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Benner, Aprile D.; Wang, Yijie – Child Development, 2017
There is an extensive body of work documenting the negative socioemotional and academic consequences of perceiving racial/ethnic discrimination during adolescence, but little is known about how the larger peer context conditions such effects. Using peer network data from 252 eighth graders (85% Latino, 11% African American, 5% other…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Well Being, Ethnicity, Race
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

Jaccard, James; Dittus, Patricia J.; Gordon, Vivian V. – Child Development, 1998
Examined mother-adolescent congruence in reports of adolescent sexual behavior and communication about sex in 745 African American adolescents (ages 14-17). Found that adolescent perceptions and reports were more predictive of adolescent sexual behavior than maternal reports. Mothers underestimated their teens' sexual activity, and teens…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Black Youth, Congruence (Psychology)

Phinney, Jean S.; Ferguson, Debra L.; Tate, Jerry D. – Child Development, 1997
Used two path models to examine the influence of ethnic identity and intergroup contact on adolescents' attitudes toward other ethnic groups: (1) ethnic identity increases with age and predicts positive in-group attitudes which contribute to positive out-group attitudes; and (2) diversity outside school leads to more out-group interaction in…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Ethnic Groups

Klaczynski, Paul A. – Child Development, 2000
Examined the emergence of theory-motivated reasoning biases when early and middle adolescents evaluated evidence either congruent or incongruent to their theories of social class or religion. Found that higher order scientific reasoning was used to reject theory-incongruent evidence; judgmental heuristics were used to evaluate theory-congruent…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Age Differences

Davies, Patrick T.; Windle, Michael – Child Development, 2001
Examined whether associations between marital discord and trajectories of adolescent depression and delinquency varied as a function of intrapersonal attributes. Found that difficult temperament potentiated effects of marital discord on adjustment trajectories. Heightened perceived family support protected adolescents from adverse marital discord…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Behavior Problems

McGuire, Shirley; Manke, Beth; Saudino, Kimberly J.; Reiss, David; Hetherington, E. Mavis; Plomin, Robert – Child Development, 1999
This behavioral genetic study examined perceived competence and self-worth in same-sex twins, siblings, and stepsiblings 10 to 18 years old, and again 3 years later. Findings at second assessment showed six of seven subscales heritable. Genetic contributions to stability were found for perceived scholastic competence, athletic competence, physical…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Competence

Yau, Jenny; Smetana, Judith G. – Child Development, 1996
Interviewed 120 early, mid, and late adolescents of lower-class Chinese families to examine adolescent-parent conflict. Found that conflicts were primarily with mothers, of moderate frequency and severity, and occurred over everyday issues. Adolescents wanted greater autonomy in decision making than their parents granted them, but parents' views…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Behavior, Adolescent Development, Adolescents

Lamborn, Susie D.; And Others – Child Development, 1996
Investigated whether three types of family decision making on adolescent adjustment were moderated by ethnicity and/or community. Found that, for joint and unilateral youth decision making, community context interacted with ethnicity in three patterns of influence, refuting the notion that ethnic differences in the influence of parental strictness…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Adolescents

Larson, Reed W.; Moneta, Giovanni; Richards, Maryse H.; Wilson, Suzanne – Child Development, 2002
This longitudinal study examined change in 220 adolescents' daily range of emotional states between early and late adolescence. Findings showed that emotional states became less positive across early adolescence; this downward change in average emotions ceased in grade 10. The greatest relative instability was during early adolescence; stability…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Affective Behavior

Shanahan, Michael J.; Flaherty, Brian P. – Child Development, 2001
Used a person-centered analytic strategy with data from Youth Development Study to describe configurations of time use through the high school years. Found that students highly engaged in multiple domains tended to remain so across grade. Students focused on one or two domains frequently changed commitments, school plans, grade point average,…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Behavior, Adolescent Development, Adolescents

Galambos, Nancy L.; And Others – Child Development, 1990
Assessed differences in masculinity, femininity, and sex role attitudes in adolescent girls and boys, and the relation of pubertal timing to intensification of those attitudes. Found that sex differences in masculinity and sex role attitudes increased with age. Pubertal timing was unrelated to masculinity, femininity, and sex role attitudes. (BC)
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Age Differences

Jodl, Kathleen M.; Michael, Alice; Malanchuk, Oksana; Eccles, Jacquelynne S.; Sameroff, Arnold – Child Development, 2001
Examined relations among parenting dimensions and adolescents' occupational aspirations related to academics and sports. Found that parents' values predicted youths' values directly in the academic domain. Fathers' behaviors mediated the relation between parents' and youths' sports values. Identification was directly related to adolescents'…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Aspiration, Athletics

Fuligni, Andrew J.; Tseng, Vivian; Lam, May – Child Development, 1999
Examined attitudes toward family obligations in American tenth and twelfth graders from Filipino, Chinese, Mexican, Central and South American, and European backgrounds. Found that even within a society emphasizing adolescent autonomy and independence, youths from families with collectivistic traditions retain their parents' familial values and…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Age Differences

Bandura, Albert; Caprara, Gian Vittorio; Barbaranelli, Claudio; Gerbino, Maria; Pastorelli, Concetta – Child Development, 2003
Examined influence of perceived self-efficacy for affect regulation with older adolescents. Found that self-efficacy to regulate affect related to high efficacy to manage academic development, resist social pressures for antisocial activities, and engage with empathy in others' emotional experiences. Perceived self-efficacy for affect regulation…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Antisocial Behavior