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The "Identity Project" Intervention in Germany: Creating a Climate for Reflection, Connection, and Adolescent Identity Development
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Juang, Linda P.; Schachner, Maja K.; Pevec, Sharleen; Moffitt, Ursula – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2020
We examined whether German adolescents who participated in an adapted 8-week school-based intervention, the "Identity Project," reported greater changes in heritage and global identities and perceptions of classroom cultural climate. We used a longitudinal, wait-list control design pooling eight classrooms across the school years of…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Adolescent Development, Intervention, Educational Environment
Do Adolescents with Emotional and Behavioral Disturbances Attending Schools for Special Education Have Lower Expectations Regarding the Transition to Adulthood?
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Margraf, Hannah; Pinquart, Martin – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2016
Individuals with emotional and behavioral disturbances (EBD) and those attending special schools tend to have poorer adult outcomes than adolescents without EBD and peers from regular schools. Using a four-group comparison (students with or without EBD from special schools and students with or without EBD from regular schools), the present study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Addictive Behavior, Student Behavior
The Timing of Psychosocial Transitions in Adolescence: Commonalities and Differences in Unified Germany.
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Silbereisen, Rainer K.; And Others – New Directions for Child Development, 1995
Interviewed 1,708 East and West German adolescents to study similarities and differences in their psychosocial transitions. Found that females generally underwent transitions earlier than males. East German youths conceived of the transition to work and displayed autonomy earlier than West German youth, but the overall timetable of transitions…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Comparative Analysis
Adolescent Apprentices in Germany: Adult Attachment, Job Expectations, and Delinquency Attitudes.
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Silverberg, Susan B.; Vazsonyi, Alexander T.; Schlegel, Alice E.; Schmidt, Sabine – Journal of Adolescent Research, 1998
Examined variation in and relationships among delinquency, attachment to adults, optimism about occupational future, and disposition toward aggressiveness in German adolescent apprentices. Found considerable variation across the four variables. Attachment to adults predicted attitudes toward delinquency and optimism regarding occupational future.…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Behavior, Adolescent Development, Apprenticeships
Mutproben im Ubergang vom Kindes--ins Jugendalter, Befunde zu Verbreitung, Formen und Motiven (Tests of Courage during the Transition from Childhood to Adolescence--Findings Concerning Their Dissemination, Forms, and Motives).
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Raithel, Jurgen – Zeitschrift fur Padagogik, 2003
Summarizes a courage behavior study of 1050 children and adolescents in Northrhine-Westphalia (Germany). Notes that most tests of courage are performed by 11-year-olds. Reveals that boys perform twice as many acts of courage as girls. Discusses the gender specific differences in relation to the development of children and adolescents. (CAJ)
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Behavior, Adolescent Development, Adolescents
Childhood and Youth in Germany and the Netherlands: Transitions and Coping Strategies of Adolescents.
du Bois-Reymond, Manuela, Ed.; And Others – 1995
This book examines how young people in Germany and the Netherlands grow into adults in their society and how they cope with the accompanying experiences and changes. The 14 chapters of the book are: (1) "The Modernization of the Youth Phase. Educational, Professional and Family Careers of Dutch Youth in the Nineties" (Els Peters); (2)…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Child Health
Verbal Interaction and Development in Families with Adolescents. Advances in Applied Developmental Psychology, Volume 15.
Hofer, Manfred, Ed.; Youniss, James, Ed.; Noack, Peter, Ed. – 1998
Individuation theory is rooted in the belief that it is a major developmental task for adolescents to establish their identity while simultaneously maintaining a relationship with their parents. Building on the individuation paradigm, the researchers contributing to this edited volume zeroed in on discourse as a critical mechanism through which…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Behavior, Adolescent Development, Adolescents