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Direct linkMesser, Lynne C.; Halladay, Corrie; Hofert, Gina; Sheppard, Barbara K. – Journal of School Health, 2021
Background: Positive youth development emphasizes that adaptive features of adolescence may contribute to teenage pregnancy prevention. Methods: Using data from approximately 1300 seventh-ninth graders, we describe positive youth development assets (external and internal) and their association with sexual risk taking. School-, sex-, and…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Risk, Adolescent Development, Pregnancy
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
Hardie, Jessica Halliday; Pearce, Lisa D.; Denton, Melinda Lundquist – Youth & Society, 2016
This study examines changes in religious service attendance over time for a contemporary cohort of adolescents moving from middle to late adolescence. We use two waves of a nationally representative panel survey of youth from the National Study of Youth and Religion (NSYR) to examine the dynamics of religious involvement during adolescence. We…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescents, Religious Factors, Attendance Patterns
Torres, Jesús; Saldaña, David; Rodríguez-Ortiz, Isabel R. – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2016
The goal of this study was to compare the processing of social information in deaf and hearing adolescents. A task was developed to assess social information processing (SIP) skills of deaf adolescents based on Crick and Dodge's (1994; A review and reformulation of social information-processing mechanisms in children's social adjustment.…
Descriptors: Information Processing, Adolescent Development, Adolescent Attitudes, Deafness
Fan, Cuiying; Chu, Xiaowei; Wang, Mingzhong; Zhou, Zongkui – School Psychology International, 2016
Stressors have been identified as significant vulnerability factors in the development of adolescents' depression. The present study focused on the relationship between depressive symptoms and two types of interpersonal stressors in the schoolyard, namely teacher-student interaction stressors (TSIS) and peer interaction stressors (PIS). More…
Descriptors: Stress Management, Stress Variables, Interpersonal Relationship, Adolescent Attitudes
Flanagan, Constance A.; Kim, Taehan; Pykett, Alisa; Finlay, Andrea; Gallay, Erin E.; Pancer, Mark – Developmental Psychology, 2014
Open-ended responses of an ethnically and socioeconomically diverse sample of 593 12- to 19-year-olds (M = 16 years old, SD = 1.59) were analyzed to explain why some people in the United States are poor and others are rich. Adolescents had more knowledge and a more complex understanding of wealth than of poverty and older adolescents had more…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Poverty, Socioeconomic Status, Economic Factors
Download full textHrbackova, Karla; Vavrova, Sona – International Education Studies, 2015
The study deals with self-regulation in children and minors (aged 11 to 19 years) living in so-called "total institutions". It examines the degree of self-regulation of behaviour from the perspective of the children and minors themselves and from the perspective of their key workers. Children and minors and their key workers differ…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Self Management, Adolescent Attitudes, Behavior Modification
Klimstra, Theo A.; Hale, William W., III; Raaijmakers, Quinten A. W.; Branje, Susan J. T.; Meeus, Wim H. J. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2010
The aim of this five-wave longitudinal study of 923 early to middle adolescents (50.7% boys; 49.3% girls) and 390 middle to late adolescents (43.3% boys and 56.7% girls) is to provide a comprehensive view on change and stability in identity formation from ages 12 to 20. Several types of change and stability (i.e., mean-level change, rank-order…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Adolescents, Self Concept, Questionnaires
Wray-Lake, Laura; Syvertsen, Amy K.; Briddell, Laine; Osgood, D. Wayne; Flanagan, Constance A. – Youth & Society, 2011
Using data from the Monitoring the Future study, this article presents historical trends in U.S. high school seniors' work values across 30 years (1976-2005). Adolescents across three decades highly valued most aspects of work examined. Recent cohorts showed declines in the importance of work, values for job security, and various potential…
Descriptors: Adolescents, High School Seniors, Value Judgment, Data Analysis
Vieno, Alessio; Nation, Maury; Perkins, Douglas D.; Santinello, Massimo – Journal of Community Psychology, 2007
This study assessed the links between civic participation and adolescent behavior problems (bullying, physical fighting, and alcohol and tobacco use), and whether civic engagement could be a moderator of the negative effects of parent/family detachment. Participants were 7,097 11-, 13-, and 15-year-olds (48.6% girls) in a region of Northern Italy.…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Smoking, Foreign Countries, Adolescent Attitudes
Crosby, Ellen; Freed, Shirley; Gabriel, Elvin – Journal of Research on Christian Education, 2006
The Personal Problems Checklist for Adolescents (PPC-A) was administered to students in 14 Adventist academies for the purpose of determining the extent of their personal problems. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data. The results showed that the top 10 problems were: (1) poor study habits; (2) worrying about future…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Student Problems, Check Lists, Age Differences
Rose, Hilary A. – Reclaiming Children and Youth: The Journal of Strength-based Interventions, 2006
An asset-based approach is being championed by the field of child and youth care work, focusing on strengths as opposed to weaknesses, assets as opposed to deficits. This article highlights the Search Institute's theoretically-based and empirically-supported model of developmental assets (Benson, Leffert, Scales, & Blyth, 1998; Scales, Benson,…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Care, Models, Intervention
Pettitt, Lisa M. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2004
The peer context plays an important role in adolescents' views of math and social domains. (Contains 1 table and 2 figures.)
Descriptors: Puberty, Adolescents, Socialization, Gender Differences
