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Maciejewski, Dominique F.; Keijsers, Loes; van Lier, Pol A. C.; Branje, Susan J. T.; Meeus, Wim H. J.; Koot, Hans M. – Developmental Psychology, 2019
One particular developmental task during adolescence is to regulate fluctuating moods to successfully transition through this period. The aim of this person-centered study was to identify distinct developmental trajectories of adolescent mood variability and to compare adolescents in different trajectories on changes in depressive symptoms,…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Emotional Adjustment, Developmental Tasks, Depression (Psychology)
Houtepen, J. A. B. M.; Sijtsema, J. J.; Klimstra, T. A.; Van der Lem, R.; Bogaerts, S. – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2019
Background: Adolescents face major developmental tasks such as increasing individuation and establishing autonomy. These developmental tasks increase demands on adolescent self-control, hereby putting youth with poor effortful control at risk for psychopathology. Specific parenting behaviors might be warranted to buffer against this risk.…
Descriptors: Psychopathology, Adolescent Development, Personal Autonomy, Self Control
Frydman, Jason Scott; Mayor, Christine – Children & Schools, 2017
Middle-school-age children are faced with a variety of developmental tasks, including the beginning phases of individuation from the family, building peer groups, social and emotional transitions, and cognitive shifts associated with the maturation process. This article summarizes how traumatic events impair and complicate these developmental…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Early Adolescents, Trauma, Public Health
Beland, Kathy – Journal of Character Education, 2014
Mitigating the perils of transition to early adolescence, while also supporting the promise of this stage of human development, has been a major focus of middle school reform (Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development, 1989; Jackson & Davis, 2000). As a result, there are many classroom-based educational programs that target the social and…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Social Development, Emotional Development, Educational Change
Wray-Lake, Laura; Syvertsen, Amy K.; Flanagan, Constance A. – Developmental Psychology, 2016
Social responsibility can be defined as a set of prosocial values representing personal commitments to contribute to community and society. Little is known about developmental change--and predictors of that change--in social responsibility during adolescence. The present study used an accelerated longitudinal research design to investigate the…
Descriptors: Developmental Stages, Adolescent Development, Longitudinal Studies, Social Responsibility
Saewyc, Elizabeth M. – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2011
The decade between 1998 and 2008 saw rapid increases in research on adolescent sexual orientation development and related health issues, both in the quantity and in the quality of studies. While much of the research originated in North America, studies from other countries also contributed to emerging understanding of developmental trajectories…
Descriptors: Sexual Orientation, Adolescents, Health, Resilience (Psychology)
Pfeiffer, Jens P.; Pinquart, Martin – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2011
This study compared the achievement of developmental tasks by 158 adolescents with visual impairments to that of 158 sighted adolescents. The groups did not differ in the fulfillment of 9 of 11 tasks. However, those with visual impairments were less successful in peer-group integration and forming intimate relationships. (Contains 4 tables.)
Descriptors: Visual Impairments, Intimacy, Adolescents, Developmental Tasks
Klatt, John; Enright, Robert – Journal of Moral Education, 2009
This article examines the place of forgiveness within the Positive Youth Development (PYD) paradigm. We suggest knowledge of forgiveness can be advanced by understanding it from a developmental perspective. We review research indicating that forgiveness can contribute to positive developmental outcomes during adolescence and we explore theoretical…
Descriptors: Altruism, Prosocial Behavior, Adolescent Development, Developmental Tasks
Aguilar, Jill; Bedau, Dani; Anthony, Chris – Reclaiming Children and Youth, 2009
The community-based arts environment is uniquely suited to addressing the needs of young people in the area of growing emotional intelligence. The arts offer specific structures, systems, and dynamics that allow for the emergence of the emotional adolescent self. Leaders in the community-based arts field must consciously position their…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Adolescent Development, Emotional Intelligence, Art Education
Akos, Patrick; Ellis, Cyrus Marcellus – Journal of Counseling & Development, 2008
In middle school, counselors should promote optimal development as students navigate the formative stage of puberty. A search for identity is an important developmental task in early adolescence, but school counselors often neglect racial identity development. Through an actual case of an 8th-grade student, both individual and systemic strategies…
Descriptors: Racial Identification, Early Adolescents, Developmental Tasks, School Counselors
Ehrlich, M. I. – MEXTESOL Journal, 1982
The psychosocial characteristics of adolescents are described in order to assist teachers in interacting more effectively with their students. Examination of students about the presence of pathology in adolescence reveals that the typical adolescent is not a stereotypically impulse-ridden, uncontrollable person. Many of an adolescent's…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Developmental Tasks, Psychological Characteristics

Klaczynski, Paul A. – Adolescence, 1990
Places concept of developmental tasks within cultural context, discussing role of "cultural-developmental" tasks in development and modification of adolescent's social-cognitive functioning and the respective roles of both individual and contextual-environmental factors in production of competencies. Outlines theory including individual's activity…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Cultural Influences, Developmental Tasks

Roscoe, Bruce; Peterson, Karen L. – Adolescence, 1984
Surveyed 485 undergraduate students to determine on which developmental tasks they believed they were currently working. Results indicated students were simultaneously engaged in developmental tasks associated with middle childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood, although they identified themselves as being in early adulthood. Results supported…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, College Students, Developmental Tasks, Higher Education

Larson, Reed; Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly – NAMTA Journal, 1997
As an outgrowth of the theory of flow, looks at some fine distinctions regarding the adolescent's optimal conditions for growth. Points to the importance of the adolescent's ability to reinterpret conflicts which crop up in raw experience, to overcome psychic entropy with long-term challenges or "life themes," and to find new meaning and…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Developmental Tasks, Individual Development
Wakefield, W. David; Hudley, Cynthia – Theory Into Practice, 2007
Identity is a major developmental task for adolescents, and the development of ethnic identity is a unique and significant developmental task for many adolescents. This article reviews theoretical and empirical literature that informs our understanding of the development of a positive ethnic identity, and the consequences for adolescent mental…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Mental Health, Developmental Tasks, Academic Achievement