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Intensity and Breadth of Participation in Organized Activities during the Adolescent Years: Multiple Associations with Youth Outcomes
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Denault, Anne-Sophie; Poulin, Francois – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2009
The goal of this study was to examine initial levels and rates of change in the intensity and breadth of participation in organized activities during the adolescent years, and how these participation practices were related to youth outcomes in later adolescence. The main objectives were (a) to examine growth curves of intensity and breadth of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Student Participation, Risk, Behavior Patterns
Cross-Informant Ratings of the Emotional and Behavioral Functioning of College Students
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Renk, Kimberly; Donnelly, Reesa; Klein, Jenny; Oliveros, Arazais; Baksh, Elizabeth – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2008
One hundred seventy-four college students and a subset of their mothers and fathers provided ratings of college students' emotional and behavioral functioning. College students and their mothers and fathers demonstrated variable levels of correspondence in their ratings of college students' internalizing and externalizing behavior problems.…
Descriptors: College Students, Behavior Patterns, Mothers, Emotional Adjustment
Correlates of Help-Seeking in Adolescence.
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Schonert-Reichl, Kimberly A.; Muller, Jennifer R. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1996
The demographic and psychological variables associated with seeking help in coping with emotional problems in early and middle adolescence from parents, friends, and professionals were studied with 221 adolescents. Differential patterns of predictor variables emerged for each helping resource and for both genders. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Patterns, Correlation, Counselors
Self-Esteem and Adjustment in Early Adolescence: A Social-Contextual Perspective.
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DuBois, David L.; Bull, Catherine A.; Sherman, Michelle D.; Roberts, Magie – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1998
Global self-esteem and social-contextual incongruity in factors contributing to the development and maintenance of self-esteem were studied as predictors of the emotional, behavioral, and academic adjustment of 213 young adolescents. Higher reported levels of global self-esteem were associated with more favorable scores on most measures of…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Context Effect, Early Adolescents, Emotional Adjustment
Disentangling the Weight of School Dropout Predictors: A Test on Two Longitudinal Samples.
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Janosz, Michel; LeBlanc, Marc; Boulerice, Bernard; Tremblay, Richard E. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1997
Predictors of school dropout and their stability over time were studied in 791 white French-speaking Canadian students aged 12 to 16 years in 1974 and 791 similar students in 1985 through self-administered questionnaires. School, family, behavioral, social, and personality variables predicted dropping out in both samples, and these predictors were…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Dropouts, Family Characteristics, Foreign Countries
Perceived vs. Actual Friends' Use of Alcohol, Cigarettes, Marijuana, and Cocaine: Which Has the Most Influence?
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Iannotti, Ronald J.; Bush, Patricia J. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1992
Determinants of alcohol, cigarette, marijuana, and/or crack use were assessed in 2,078 fourth graders and 1,082 fifth graders (predominantly African-American urban). Patterns suggest that peer behaviors and attitudes are more influential for socially censored behaviors than for more socially approved behaviors. Perception of friends' behaviors is…
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, Attitude Measures, Behavior Patterns, Black Students