratitude Assessment…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Childrens Attitudes, Depression (Psychology)
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Tulagan, Nestor B.; Puente, Kayla; Simpkins, Sandra D. – Applied Developmental Science, 2023
Integrating situated expectancy-value and family systems theories, the current study tested the extent to which Latinx adolescents' 9th-grade school-related science conversations with parents and older siblings/cousins positively predicted their 10th-grade science ability self-concepts and task values. We also tested whether these links were…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, High School Students, Science Education, Family Relationship
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Gomez-Baya, Diego; Santos, Teresa; Gaspar de Matos, Margarida – Applied Developmental Science, 2022
Positive Youth Development (PYD) model is a strength-based perspective of transition to adulthood derived from developmental systems theory. Developmental assets (DAs) framework describes the individual and contextual resources that may promote PYD. This work aims to analyze the associations between internal and external DAs and PYD, as well as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Adolescent Development, High School Students