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Direct linkSara Carucci; Alessandro Zuddas; Angelico Lampis; Kenneth K. C. Man; Carla Balia; Jan Buitelaar; Marina Danckaerts; Ralf W. Dittmann; Federica Donno; Bruno Falissard; Antonella Gagliano; Peter Garas; Alexander Häge; Chris Hollis; Sarah K. Inglis; Kerstin Konrad; Hanna Kovshoff; Elizabeth Liddle; Suzanne McCarthy; Antje Neubert; Peter Nagy; Eric Rosenthal; Edmund J. S. Sonuga-Barke; Ian C. K. Wong; Tobias Banaschewski; David Coghill – Journal of Attention Disorders, 2024
Objective: The short-term safety of methylphenidate (MPH) has been widely demonstrated; however the long-term safety is less clear. The aim of this study was to investigate the safety of MPH in relation to pubertal maturation and to explore the monitoring of bone age. Method: Participants from ADDUCE, a two-year observational longitudinal study…
Descriptors: Human Body, Puberty, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Children
Download full textTurna, Bulent – Journal of Education and Learning, 2020
This study aims to analyze the effects of 6-week core training on certain biomotor abilities for footballers in the pubertal period. Accordingly, 30 male footballers who attend football courses regularly participated in the study. Footballers were divided into two groups; 15 of them were assigned to the Core Training Group (CTG) (age: 9.73 years;…
Descriptors: Psychomotor Skills, Pretests Posttests, Team Sports, Athletes
Goldman, Juliette D. G.; Collier-Harris, Christine A. – Pastoral Care in Education, 2017
Quality school-based sexuality education is important for all children and adolescents. The global trend towards students' earlier, longer, and technologically connected pubertal experience makes the timely provision of such education particularly significant. Quality international sexuality education documents are available for teachers…
Descriptors: Puberty, Interpersonal Relationship, Sexuality, Sex Education
Schaffhuser, Kathrin; Allemand, Mathias; Schwarz, Beate – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2017
The present study investigated the development of global and domain-specific self-representations in the transition from late childhood to early adolescence and tested whether gender, puberty, and school transition help explain individual differences in change. The study was based on three measurement occasions over 2 years and included 248…
Descriptors: Puberty, Gender Differences, Role, Individual Differences
van den Bos, Esther; van Duijvenvoorde, Anna C. K.; Westenberg, P. Michiel – Developmental Psychology, 2016
Adolescents become increasingly sensitive to social evaluation. Some previous studies have related this change to pubertal development. The present longitudinal study examined the role of sociocognitive development. We investigated whether or not the transition to recursive thinking, the ability to think about (others') thoughts, would be…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Social Development, Cognitive Development, Longitudinal Studies
Sommer, Marni; Ackatia-Armah, Nana; Connolly, Susan; Smiles, Dana – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2015
The barriers to menstrual hygiene management faced by adolescent schoolgirls in low-income countries are gaining interest at practice and policy levels. The challenges include inadequate water, sanitation and disposal facilities for the management of menses with privacy and dignity, and insufficient guidance to help girls feel confident in…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Females, Puberty, Physiology
Goldman, Juliette D. G.; McCutchen, Lisa E. – Educational Research, 2012
Background: Teenagers need information about their changing bodies. Many young people do not receive adequate or accurate puberty/sexuality education from their parents or school, so many teenagers are going online to have their sexuality questions answered. Purpose: This research examines teenagers' web questions on sexuality, and an example of…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Evidence, Sex Education, Physical Education
Arens, A. Katrin; Yeung, Alexander Seeshing; Craven, Rhonda G.; Watermann, Rainer; Hasselhorn, Marcus – International Journal of Educational Research, 2013
The often observed decline in students' self-perceptions across transition to secondary school after grade 6 is often attributed to students' entry to puberty. This study aims to examine whether lowered self-perceptions can be observed after transition in Germany which occurs after grade 4 and thus takes place before puberty. Fifth graders (N =…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Puberty, Self Esteem
Gay, Jennifer L.; Monsma, Eva V.; Torres-McGehee, Toni M. – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2011
In the present study, we examined developmental and contextual factors that may increase the odds of reporting higher social physique anxiety (SPA) among 404 adolescent athletes 11 to 16 years old. Findings showed older, later maturing athletes past peak height velocity and with greater body mass index (BMI) reported higher SPA. Individual…
Descriptors: Body Composition, Athletes, Puberty, Anxiety
Arim, Rubab G.; Tramonte, Lucia; Shapka, Jennifer D.; Dahinten, V. Susan; Willms, J. Douglas – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2011
The purpose of this study was to examine both the family antecedents and the outcomes of early puberty, with a particular focus on factors related to family socioeconomic status (SES). The study employed a comprehensive measurement of pubertal development and longitudinal data from the Canadian National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth.…
Descriptors: Smoking, Comparative Analysis, Puberty, Fathers
Arnett, Jeffrey Jensen, Ed. – Psychology Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
This book paints a portrait of adolescent psychology in 4 major regions: Africa/the Middle East, Asia, the Americas, and Europe. Featuring 24 revised and updated chapters from the "International Encyclopedia of Adolescence" (2007), readers are introduced to the way the majority of the world's adolescents actually live. Most contributors…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Economic Progress, Family Relationship, Adolescents
ter Avest, K. H. – British Journal of Religious Education, 2009
In the 1980s and 1990s in the Netherlands, as a reaction to the growing number of non-Christian pupils at Christian schools, religious education and religious development became issues for debate. At some schools, it was the exclusiveness of the Christian tradition that dominated, and at others it was the inclusiveness. Another group specialised…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Religious Education, Christianity
Peer reviewedRovet, Joanne – Child Development, 1983
A total of 20 children with idiopathic precocious puberty; 27 adolescents with clinically delayed puberty; and an equivalent number of controls matched for sex, age, and IQ were given a battery of tests including measures of verbal and spatial abilities and a task using a dichotic listening procedure to assess hemispheric lateralization.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries
Wong, Joy; Salili, Farideh; Ho, S. Y.; Mak, K. H.; Lai, M. K.; Lam, T. H. – School Psychology International, 2005
The aim of this study was to explore and compare the views of Hong Kong Chinese adolescents, parents and teachers on the same adolescent health issues. A total of 22 focus groups were conducted with Form 1 students (aged from 11 to 13) who attended the Basic Life Skills Training program organized by the Student Health Service, Department of Health…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Health, Substance Abuse, Stress Variables
Fleming, Manuela – Australian Journal of Educational & Developmental Psychology, 2005
A population of 12-19 year-old adolescents (n = 994) was selected from a pool of 7264 students in order to study adolescent's perception of autonomy. Eleven behavioural autonomy items were elected by the adolescents and used to evaluate the frequency of desire, achievement and disobeying parents in early (12-13 year-old) and late (18-19 year-old)…
Descriptors: Late Adolescents, Adolescents, Personal Autonomy, Puberty
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