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Rogers, Leoandra Onnie – Developmental Psychology, 2019
A focal goal of development science in recent years has been to document and understand the psychological processes that underlie inequality toward the goal of promoting equity and justice (e.g., Killen, Rutland, & Yip, 2016). This timely special section on economic inequality broadens the empirical conversation, which has centered mostly on…
Descriptors: Children, Adolescents, Poverty, Disadvantaged
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Lerner, Richard M.; Lerner, Jacqueline V.; von Eye, Alexander; Bowers, Edmond P.; Lewin-Bizan, Selva – Journal of Adolescence, 2011
We introduce this special issue on the individual and contextual bases of adolescent thriving by describing the relational developmental systems theory-based, positive youth development (PYD) perspective that frames much of contemporary research about health and positive development across the adolescent period and that, more specifically, frames…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Longitudinal Studies, Adolescent Development, Models
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Murray-Close, Dianna – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2013
Researchers have made significant progress in the investigation of how physiological measures can inform the study of adolescent peer functioning, including peer processes involving antisocial behavior, victimization, and peer social status. This paper highlights how the inclusion of physiological processes in research studies can address several…
Descriptors: Psychophysiology, Peer Relationship, Adolescents, Antisocial Behavior
OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2012
This report focuses on the development of reading proficiency during the transition from adolescence to early adulthood. The span of time between the ages of 15 and 24 is a critical period of development for young people. Once compulsory education is completed, individual decisions about post-secondary education, employment and other life choices…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Compulsory Education, Educational Attainment, Foreign Countries
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Bosma, Harke A.; Kunnen, E. Saskia – Journal of Adolescence, 2008
In this discussion, we summarize the main aspects of the research presented in the papers and discuss what we see as their strong points. To analyze recent developments in identity research, we compared the present issue with the special issue of the "Journal of Adolescence" in 1996 on "Identity Development in Context". In that issue it was…
Descriptors: Personality, Adolescents, Longitudinal Studies, Periodicals
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Repetto, Paula B.; Zimmerman, Marc A.; Caldwell, Cleopatra H. – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2008
The association between marijuana use and depressive symptoms was examined longitudinally in a sample of 622 African American youth, interviewed on six occasions, using hierarchical linear modeling (HLM). We considered whether depressive symptoms predicted changes in marijuana use and vice versa from high school through the transition into young…
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Marijuana, Longitudinal Studies
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Baumrind, Diana – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2005
In proposing connections among the paradigms represented by domain theory, parental control theory, and Baumrind's configural approach to parental authority, the worldview of each paradigm must be respected and ambiguities in core concepts must be resolved.
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Parenting Styles
Taylor, Mary Ellen; And Others – 1981
The National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 (NLS) is an ongoing project focusing on the educational, vocational, and personal development of high school graduates, and the personal, familial, social, institutional, and cultural factors that contribute directly or indirectly to that development. A national probability sample of…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Databases, Federal Programs, High School Students
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Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne, Ed.; Petersen, Anne C., Ed. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1991
Twelve papers on the emergence and maintenance of severe clinical depression and depressive symptoms during adolescence are presented. Topics include parental influences, epidemiological data, depressive and negative affect, hormonal effects, preadolescent symptoms, sex differences, longitudinal studies with rhesus monkeys, suicidal ideation,…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Classification, Cognitive Processes
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Hauser, Stuart T. – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 1999
Describes person-based follow-back design and narrative analyses to examine young adult developmental adaptation despite serious prior risks and adversity. Describes identification of competent young adults and narrative analysis method. Presents preliminary findings detailing content and structural themes involving individual constructions of…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, At Risk Persons, Content Analysis, Discourse Analysis
Cotterell, John – 1996
Young people are concerned with making and keeping friends, and they invest a great deal of energy in group social life to do so. This book charts the interactions of young people both in and out of school and the role of peers and friends in strengthening social attachments and in establishing social identities. It describes how social identities…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Case Studies
Wagner, Mary; And Others – 1989
The National Longitudinal Transition Study of Special Education Students (NLTS) provides information to practitioners, policymakers, researchers, and others in the special education community regarding the transition of youth with disabilities from secondary school to early adulthood. The sample for the study, which began in 1987, involves more…
Descriptors: Academic Records, Adolescent Development, Data Collection, Data Processing
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Roeser, Robert W.; Peck, Stephen C. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2003
The authors' approach to using pattern-centered analyses and longitudinal data addresses how configurations of personal and contextual factors forecast the educational achievement and attainments of different youth across adolescence. Here, they discuss various types of pattern-centered analyses and provide an empirical illustration of how these…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Adolescent Development, Enrollment
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Kowaleski-Jones, Lori; Dunifon, Rachel – Youth & Society, 2006
Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth merged mother-child file, this article examines the relationship between living in four different family structures on key measures of youth well-being, studied separately by race. The authors also examine whether contextual factors mediate these associations. For Black youth, we find no…
Descriptors: Family Structure, Well Being, National Surveys, Longitudinal Studies
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Boehnke, Klaus; Merkens, Hans – Zeitschrift fur Padagogik, 1995
Considers the problems inherent in researching changes in social values and individual perspectives among selected age groups. Asserts that studies aimed at researching both aspects need to be organized as longitudinal studies. Utilizes data taken from a study of East and West Berlin adolescents to reveal specific research problems. (MJP)
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Age Differences, Beliefs, Cognitive Development
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