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Wasantha Jayawardene; David Lohrmann; Jon Agley; Mikyoung Jun; Ruth Gassman – Journal of School Health, 2024
BACKGROUND: Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) cluster within children. In addition to standardized ACE measures, there exist "ACE-related" measures that are either directly or indirectly related to the standardized ACE constructs. This study aimed to identify ACE-related latent classes of adolescents and describe past-month substance…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Substance Abuse, Early Experience, Parent Child Relationship
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Yakup Özkan; Ilbilge Dökme – School Science and Mathematics, 2024
In the context of a cross-ethnic comparison, this study aimed to determine the attitudes of students from two different ethnic backgrounds (Turkish and Syrian) toward science according to various biological and parental variables. Methodologically, this study was conducted as a quantitative research using the survey method. Data were obtained from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Migrants, Scientific Attitudes
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Laura Madson; Michael C. Hout; Sarah C. Wheat; Marlena R. Fraune – Teaching of Psychology, 2025
Background: Perceived social support (PSS) is associated with positive outcomes for adolescents and young adults. Team-based learning (TBL) is an evidence-based teaching paradigm that may result in greater PSS among students. Objective: We compared PSS reported by students taught using TBL and non-TBL methods. Method: We measured PSS at the end of…
Descriptors: Social Support Groups, Teamwork, Adolescents, Young Adults
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Walter Zahorodny; Josephine Shenouda; Kate Sidwell; Michael G. Verile; Cindy Cruz Alvarez; Arline Fusco; Audrey Mars; Mildred Waale; Tara Gleeson; Gail Burack; Paul Zumoff – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2025
Purpose: Almost all epidemiologic studies estimating autism spectrum disorder (ASD) prevalence have focused on school-age children. This study provides the first population-based data on the prevalence and expression of ASD among adolescents in a large US metropolitan region. Methods: Active multiple source ASD surveillance of adolescents aged…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Incidence, Adolescents, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
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Tiffany Yip; Jinjin Yan; Shadane Johnson; Jiwoon Bae; Kyle Lorenzo; Nidia Ruedas-Gracia; Zhenqiang Zhao – Child Development Perspectives, 2024
A robust literature is developing around how the stress of discrimination is implicated in individual- and group-level sleep disturbances, and how these disturbances contribute to the development of population-level sleep disparities over time. Although discrimination can be based on many individual and intersecting biases, like gender, sexuality,…
Descriptors: Racial Discrimination, Ethnicity, Racial Factors, Race
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Cassandra K. Crifasi; Rachel J. Topazian; Alex D. McCourt; Stephen N. Oliphant; April M. Zeoli; Katrina S. Kennedy; Elizabeth D. Wagner; Mitchell L. Doucette – Youth & Society, 2024
Research on firearm purchaser licensing laws has found population level reductions in firearm-related mortality. Limited research has been conducted specifically examining the impact of these laws among adolescents and emerging adults. We obtained death data from the National Center for Health Statistics from 1990 to 2019. We generated state-year…
Descriptors: Weapons, Homicide, Suicide, Death
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Melanie Killen; Amanda R. Burkholder; Elizabeth Brey; Dylan Cooper; Kristin Pauker – Child Development, 2024
Little is known about how children and adolescents evaluate unequal teacher allocations of leadership duties based on ethnicity-race and gender in the classroom. U.S. boys and girls, White (40.7%), Multiracial (18.5%), Black/African American (16.0%), Latine (14.2%), Asian (5.5%), Pacific Islander (0.4%), and other (4.7%) ethnic-racial backgrounds,…
Descriptors: Children, Adolescents, Minority Group Students, Student Attitudes
Lindsey I. Black; Nazik Elgaddal – National Center for Health Statistics, 2024
Chronic school absenteeism can lead to poorer academic performance and school engagement for students. It is also a risk factor for school dropout, which is associated with many long-term health impacts. This report uses data from the 2022 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) to describe the percentage of children ages 5-17 who experienced…
Descriptors: Attendance, Children, Adolescents, Elementary Secondary Education
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Emily Cunningham; Sneha Raman; Andrea Taylor; Nadia Svirydzenka; Abdul-Moiz Siddiqi; Kadra Abdinasir; Raghu Raghavan – Health Education Journal, 2024
Background: The transition from primary to secondary school is a pivotal period in young people's lives and can significantly impact their mental health. However, the experiences of young people from ethnically diverse groups during this crucial period of physical, social and emotional development are under-researched, limiting the evidence base…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Mental Health, Student Diversity
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Linda P. Juang; Adriana J. Umaña-Taylor; Maja K. Schachner; Ann Frisén; C. Philip Hwang; Ughetta Moscardino; Frosso Motti-Stefanidi; Brit Oppedal; Vassilis Pavlopoulos; Amina K. Abdullahi; Rebecca Barahona; Sofia Berne; Chiara Ceccon; Nadya Gharaei; Ursula Moffitt; Anastasios Ntalachanis; Sharleen Pevec; David J. Sandberg; Angeliki Zacharia; Moin Syed – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2023
A global challenge for developmental psychology is to better understand how young people around the world make sense of their identities growing up in pluralistic societies. The study of ethnic-racial identity provides an important lens for this process. This paper describes how five European countries (Germany, Greece, Italy, Norway, and Sweden)…
Descriptors: Intervention, Racial Identification, Ethnicity, Foreign Countries
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Ceccon, Chiara; Schachner, Maja K.; Lionetti, Francesca; Pastore, Massimiliano; Umaña-Taylor, Adriana J.; Moscardino, Ughetta – Child Development, 2023
Abstract This registered report evaluated the efficacy of an Italian adaptation of the "Identity Project," a school-based intervention promoting adolescents' cultural identity. Migration background and environmental sensitivity were explored as moderators. After adapting and piloting the intervention, a randomized controlled trial was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Ethnicity, Intervention
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Piqueras, Jesús; Achiam, Marianne; Edvall, Susanna; Ek, Charlotte – Science & Education, 2022
Scientific representations of human evolution often embrace stereotypes of ethnicity and gender that are more aligned with socio-cultural discourses and norms than empirical facts. The present study has two connected aims: to understand how ethnicity and gender are represented in an exhibition about human evolution, and to understand how that…
Descriptors: Museums, Ethnic Groups, Sex, Evolution
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Minci Zhang; David Schwartz; Daryaneh Badaly; Mylien T. Duong; Jinsol Chung; Yana Ryjova; Leslie M. Taylor – Developmental Psychology, 2024
This article presents a short-term longitudinal study examining bidirectional associations between academic achievement and positive peer regard among Asian American and Latinx adolescents. Specifically, our investigation distinguished between positive peer regard within and across different ethnic groups in a diverse school setting. Three hundred…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Adolescents, Asian American Students, Hispanic American Students
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Elisabeth L. De Moor; Theo A. Klimstra; Lotte Van Doeselaar; Susan Branje – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2024
Identity research focuses on multiple processes capturing how adolescents form and maintain a sense of self. However, identity content (the "what" of identity) might impact associations between identity and the association with well-being. We examined this potential role of content (i.e., valence and life domain) in two studies, focusing…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Thinking Skills, Well Being, Correlation
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Mohammed Bilal Nazir – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2025
The higher participation of England's ethnic minority students on vocational courses at the age of 16 initiates them onto the 'lower tier' pathway in tertiary education. Lower tier implies participating in certain vocational courses and entering lower status universities. Consequently, ethnic minority students in England have a weaker labour…
Descriptors: Career and Technical Education, Course Selection (Students), Adolescents, Males
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