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Kim, Su Yeong; Hou, Yang; Gonzalez, Yolanda – Child Development, 2017
This study aimed to untangle the mixed effects of language brokering by examining a contextual factor (i.e., parent-child alienation) and a personal attribute (i.e., resilience) that may relate to adolescents' feelings during translating (i.e., sense of burden and efficacy) and that may moderate the association between such feelings and adolescent…
Descriptors: Mexican Americans, Adolescents, Parent Child Relationship, Alienation
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Lewthwaite, Brian; Wilson, Kimberley; Wallace, Valda; McGinty, Sue; Swain, Luke – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2017
This paper explores the experiences of 12 young people, all teenagers, who have chosen to attend alternative schools known as flexible learning options within the Australian context. Using a phenomenological approach, the study seeks to understand their experiences outside the normalised public discourse that they had "disengaged" from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learner Engagement, Phenomenology, Adolescents
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Allen, Kelly A.; Ryan, Tracii; Gray, DeLeon L.; McInerney, Dennis M.; Waters, Lea – Australian Educational and Developmental Psychologist, 2014
As social media use is rising among adolescents, the issue of whether this use leads to positive or negative outcomes warrants greater understanding. This article critically reviews the literature related to this important topic. Specifically, we examine how social media use affects social connectedness in terms of three elements of adolescent…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescents, Mass Media Use, Social Capital
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Colley, Helen – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2012
Purpose: This paper seeks to discuss the impact of UK government austerity policies on learning in public service work, specifically youth support work. It also aims to argue that austerity policies intensify "ethics work", create emotional suffering, and obstruct workplace learning in a variety of ways. Design/methodology/approach: The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Service, Youth Agencies, Youth Programs
Fetro, Joyce V. – 1985
Adolescents struggle to establish their own identities and become independent in making the transition from childhood to adulthood. Adolescent alienation can result from changes in family structure from traditional two-parent families to one-parent families, decreased family stability, increased mobility of society, population increases,…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Alienation, Norms
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Vojtik, Edmund J. – College Student Journal, 1971
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Patterns, Drug Abuse, Identification (Psychology)
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Dahlberg, Charles Clay – Medical Aspects of Human Sexuality, 1971
Different drugs act differently on sexual behavior. In general, the group tendency to analyze and act out sexual problems and explore each other's psyche often leads to greater problems requiring professional help. (Author/CJ)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Patterns, Conformity, Drug Abuse
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Hacker, Douglas J. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 1994
Examines from an existential view the development of abstract thought in adolescents and the conflicts arising from its process. Proposes an existential model that views various types of adolescent behavior as the manifestation of the adolescent's defense mechanisms developed in response to existential conflict; presents specific examples of…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adolescent Behavior, Adolescent Development, Adolescents
Goswick, Ruth Ann; And Others – 1981
Research has identified high school and college students as the groups experiencing the greatest severity of loneliness. The manifestations of loneliness in adolescents and young adults were examined in a group of college (N=192) and high school (N=98) students. All subjects completed the Revised Loneliness Scale and a questionnaire about…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Alienation, College Students, High School Students
Long, Samuel – 1976
In this study, individual-oriented and system-oriented models of systemic rejection among white and black adolescents are investigated. Systemic rejection is defined as attitudes of political alienation and political violence justification. Twelve hypotheses were generated and tested using survey data collected in May 1976 from a random sample of…
Descriptors: Activism, Adolescents, Expectation, High School Students
Long, Samuel – 1977
The research investigated political and psychological reactance among adolescents. Political reactance is interpreted to include feelings of political alienation and distrust. Psychological reactance is defined as behavior by an individual in response to reduction or threatened reduction of freedom. A model was created which expanded existing…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior, Black Attitudes, Data Analysis