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Prospective Associations between Mothers' and Fathers' Parenting Styles and Adolescents' Moral Values: Stability and Specificity by Parent Style and Adolescent Gender
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Bornstein, Marc H.; Yu, Jing; Putnick, Diane L. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2022
This study coordinates moral value development in adolescence, parenting style, and gender with issues of stability and specificity. The primary research question asked whether parenting styles of mothers and fathers influence the development of adolescent moral values, and secondary research questions asked whether adolescent moral values were…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Mothers, Fathers, Adolescents
Opportunities and Peer Support for Aggression and Delinquency during Adolescence in Nine Countries
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Lansford, Jennifer E.; Zietz, Susannah; Bornstein, Marc H.; Deater-Deckard, Kirby; Di Giunta, Laura; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Gurdal, Sevtap; Liu, Qin; Long, Qian; Malone, Patrick S.; Oburu, Paul; Pastorelli, Concetta; Skinner, Ann T.; Sorbring, Emma; Steinberg, Laurence; Tapanya, Sombat; Uribe Tirado, Liliana Maria; Yotanyamaneewong, Saengduean; Alampay, Liane Peña; Al-Hassan, Suha M.; Bacchini, Dario; Chang, Lei – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2020
This study tested culture-general and culture-specific aspects of adolescent developmental processes by focusing on opportunities and peer support for aggressive and delinquent behavior, which could help account for cultural similarities and differences in problem behavior during adolescence. Adolescents from 12 cultural groups in 9 countries…
Descriptors: Aggression, Cultural Influences, Cultural Differences, Adolescent Development
Taking Adolescents' Agency in Socialization Seriously: The Role of Appraisals and Cognitive-Behavioral Responses in Autonomy-Relevant Parenting
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Soenens, Bart; Vansteenkiste, Maarten – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2020
Parent-adolescent relationships are highly bidirectional in nature, with parental behaviors affecting adolescents' adjustment and with adolescents' behaviors, in turn, eliciting parental practices. However, there is more to adolescents' agency in the socialization process than simple reciprocity. Adolescents contribute actively to the quality and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Parent Child Relationship, Socialization, Adjustment (to Environment)
Influences of Children's and Adolescents' Action-Control Processes on School Achievement, Peer Relationships, and Coping with Challenging Life Events
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Geldhof, G. John; Little, Todd D. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2011
Self-regulation represents a core aspect of human functioning that influences positive development across the life span. This chapter focuses on the action-control model, a key facet of self-regulation during childhood and early adolescence. The authors discuss the development of action-control beliefs, paying particular attention to their…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Early Adolescents, Age Differences, Children
Challenges to the Developmental Study of Coping
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Skinner, Ellen A.; Zimmer-Gembeck, Melanie J. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2009
We summarize progress in the developmental study of coping, including specification of a multilevel framework, construction of definitions of coping that rely on regulation as a core concept, and identification of developmentally graded members of families of coping. We argue that these accomplishments are a prelude to the real tasks of a…
Descriptors: Coping, Self Control, Child Development, Adolescent Development
Identity Claims and Projections: Descriptions of Self and Crowds in Secondary School.
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Stone, Margaret R.; Brown, B. Bradford – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 1999
Examined whether adolescents identify with the crowd to which they are assigned by their peers or with higher status crowds, and whether they are more likely to select the normal crowd or their peer-assigned crowd as their social-reference group. Found that specific crowds' status changes over time, and that there are age differences in…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Behavior, Adolescent Development, Age Differences
Canadian Adolescents' Implicit Theories of Immaturity: What Does "Childish" Mean?
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Galambos, Nancy L.; Barker, Erin V.; Tilton-Weaver, Lauree C. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2003
This study examined implicit theories of immaturity among 345 Canadian sixth- and ninth-graders. Qualitative analysis of adolescents' descriptions of an immature peer revealed six foci to implicit theories of immaturity. The majority of adolescents' descriptions focused on childlike behaviors, silly/goofy behaviors, or on mean/hurtful behaviors.…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Age Differences, Criteria
Rules, Legitimacy of Parental Authority, and Obligation to Obey in Chile, the Philippines, and the United States
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Darling, Nancy; Cumsille, Patricio; Pena-Alampay, Liane – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2005
With age, Chilean, Filipino, and U.S. youth come to believe that fewer issues are legitimately within the control of parents and that they are less obliged to obey parental rules. These beliefs vary across domains and countries, providing insight into parent-adolescent conflict and the development of autonomy. (Contains 2 figures.)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Child Relationship, Cultural Differences, Parenting Styles