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Emma Armstrong-Carter; Eva H. Telzer – Child Development Perspectives, 2025
Many young people are inclined toward risk taking and also toward helping other people. "Prosocial risk taking" is a term that can describe different ways that youth provide significant instrumental and emotional support to family members, friends, and strangers, even when it involves a personal risk. In this article, we review research…
Descriptors: Risk, Prosocial Behavior, Child Development, Developmental Stages
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Carroll, Catherine – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2015
Investigations into the lives and transition from compulsory schooling of young adults with a disability, including a learning difficulty (LD), are increasing. The emerging consensus is one which points to this group of young people experiencing greater difficulties and poorer outcomes compared to the general population. How these investigations…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Learning Disabilities, Developmental Stages, Adolescent Development
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Scales, Peter C.; Benson, Peter L.; Oesterle, Sabrina; Hill, Karl G.; Hawkins, J. David; Pashak, Travis J. – Applied Developmental Science, 2016
In this article, we draw on the theoretical and empirical literature to name what appear to be core dimensions of successful young adult development. We also describe some possible indicators and measures of those dimensions and sketch the kinds of developmental relationships and opportunities young people need in adolescence to effectively…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Adult Development, Adolescent Development, Developmental Stages
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Owens, Judith; Drobnich, Darrel; Baylor, Allison; Lewin, Daniel – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2014
In response to the scientific evidence documenting both profound developmental changes in sleep and circadian biology during adolescence and the myriad of negative health, performance, and safety outcomes risks associated with chronic sleep loss, at least 70 public school districts in the United States, representing approximately 1,000 schools,…
Descriptors: School Schedules, School Districts, Educational Change, Sleep
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Tolman, Deborah L.; McClelland, Sara I. – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2011
This review details a key innovation across the field of adolescent sexuality research over the last decade--conceptualizing sexuality as a normative aspect of adolescent development. Anchored in a growing articulation of adolescent sexuality as having positive qualities and consequences, we provide an organizing framework for understanding…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Risk Management, Adolescents, Sexuality
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Rader, Laura – Journal on Educational Psychology, 2010
Initial investigations into the development of self-concept have been largely descriptive and focused primarily on the concept of self-representation, namely, how the me-self evolves across childhood and adolescence. Investigators sought to document developmental differences in self-representation through coding of spontaneously generated…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Disabilities, Developmental Stages, Teaching Methods
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Barry, Carolyn McNamara; Nelson, Larry; Davarya, Sahar; Urry, Shirene – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2010
Emerging adults (approximately 18 to 25 years of age) experience heightened self-exploration regarding their beliefs and values, including those concerning religiosity and spirituality. The purpose of this article is to review the literature regarding religiosity and spirituality in emerging adulthood. First, we document developmental advances in…
Descriptors: Religious Factors, Psychological Patterns, Religion, Spiritual Development
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Wray-Lake, Laura; Syvertsen, Amy K.; Briddell, Laine; Osgood, D. Wayne; Flanagan, Constance A. – Youth & Society, 2011
Using data from the Monitoring the Future study, this article presents historical trends in U.S. high school seniors' work values across 30 years (1976-2005). Adolescents across three decades highly valued most aspects of work examined. Recent cohorts showed declines in the importance of work, values for job security, and various potential…
Descriptors: Adolescents, High School Seniors, Value Judgment, Data Analysis
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McHolland, James D. – Adolescence, 1985
Relates resistance in adolescents to individual developmental issues and social context. Suggests viewing resistance as having a positive and protective function and working with the resistance rather than in opposition to it. A continuum of types of adolescent resistance is proposed with several specific interventional strategies for deactivating…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Developmental Stages, Intervention
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Violato, Claudio; Wiley, Arthur J. – Adolescence, 1990
Analyzed relevant works of Chaucer, More, Locke, Shakespeare, Bayly, Milton, Prior, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Hazlitt, and Dickens for their imagery of youth and adolescence. Concluded that way youth are depicted in these works remained remarkably stable over time. Main theme of adolescence throughout these works is that it is time of turbulence,…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Characterization, Developmental Stages
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Brown, B. Bradford – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2005
Over the past 5 years the scientific study of adolescence has continued to grow in volume and sophistication. Drawing on recent articles published in the "Journal of Research on Adolescence", I take this opportunity to comment on some common understandings about the nature of adolescent development and behavior, recurrent tensions in the research,…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Journal Articles, Behavior Development, Research
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Coleman, Lester; Coleman, John – Journal of Adolescence, 2002
Reviews the feasibility and validity of the various methods that have been used to measure puberty and summarizes the evidence-base as to whether the age at menarche and the age at onset of puberty has decreased in recent years. Provides a summary of the findings of relevance to those critically reviewing the current evidence surrounding age of…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Age, Developmental Stages, Foreign Countries
Seiffge-Krenke, Inge – 1998
The primary aim of this book is to integrate findings on health and illness in adolescence. The book is geared towards those in the health psychology field as well as others concerned with the issues of adolescent health. It argues the value of following a developmental approach to the study of health or illness in general, and especially for…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Coping, Developmental Stages
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Muuss, Rolf E. – Adolescence, 1988
Gilligan's work on sex differences in moral reasoning, perception of violence, resolution of sexual dilemmas, and abortion decisions poses a major challenge to Kohlberg's theory because of its feminist perspective of moral development. Gilligan suggests Kohlberg's demonstration of males and females attaining different levels of moral development…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Developmental Stages, Feminism
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Matter, Roxana Marie – Adolescence, 1984
Reviews the literature from two distinct disciplines, developmental psychology and literature, reflecting the emergence of adolescence as a recognized stage in human development. Describes both cognitive and stage theories of adolescence and medieval concerns as well as twentieth century interest. (JAC)
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescent Literature, Adolescents, Developmental Psychology
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