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Nelson, Larry J.; Padilla-Walker, Laura M.; Badger, Sarah; Barry, Carolyn McNamara; Carroll, Jason S.; Madsen, Stephanie D. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2008
Many studies have documented the ways in which shyness can be a barrier to personal well-being and social adjustment throughout childhood and adolescence; however, less is known regarding shyness in emerging adulthood. Shyness as experienced during emerging adulthood may continue to be a risk factor for successful development. The purpose of this…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Shyness, Self Concept, Depression (Psychology)
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Bosacki, Sandra Leanne – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2003
Examined individual differences in the relations among preadolescents' sociomoral understanding and self-understanding and teacher and peer ratings of school behavior. Findings for 239 preadolescents are discussed in terms of curricular implications for inter- and intrapersonal understandings. (SLD)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Comprehension, Curriculum, Individual Differences
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Vilhjalmsson, Runar – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1994
Effects of social support on health self-assessments were studied in a national sample of 1,131 adolescents in Iceland. Parental support has the largest total effect on health self-assessment, followed by friend support, and other adult support. Implications of these results are discussed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Behavior Patterns, Foreign Countries
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Flannery, Daniel J.; And Others – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1994
Interpersonal and intrapersonal risk for substance use were investigated for 1,170 Caucasian and Hispanic American sixth and seventh graders, equally divided by gender. Mean use levels did not differ for ethnic groups. Across both gender and ethnicity, susceptibility to peer pressure and peer alcohol use were the best predictors of substance use.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Patterns, Contraception, Drug Use