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Opportunities and Peer Support for Aggression and Delinquency during Adolescence in Nine Countries
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Lansford, Jennifer E.; Zietz, Susannah; Bornstein, Marc H.; Deater-Deckard, Kirby; Di Giunta, Laura; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Gurdal, Sevtap; Liu, Qin; Long, Qian; Malone, Patrick S.; Oburu, Paul; Pastorelli, Concetta; Skinner, Ann T.; Sorbring, Emma; Steinberg, Laurence; Tapanya, Sombat; Uribe Tirado, Liliana Maria; Yotanyamaneewong, Saengduean; Alampay, Liane Peña; Al-Hassan, Suha M.; Bacchini, Dario; Chang, Lei – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2020
This study tested culture-general and culture-specific aspects of adolescent developmental processes by focusing on opportunities and peer support for aggressive and delinquent behavior, which could help account for cultural similarities and differences in problem behavior during adolescence. Adolescents from 12 cultural groups in 9 countries…
Descriptors: Aggression, Cultural Influences, Cultural Differences, Adolescent Development
Relative Power in Sibling Relationships across Adolescence
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Lindell, Anna K.; Campione-Barr, Nicole – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2017
During childhood, older siblings typically hold a more powerful position in their relationship with their younger siblings, but these relationships are thought to become more egalitarian during adolescence as siblings begin to prepare for their relationships as adults and as younger siblings become more socially and cognitively competent. Little…
Descriptors: Sibling Relationship, Power Structure, Adolescent Development, Longitudinal Studies
Ethnic Identity, Bicultural Identity Integration, and Psychological Well-Being among Transracial Adoptees: A Longitudinal Study
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Ferrari, Laura; Rosnati, Rosa; Manzi, Claudia; Benet-Martínez, Verònica – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2015
The ethnic identity development plays a crucial role in adolescence and emerging adulthood and may be more complex for adoptees who do not share their ethnic identity with their adoptive families. Evidence from the studies was mixed, with strong ethnic identity not always found to be indicative of improved psychological adjustment. Recently…
Descriptors: Racial Identification, Ethnicity, Adoption, Adolescents
Weekly Rhythms of Parents' Work Stress, Home Stress, and Parent-Adolescent Tension.
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Almeida, David M.; McDonald, Daniel – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 1998
Examined relationships between weekly rhythms of work and family stress and parent-adolescent tension. Found that parent-adolescent tension was most likely to occur on Sundays and Mondays, because parental work stress was more frequent at the beginning of the work week and home stress happened most on the weekend. Mothers' work and home stress…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Coping, Family Work Relationship
Adolescent Crowd Orientations: A Social and Temporal Analysis.
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Strouse, Darcy L. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 1999
Reports findings on changes in adolescent-crowd orientations using national data from the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988. Categorizes high school students into five prototypical peer-crowd orientations at tenth and twelfth grade. Illuminates the change in students' peer crowd orientation by examining individual and relationship…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Behavior, Adolescent Development, Adolescents