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Jenni Sullanmaa; Lotta Tikkanen; Sanna Ulmanen; Kirsi Pyhältö – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2025
Transition to upper secondary education can represent a challenge for students' wellbeing. In this study, we examined how the social support from guardians, peers, and teachers experienced before transition predicts study engagement, sense of relatedness and overall life satisfaction after transition. Survey data (n = 280) were collected from…
Descriptors: Life Satisfaction, Social Support Groups, School Transition, Sense of Belonging
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Wang, Jingying; Yang, Mingyue; Lv, Beibei; Zhang, Feixiong; Zheng, Yonghe; Sun, Yihong – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2020
Science career expectations can be affected by personal science beliefs and social supports. Framed in Expectancy-Value Models, this research studied the influence of science beliefs (science interest belief, self-efficacy belief and value belief) and social supports (parents and teachers) on students' science career expectations by the survey of…
Descriptors: Science Careers, Expectation, Grade 10, High School Students
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Kristensen, Sara M.; Jørgensen, Magnus; Meland, Eivind; Urke, Helga B. – Psychology in the Schools, 2023
The present study investigates how perceived support from peers, parents, and teachers influences later academic performance and if academic self-efficacy and entity intelligence beliefs mediate this association in a sample of early secondary school students. Data were collected from 750 Norwegian students in lower secondary school at…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Grade 8, Grade 10
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Margalit, Malka; Abramowitz, Moshe Z.; Jaffe, Eli; Herbst, Raphael; Knobler, Haim Y. – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2020
The inclusion challenge of students with special educational needs does not end in the classroom. Mandatory community services in Israel may present unique challenges and supportive demands from their teachers. The goals of this study were to examine the risks experienced by youth with ADHD who joined rescue workers such as ambulance teams. The…
Descriptors: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Adolescents, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Learning Disabilities
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Turan, Erkan; Çelik, Eyüp; Turan, Mehmet Emin – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2014
The aim of this study was to examine whether adolescents' career exploration is predicted by perceived social support. Participants were 718 seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth grade students. In this research, simultaneous regression analysis assessed the contributions of perceived social support to the adolescent's career exploration. Perceived…
Descriptors: Social Support Groups, Predictor Variables, Career Exploration, Grade 7
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Larson, Andrea; Moses, Tally – Youth & Society, 2017
Scholarship regarding adolescent resilience has typically defined resilience as the absence of negative outcomes rather than the existence of positive outcomes. This study drew on the challenge model of resilience, which anticipates a curvilinear relationship between stress exposure and adaptive functioning, to test whether adolescents reporting…
Descriptors: Correlation, Prosocial Behavior, Adolescents, Resilience (Psychology)
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Federici, Roger A.; Skaalvik, Einar M. – International Education Studies, 2014
We explored whether students' perceptions of emotional and instrumental support provided by their mathematics teacher constitute separate dimensions of teacher support and how they are related. We also analyzed how students' perceptions of emotional and instrumental support in math lessons relate to math anxiety, intrinsic motivation, help-seeking…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Student Attitudes, Mathematics Teachers
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Boulton, Michael J.; Murphy, Debborah; Lloyd, Julie; Besling, Sabine; Coote, Jennifer; Lewis, Jennifer; Perrin, Roxanne; Walsh, Linda – British Educational Research Journal, 2013
Despite possible negative effects, many children do not tell their teachers when they have been bullied. This study examined junior school pupils' ("N" = 294) reports of instrumental, emotional and validation social support received after disclosing being bullied to teachers, and associations with intentions to disclose in the future.…
Descriptors: Intention, Self Disclosure (Individuals), Bullying, Social Support Groups
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Wetter, Emily K.; Hankin, Benjamin L. – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2009
This study takes a developmental psychopathological approach to examine mechanisms through which baseline levels of positive emotionality (PE) and negative emotionality (NE) prospectively predict increases in anhedonic depressive symptoms in a community sample of 350 adolescents (6th-10th graders). Dependent stressors mediated the relationship…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Depression (Psychology), Emotional Response, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
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Lam, Brian Trung – Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work, 2005
This prospective study examined whether interdependent self-construal (collectivism), independent self-construal (individualism), family cohesion, and social support would predict levels of self-esteem among Vietnamese American adolescents. Standardized self-report measures of family cohesion, social support, and self-esteem, as well as a measure…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Vietnamese People, Asian Americans, Social Support Groups