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Weina Lei; Weiping Hu; Hongxia Guo; David Yun Dai – Psychology in the Schools, 2024
The mental health problems have been increasingly threatening the development of adolescence in China, it is very necessary to explore the protective factors preventing adolescents' negative mental health. Previous studies suggested that growth mindset benefits mental health. However, the internal psychological mechanism underlying this…
Descriptors: Individual Development, Mental Health, Middle School Students, Resilience (Psychology)
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Siman Zhao; Xinyin Chen; Heejung Park; Dan Li; Junsheng Liu; Liying Cui – Developmental Psychology, 2024
Self- and group orientations represent distinct ways of perceiving the relations between the world and the self and are relevant to adolescents' development. Most of the existing studies in this area are cross-sectional, providing little information about how self- and group orientations develop. This 3-year longitudinal study examined the…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Social Adjustment, Student Behavior
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Esteban Vázquez-Cano; Mercedes Quero-Gervilla; María-Pilar Quicios-García; Eloy López-Meneses – Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research, 2024
This research aims to study the psycho-social impact of video games on K12 students. For this, a probabilistic topic modelling analysis method based on text mining approach has been performed. This process is based on nodes' connectivity and it has been developed through K Means approach; by launching the Jenks-Breaks algorithm. The sex…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Secondary School Students, Video Games
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Omar M. Muammar; Fahad S. Alfaiz – Gifted and Talented International, 2024
The purpose of the study was to examine the most critical dimensions of summer enrichment programs (SEPs) for gifted students. The researchers conducted the study in Saudi Arabia with students from grades nine to 11 at a gifted summer program in a public university. The total number of students was 172 gifted students (62 female and 110 male). The…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Science Education, Enrichment Activities, Student Attitudes
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Fangfang Liu; Fu Chen; Guang Li; Xiaofei Li – Psychology in the Schools, 2025
This study aims to assess the current physical health status and levels of body image satisfaction among Chinese secondary school students and identify the influencing factors of student body image perception. Guided by a mixed-methods research design, data was obtained through collecting 903 secondary student questionnaires and interviewing 15…
Descriptors: Human Body, Secondary School Students, Student Attitudes, Stress Variables
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Blaine, Judith; Akhurst, Jacqui – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2023
Outdoor Adventure Education (OAE) is traditionally depicted as a hegemonic masculine domain. Thus, fundamental to any dialogue on gender in OAE is whether the outdoor experience reifies or disputes stereotypical gender roles. This study explores the influence of gender on the psychosocial outcomes and descriptions of gender-related influences on…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Adventure Education, Sex Stereotypes, Gender Differences
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Kelli Anne Talley; Andrew J. Bobilya; Paul Stonehouse – Journal of Outdoor Recreation, Education, and Leadership, 2023
This study examined the impacts of long-term exposure of outdoor adventure programming (OAP) for adolescent girls. This qualitative study shares the stories of the 8th grade students at the French Broad River Academy for girls, which is a private middle school that integrates OAP into its curricula located in Asheville, North Carolina, USA.…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Females, Gender Differences, Adventure Education
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Cristina Di Giusto Valle; María-Camino Escolar-Llamazares; Tamara de la Torre Cruz; M. Isabel Luis Rico; Carmen Palmero Cámara; Alfredo Jiménez – Journal of Professional Capital and Community, 2024
Purpose: The efficiency of an educational program on entrepreneurial competence, Training the Potential Entrepreneur. Generation of an Educational Model for Entrepreneurial Identify (PEIEO) is evaluated in this study. Design/methodology/approach: Pre and post intervention tests were administered to an Experimental Group (EG) and a Control Group…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Self Concept, Program Effectiveness, Individual Development
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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
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Selena Carbajal; Melissa Y. Delgado; Rajni L. Nair; Katharine H. Zeiders – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2025
Bicultural competence, the ability to navigate and alternate between two cultures, is an important developmental competency for Latinx youth. Empirical research has suggested that bicultural competence is associated with positive academic and psychosocial functioning, including higher academic achievement and fewer internalizing and externalizing…
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Cultural Awareness, Hispanic American Students, Academic Achievement
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Kilinç, Mustafa; Uzun, Kivanç – International Journal of Psychology and Educational Studies, 2020
The current study aims to determine the extent to which high school students' lifelong learning tendencies are predicted by their search for meaning in life. The study was conducted on a total of 352 senior high school students (165 females, 187 males) attending high schools located in the Bodrum District of the city of Mugla. The data of the…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Individual Development, World Views, Self Determination
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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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Yue Guo; Sonia E. Giron; Anna K. Lindell; Nicole Campione-Barr – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2023
Emerging adulthood is a time filled with instability, but disclosure within close egalitarian relationships such as siblings, friends, and romantic partners can help when coping with stress. The present study examines patterns of disclosure across these relationships, as well as specific associations between relationships with siblings and peers.…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Freshmen, Sibling Relationship, Birth Order
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Conley, Colleen S.; Huguenel, Brynn M.; Shapiro, Jenna B.; Kirsch, Alexandra C. – Journal of Higher Education, 2023
Psychological well-being and distress are critical components of college adjustment that are intricately entwined with student retention and success during and after college. This 5-wave longitudinal study used growth mixture modeling to explore heterogeneous trajectories of psychological well-being (self-esteem) and distress (depression, anxiety,…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, College Students, Well Being, Psychological Patterns
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Özaydinlik, Kevser; Saglik, Mehmet Aydin – Psycho-Educational Research Reviews, 2021
Critical pedagogy is a pluralistic approach that emphasizes the individual and his/her creative potential (Freire, 2010). Today's schools are seen far from this process and the need for a renewal process becomes highly evident. The purpose of the current study is to investigate teachers' opinions at different levels of education about the…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Teaching Methods, Teacher Attitudes, Educational Principles
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