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Alexandra Sandoval; Edmond P. Bowers – Journal of Youth Development, 2025
Youth participation in community-based, structured out-of-school time programs (OST) has been found to promote positive developmental outcomes by providing youth with resources to build interpersonal relationships and essential life skills. The increasing prevalence and multiplicity of youth participation in these activities leads us to expand the…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Middle School Students, Low Income Groups, Participation
Meghan Gowan – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This research applied current thinking in the fields of positive education, positive youth development, and global education to a culturally-relevant, social-emotional learning curriculum. The Kenya Education Empowerment Project (KEEP) curriculum facilitated social-emotional learning through dialogically-based classroom lessons and opportunities…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Emotional Learning, Individual Characteristics, Program Effectiveness
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Renninger, K. Ann – Educational Psychologist, 2009
An inductive model is proposed that suggests that support for the development and deepening of interest can be aided by knowledge of identity development. The model suggests that instructional practice would be usefully informed were educators (e.g., teachers, parents, museum curators, counselors) to have information about both the phase of a…
Descriptors: Adults, Teaching Methods, Models, Individual Development
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Hirschi, Andreas – Journal of Career Assessment, 2009
Interest differentiation and elevation are supposed to provide important information about a person's state of interest development, yet little is known about their development and criterion validity. The present study explored these constructs among a group of Swiss adolescents. Study 1 applied a cross-sectional design with 210 students in 11th…
Descriptors: Vocational Interests, Validity, Adolescents, Individual Development
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Royer, Heather R.; Keller, Mary L.; Heidrich, Susan M. – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2009
The purpose of this article is to describe young adolescents' perceptions of romantic relationships, ratings of important romantic partner characteristics, and acceptability of sexual activity with romantic relationships. Fifty-seven eighth-grade participants (average age = 13.8 years) from one urban US public middle school completed an anonymous…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Attraction, Sexuality, Early Adolescents, Middle School Students
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Pogarsky, Greg; Thornberry, Terence P.; Lizotte, Alan J. – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2006
This study tested the association between mother's early age at first birth and various life outcomes for her children in later adolescence and early adulthood. Data were analyzed from the Rochester Youth Development Study, an ongoing panel study of adolescents enrolled in seventh or eighth grade in Rochester Public Schools in 1988 ("N"=729). Boys…
Descriptors: Grade 8, At Risk Persons, Mothers, Early Parenthood