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Direct linkAghatabay, Rabea; Vaezi, Aliakbar; Mazloomy Mahmoodabad, Seyed Saeed; Rahimi, Mehdi; Fallahzadeh, Hosein; Alizadeh, Somayeh – Psychology in the Schools, 2023
Achievement of a positive identity and its transition to adulthood is the most important task of the adolescent era. This cross-sectional explanatory mixed-method study sought to better understand barriers to identity development in female adolescents in Iran by explaining their own experiences and using a Positive Youth Development model as a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Adolescents, Self Esteem
Summit, Aleza K.; Kalmuss, Debra; DeAtley, Jenifer; Levack, Andrew – American Journal of Sexuality Education, 2016
Limited research exists on the slut labeling process, a key means of enforcing rules around appropriate female sexuality. This study explores that process through qualitative interviews with 44 adolescent girls in Travis County, Texas. Labeling girls as sluts or hos was pervasive and was based on a number of factors beyond sexual behavior,…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Females, Sexuality, Adolescents
Yang, Sungeun – Death Studies, 2012
The present study explores the life history of a South Korean adolescent girl who attempted suicide. The study focuses on how sociocultural values affected her suicide attempt and how she made meaning out of the experience. The results revealed that her life history was a process of seeking independence and autonomy, and freeing herself from…
Descriptors: Suicide, Family Relationship, Adolescents, Biographies
Peer reviewedEverall, Robin D.; Bostik, Katherine E.; Paulson, Barbara L. – Adolescence (San Diego): an international quarterly devoted to the physiological, psychological, psychiatric, sociological, and educational aspects of the second decade of human life, 2005
Adolescence is a developmental transition period during which there are profound transformations in emotional, cognitive, and behavioral systems. Despite being a time of rapid development and increasing rates of suicidality, limited research has examined possible interrelationships. Through the use of a case study, this paper illustrates the role…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Adolescents, Suicide, Case Studies
Sugar, Max, Ed. – 1993
This book emphasizes female adolescents' healthy development within a psychoanalytic frame of reference for what is normative, that also indicates the boundaries of and transitions to what is deviant. The book's 12 articles relate to 3 general topics. The two articles in part 1 of the book, which addresses biological issues, are "Female…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Body Image, Cognitive Development
Peer reviewedMcCartney, Catherine E.; And Others – Initiatives, 1992
Attempted to replicate portion of Gilligan's study of moral development at Emma Willard School. Interviewed 34 Ojibwa adolescent girls. Found that, as for girls in Gilligan's study, maintaining strong relationships was as important as searching for autonomy and desire for both created conflict among Ojibwa girls. (NB)
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Alcoholism, American Indians
Download full textAnderson, Glenn B., Ed.; Watson, Douglas, Ed. – 1987
This document contains 24 papers. Keynote addresses were given on the topics of autonomy for deaf adolescents and parent-adolescent dialogue. A section titled "Demographic Profiles of Deaf Adolescents in America" compares students in special schools with mainstreamed students. A section on "Family Intervention and Parent…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Curriculum
