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Direct linkLansford, 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
Download full textJuhart, Petra Brdnik; Kafol, Barbara Sicherl – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2021
Based on the descriptive method of qualitative educational research, the present study explores music teaching at the stage of early adolescence in terms of general-school music teachers' viewpoints on factors defining the planning and implementation of music teaching. The study was based on qualitative analysis of data gathered in interviews with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music Education, Music Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
Prati, Gabriele; Tomasetto, Carlo; Cicognani, Elvira – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2021
Psychological sense of community among early adolescents has been investigated using instruments developed for adolescents/adults or ad hoc scales. The aim was to contribute to the validation of a scale of Sense of Community in Early Adolescents (SoC-EA) using a 3-year longitudinal study. Participants were 576 Italian students attending middle…
Descriptors: Sense of Community, Early Adolescents, Adolescent Development, Middle School Students
Wiium, Nora; Dost-Gözkan, Ayfer; Kosic, Marianna – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2019
Background: Within the positive youth development (PYD) perspective, internal assets (e.g., social competencies and positive identity) and external assets (e.g., support and empowerment) constitute developmental assets that can facilitate positive youth outcomes. This assertion has been studied mainly in the US context and to a lesser degree in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Differences, Gender Differences, Parent Background
The Development of Adaptive Decision Making: Recognition-Based Inference in Children and Adolescents
Horn, Sebastian S.; Ruggeri, Azzurra; Pachur, Thorsten – Developmental Psychology, 2016
Judgments about objects in the world are often based on probabilistic information (or cues). A frugal judgment strategy that utilizes memory (i.e., the ability to discriminate between known and unknown objects) as a cue for inference is the recognition heuristic (RH). The usefulness of the RH depends on the structure of the environment,…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Decision Making, Child Development, Adolescent Development
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
Crocetti, Elisabetta; Rabaglietti, Emanuela; Sica, Luigia Simona – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2012
This chapter discusses specifics of identity formation in Italian adolescents and emerging adults. We review consistent evidence illustrating that, in Italy, a progressive deferral of transition to adulthood strongly impacts youth identity development by stimulating identity exploration and postponement of identity commitments. We also consider…
Descriptors: Evidence, Adolescents, Disadvantaged, Foreign Countries
Di Fabio, Annamaria; Kenny, Maureen E. – Journal of Career Development, 2015
Drawing from career construction and positive youth development perspectives, this study explores, among 254 Italian high school students, the relationship between emotional intelligence (EI) and support from friends and teachers with indices of adaptive career development. Results from the full canonical correlational model revealed that…
Descriptors: Emotional Intelligence, Social Support Groups, Youth, Adolescent Development
Sappa, Viviana; Bonica, Laura – Education & Training, 2011
Purpose: This study aims to deal with the role of vocational training in developing social inclusion by analyzing the school-to-work transitional outcomes of early school leavers whose successful experience in vocational training was documented in previous works. Design/methodology/approach: The sample comprises 126 males who enrolled in and…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Vocational Education, Education Work Relationship, Transitional Programs
Steca, Patrizia; Bassi, Marta; Caprara, Gian Vittorio; Fave, Antonella Delle – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2011
Research has shown that parents' perceived parental self-efficacy (PSE) plays a pivotal role in promoting their children's successful adjustment. In this study, we further explored this issue by comparing psychosocial adaptation in children of parents with high and low PSE during adolescence. One hundred and thirty Italian teenagers (55 males and…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Adolescents, Adjustment (to Environment), Parent Child Relationship
Reevy, Gretchen M., Ed.; Frydenberg, Erica, Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2011
Nearly all chapters in this volume are contemporary original research on personality, stress, and coping in educational contexts. The research spans primary, secondary, and tertiary education. Research participants are students and teachers. The volume brings together contributions from the United States, Australia, Canada, Italy, Scotland, and…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Personality Traits, Bullying, Self Efficacy
Nantel-Vivier, Amelie; Kokko, Katja; Caprara, Gian Vittorio; Pastorelli, Concetta; Gerbino, Maria Grazia; Paciello, Marinella; Cote, Sylvana; Pihl, Robert O.; Vitaro, Frank; Tremblay, Richard E. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2009
Objectives: To longitudinally describe prosocial behaviour development from childhood to adolescence, using multiple informants within Canadian and Italian samples. Method: Participants in Study 1 were 1037 boys from low socioeconomic status (SES) areas in Montreal, Canada, for whom yearly teacher and mother reports were obtained between the ages…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Mothers, Children, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedCorsano, Paola; Majorano, Marinella; Champretavy, Lorella – Adolescence (San Diego): an international quarterly devoted to the physiological, psychological, psychiatric, sociological, and educational aspects of the second decade of human life, 2006
This study investigated the influence of loneliness and relationships with parents and friends on the psychological well-being or adolescent malaise. Data were collected via two questionnaires (LLCA--Marcoen, Goossens & Caes, 1987; TRI--Bracken, 1996) from a sample of 330 Italian adolescents, males and females, aged between 11 and 19. As…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Well Being, Psychological Patterns, Interpersonal Relationship
Peer reviewedMarta, Elena – Journal of Adolescence, 1997
Verified the correlation between family functioning and the presence of psychosocial risk in adolescents. Analysis of 279 intact families revealed that a supportive relationship and adequate communication between parents and adolescents correlated to the absence or presence of psychosocial risk. Fathers supplied reliable information regarding…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Family Characteristics, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedZani, Bruna – Journal of Adolescence, 1991
Obtained data from 603 questionnaires and 60 interviews from male and female Italian adolescents on awareness of physical maturation, heterosexual relationships, motivation for early sexual experiences, and effects on personal identity. Found significant differences concerning sex and level of schooling with regard to elaboration of one's…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Coping, Educational Attainment
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