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Bettens, Talley; Warren, Amye R. – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2023
Police officers are often trained to use the Behavior Analysis Interview (BAI) to detect deceit, but it is based on faulty indicators of lying that may be especially problematic for juveniles due to developmental immaturities. Juveniles, young adults, and adults were assigned to guilt or innocence conditions, read a criminal scenario, and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Young Adults, Adults, Beliefs
Emma Armstrong-Carter; Benjamin W. Nelson; Eva H. Telzer – Grantee Submission, 2021
We investigated whether daily experiences of conflict with family and peers were associated with fluctuations in diurnal cortisol, and whether sleep buffers the associations between conflict and diurnal cortisol. A racially diverse sample of 370 adolescents (ages 11-18; 57.3% female) provided daily diaries for 5 days and saliva samples for 4 days.…
Descriptors: Sleep, Physiology, Conflict, Family Relationship
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Mala, V. – Journal on Educational Psychology, 2018
Adolescence is the period between childhood and adulthood and the most important stage of a human being. Adolescence is a period of stress and storm. Students cannot adjust with their new-fangled role in life. They can have Emotional, Mental, Behavioural, and Adjustment problems known as "disorders". Behavioural patterns that appear in…
Descriptors: Prevention, Physical Activities, Behavior Patterns, Sexuality
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Krettenauer, Tobias – New Directions for Youth Development, 2012
This article addresses the question of why the emotions children and adolescents anticipate in the context of hypothetical scenarios have been repeatedly found to predict actual (im)moral behavior. It argues that a common motivational account of this relationship is insufficient. Instead, three links are proposed that connect cognitive…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Emotional Response, Moral Development, Ethical Instruction
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Davis, Katie – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2010
Adolescent girls have emerged as the largest demographic of bloggers in the United States. In this study, the author interviewed 20 girls, aged 17 to 21, who had been blogging for 3 or more years. Consistent with previous studies involving youths' online activities, the girls discussed their use of blogging for self-expression and peer…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Electronic Publishing, Females, Adolescents
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Sercombe, Howard – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2010
Progressive developments in scanning technologies over the last decade have led to a surge of new research into the structure and function of the brain and into differences between the brains of teenagers and other adults. This work has not been free of controversy, notably around the question of deficits in the capacity of young people concerning…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Adolescents, Brain, Social Environment
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Booth, Margaret Zoller – Adolescence, 2003
The developmental period of adolescence is explored in Swaziland from a multidisciplinary perspective. Study compares early anthropological research with contemporary interviews of Swazi parents. While the Swazi language has no term for "adolescent," there is evidence of a definite developmental period which could be defined as…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Behavior Patterns, Developmental Stages
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Ding, Cody S. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2005
Many statistical models have been used to study human development. The multidimensional scaling (MDS) method has been an under-utilised technique in psychological and educational research for studying such phenomena. In this paper, MDS profile analysis was used to examine adolescent mood change patterns over a 1-week period. This method is used to…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Multidimensional Scaling, Profiles
Clydesdale, Tim – University of Chicago Press, 2007
Wild parties, late nights, and lots of sex, drugs, and alcohol. Many assume these are the things that define an American teenager's first year after high school. But the reality is really quite different. As Tim Clydesdale reports in "The First Year Out", teenagers generally manage the increased responsibilities of everyday life immediately after…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Sexuality, Drug Use, High School Graduates
Tolan, Patrick H. – 1985
The concept of juvenile court and juvenile delinquency as distinct from adult crime is grounded in the idea of allowing adolescents more consideration because they are not quite adults, cognitively, psychologically, or socially. These developmental progressions within the individual and complementary societal changes in how the individual is…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Behavior Patterns, Delinquency
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Sharpley, Christopher F.; And Others – Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1993
Assessed Type A behavior pattern for 122 teenagers who had heart rate measured during rest and presentation of mental arithmetic stressor under timed and competitive conditions. Examined whether sex, age, task performance, and behavior pattern predicted heart rate reactivitiy. Found no significant main effects for behavior pattern, sex, or age;…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Age Differences, Behavior Patterns
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McCabe, Marita P. – Adolescence, 1984
Considers forces which influence the behavior of adolescents during dating, and traces changes in dating patterns. The main areas of influence during dating are seen as physiological changes, social pressures, and the personal meaning attributed to these forces in the individual's striving toward maturity. (JAC)
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Affective Behavior, Behavior Patterns
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Kerpelman, Jennifer L.; Pittman, Joe F. – Journal of Adolescence, 2001
Seventy-six late adolescents and their peer partners participated in a study that focused on possible selves tied to anticipated career, marriage, and parenthood roles. Control theory and the concept of psychosocial moratorium were integrated to explain identity construction processes. Integration of theory with concept offers explanations for…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Behavior Patterns, Life Events
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Ruggiero, Mary; Steinberg, Laurence D. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1981
Used a coding system for chronicling a variety of microbehaviors in sequence in adolescent job environments. Working teenagers (N=97) were observed continuously over a two-hour period. Three elements of each of 100 behaviors were recorded: the social context, the character, and the duration and concomitants of the behavior. (Author/RC)
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Behavior Patterns, Career Counseling
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Reimer, Michele S.; And Others – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 1996
Explored the effects of familial responsiveness and behavior control on internalizing and externalizing symptoms in adolescent psychiatric inpatients. Found that lower levels of familial responsiveness were associated with externalizing symptoms, and with dismissive attachment representations. (HTH)
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Behavior Patterns, Family Environment
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