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Johnson, Sara K. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2021
Developmental scientists are often interested in subgroups of people who share commonalities in aspects of development; these subgroups often cannot be captured directly but instead must be inferred from other information. Mixture models can be used in these situations. Two specific types of mixture models, latent profile transition analyses and…
Descriptors: Profiles, Child Development, Developmental Psychology, Models
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Kornilov, Sergey A. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2015
In this brief essay, I comment on the constellation of papers published in the current issue. I argue that it represents the new beginning of the new era for the journal, driven by several considerations. Among these, three are key. First, the collection of articles in this issue is explicitly concerned with the multivariate and multidisciplinary…
Descriptors: Child Development, Journal Articles, Interdisciplinary Approach, Research Methodology
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Gestsdottir, Steinunn; Urban, Jennifer Brown; Bowers, Edmond P.; Lerner, Jacqueline V.; Lerner, Richard M. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2011
The positive youth development (PYD) perspective emphasizes that thriving occurs when individual [double arrow] context relations involve the alignment of adolescent strengths with the resources in their contexts. The authors propose that a key component of this relational process is the strength that youth possess in the form of self-regulatory…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Probability, Adolescent Development, Self Control
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McKeough, Anne; Malcolm, Jennifer – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2011
Research has shown that a hallmark of adolescent development is the growing capacity to interpret human intentionality. In this chapter, the authors examine developmental change in this capacity, which they have termed interpretive thought, in two types of stories, family and autobiographical, told by Canadian youth aged ten to seventeen years.…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Self Concept, Developmental Stages
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Lerner, Richard M.; Lerner, Jacqueline V.; Bowers, Edmond P.; Lewin-Bizan, Selva; Gestsdottir, Steinunn; Urban, Jennifer Brown – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2011
Both organismic and intentional self-regulation processes must be integrated across childhood and adolescence for adaptive developmental regulations to exist and for the developing person to thrive, both during the first two decades of life and through the adult years. To date, such an integrated, life-span approach to self-regulation during…
Descriptors: Children, Self Control, Adolescents, Child Development
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Kobak, Roger; Rosenthal, Natalie L.; Zajac, Kristyn; Madsen, Stephanie D. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2007
Puberty alters the interplay of attachment, sexual, and affiliative systems; initiates the search for a peer attachment; and begins the reorganization of adolescents' attachment hierarchies.
Descriptors: Puberty, Attachment Behavior, Sexuality, Peer Groups
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Halpern, Carolyn Tucker – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2006
This chapter discusses biological contributions to adolescent female sexual development and, based on a developmental systems framework, suggests future research directions.
Descriptors: Sexuality, Adolescents, Developmental Stages, Females
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Lefkowitz, Eva S.; Stoppa, Tara M. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2006
This chapter provides an expanded view of parent- adolescent sexual communication and socialization in an effort to move beyond risk perspectives toward a consideration of other important aspects of sexual socialization.
Descriptors: Socialization, Sexuality, Interpersonal Communication, Parent Child Relationship
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Galambos, Nancy L.; Barker, Erin V.; Tilton-Weaver, Lauree C. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2003
This study examined implicit theories of immaturity among 345 Canadian sixth- and ninth-graders. Qualitative analysis of adolescents' descriptions of an immature peer revealed six foci to implicit theories of immaturity. The majority of adolescents' descriptions focused on childlike behaviors, silly/goofy behaviors, or on mean/hurtful behaviors.…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Age Differences, Criteria
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Darling, Nancy; Cumsille, Patricio; Pena-Alampay, Liane – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2005
With age, Chilean, Filipino, and U.S. youth come to believe that fewer issues are legitimately within the control of parents and that they are less obliged to obey parental rules. These beliefs vary across domains and countries, providing insight into parent-adolescent conflict and the development of autonomy. (Contains 2 figures.)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Child Relationship, Cultural Differences, Parenting Styles
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Hartup, Willard W. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2003
Close relationships among children and adolescents are ordinarily considered to encompass friendliness and fun. Recent studies, however, reveal that many friendships have dark sides consisting of competitiveness, hostility, and conflict. Relationships based on aversion and antipathy may turn out to have major developmental implications, but more…
Descriptors: Children, Adolescents, Peer Relationship, Friendship