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Hülür, Gizem; Gasimova, Fidan; Robitzsch, Alexander; Wilhelm, Oliver – Child Development, 2018
Intellectual engagement (IE) refers to enjoyment of intellectual activities and is proposed as causal for knowledge acquisition. The role of IE for cognitive development was examined utilizing 2-year longitudinal data from 112 ninth graders (average baseline age: 14.7 years). Higher baseline IE predicted higher baseline crystallized ability but…
Descriptors: Intellectual Experience, Learner Engagement, Cognitive Development, Longitudinal Studies
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Wang, Ming-Te; Sheikh-Khalil, Salam – Child Development, 2014
Parental involvement in education remains important for facilitating positive youth development. This study conceptualized parental involvement as a multidimensional construct--including school-based involvement, home-based involvement, and academic socialization--and examined the effects of different types of parental involvement in 10th grade on…
Descriptors: High School Students, Mental Health, Academic Achievement, Parent Participation
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Allen, Joseph P.; Chango, Joanna; Szwedo, David – Child Development, 2014
The long-term import of a fundamental challenge of adolescent social development--establishing oneself as a desirable peer companion while avoiding problematic behaviors often supported within peer groups--was examined in a community sample of 184 adolescents, followed from ages 13 to 23, along with parents, peers, and romantic partners. The…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Behavior Problems, Peer Relationship
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Hurd, Noelle M.; Stoddard, Sarah A.; Zimmerman, Marc A. – Child Development, 2013
This study explored how neighborhood characteristics may relate to African American adolescents' internalizing symptoms via adolescents' social support and perceptions of neighborhood cohesion. Participants included 571 urban, African American adolescents (52% female; "M" age = 17.8). A multilevel path analysis testing both direct and…
Descriptors: Path Analysis, Adolescent Development, Mental Health, African American Students
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Fredriksen, Katia; Rhodes, Jean; Reddy, Ranjini; Way, Niobe – Child Development, 2004
The influence of the sleep patterns of 2,259 students, aged 11 to 14 years, on trajectories of depressive symptoms, self-esteem, and grades was longitudinally examined using latent growth cross-domain models. Consistent with previous research, sleep decreased over time. Students who obtained less sleep in sixth grade exhibited lower initial…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Sleep, Grades (Scholastic), Depression (Psychology)
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Connolly, Jennifer; Furman, Wyndol; Konarski, Roman – Child Development, 2000
Examined adolescents' peer structures and the quality of their friendships as antecedents of romantic relationships among 180 high schoolers followed from grade 9 through 11. Found that small groups of close friends predicted other-sex peer networks that, in turn, predicted the emergence of future romantic relationships. Found indirect effects for…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Dating (Social), High School Students
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Morris, Anne K.; Sloutsky, Vladimir M. – Child Development, 1998
Two studies of adolescents in England and Russia examined the effects of prolonged instruction on students' development of abstract deductive reasoning and understanding of logical necessity in algebraic and verbal reasoning. Results indicated that prolonged instruction emphasizing the metalevel of algebraic deduction contributed to enhanced…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Cognitive Development, Deduction, Foreign Countries
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Capaldi, Deborah M.; And Others – Child Development, 1996
Event history analysis, spanning grades 7 through 12, was used to test a developmental model of the timing of first sexual intercourse among boys at risk for delinquency. As predicted, antisocial/delinquent behavior and substance use along with early physical maturity and parental transitions predicted early onset of sexual intercourse. Anxiety…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Antisocial Behavior, Delinquency
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Laird, Robert D.; Pettit, Gregory S.; Bates, John E.; Dodge, Kenneth A. – Child Development, 2003
Examined links between parental knowledge and adolescent delinquent behavior for correlated rates of developmental change and reciprocal associations from age 14 to 18. Found that parent knowledge was negatively correlated with delinquent behaviors at age 14 and knowledge increases over time were negatively correlated with increases in…
Descriptors: Adolescent Behavior, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Age Differences
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Ellis, Bruce J.; Garber, Judy – Child Development, 2000
Tested model relating girls' pubertal timing to mothers' history of psychopathology, mediated by family discord and father absence/stepfather presence. Found that mothers' history of mood disorders predicted earlier daughters' puberty, with the relation fully mediated by dyadic stress and biological father absence. Stepfather presence best…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Biological Parents, Depression (Psychology), Early Adolescents
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DuBois, David L.; And Others – Child Development, 1992
Examined the relationship between students' stress and social support in junior high school and the same students' psychological distress and school performance two years later. Stress and support variables predicted subsequent psychological distress. Stresses, but not supports, predicted subsequent school performance. (BC)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescent Development, High School Students, High Schools
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Morison, Patricia; Masten, Ann S. – Child Development, 1991
A sample of 183 third through sixth grade students were administered the Revised Class Play (RCP). Seven years later, these children and their parents completed a questionnaire measuring the students' behavioral symptoms and social, athletic, and academic competence. The RCP scores were related to adolescent competence and psychopathology. (BC)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescent Development, Aggression, Athletics