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Michael R. Gawrys; Kim Skobba – Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences, 2024
Individuals aged 12 to 18 are establishing housing connections that could significantly impact their future housing choices when they are particularly susceptible to external influences. Recognizing the impact of early life experiences can enhance educational initiatives to assist adolescents in making more informed housing decisions. The research…
Descriptors: Housing, Futures (of Society), Decision Making, Adolescents
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Joseph, Patrece; Fleary, Sasha A. – Journal of School Health, 2021
Background: Adolescents are required to take increased responsibility for their health. Although health literacy is implicated in adults' health decision-making and health behaviors, little is known about adolescents' health literacy and its relationship to their health behaviors. Furthermore, adolescent health literacy research overlooks…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Definitions
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McMain, Emma M. – Gender and Education, 2022
Amidst essentialising discourses that circulate through educational spaces (e.g. that 'boys will be boys' or that boys are inherently aggressive), there is a need for more research that explores adolescent identities as complex and relational. This study considers the affective-discursive practices that both constrain and enable teenage boys to…
Descriptors: Aggression, Violence, Males, Gender Differences
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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
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Weir, Kyle N. – Adoption Quarterly, 2000
Examines the developmental, familial, and peer deterrents that form barriers to adoption placement, based on interviews with 17 teen mothers in a residential facility. Analyzes responses based on an Eriksonian developmental model, and notes the role of family "cutoffs" and "re-admissions" and peer pressure as deterrents to…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Adoption
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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
Cohen, Jonathan, Ed. – 1999
Based on the view that social and emotional learning (SEL) needs to be an integral part of middle school education, this book provides an overview to social and emotional learning and the development of middle school students, presents a representative range of SEL programs and perspectives, and offers reflections on the current status of SEL and…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Change Strategies, Conflict Resolution