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Anne J. Maheux; Shedrick L. Garrett; Kara A. Fox; Nathan H. Field; Kaitlyn Burnell; Eva H. Telzer; Mitchell J. Prinstein – Child Development Perspectives, 2025
Social gaming--online gameplay involving digital interactions with others--is a common form of social media use among adolescents. Research on this topic has neglected the social aspect of gaming and the potential role of social gaming in adolescent development. In this article, we define social gaming, drawing on interdisciplinary theories to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Games, Social Media, Play
Holly Henderson Pinter; Kim K. Winter; Kayleigh Kassel – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2025
"Middle School Today" is clustered into major themes: adolescent development and identity, the adolescent learner, curriculum and instruction, and the contemporary middle school. The book describes the components related to adolescent development starting with simple principles from psychology regarding the physical, cognitive, and…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Adolescent Development, Self Concept, Educational Research
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Hill, Patrick L.; Burrow, Anthony L. – Child Development Perspectives, 2021
A core attribute of the positive youth development movement has been to nullify negative perceptions of youth's capacities. Toward this end, measurement and classification systems benefit from efforts to view youth's capacities as assets contextualized by developmental potentials and opportunities. In this article, we consider this point with…
Descriptors: Youth, Intention, Quality of Life, Self Concept
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De La Torre, Corina; Dobis, Corrie – Journal of Interdisciplinary Teacher Leadership, 2022
This paper seeks to explore how rural Latinx students' STEM identity development can be fostered by utilizing their cultural capital. By both a community cultural wealth and science identity model, this paper reviews previous literature to conceptualize how and why rural Latinx youth are continuously underrepresented within STEM education and…
Descriptors: Rural Youth, Hispanic Americans, Identification (Psychology), Self Concept
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de Ruyter, Doret; Sieckelinck, Stijn – Educational Theory, 2023
Secondary schools are well placed to avert radicalization processes toward extremism because such trajectories often begin in adolescence. Adolescents are in the process of forming their identities, and most adolescents are idealistic, which makes them susceptible to groups that passionately pursue utopian visions. To avert the path toward…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, Secondary School Students, School Role, Adolescents
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Guazzelli Williamson, Victoria; Mills, Kathryn L. – Infant and Child Development, 2023
Mentalizing--the ability to represent or infer the mental states of others--continues to develop into and throughout adolescence. Increased mentalizing sophistication during adolescence is thought to support the navigation of increasingly complex social relationships and contexts. However, developmental science has yet to aggregate the seemingly…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adolescent Development, Empathy, Interpersonal Competence
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Pond, Julia – Children's Literature in Education, 2018
Adolescent literature often seeks to examine the emotional, psychological, and physical growth of adolescents. Psychologists, sociologists, and childhood studies experts have all claimed the importance of adolescence as a time of identity formation. Erik Erikson provides an apt term for this important phase in an individual's life: moratorium,…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Adolescent Development, Self Concept, Developmental Stages
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Wright, Edward – British Journal of Religious Education, 2020
In these last four decades or so, adolescence became understood as the time when young people ask fundamental questions about themselves, each other, the world, and one's past, present and future life that seek unity of purpose and coherence. For most young people the digital media are popular modalities through which they seek, consciously or…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Religious Factors, Religious Education, Creative Teaching
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Wood, Susannah M.; Szymanski, Antonia – Gifted Child Today, 2020
Gifted adolescents may identify as "gamers" who create avatars to navigate video games and cell phone apps. Avatars provide a unique venue through which gifted teens can explore the issues of self and identity in a critical time of their development. The purpose of this article is to (a) provide an overview of what avatars are, (b)…
Descriptors: Video Games, Self Concept, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices
Afterschool Alliance, 2019
Early childhood has long been known to be a formative time in a child's development-- a time when the brain produces more than 1 million neural connections every second during the first few years of a child's life. However, there are factors at the individual and community levels that impact the development process. In communities across America,…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Summer Programs, Adolescents, Drug Abuse
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Schwartz, Hadar S. – Journal of Applied Research on Children, 2015
As American society has become increasingly aware of the plight of sex trafficked American children, attention has shifted from delinquency to victimhood (Mitchell, Finkelhor, & Wolak, 2010) with a corresponding awareness of the trauma that victims endure. This reconceptualization is incomplete without a larger understanding of the…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Sexual Abuse, Early Adolescents, Adolescent Development
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Lapsley, Daniel – Journal of Character Education, 2014
The second decade of life is a transition that poses unique developmental challenges for adolescents, and also for their families and teachers, and how well adolescents negotiate this transition will have important implications for later outcomes across the life course. Coming of age, acquiring the status and trappings of adulthood, unfolds over…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Middle School Students, Developmental Stages, Self Concept
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Friedrichs, Terence Paul – Parenting for High Potential, 2014
Gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (GLBTQ) youth have many strengths, with about 24% of boys and 48% of girls in seven metropolitan GLBTQ support groups identifying as gifted. Similarly, approximately 30% of 1,000 online GLBTQ adult respondents indicated that they, too, had attained gifted-range accomplishments. Parents of gifted…
Descriptors: Homosexuality, Sexual Orientation, Sexual Identity, Parent Role
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Crocetti, Elisabetta; Rabaglietti, Emanuela; Sica, Luigia Simona – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2012
This chapter discusses specifics of identity formation in Italian adolescents and emerging adults. We review consistent evidence illustrating that, in Italy, a progressive deferral of transition to adulthood strongly impacts youth identity development by stimulating identity exploration and postponement of identity commitments. We also consider…
Descriptors: Evidence, Adolescents, Disadvantaged, Foreign Countries
Schroeder-Davis, Stephen – Understanding Our Gifted, 2012
In this column the author explores the middle school nexus of asynchronicity, Maslow's hierarchy of needs and bullying as they apply to gifted students in secondary schools, with an emphasis on the middle school student. The premise is typically referred to as "achievement vs. affiliation," (Ford, 2004; Neihart, 2006, 2008) and concerns the…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Bullying, Middle School Students, Academic Achievement
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