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Daniel Ji; Sheila K. Marshall; Grant Charles – Journal of Adolescence, 2025
Introduction: Although prior research has examined adolescents' resistance to parental control, the dyadic level of analysis has been overlooked. This study attended to how a Canadian sample of parents and adolescents engaged in resisting one another by observing moment-to-moment actions as they discussed the upcoming transition to high school.…
Descriptors: Resistance (Psychology), Parent Child Relationship, Adolescents, Interaction
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Luitwieler, Nicole; Luijkx, Jorien; Stege, Heleen A.; Grootoonk, Anneke; Schans, Cees P.; Putten, Annette A. J.; Waninge, Aly – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2024
Background: For families with adolescent children, the transition to adulthood is usually challenging. This period may be extra demanding for families with a child with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities due to the child's strong and persistent support needs. To support these families during this phase and to facilitate the transition…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adolescent Development, Family Role, Severe Intellectual Disability
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Monik Mossini – International Journal on Social and Education Sciences, 2024
Adolescence is marked by significant emotional challenges, with mood disorders becoming increasingly prevalent, necessitating effective interventions. Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) skills have emerged as promising tools for addressing emotional dysregulation in adolescents. This systematic literature review aims to evaluate the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Emotional Disturbances, Emotional Adjustment
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Bastien, Kevin; Muckle, Gina; Ayotte, Pierre; Courtemanche, Yohann; Dodge, Neil C.; Jacobson, Joseph L.; Jacobson, Sandra W.; Saint-Amour, Dave – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2022
Inuit communities in Northern Quebec (Canada) are exposed to environmental contaminants, particularly to mercury, lead and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). Previous studies reported adverse associations between these neurotoxicants and memory performance. Here we aimed to determine the associations of pre- and postnatal exposures to mercury, lead…
Descriptors: Eskimos, Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Hazardous Materials
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Young, Richard A.; Marshall, Sheila K.; Stainton, Tim; Chi, Eugene – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2022
Problem and Objective: Transition to adulthood for young people with (IDD) is challenging for both youth and parents. Prospection, an important human adaptive tool and critical for independent living, involves constructing, encoding, and remembering the future. It may be jointly enacted between parents and young people as they discuss the future.…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Parent Child Relationship, Interpersonal Communication, Adolescent Development
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Osei, Gershon K. – Youth & Society, 2023
The risk of delinquent to antisocial behaviors among youth (teenagers) seem to be more prevalent in group homes than other foster homes. The aim of this study was to examine the association between negative peer influence and youth antisocial behaviors in group homes. Participants were 875 youth aged 10 to 17 at baseline (2010-2011). Logistic…
Descriptors: Delinquency, At Risk Persons, Antisocial Behavior, Adolescents
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Goulet, Mélissa; Clément, Marie-Eve; Helie, Sonia; Villatte, Aude – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2020
Background: Youth psychosocial and school adjustment results from complex developmental transactions between their individual characteristics and diverse environmental influences, which appear as risk or protective factors throughout one's development. Objective: From an ecosystemic and developmental perspective, this study aims to: (1) identify…
Descriptors: At Risk Students, Risk, Profiles, Substance Abuse
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Rocio Macabena Perez; Kim Archambault; Véronique Dupéré – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2025
Background: Mental health is a priority for high schools, but extant programs often focus on symptom reduction rather than promoting adolescents' developmental assets. Objective: The goal of this study is to examine whether Art in Mind (AIM), a strengths-based after-school organized art activity tailored to fit the needs of adolescents with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, After School Programs, Art Activities, Positive Behavior Supports
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Fitzpatrick, Caroline; Boers, Elroy – Health Education & Behavior, 2022
Youth today spend a tremendous amount of time with digital media. The purpose of the present study was to estimate developmental associations between screen media use between the ages of 15 and 17 and corresponding changes in prosocial behavior. Participants (N = 1,509) were part of the Quebec Longitudinal Study of Child Development, a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Mass Media Use, Prosocial Behavior
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Rheaume, Julia; Brandon, Jim; Donlevy, J. Kent; Gereluk, Dianne – RMLE Online: Research in Middle Level Education, 2021
This paper presents the qualitative findings from a recent doctoral study that examined the leadership practices of 17 middle school administrators from three school districts in the Canadian province of Alberta (Rheaume, 2018). The data gathered through six focus group interviews are framed within the three dimensions of Brown et al.'s (2002)…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Administrators, School Administration, Leadership
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Wood, Michele; Liebenberg, Linda; Ikeda, Janice; Vincent, Amber – Child Care in Practice, 2020
Indigenous youth in Canada grow up in communities shaped by the enduring political and economic legacies of settler colonialism. These legacies continue through systemic marginalisation, manifesting in strained sociocultural resources, intergenerational trauma, and poorer psychosocial outcomes for youth. To redress these outcomes, communities are…
Descriptors: School Role, Resilience (Psychology), Foreign Countries, Indigenous Knowledge
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Bruner, Mark W.; Balish, Shea M.; Forrest, Christopher; Brown, Sarah; Webber, Kristine; Gray, Emily; McGuckin, Matthew; Keats, Melanie R.; Rehman, Laurene; Shields, Christopher A. – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2017
An emerging area of research has focused on understanding how the group dynamics of a sport team influence positive youth development (PYD). The identities that youth form through their membership in sport teams (i.e., social identities) have been found to influence teammate behavior and team performance. Yet, minimal work exists on social…
Descriptors: Team Sports, Youth, Group Dynamics, Regression (Statistics)
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Yakovleva, M. G. – Russian Education & Society, 2018
Socio-pedagogical studies of victimization consider various age cohorts within their respective anthropological contexts, in which specific risk factors are identified for individuals at a given physio-psychological stage that may threaten their integral identity and future development. This paper examines the characteristics of youth that…
Descriptors: Juvenile Gangs, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Adolescent Development, Antisocial Behavior
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Ames, Megan; Leadbeater, Bonnie – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2017
This longitudinal study investigates whether there are particularly salient ages when being overweight is related to problems in interpersonal relationships (i.e., physical, relational, and verbal victimization, lack of friend social support, dating status, and romantic relationship worries). Participants were from a large, six-wave longitudinal…
Descriptors: Obesity, Adolescents, Adolescent Development, Young Adults
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Kendellen, Kelsey; Camiré, Martin – SAGE Open, 2015
The purpose of this study was to examine former athletes' perspectives on their developmental experiences in high school sport. Retrospective interviews were conducted with 14 former high school athletes (seven females, seven males) between 18 and 28 years of age (M = 23.0, SD = 2.66). An inductive thematic analysis led to the identification of…
Descriptors: Athletes, Athletics, High School Students, Young Adults
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