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Breit, Moritz; Brunner, Martin; Preckel, Franzis – Developmental Psychology, 2020
Differentiation of intelligence refers to changes in the structure of intelligence that depend on individuals' level of general cognitive ability (ability differentiation hypothesis) or age (developmental differentiation hypothesis). The present article aimed to investigate ability differentiation, developmental differentiation, and their…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Cognitive Ability, Adolescents, Age Differences
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Lester Sim; Jiaxiu Song; Ka I. Ip; Christina Naegeli Costa; Wen Wen; Su Yeong Kim – Developmental Psychology, 2024
This study adopts a cultural ecological perspective to examine how cumulative effects of external transcultural and cultural strengths are related to baseline and changes in three markers of Mexican-origin adolescents' self-growth (i.e., resilience, life meaning, and discipline). Using a three-wave longitudinal data set (5 years) of 604…
Descriptors: Mexican Americans, Adolescent Development, Resilience (Psychology), Self Concept
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Negru-Subtirica, Oana; Pop, Eleonora Ioana; Crocetti, Elisabetta – Developmental Psychology, 2017
Identity formation is a main adolescent psychosocial developmental task. The complex interconnection between different processes that are at the basis of one's identity is a research and applied intervention priority. In this context, the identity style model focuses on social-cognitive strategies (i.e., informational, normative, and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adolescent Development, Individual Development, Identification (Psychology)
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Köber, Christin; Habermas, Tilmann – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2017
In Western cultures, life narratives are typically expected to recount the narrator's life from birth to the present. Disparate autobiographical memories need to be integrated into a more or less coherent story, which is facilitated by an overarching temporal macrostructure. The temporal macrostructure consists of elaborated beginnings that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Personal Narratives, Autobiographies, Time
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Solmeyer, Anna R.; McHale, Susan M.; Crouter, Ann C. – Developmental Psychology, 2014
This study examined the associations between sibling intimacy and conflict and youths' reports of risky behavior in a sample of adolescents ages 11-20. Participants were mothers, fathers, and sibling dyads in 393 families who were interviewed annually for 3, 4, or 5 years. Multivariate multilevel models tested longitudinal links between sibling…
Descriptors: Sibling Relationship, Adolescents, Longitudinal Studies, Intimacy
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Peterson, Jean Sunde – Roeper Review, 2012
A 15-year phenomenological case study of an exceptional female from age 15 through 30 was focused on exploring the subjective experience of development during adolescence and young adulthood, with attention to how giftedness and context interacted. The main focus became her response to trauma, which was revealed early in the study. Data, including…
Descriptors: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Phenomenology, Longitudinal Studies, Case Studies
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Proulx, Christine M.; Helms, Heather M. – Journal of Family Issues, 2008
Guided by contemporary feminist revisions of individual theories on adolescent development, interviews with 142 parent dyads were conducted to better understand the variation in mothers' and fathers' perceptions of changes and continuities in their relationships with their firstborn young adult sons and daughters. A between-families content…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Mothers, Daughters, Young Adults
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Richards, Maryse H.; Crowe, Paul A.; Larson, Reed; Swarr, Amy – Child Development, 1998
Fifth through eighth graders completed self-reports in response to pager signals received over one week and again four years later. Responses indicated that thinking about the opposite sex occurs earlier than spending time with the opposite sex alone and that both increase over time. Girls spent more time with opposite sex and more time thinking…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Elementary Education, Friendship
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Jelicic, Helena; Bobek, Deborah L.; Phelps, Erin; Lerner, Richard M.; Lerner, Jacqueline V. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2007
Theories of positive youth development (PYD) regard such development as bases of both community contributions and lessened likelihood of risk/problem behaviors. Using data from the 4-H Study of PYD, we tested these expectations by examining if PYD in Grade 5 predicted both youth contributions and risk behaviors and depression in Grade 6. Results…
Descriptors: Preadolescents, Early Adolescents, Grade 6, Grade 5
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Kim, Kee Jeong; Conger, Rand D.; Lorenz, Frederick O.; Elder, Glen H., Jr. – Developmental Psychology, 2001
This longitudinal study examined reciprocal growth in negative emotions between parents and adolescents, and their potential influence on the development of social relationships during early adulthood. Findings showed that both parents' and adolescents' initial levels of negative emotion toward each other predicted the rate of growth and rate of…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Emotional Response, Individual Development
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Zuo, Li; Tao, Liqing – Journal of Secondary Gifted Education, 2001
This study examined the importance of personality characteristics to identity formation using data from Terman's longitudinal study of high IQ children. Results indicate that positive traits such as perseverance, purposiveness, desire to excel, and self-confidence are conducive to a successful identity formation and to the adoption of the…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adult Development, Child Development, Elementary Secondary Education
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Johnson, Monica Kirkpatrick; Beebe, Timothy; Mortimer, Jeylan T.; Snyder, Mark – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 1998
Used panel study of representative community sample to compare volunteer and nonvolunteer adolescents and identify effects of volunteerism on development. Found that volunteers had higher educational plans and aspirations, grade point averages, academic self-esteem, and intrinsic motivation toward school work than did nonvolunteers. Volunteerism…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Adolescent Behavior, Adolescent Development
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Andersson, Tommy; Magnusson, David – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1990
The relationship between biological maturation, as evidenced by skeletal growth, during adolescence and the development of drinking habits and alcohol abuse was studied for a representative group of Swedish males (N=88). Early and late maturers had more advanced drinking habits at age 14 years than did normally maturing subjects. (TJH)
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Alcohol Abuse, Biological Influences
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Roeser, Robert W.; Eccles, Jacquelynne S.; Freedman-Doan, Carol – Journal of Adolescent Research, 1999
Examined patterns of academic functioning and mental health in middle school students and the relation of such patterns to their prior and subsequent functioning. Found variegated patterns of academic and emotional functioning at eighth grade and stability in these patterns across the high school transition. Found some long-term stability among…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Need, Adolescent Development, Adolescents
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Deihl, Laura M.; Deike, Randall C.; Vicary, Judith R. – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 1997
Examined intraindividual and interindividual differences in self-esteem among 142 rural adolescents during a four-year period encompassing the transition to high school. Cluster analysis identified three distinct, divergent trajectories of self-esteem change from early to middle adolescence: (1) consistently high; (2) small increase; and (3)…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Age Differences, Cluster Analysis
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