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Lijo Thomas – Journal of School Administration Research and Development, 2024
The purpose of this study was to pilot the DREAMS (Desire, Readiness, Empowerment, Action, and Mastery for Success) program, a community-collaborative, after-school intervention program designed specifically to address the holistic developmental needs of students at school. The author originally developed and implemented the program in Kerala,…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Summer Programs, School Community Relationship, Adolescent Development
Biese, Kevin; Winans, Madeline; Rudek, Grace; Hernandez, Mayrena I.; Cadmus-Bertram, Lisa; Andreae, Susan J.; Brooks, Alison; McGuine, Timothy A.; Bell, David R. – Athletic Training Education Journal, 2023
Context: As youth sport participation grows, athletic trainers (ATs) continue to be important health care providers in managing growth-related injuries. Objective: To examine secondary school ATs' reported knowledge on diagnosing and treating growth-related injuries and reported confidence for determining growth status and to report methods…
Descriptors: Athletics, Trainers, Secondary School Students, Adolescent Development
Stricker, Johannes; Preckel, Franzis – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2022
Perfectionism is a multidimensional personality trait whose facets differentially relate to indicators of psychological functioning, such as global self-esteem. There has been some theoretical disagreement whether perfectionism affects global self-esteem, or vice versa. This question merits renewed attention due to increasing efforts to prevent…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Self Esteem, Early Adolescents, Predictor Variables
Jason E. Hughes; Jonathan D. Ulmer; Gaea Hock; Brandie Disberger; J. Spencer Clark – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2025
This research explored what students and school staff in rural, low socioeconomic (SES) high schools perceive as factors that strengthen and inhibit the positive youth development (PYD) attributes of students' confidence, competence, character, connection, and compassion. A collective case study was conducted in four rural high schools, two in…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, High Schools, Adolescent Development, Economically Disadvantaged
Geukens, Flore; Maes, Marlies; Spithoven, Annette; Pouwels, J. Loes; Danneel, Sofie; Cillessen, Antonius H. N.; van den Berg, Yvonne H. M.; Goossens, Luc – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2022
Current theories of loneliness posit that biases in social information processing play a key role in the development and maintenance of loneliness. However, this assumption has rarely been tested in longitudinal research in adolescence. The current study concentrated on two constructs associated with such biases, that is, fear of negative…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Secondary School Students, Adolescent Development, Psychological Patterns
Sakiz, Halis; Mert, Abdullah; Sariçam, Hakan – Journal of Psychologists and Counsellors in Schools, 2021
The purpose of this research was to examine the associations between self-esteem, perceived social competence, ostracism and loneliness among adolescent students. For the investigation of self-esteem and perceived social competence as key developmental constructs concerning negative experiences such as ostracism and loneliness, it is important to…
Descriptors: Self Esteem, Interpersonal Competence, Adolescents, Adolescent Development
Emily Horton – Professional Counselor, 2024
Body neutrality is a concept wherein individuals embody a neutral attitude toward the body that is realistic and flexible, appreciate and care for the function of the body, and acknowledge that self-worth is not defined by one's outward appearance. Family behavior regarding body image has been related to higher levels of body dissatisfaction and…
Descriptors: Human Body, Parent Child Relationship, Self Concept, Food
Emily M. Mercado; D. Michael Draut – Research Studies in Music Education, 2024
The purpose of this collaborative action research project was to examine eighth- and ninth-grade female (assigned at birth) students' perspectives of their singing voice when implementing a practitioner/researcher designed curriculum titled "Supporting Adolescent Female Vocal Development: Teaching Anatomy and Physiology in the Middle School…
Descriptors: Grade 9, Grade 8, Females, Singing
Daniel Page; Stephanie Hanrahan; Lisa Buckley – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2024
It is well established that positive youth development (PYD) programs improve adolescent psycho-social wellbeing; however, it remains unclear if PYD programs developed for able-bodied adolescents can be implemented with adolescents with disabilities in low-resource settings. We conducted a pragmatic trial of an evidence-based PYD program…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Students with Disabilities, Chronic Illness, Adolescents
Rocio Macabena Perez; Kim Archambault; Véronique Dupéré – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2025
Background: Mental health is a priority for high schools, but extant programs often focus on symptom reduction rather than promoting adolescents' developmental assets. Objective: The goal of this study is to examine whether Art in Mind (AIM), a strengths-based after-school organized art activity tailored to fit the needs of adolescents with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, After School Programs, Art Activities, Positive Behavior Supports
Mertens, Esther C. A.; Dekovic, Maja; van Londen, Monique; Reitz, Ellen – Prevention Science, 2022
The aim of the present study was to examine whether early adolescents' positive development (i.e., resilience and psychological wellbeing) could be enhanced by stimulating three dimensions of self-awareness: emotional self-regulation, self-esteem, and self-reflection. An experimental field study (randomized controlled trial) was conducted. Seventh…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Resilience (Psychology), Well Being, Mental Health
Vazsonyi, Alexander T.; Liu, Dan; Javakhishvili, Magda; Beier, Julia J.; Blatny, Marek – Developmental Psychology, 2021
The current study tested the developmental significance of both early adolescent sleep quantity and quality for academic competence and internalizing and externalizing problems over the course of 2 years. As part of an accelerated longitudinal study, data were collected from N = 586 Czech adolescents (M[subscript age] = 12.34 years, SD = 0.89,…
Descriptors: Sleep, Health Behavior, Early Adolescents, Foreign Countries
Gomez-Baya, Diego; Santos, Teresa; Gaspar de Matos, Margarida – Applied Developmental Science, 2022
Positive Youth Development (PYD) model is a strength-based perspective of transition to adulthood derived from developmental systems theory. Developmental assets (DAs) framework describes the individual and contextual resources that may promote PYD. This work aims to analyze the associations between internal and external DAs and PYD, as well as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Adolescent Development, High School Students
Aghatabay, Rabea; Vaezi, Aliakbar; Mazloomy Mahmoodabad, Seyed Saeed; Rahimi, Mehdi; Fallahzadeh, Hosein; Alizadeh, Somayeh – Psychology in the Schools, 2023
Achievement of a positive identity and its transition to adulthood is the most important task of the adolescent era. This cross-sectional explanatory mixed-method study sought to better understand barriers to identity development in female adolescents in Iran by explaining their own experiences and using a Positive Youth Development model as a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Adolescents, Self Esteem
Quarmby, Thomas; Sandford, Rachel; Green, Rachael; Hooper, Oliver; Avery, Julie – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2022
Background: More and more children are experiencing what have been termed adverse childhood experiences. An individual's response to these stressful events determines whether or not they are considered traumatic -- whereby the experience is so overwhelming that it engulfs their coping mechanisms leading to lasting negative effects on wellbeing.…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Trauma Informed Approach, Evidence Based Practice, Trauma