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Direct linkDaniel Ji; Sheila K. Marshall; Grant Charles – Journal of Adolescence, 2025
Introduction: Although prior research has examined adolescents' resistance to parental control, the dyadic level of analysis has been overlooked. This study attended to how a Canadian sample of parents and adolescents engaged in resisting one another by observing moment-to-moment actions as they discussed the upcoming transition to high school.…
Descriptors: Resistance (Psychology), Parent Child Relationship, Adolescents, Interaction
Julia Rodriguez Buritica; Stella Berboth; Frances Hoferichter; Diana Raufelder – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2025
Background: Mid-adolescence is an important phase of self-development in various domains including academics as well as for changes in the neural mechanisms underlying the self-concept. Students' academic self-concept (ASC) is affected by educational achievements and social others (such as teachers and peers). To what extent these external…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Attitude Change, Self Concept, Adolescent Development
Download full textAlexandra Skrocki; Gary D. Ellis; Andrea Ettekal; Darlene Locke – Journal of Youth Development, 2025
We examined relations among select components of the 4-H Thriving Model, focusing on youth sparks and four presumed determinants: program quality, developmental relationships, situational engagement, and dosage. Based on our results and results of previous studies, we propose a formal theory of youth program sparks. Three hundred fifty-six Texas…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Program Effectiveness, Secondary School Students, Adolescent Development
Omolola A. Odejimi; Leslie F. Clark – Journal of Youth Development, 2025
Positive youth development (PYD) programs have increased positive outcomes for adolescents, however research on the underlying change processes in these programs remains limited. The 5Cs (Competence, Confidence, Character, Caring and Connection) of PYD are a framework of desirable outcomes for youth programs. Change to metacognition is proposed as…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Youth Programs, Adolescent Development, Outcomes of Education
Katherine L. Long; Atefeh Karimi; Antonella Mini; Dionne P. Stephens; Eliza L. Nelson – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2024
Background: Parents' conceptualizations of adulthood for their emerging adults with Down syndrome have the potential to impact the transition planning process as families prepare for life after graduation. Aims: This study aimed to explore parent perceptions of the meaning of adulthood for their emerging adults with Down syndrome. Methods: In this…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Young Adults, Down Syndrome, Adolescent Development
Silvia López-Alvarado; Jessica Castillo-Nuñez; Ana Cevallos-Neira; Nancy Arpi-Becerra; Elena Jerves-Hermida – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2024
Teenage pregnancy is a phenomenon that causes concern due to its consequences. In this context, sex education has been considered as a good means of prevention. However, while teenage pregnancy prevails, sex education perspectives from the voices of teenage fathers and mothers remain under-explored. This qualitative study aimed at exploring sex…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Adults, Early Parenthood, Pregnancy
Jaffe, Julia; Loebach, Janet – Youth & Society, 2024
This paper proposes a new conceptual approach to the development and utilization of youth-led environmental assessments to inform the planning of youth-enabling environments. Interdisciplinary research has established the influential effects of the physical environment on children and adolescents' well-being and development, yet there is a gap in…
Descriptors: Youth, Physical Environment, Evaluation, Well Being
Denise L. Jones; Justin Heinze; Sarah Stoddard – Youth & Society, 2025
Developmental theories and previous research suggest that individuals do not develop separately from their environments. Yet, limited information is known about how ecological influences specifically shape early adolescents' development. To address this, the current study examined environmental influences on early adolescents' future orientation…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Adolescent Development, Environmental Influences, Educational Environment
Joanna Peplak; Rachel Taffe; J. Zoe Klemfuss – Journal of Adolescence, 2025
Introduction: This mixed-method longitudinal study examined American adolescents' meaning making of salient COVID-19 pandemic events. Method: Within phone interviews, adolescents (N = 124, M[subscript age] = 15.76 years; 46% Latine) narrated their most emotionally impactful pandemic experience at two time points ~30 days apart between July 2020…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Emotional Experience, COVID-19, Pandemics
M. Nicole Buckley; Maria Abdul-Masih; Qingqing Yang; Arya Ansari; Kelly M. Purtell – High School Journal, 2023
This study examined the extent to which residential mobility in the first 15 years of life was cumulatively associated with high school truancy at age 15 and whether there were specific developmental periods during which residential mobility was more consequential. To address these aims, we used data drawn from 4,848 children and families who…
Descriptors: Student Mobility, Adolescents, Truancy, Child Development
Mingxiao Liu; Aiyi Liu; Wenzhou Lin; Xiaoqing Yu; Xinchun Wu – Journal of Adolescence, 2025
Introduction: Family and school environments are pivotal in adolescent development. However, the simultaneous examination of adversities in both domains remains understudied. Based on bioecological and spillover theories, this study aimed to bridge this research gap by using latent profile analysis to identify distinct patterns of family adversity…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Bullying, Family Involvement, Adolescents
Hale Savci; Arzu Gülbahçe – International Journal of Psychology and Educational Studies, 2024
The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between childhood traumas experienced by adolescents and their future expectations. The sample comprised 408 high school students, with 212 girls and 196 boys. The researchers employed the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire Short Form (CTQ-SF) to assess participants' childhood trauma, the Future…
Descriptors: Trauma, Expectation, Adolescents, High School Students
Robert P. Lubeznik-Warner; Michael Froehly; Taylor Wycoff; Victoria Povilaitis; Luke Cloward; Shannielle Taylor; Seunghee Moon – Journal of Experiential Education, 2024
Background: Summer camp is an experiential learning setting that supports youth development. Due to high fees, youth from low-income backgrounds often have fewer opportunities to attend. Subsequently, there is little literature about these youth's camp experiences. Purpose: This research examined growth and the characteristics supporting growth in…
Descriptors: Camps, Low Income Groups, Summer Programs, Experiential Learning
Benjamin J. Parry; Maira Patino; Barry A. Garst; Edmond P. Bowers; William H. Quinn; Leslie E. Heffington – Applied Developmental Science, 2024
For teens growing up in military-connected families, challenges relating to relocation, parental deployment, and reintegration add layers of stress to an already complex time of life. Out-of-school time programs provide military-connected teens opportunities to utilize existing strengths, develop new skills, and build support networks, as…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Leadership Training, Youth Programs, Armed Forces
Santiago Morales; Maureen E. Bowers; Lauren Shuffrey; Katherine Ziegler; Sonya Troller-Renfree; Alexis Hernandez; Stephanie C. Leach; Monica McGrath; Cindy Ola; Leslie D. Leve; Sara S. Nozadi; Margaret M. Swingler; Jin-Shei Lai; Julie B. Schweitzer; William Fifer; Carlos A. Camargo Jr.; Gurjit K. Khurana Hershey; Allison L. B. Shapiro; Daniel P. Keating; Tina V. Hartert; Sean Deoni; Assiamira Ferrara; Amy J. Elliott – Developmental Psychology, 2024
A large body of research has established a relation between maternal education and children's neurocognitive functions, such as executive function and language. However, most studies have focused on early childhood and relatively few studies have examined associations with changes in maternal education over time. Consequently, it remains unclear…
Descriptors: Mothers, Educational Attainment, Child Development, Thinking Skills
