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Fernández-Leyva, Christian; Tomé Fernández, Maria; Ortiz-Marcos, José Manuel – Intercultural Education, 2023
In this study, the variable 'age' was analysed in terms of its influence on the development of social skills among immigrant students enrolled in compulsory secondary education (12 to 18 years old) in the South of Spain. The social skills construct was defined with responses of N = 749 immigrant students using the Social Skill Scale for Young…
Descriptors: Preadolescents, Adolescents, Interpersonal Competence, Self Expression
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Katherine Edler; Sarah Hoegler Dennis; Lijuan Wang; Kristin Valentino; Patrick T. Davies; E. Mark Cummings – Child Development, 2025
Longitudinal study of associations between family-level emotion socialization and adolescent adjustment is limited. When American children (53.5% girls) were in second grade (N = 213; M[subscript age] = 7.98; data collected 2002-2003), mothers and fathers (79.8% of mothers and 74.2% of fathers were White) reported on their reactions to children's…
Descriptors: Emotional Development, Socialization, Adolescents, Grade 2
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Verdugo, Laura; Sánchez-Sandoval, Yolanda – Journal of Psychologists and Counsellors in Schools, 2022
This study examines the association between psychosocial adjustment and future expectations in early adolescence. This research tries to fill some gaps in the literature on how current adjustment might be an antecedent of early adolescents' future expectations. Participants were 781 students (mean age = 12.37 years). Data were collected in 11…
Descriptors: Emotional Adjustment, Social Adjustment, Psychological Patterns, High School Students
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Geukens, Flore; Maes, Marlies; Spithoven, Annette; Pouwels, J. Loes; Danneel, Sofie; Cillessen, Antonius H. N.; van den Berg, Yvonne H. M.; Goossens, Luc – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2022
Current theories of loneliness posit that biases in social information processing play a key role in the development and maintenance of loneliness. However, this assumption has rarely been tested in longitudinal research in adolescence. The current study concentrated on two constructs associated with such biases, that is, fear of negative…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Secondary School Students, Adolescent Development, Psychological Patterns
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Karacan-Ozdemir, Nurten; Ayaz, Ahmet – Journal of Career Development, 2022
The current study suggested and tested a model to investigate the associations between adolescent future expectations of work and education (AFE-WE; adaptive responses) and positive future expectations (PFE; adaptivity) through concern, control, curiosity, and confidence (adaptability resources) as well as the role of the gender. The data were…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Expectation, Academic Aspiration, Occupational Aspiration
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Liu, Sihan; Wang, Xinyi; Ying, Jiefeng; Shi, Jialin; Wu, Xinchun – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2023
Background: Prior studies have emphasized the importance of parents' educational involvement (a type of cognitive involvement) to academic engagement, although little is known about emotional involvement. Aims: This study investigated whether and how different facets of involvement (cognitive vs. emotional, paternal vs. maternal) are…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, High School Students, Foreign Countries
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Daihu Yang; Guilan Zhu; Taofen Guo; Minghui Zhou; Yan Zhang; Ming Geng; Xiaozhong Cheng – Health Education Journal, 2024
Objective: This study examined children's representations of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) as well as their pandemic experiences against the backdrop of the world having transitioned to normalcy. Design: Mixed-methods approach encompassing both qualitative and quantitative analysis. Setting: Two middle schools in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Middle School Students
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Huang, Chuan-Yung; Su, Hui; Cheng, Siew-May; Tan, Chee-Seng – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2021
This study examined the effects of group art therapy on self-concept and peer relationships among adolescents using a mixed-method approach. Twelve recruited adolescents from a high school in Northern Taiwan attended weekly 2-h group art therapy sessions for 8 weeks. Through a discovery-oriented approach incorporating focus group interviews and…
Descriptors: Group Therapy, Art Therapy, Program Effectiveness, Adolescents
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Aghatabay, Rabea; Vaezi, Aliakbar; Mazloomy Mahmoodabad, Seyed Saeed; Rahimi, Mehdi; Fallahzadeh, Hosein; Alizadeh, Somayeh – Psychology in the Schools, 2023
Achievement of a positive identity and its transition to adulthood is the most important task of the adolescent era. This cross-sectional explanatory mixed-method study sought to better understand barriers to identity development in female adolescents in Iran by explaining their own experiences and using a Positive Youth Development model as a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Adolescents, Self Esteem
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Sarah Buerger; Julia Holzer; Takuya Yanagida; Barbara Schober; Christiane Spiel – School Mental Health, 2023
This paper addresses a validation study focusing on the process of adapting the EPOCH measure of adolescent well-being (Kern et al. in Psychol Assess 28(5):586-597. https://doi.org/10.1037/pas0000201, 2016) to the school context and translating it into German--resulting in the EPOCH-School model (EPOCH-S) with the corresponding measure EPOCH-G-S…
Descriptors: Well Being, Translation, German, Educational Environment
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Hunt, Madison Q.; Novak, Courtney E.; Madrigal, Leilani A.; Vargas, Tiffanye M. – Strategies: A Journal for Physical and Sport Educators, 2020
Coaches have the possibility to shape their athletes' experiences in sport and build a strong skillset, particularly the growth of mental toughness. It is important for athletes to develop the mental and physical components needed to overcome obstacles and maintain consistency. This article provides strategies for high school coaches to implement…
Descriptors: Student Athletes, High School Students, Resilience (Psychology), Skill Development
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Mathys, Cécile; Véronneau, Marie-Hélène; Lecocq, Aurélie – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2019
This study tested whether grade retention at the transition into secondary school had a significant impact on adolescent psychosocial adjustment. A quasi-experimental design was used in which propensity score matching was implemented. Univariate ANCOVAs were subsequently run on a subsample of 181 students enrolled in one typical secondary school…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adolescent Development, Secondary School Students, Grade Repetition
Michael J. Tumminia; Blake A. Colaianne; Brian M. Galla; Robert W. Roeser – Grantee Submission, 2020
Research shows greater mindfulness is associated with less negative affect and more positive affect. Fewer studies have examined the mediating psychological processes linking mindfulness to these outcomes in adolescents. This three-wave, prospective longitudinal study examines rumination--the tendency to engage in repetitive and negative…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Questionnaires, Psychological Patterns, Negative Attitudes
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Gardner, Alex A.; Webb, Haley J. – Youth & Society, 2019
Research on adolescent development and well-being has demonstrated the beneficial effects of social support and self-esteem for positive adjustment. However, there has been little examination of the associations between adolescents' social support, self-esteem, and well-being within a Caribbean framework, and consideration to family factors that…
Descriptors: Social Support Groups, Correlation, Self Esteem, Well Being
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Brass, Nicole; McKellar, Sarah E.; North, Elizabeth A.; Ryan, Allison M. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2019
This study examined group differences by grade (fifth graders in elementary school and sixth graders in middle school) and gender in academic (behavioral and emotional engagement, academic self-concept, and worry) and socio-emotional adjustment (self-esteem, social satisfaction, social self-concept, and worry). Self-report data were collected from…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Grade 5, Grade 6, Elementary School Students
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