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Rokeach, Alan; Wiener, Judith – School Mental Health, 2022
The purpose of this study was to identify predictors of friendship quality in adolescents with and without ADHD. The participants were 115 adolescents (61 ADHD, 54 non-ADHD), ages 13-18. The adolescents completed questionnaires assessing the quality of their relationships with their best friends, social perspective taking, anxiety and depression.…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Friendship, Clinical Diagnosis, Anxiety
Chang Zhao; Emily M. May; Dawn P. Witherspoon; Saskia Boggs; Mayra Bámaca-Colbert – Grantee Submission, 2021
Parental monitoring of youth daily activities is a salient parenting strategy that has important implications for adolescents' adjustment and safety. Limited research, however, has examined positive contextual factors that can facilitate parental monitoring behaviors in Latinx families. We examined parental warmth and neighborhood social processes…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Parenting Styles, Hispanic Americans, Neighborhoods
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Seçer, Ismail; Gülbahçe, Arzu; Ulas, Sümeyye – Educational Research and Reviews, 2019
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of anxiety sensitivity in adolescents on childhood depression and anxiety disorder. Mood disorders and anxiety disorders in children and adolescents can be given examples of important research topics in recent years. The participants of the study consist of 670 students in Erzurum city. The…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Adolescents, Adolescent Attitudes, Stress Variables
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Owotomo, Olusegun; Maslowsky, Julie – Journal of Applied Research on Children, 2017
Introduction: E-cigarette use remains a controversial topic in public health and medicine. Historically, cigarette smoking was identified as a gateway to marijuana use among adolescents. Recently, the prevalence of adolescent cigarette smoking has declined, but that of e-cigarette use continues to increase. As e-cigarettes eclipse cigarettes among…
Descriptors: Marijuana, Smoking, Grade 8, Grade 10
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Baek, Hyunin; Andreescu, Viviana; Rolfe, Shawn M. – Journal of School Violence, 2019
This study examines the role played by a limited number of fear-of-crime correlates in structuring variations in fear of violent victimization expressed by a nationally representative sample of U.S. adolescents who participated in the 2013 National Crime Victimization Survey School Crime Supplement. Results show that both male and female…
Descriptors: Bullying, Fear, Victims, Adolescents
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Chamberlin, Ashley; Nguyen-Rodriguez, Selena; Gray, Virginia B.; Reiboldt, Wendy; Peterson, Caitlin; Spruijt-Metz, Donna – Journal of School Health, 2018
Background: Existing literature indicates a relationship between stress and emotional eating in adults, yet limited research has examined the impact of school-related stress on emotional eating in adolescents. This study investigated the influence of academic factors on emotional eating among minority adolescents. Methods: A survey was implemented…
Descriptors: Eating Habits, Self Esteem, Grade Point Average, Achievement Need
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Kabadayi, Fedai; Sari, Serkan V. – Journal of Psychologists and Counsellors in Schools, 2018
This study examined the role of resilience in the lives of cyberbullying perpetrators and their victims. Turkish adolescents (n = 444; 245 girls, 55.2%, and 199 boys, 44.8%) 15-19 years of age (mean age of 16.58 years, SD = 0.789) were recruited from different high schools. The participants completed the Cyberbullying Scale (Aricak, Kinay, &…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Bullying, Computer Security, Victims
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Bojana, Dinic M.; Jasmina, Kodžopeljic S.; Valentina, Sokolovska T.; Ilija, Milovanovic Z. – School Psychology International, 2016
The study examined the relationships between empathy and peer violence among adolescents, along with gender as a moderator in these associations. Thereby, multidimensionality of empathy (affective and cognitive empathy) and different forms of violence (physical, verbal, and relational) were considered. The participants were 646 high school…
Descriptors: Empathy, Peer Relationship, Violence, Adolescent Attitudes
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Ilhan, Aziz; Çelik, H. Coskun; Gemcioglu, Muharrem; Çiftaslan, Malik Ejder – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2016
This study aims to determine internet attitudes and internet addiction levels of 13-18-year-old students and examine the relationship between these variables. The "internet attitude scale", developed by Tavsancil and Keser (2002) and the "internet addiction scale", developed by Hahn and Jerusalem and adapted into Turkish by…
Descriptors: Internet, Computer Attitudes, Addictive Behavior, Adolescent Attitudes
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Lauermann, Fani; Tsai, Yi-Miau; Eccles, Jacquelynne S. – Developmental Psychology, 2017
Which occupation to pursue is one of the more consequential decisions people make and represents a key developmental task. Yet the underlying developmental processes associated with either individual or group differences in occupational choices are still not well understood. This study contributes toward filling this gap, focusing in particular on…
Descriptors: Occupational Aspiration, Career Choice, Gender Differences, Adolescents
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Adubale, Andrew A. – Africa Education Review, 2017
The study investigates parenting styles as predictors of anxiety and depression in secondary school students in Edo State, Nigeria. It employed a correlation research design. Two hundred and forty students constituted the sample for the study. Parenting Style Scale questionnaire was used to collect data for the study. Linear regression was used to…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Predictor Variables, Anxiety, Depression (Psychology)
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Park, Sora; Kim, Eun-mee; Na, Eun-Yeong – Youth & Society, 2015
Networked individualism enables Internet users to connect and socialize via their loose and transient multiple networks, whereas digital media literacy is a precondition of effective Internet use. In this study, an attempt has been made to find the link between networked individualism, digital media literacy, and young people's perception of their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Internet, Individualism, Social Networks
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Damian, Lavinia E.; Stoeber, Joachim; Negru, Oana; Baban, Adriana – Psychology in the Schools, 2014
Perfectionism has been shown to predict individual differences in achievement goal orientations in university students, but research on perfectionism and goal orientations in school students is still very limited. Investigating 584 adolescent school students in a cross-sectional correlational design, the present study examined how self-oriented…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Personality Traits, Academic Achievement, Goal Orientation
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Finlay, Andrea K.; Wray-Lake, Laura; Warren, Michael; Maggs, Jennifer – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2015
Adolescent future values--beliefs about what will matter to them in the future--may shape their adult behavior. Utilizing a national longitudinal British sample, this study examined whether adolescent future values in six domains (i.e., family responsibility, full-time job, personal responsibility, autonomy, civic responsibility, and hedonistic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adults, Values, Adolescent Attitudes
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Wormington, Stephanie V.; Anderson, Kristen G.; Schneider, Ashley; Tomlinson, Kristin L.; Brown, Sandra A. – Journal of School Violence, 2016
Recent research highlights the role of peer victimization in students' adjustment across a variety of domains (e.g., academic, social), but less often identifies potential mediating variables. In the current study, we tested for direct effects from peer victimization to adolescents' academic behavior and alcohol use, as well as indirect effects…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Student Adjustment, Victims of Crime, Peer Groups
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