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Ida Lousen; Søren Andkjaer – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2025
This study aims to investigate the impact of frilufts-therapy (Nordic inspired therapeutic interventions in nature) on adolescents' mental health through a systematic literature review following PRISMA 2020 guidelines. Inclusion criteria encompassed peer-reviewed intervention studies in English, Danish, or Norwegian, quantitatively evaluated with…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Educational Benefits, Mental Health, Adolescents
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Linda P. Juang; Adriana J. Umaña-Taylor; Maja K. Schachner; Ann Frisén; C. Philip Hwang; Ughetta Moscardino; Frosso Motti-Stefanidi; Brit Oppedal; Vassilis Pavlopoulos; Amina K. Abdullahi; Rebecca Barahona; Sofia Berne; Chiara Ceccon; Nadya Gharaei; Ursula Moffitt; Anastasios Ntalachanis; Sharleen Pevec; David J. Sandberg; Angeliki Zacharia; Moin Syed – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2023
A global challenge for developmental psychology is to better understand how young people around the world make sense of their identities growing up in pluralistic societies. The study of ethnic-racial identity provides an important lens for this process. This paper describes how five European countries (Germany, Greece, Italy, Norway, and Sweden)…
Descriptors: Intervention, Racial Identification, Ethnicity, Foreign Countries
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Brandon K. Schultz; Steven W. Evans; John Bowditch; Kaitlynn Carter; Emma E. Rogers; Jennifer Donelan; Allison Dembowski – Grantee Submission, 2023
An estimated 8.7% to 9.8% of school-age children in the United States have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), affecting 4.3 to 4.9 million public school students. ADHD is a costly disorder that often goes untreated, especially among adolescents. Accessible computer- based programs have emerged to address the neurocognitive deficits…
Descriptors: Video Games, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Planning, Skill Development
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Hui Zhou; Hanxiyue Zhang; Angela Y. Xiao; Lei Yu; Kun Tang – Health Education & Behavior, 2024
Background: Preadolescents, who are in a transitional phase of development, may experience higher exposure to heterosexual interactions while facing higher risks regarding misinformation in sexual knowledge and unsafe engagement in sexual activities. There is a deficiency in the availability of qualified educators and age-appropriate teaching…
Descriptors: Animation, Sex Education, Preadolescents, Foreign Countries
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Afsharnejad, Bahareh; Falkmer, Marita; Picen, Tanya; Black, Melissa H.; Alach, Tasha; Fridell, Anna; Coco, Cristina; Milne, Kelly; Perry, Jill; Bölte, Sven; Girdler, Sonya – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2022
This study captured the experiences of 35 autistic adolescents and their parents after completing a 16-session variant of social skills group training KONTAKT® (ACTRN12617001117303). Semi-structured interviews explored participants' and relatives' perceptions of KONTAKT® and associated social outcomes. Adolescents were classified as either high…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Adolescents, Adolescent Attitudes
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Ferriz, Roberto; Jiménez-Loaisa, Alejandro; González-Cutre, David; Romero-Elías, María; Beltrán-Carrillo, Vicente J. – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2022
Purpose: Adolescents' and parents' experiences within a multidimensional school-based physical activity intervention grounded on self-determination theory were explored. Method: Qualitative data from 29 adolescents (aged 15-17 years) and three parents on behalf of the total students' families were collected via participant observation (research…
Descriptors: Self Determination, Adolescents, Adolescent Attitudes, Physical Activities
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Tamboer, S. L.; Daalmans, S.; Molenaar, I.; Bosse, T.; Kleemans, M. – Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, 2022
To develop guidelines for more effective news literacy interventions, we conducted focus groups with early adolescents (12-15 years old) on what these interventions should be like. Participants (N = 55) discussed that motivating early adolescents is a challenge, but did provide more insight into their preferences and needs. Future interventions…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Adolescent Attitudes, Media Literacy
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Wantchekon, Kristia A.; Umaña-Taylor, Adriana J.; Sladek, Michael R.; McDermott, Elana R.; Updegraff, Kimberly A. – Developmental Psychology, 2021
Research suggests that the process of adolescents exploring and developing clarity about their ethnic-racial identity (ERI) is an important developmental competency. However, the extent to which individuals view their ERI as central to their overall self-concept (i.e., ERI centrality) informs the degree to which they choose to explore their ERI,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Racial Identification, Self Concept, Intervention
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Churchman, Anamaria; Mansell, Warren; Tai, Sara – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2022
The quality of parent-child relationships during adolescence has the potential to impact adolescents' mental health. This study explored how seven dyads (parent-child) might experience a two-component intervention (Method of Levels therapy-MOL and a parent-child activity) over four months. Following this, six dyads were interviewed and a thematic…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Parents, Legal Responsibility, Child Custody
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Claudia Russo; Anna K. Döring; Daniela Barni – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2024
The possibility of inducing value change has attracted interest among scholars and practitioners in developmental and social psychology. This study proposes a new web-based intervention aimed at enhancing the importance adolescents ascribe to social-focused values (i.e., self-transcendence and conservation), which was implemented and evaluated in…
Descriptors: High School Students, Prosocial Behavior, Student Behavior, Intervention
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Brar, Pooja; Dworkin, Jodi; Brady, Sonya S. – American Journal of Sexuality Education, 2020
Sexual self-efficacy, an individual's confidence in the domain of sexual health behaviors, was studied among an ethnically diverse sample of 128 sexually active adolescent women between the ages of 14 and 18 years. A hypothesized interaction between women's belief that condoms interfere with sexual pleasure and her perception of a partner's belief…
Descriptors: Females, Sexuality, Self Efficacy, Health Behavior
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Bagwell, Catherine L.; Bowker, Julie C.; Asher, Steven R. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2021
Friendship is a developmentally significant relationship in childhood and adolescence that contributes to socioemotional, social-cognitive, and psychological development and well-being. It is a dyadic relationship based on mutual affection, with both friends thinking of each other as friends. Despite this definitional understanding of the dyadic…
Descriptors: Friendship, Educational Research, Educational Trends, Trend Analysis
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Meagan D. O'Malley; Jeremy D. Greene; Gurminder Chima; Celeste A. Martinez; Mariana Vargas Arciga; Heather Yates – Contemporary School Psychology, 2024
Policymakers, educators, and families throughout the world are concerned about the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on school-aged youth. Schools are working to help students readjust to school routines and regain lost ground on academic skill development while also addressing the wounds caused by the pandemic. This study describes one…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Adolescents, Adolescent Attitudes
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Chun, JongSerl; Lee, Serim; Kim, Jinyung – School Mental Health, 2021
This study conceptualized the protective factors for cyberbullying victimization as perceived by 43 Korean adolescents and explored gender differences in such conceptualizations using concept mapping method, a mixed-methods approach. Concept mapping revealed six major protective factors against cyberbullying victimization: 'supportive…
Descriptors: Bullying, Computer Mediated Communication, Victims, Adolescents
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MacAfee, Erin; Comeau, Gilles – Contributions to Music Education, 2020
The purpose of this study was to investigate how Bandura's (1977) four sources of efficacy influence self-efficacy beliefs in adolescent musicians during a six-week self-modeling intervention. The study also explored the effects of a positive self-review self-modeling intervention on musician self-efficacy. Practice journals and semi-structured…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Adolescents, Intervention, Modeling (Psychology)
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