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Alice Nucifora; Sue Walker; Areana Eivers – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2024
Definitions of adulthood for people with intellectual disability are often complicated, with milestones being markedly different for this population. This is then associated with difficulties for both the people with intellectual disability and their parents, who are closely involved in this transitional period. This paper aims to report on…
Descriptors: Maturity (Individuals), Adolescents, Adults, Intellectual Disability
Marcos Silva – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This action research looked at the low comfort levels among young people when engaging in conversations about social inequities. Additionally, this research investigated the development of youth voice, agency, and engagement from youth who were involved in creating an online resource library surrounding these topics. The research consisted of 2…
Descriptors: Youth, Young Adults, Adolescents, Social Justice
Gill, Anneliese; Trask-Kerr, Kylie; Vella-Brodrick, Dianne – Educational Psychology Review, 2021
Identifying different conceptions of success and how these relate to wellbeing is an important area of research. These insights would be especially beneficial for young people who can be guided through school education to reflect on core values, life goals, and indices of success to promote aspirations that will be conducive to wellbeing. Through…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Success, Well Being, Secondary School Students
Poulou, Maria S.; Norwich, Brahm – International Journal of School & Educational Psychology, 2019
The satisfaction of adolescents' perceived psychological needs facilitates their academic achievement and adjustment within school. A first step in this direction is the identification of adolescents' psychological needs and the environmental factors to meet these needs. Based on the theory of Existence, Relatedness, and Growth, known as ERG, the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Psychological Needs, Public Schools, Secondary School Students
Bobilya, Andrew J.; Kalisch, Kenneth R.; Daniel, Brad – Journal of Experiential Education, 2014
The purpose of this mixed-method study was to understand participants' perceptions of their Outward Bound Final Expedition experience and more specifically the relationship between the instructor supervisory position and participant's perception of learning. A sample of 331 students consented to participate and completed a survey at the conclusion…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Student Attitudes, Student Experience, Teacher Student Relationship
Sanders, Jackie; Munford, Robyn – Journal of Youth Studies, 2008
The multiple and conflicting identity pressures that young women in western society face have been remarked upon in the literature. Adolescence is a time when identity development activity intensifies, and this process can present young people with challenges. In this paper a social constructionist and interpretive frame is applied to such…
Descriptors: Females, Foreign Countries, Self Concept, Identification
Gitelson, Idy Barasch; McDermott, Dana – Child Welfare, 2006
This paper considers how parents are affected by and play a role in the lives of their young adult children. The years during which young people make the transition to adulthood has changed significantly in recent years--this transition now takes place over a longer period of time. We describe how young people experience these years; how they…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Individual Development, Maturity (Individuals), Adolescents
Liang, Belle; Spencer, Renee; Brogan, Deirdre; Corral, Macarena – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2008
This study compared perceptions of mentoring relationships among early adolescents, middle adolescents, and emerging adults. In ten focus groups, 56 middle school, high school, and college students described relational experiences that were analyzed thematically. Differences in the characteristics of the mentors nominated by the youth across the…
Descriptors: Mentors, Interpersonal Relationship, Early Adolescents, Adolescents
Armstrong, Thomas – Educational Leadership, 2007
A superhighway is being built across today's education landscape, extending from preschool to graduate school, writes Armstrong. This superhighway bypasses all the byways, narrow routes, and winding paths that have traditionally filled the road from early childhood to early adulthood. As schools race to move students through the curriculum at…
Descriptors: Children, Adolescents, Developmental Stages, Social Development

Luft, Pamela; Koch, Lynn C. – Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation, 1998
Adolescents with chronic illness confront barriers to accessing comprehensive transition services and face developmental challenges. Interdisciplinary transition planning should address health and career-related services that promote autonomy, proaction, and family involvement. (SK)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Agency Cooperation, Chronic Illness, Disabilities

Shulman, Shmuel; Rubinroit, Carl I. – Journal of Adolescence, 1987
Considers Blos' conceptualization of adolescence as the stage when a second process of separation-individuation takes place. Notes various handicapping conditions may force adolescent to stay closer to family and hence interfere with adolescent's separation-individuation. Suggests that nature of interference will vary depending on whether the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attachment Behavior, Developmental Stages, Disabilities

Steinberg, Laurence; Silverberg, Susan B. – Child Development, 1986
Examines the development of, and interrelations among, three types of autonomy during the transition from childhood into adolescence: emotional autonomy in relationships with parents, resistance to peer pressure, and the subjective sense of self-reliance. (HOD)
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Emotional Development, Individual Development

Fleming, Wm. Michael; Anderson, Stephen A. – Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 1986
Explored the relationships between late adolescents' self-reported personal adjustment and individuation from their families of origin. Adolescents' perceived involvement in their family's patterns of fusion related significantly to self-esteem, mastery, college maladjustment, and the number of reported health problems. Involvement in the family…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Family (Sociological Unit)
Fleming, Manuela – Australian Journal of Educational & Developmental Psychology, 2005
A population of 12-19 year-old adolescents (n = 994) was selected from a pool of 7264 students in order to study adolescent's perception of autonomy. Eleven behavioural autonomy items were elected by the adolescents and used to evaluate the frequency of desire, achievement and disobeying parents in early (12-13 year-old) and late (18-19 year-old)…
Descriptors: Late Adolescents, Adolescents, Personal Autonomy, Puberty
Brannan, Steve A.; Arick, Joel; Fullerton, Ann – 1996
A study conducted a nationwide evaluation of 15 residential camp programs designed for children, youth, and young adults with mild to severe disabilities. The study involved 2,184 campers (ages 7-19) with disabilities and was undertaken to further validate evaluation instrumentation, evaluate residential camp programs for children with…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Camping, Children, Daily Living Skills
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