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Changing Contexts of Youth Development: An Overview of Recent Social Trends and a Psychological Model
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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
Music as Emotional Self-Regulation throughout Adulthood
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Saarikallio, Suvi – Psychology of Music, 2011
Emotional self-regulation is acknowledged as one of the most important reasons for musical engagement at all ages. Yet there is little knowledge on how this self-regulatory use of music develops across the life span. A qualitative study was conducted to initially explore central processes and strategies of the emotional self-regulation during…
Descriptors: Music, Content Analysis, Emotional Development, Adults
The Distinctive Difficulties of Disagreeable Youth
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Laursen, Brett; Hafen, Christopher A.; Rubin, Kenneth H.; Booth-LaForce, Cathryn; Rose-Krasnor, Linda – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2010
This study examines whether disagreeable youth are distinct from aggressive youth, victimized youth, and withdrawn youth. Young adolescents (120 girls and 104 boys, M = 13.59 years old) completed personality and adjustment inventories. Aggression, withdrawal, and victimization scores were derived from peer nominations (N = 807). Cluster analyses…
Descriptors: Aggression, Mothers, Adolescents, Withdrawal (Psychology)
The Essential Role of Behavioral Genetics in Developmental Psychology: Reply to Partridge (2005) and Greenberg (2005)
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McGue, Matt; Elkins, Irene; Walden, Brent; Iacono, William G. – Developmental Psychology, 2005
The authors address the methodological, theoretical, and ideological criticisms of their article on adolescent perceptions of parenting behavior made by G. Greenberg and T. Partridge. Behavioral genetic methods have provided unique insights on the origins of individual differences in behavior and, when applied to parenting and other putative…
Descriptors: Genetics, Developmental Psychology, Adolescents, Child Rearing
Late Adolescent Identity Development: Narrative Meaning Making and Memory Telling
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McLean, Kate C. – Developmental Psychology, 2005
Personally important autobiographical memories are the smallest unit of the life story, which begins to emerge in adolescence. This study examined 2 features of self-defining memories in late adolescence, the meaning made of the memories to garner an understanding of the narrative construction of identity as a life story and how those memories…
Descriptors: Memory, Audiences, Adolescents, Personal Narratives
Adolescent Mental Health.
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Powers, Sally I.; And Others – American Psychologist, 1989
Identifies and discusses three major themes guiding research on mental health in adolescence. Reviews empirical investigations of adolescent mental health and development within the social context of the family. (Author/BJV)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Development, Child Psychology, Developmental Psychology
Handbook of Attachment: Theory, Research, and Clinical Applications.
Cassidy, Jude, Ed.; Shaver, Phillip R., Ed. – 1999
The theoretical work on attachment behavior by John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth spawned one of the broadest, most creative lines of research in twentieth century psychology. This volume compiles articles discussing attachment theory and research, measurement issues, and contributions of recent theoretical and empirical developments to the study of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Age Differences, Attachment Behavior