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Anne J. Maheux; Shedrick L. Garrett; Kara A. Fox; Nathan H. Field; Kaitlyn Burnell; Eva H. Telzer; Mitchell J. Prinstein – Child Development Perspectives, 2025
Social gaming--online gameplay involving digital interactions with others--is a common form of social media use among adolescents. Research on this topic has neglected the social aspect of gaming and the potential role of social gaming in adolescent development. In this article, we define social gaming, drawing on interdisciplinary theories to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Games, Social Media, Play
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Sally Hang; Geneva M. Jost; Amanda E. Guyer; Richard W. Robins; Paul D. Hastings; Camelia E. Hostinar – Child Development Perspectives, 2024
Loneliness becomes more prevalent as youth transition from childhood into adolescence. A key underlying process may be the puberty-related increase in biological stress reactivity, which can alter social behavior and elicit conflict or social withdrawal (fight-or-flight behaviors) in some youth, but increase prosocial (tend-and-befriend) responses…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Puberty, Social Behavior, Models
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Prinstein, Mitchell J.; Giletta, Matteo – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2021
Over the past 50 years, a large body of work has demonstrated that during childhood and adolescence peers are strong socialization agents influencing youth development across a wide array of behavioral domains. In this report, we highlight how this long-standing research focus on peer influence may benefit from undertaking new directions that have…
Descriptors: Peer Influence, Research Needs, Children, Adolescents
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Alma Foster; Natasha Ellis – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2024
This paper examines, from a psychological perspective, why some young people may diagnose themselves with a mental health condition or neurodevelopmental difference after engaging with TikTok content. The article joins the discourse around TikTok self-diagnosis among adolescents, which has circulated since 2022, and offers alternative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Media, Adolescents, Clinical Diagnosis
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Berg, Margaret – Voices from the Middle, 2013
This article argues that teachers in the twenty-first century need to incorporate queer theory into their teaching practice and their discussions about individual differences in order to advocate for those students most likely to be bullied in schools. It provides a brief background on queer theory, gives an introduction to central ideas of the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Individual Differences, Homosexuality, Social Justice
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Luciana, Monica; Wahlstrom, Dustin; Porter, James N.; Collins, Paul F. – Developmental Psychology, 2012
Behavioral activation that is associated with incentive-reward motivation increases in adolescence relative to childhood and adulthood. This quadratic developmental pattern is generally supported by behavioral and experimental neuroscience findings. It is suggested that a focus on changes in dopamine neurotransmission is informative in…
Descriptors: Evidence, Motivation, Age Differences, Rewards
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Kelley, Ken; Rausch, Joseph R. – Psychological Methods, 2011
Longitudinal studies are necessary to examine individual change over time, with group status often being an important variable in explaining some individual differences in change. Although sample size planning for longitudinal studies has focused on statistical power, recent calls for effect sizes and their corresponding confidence intervals…
Descriptors: Intervals, Sample Size, Effect Size, Longitudinal Studies
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Tomasik, Martin J.; Pavlova, Maria K.; Lechner, Clemens M.; Blumenthal, Anja; Korner, Astrid – New Directions for Youth Development, 2012
Developmental contexts play a pivotal role in shaping the psychosocial adaptation and development of young people. Family, school, peer groups, and community provide the opportunities and constraints for the attainment of major developmental tasks of adolescence, and changing relations between the individual and these contexts constitute the basic…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Developmental Stages, Social Change, Economic Change
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Lucey, Helen – Gender and Education, 2010
In 2005, the first mother to be sentenced to jail because her eldest daughter persistently truanted was sentenced for a second time because she "failed" to stop her younger daughter from missing school. This story certainly exposes the links between education and punishment for working-class children and families, and the ways in which…
Descriptors: Siblings, Females, Adolescents, Individual Differences
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Crone, Eveline A. – Developmental Science, 2009
Despite the advances in understanding cognitive improvements in executive function in adolescence, much less is known about the influence of affective and social modulators on executive function and the biological underpinnings of these functions and sensitivities. Here, recent behavioral and neuroscientific studies are summarized that have used…
Descriptors: Inferences, Cognitive Development, Autism, Brain Hemisphere Functions
Hannum, Wallace H., Ed.; McCombs, Barbara L. – Educational Technology, 2008
Providing a research-validated, evidence-based framework for designing effective distance learning experiences and environments is a current challenge to those interested in using this technology effectively with adolescents. This article offers the Learner-Centered Psychological Principles (LCPs) developed and disseminated by the American…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Models, Adolescents, High Schools
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Lin, Chien-Huang; Chuang, Shin-Chieh – Adolescence (San Diego): an international quarterly devoted to the physiological, psychological, psychiatric, sociological, and educational aspects of the second decade of human life, 2005
This study posits a relationship between Emotional Intelligence (EI) and Impulsive Buying Tendency (IBT). A survey of 574 adolescents found that high-EI adolescents manifested less impulsive behavior than did low-EI adolescents, and high-IBT adolescents were more likely to engage in more impulsive buying behavior than were low-IBT adolescents.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Emotional Intelligence, Behavior Problems, Self Control
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Vatterott, Cathy; Yard, George J. – Middle School Journal, 1993
Dissimilar learners, although not candidates for special-education services, have difficulty adapting to the typical middle-school environment. The Intervention with Dissimilar Learners model adapts middle-school programs to meet student needs and achieve positive regard, teacher empowerment, and teacher as advisor objectives. The goal is building…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adolescents, Cognitive Style, Individual Differences
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Shelton, Claudia Marshall – Educational Leadership, 1999
Learning to balance "outersense" and "innersense" is a complex task for adolescents and the focus of one secondary school's social and emotional learning program. Understanding innersense helps students gain outlets for priority interests, master conflict resolution, build personal direction for college and vocational interests, and empathize with…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Conflict Resolution, Emotional Development
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Waters, Everett; Hamilton, Claire E.; Weinfield, Nancy S. – Child Development, 2000
Highlights three longitudinal studies examining the hypothesis that attachment security during infancy influences individual differences and adult representations of attachment. Notes that attachment security was significantly stable in two studies, with discontinuity in all three studies related to negative life events and circumstances.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attachment Behavior, Emotional Development, Individual Differences
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