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Megan M. Ruprecht; Ysabel Floresca; Shreya Narla; Dylan Felt; II Gregory Phillips; Kathryn Macapagal; Morgan M. Philbin – Health Education & Behavior, 2024
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and other sexual and gender minority (LGBTQ+) youth and young adults (YYAs) have poorer mental health outcomes than their cisgender, heterosexual peers in large part due to multilevel stigmatization and minority stress. This was exacerbated by psychological stressors stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic;…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, LGBTQ People, Young Adults
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Baxter Magolda, Marcia B. – Journal of College and Character, 2020
Developmental complexity, in particular developing an internal voice, is one of the foundations of character development. Here the author describes developmental complexity, its evolution over adolescence and young adulthood, how it links to character development and the five strategies to promote it, and how learning partnerships are one form of…
Descriptors: Values Education, College Students, Adolescent Development, Adult Development
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Tsaousis, Ioannis; Sideridis, Georgios D.; Alahmadi, Maisaa Taleb S. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2021
Positive youth development has gained a lot of attention recently since it acts as a protective factor for several risk behaviors and other important life outcomes in adolescents and young adults. The main objective of this study was to explore the factorial structure of the Positive Youth Development Scale (PYDS) using multidimensional item…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Measures (Individuals), Adolescents, Young Adults
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Mary Helen Immordino-Yang; Linda Darling-Hammond; Christina R. Krone – Educational Psychologist, 2019
New advances in neurobiology are revealing that brain development and the learning it enables are directly dependent on social-emotional experience. Growing bodies of research reveal the importance of socially triggered epigenetic contributions to brain development and brain network configuration, with implications for social-emotional…
Descriptors: Brain, Cognitive Development, Social Development, Emotional Development
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Köber, Christin; Habermas, Tilmann – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2017
In Western cultures, life narratives are typically expected to recount the narrator's life from birth to the present. Disparate autobiographical memories need to be integrated into a more or less coherent story, which is facilitated by an overarching temporal macrostructure. The temporal macrostructure consists of elaborated beginnings that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Personal Narratives, Autobiographies, Time
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Samek, Diana R.; Goodman, Rebecca J.; Erath, Stephen A.; McGue, Matt; Iacono, William G. – Developmental Psychology, 2016
Prior research has demonstrated both socialization and selection effects for the relationship between antisocial peer affiliation and externalizing problems in adolescence. Less research has evaluated such effects postadolescence. In this study, a cross-lagged panel analysis was used to evaluate the extent of "socialization" (i.e., the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Young Adults, Peer Relationship, Behavior Disorders
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Carriedo, Nuria; Corral, Antonio; Montoro, Pedro R.; Herrero, Laura; Rucián, Mercedes – Developmental Psychology, 2016
Updating information in working memory (WM) is a critical executive function responsible both for continuously replacing outdated information with new relevant data and to suppress or inhibit content that is no longer relevant according to task demands. The goal of the present research is twofold: First, we aimed to study updating development in…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Children, Adolescents, Young Adults
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Dispenza, Franco; Brown, Colton; Chastain, Taylor E. – Journal of Career Development, 2016
Sexual minority persons (e.g., lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer) are likely to encounter "minority stress", such as discrimination, concealment, expectation of rejection, and internalized heterosexism. Minority stress occurs alongside one's lifespan and has considerable implications in the context of the career lifespan trajectory.…
Descriptors: Minority Groups, Sexual Orientation, Homosexuality, Stress Variables
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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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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
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Barrett, Margaret S.; Bond, Nigel – Research Studies in Music Education, 2015
This article reports an investigation of the musical and extra-musical outcomes of participation in a music programme for students in four socio-economically disadvantaged school settings. Drawing on the theory of Positive Youth Development, which provides a focus on the positive assets young people bring to their engagement rather than perceived…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music Education, Student Development, Economically Disadvantaged
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Derrick Fries; Karen J. Carney; Laura Blackman-Urteaga; Sue Ann Savas – School Social Work Journal, 2012
This article chronicles the search for and development of an outcome measurement tool for teen parents receiving community-based wraparound services. The criteria for selecting functional assessment tools available in the literature is presented along with the barriers experienced in using two of these well-cited tools. The rationale for in-house…
Descriptors: Early Parenthood, Adult Development, Functional Behavioral Assessment, Interrater Reliability
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Brodbeck, Jeannette; Bachmann, Monica S.; Croudace, Tim J.; Brown, Anna – Developmental Psychology, 2013
Risk behaviors such as substance use or deviance are often limited to the early stages of the life course. Whereas the onset of risk behavior is well studied, less is currently known about the decline and timing of cessation of risk behaviors of different domains during young adulthood. Prevalence and longitudinal developmental patterning of…
Descriptors: Risk, Behavior, Late Adolescents, Young Adults
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Nandagopal, Kiruthiga; Ericsson, K. Anders – Learning and Individual Differences, 2012
One of the hallmarks of adolescent and adult development of expert performance is its self regulation. This paper reviews different approaches to assessing the use of self-regulated learning (SRL) strategies in high-school and college students and their ability to predict academic performance. The current study assesses the use of SRL strategies…
Descriptors: Adult Development, College Students, Grade Point Average, Academic Achievement
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Oxford, Monica L.; Lee, Jungeun O.; Lohr, Mary Jane – Social Work Research, 2010
This prospective longitudinal study examines the antecedents of adolescent mothers' transition into adulthood and their attainment of multiple adult statuses in their early 30s in a nonclinical sample. The distribution, timing, and impact of factors in adolescence (education, employment, marriage, economic status, criminal involvement, and others)…
Descriptors: Employment, Economic Status, Mothers, Marriage
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