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Meeus, Wim – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2022
Four longitudinal models are used to present a short review of research into adolescent psychosocial development. This review reveals adolescent development to proceed in a regular manner. This process of regular development suggests that it might be possible to uncover rules of intra-individual development. The aim of this paper is to propose a…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adolescent Development, Individual Development, Developmental Continuity
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Ye, Ping; Bautista-Maya, Gildardo – Mathematics Teaching Research Journal, 2021
This paper analyzes the dataset collected from students participating in the Boy With A Ball (BWAB) program, a faith-based community outreach group, through the Hemingway Measure of Adult Connectedness©, a questionnaire measuring the social connectedness of adolescents. This paper first approaches the data in the conventional method provided by…
Descriptors: Outreach Programs, Adolescents, Interpersonal Relationship, Questionnaires
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Toomey, Russell B. – Child Development Perspectives, 2021
Transgender and nonbinary children and adolescents bear a disproportionate level of poor health, and adverse developmental and academic outcomes compared to their cisgender peers. In this article, I review evidence from recent research on minority stress and resilience among trans youth and advocate for two additional domains to be included when…
Descriptors: LGBTQ People, Stress Variables, Health, Outcomes of Education
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Xiao, Bowen; Bullock, Amanda; Liu, Junsheng; Coplan, Robert – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2021
In this study, we explored the longitudinal linkages among Chinese early adolescents' unsociability, peer rejection, and loneliness. Participants were N = 445 primary school students in Shanghai, P.R. China followed over 3 years from Grades 6 and 7 to Grades 8 and 9. Measures of adolescents' unsociability, peer rejection, and loneliness were…
Descriptors: Peer Acceptance, Rejection (Psychology), Psychological Patterns, Early Adolescents
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Paz, Jennica; Kim, Eui Kyung; Dowdy, Erin; Furlong, Michael J.; Hinton, Tameisha; Piqueras, José A.; Rodríguez-Jiménez, Tíscar; Marzo, Juan C.; Coates, Susan – Grantee Submission, 2020
The assessment of psychosocial strengths in children and adolescents has predominately focused on the measurement of single traits and constructs, such as grit (Christopoulou, Lakioti, Pezirkianidis, Karakasidou, & Stalikas, 2018), optimism (Oberle, Guhn, Gadermann, Thomson, & Schonert-Reichl, 2018), hope (Pedrotti, 2018), and gratitude…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Student Characteristics, Screening Tests, Holistic Approach
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Morin, Alexandre J. S.; Maïano, Christophe; Marsh, Herbert W.; Nagengast, Benjamin; Janosz, Michel – Child Development, 2013
This study investigates heterogeneity in adolescents' trajectories of global self-esteem (GSE) and the relations between these trajectories and facets of the interpersonal, organizational, and instructional components of students' school life. Methodologically, this study illustrates the use of growth mixture analyses, and how to obtain…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Self Esteem, Adolescent Development, Gender Differences
Nagaoka, Jenny; Farrington, Camille A.; Ehrlich, Stacy B.; Heath, Ryan D. – University of Chicago Consortium on Chicago School Research, 2015
Amid growing recognition that strong academic skills alone are not enough for young people to become successful adults, this comprehensive report offers wide-ranging evidence to show what young people need to develop from preschool to young adulthood to succeed in college and career, have healthy relationships, be engaged citizens, and make wise…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Success, Child Development, Adolescent Development
Chatmon, Chris; Gray, Richard – Voices in Urban Education, 2015
African American males are three times more likely than their White male counterparts to be suspended or expelled in public schools. Changing these odds requires not only addressing disparities in discipline practices, but also lifting up a new narrative of hope, possibility, and brilliance so that young Black men can see and realize their…
Descriptors: African American Students, Males, African American Achievement, Educational Change
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Bowers, Edmond P.; Li, Yibing; Kiely, Megan K.; Brittian, Aerika; Lerner, Jacqueline V.; Lerner, Richard M. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2010
The understanding of positive development across adolescence rests on having a valid and equivalent measure of this construct across the breadth of this period of life. Does the Positive Youth Development (PYD) construct based on the Five Cs model have satisfactory psychometric properties for such longitudinal measurement invariance? Using…
Descriptors: Factor Structure, Adolescents, Factor Analysis, Psychometrics
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Cross, Jennifer Riedl; Fletcher, Kathryn L. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2009
As research on adolescent crowds has increased over the past several decades, researchers appear to be confident in their claims of the consequences of crowd membership, even suggesting targeted interventions. This review of the various methods used to identify adolescents' crowd membership suggests that this confidence may be misplaced. There are…
Descriptors: Models, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Social Science Research
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Brown, Darren – Reclaiming Children and Youth, 2008
Pioneers in reclaiming youth sought to build relationships and environments that responded to the needs of "wayward youth." Now, neuroscience and trauma research show the primacy of human connections in assessment, treatment, and youth development. Interventions with challenging children and youth are now being evaluated against principles…
Descriptors: Intervention, Neuropsychology, Adolescent Development, Models
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Larson, Scott – Reclaiming Children and Youth, 2008
When the Commission on Children At Risk--a group of 33 children's doctors, research scientists, mental health and youth service professionals--presented to the Nation its report on the crises of deteriorating mental and behavioral health of children in the US, the 83-page report was entitled "Hardwired to Connect: The New Scientific Case for…
Descriptors: Emotional Problems, Interpersonal Relationship, Attachment Behavior, Stress Variables
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Guest, Andrew M. – Youth & Society, 2008
Although developing "teamwork" is commonly discussed as a goal for youth work, the meaning of teamwork is rarely articulated. Drawing from field research with programs for children and youth in a Chicago public housing community and with a community of Angolan refugee camps, this article demonstrates that teamwork has multiple potential…
Descriptors: Teamwork, Adolescents, Refugees, Housing
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Seginer, Rachel – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2008
Drawing on the importance of future orientation for adolescent development this analysis presents a model describing how future orientation is affected by high challenge (or resilience) in the face of political violence. The analysis consists of three parts. The first two present future orientation conceptualization and the psychological processes…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Futures (of Society), Models
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Morehouse, Holly – Afterschool Matters, 2009
Early adolescence is a time of transition, change, and growth. At no other time after gestation and early infancy are the human body and mind undergoing such rapid developmental changes. The bodies of young adolescents are physically and sexually maturing. Cognitive changes expand thinking abilities; social and emotional changes move adolescents…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, After School Programs, Early Adolescents, Student Participation
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