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Chu-Yang Chang; Hsu-Chan Kuo – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2024
Parents and teachers are significant authority figures that substantially impact adolescents' psychological and cognitive development, including their creativity. The current study investigated the relationship between adolescents' attitudes toward authority (parents and teachers) and innovative behavior and examined the mediating effects of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescent Attitudes, Secondary School Students, Student Attitudes
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Jackson-Roe, Katie; Murray, Craig; Brown, Gill – Drugs: Education, Prevention & Policy, 2015
Aims: Previous research has documented a clear association between drinking alcohol and engaging in criminal activity. However, it is unclear how this relationship is formed and maintained in young people. Such knowledge could be instructive in the appropriate design and effectiveness of prevention and intervention strategies. The aim of the…
Descriptors: Drinking, Phenomenology, Prevention, Intervention
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Keeley, Maureen; Baldwin, Paula – Journal of Loss and Trauma, 2012
This qualitative study examined messages of everyday communication (small talk and routine interactions). The importance of these messages was highlighted in light of their role in creating structure, safety, and meaning making in the family at the end of life. In addition, family rituals that developed from children's everyday communication were…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Death, Behavior Patterns, Repetition
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Herbert, Diane F.; Schiaffino, Kathleen M. – Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 2007
This study investigated adolescents' and parents' perceptions regarding smoking behavior, attitudes toward smoking, and smoking communication. Instruments were developed to measure multidimensional smoking communication messages and smoking attitudes in 140 mother-adolescent dyads. The prediction of relevant adolescent smoking variables is…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Mothers, Smoking, Health Behavior
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Shek, Daniel T. L. – Adolescence (San Diego): an international quarterly devoted to the physiological, psychological, psychiatric, sociological, and educational aspects of the second decade of human life, 2007
Perceived paternal and maternal behavioral control (including dimensions of parental knowledge, expectation, monitoring, discipline and demandingness) and psychological control in 2,748 Chinese Secondary 2 students were examined. Results showed that two stable dimensions (paternal and maternal behavioral control) were extracted from the parental…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Psychology, Secondary School Students
White, Aaron M. – Education Canada, 2005
Adolescence is the transition from childhood to adulthood, a period during which an individual acquires the skills necessary to survive on his or her own, away from parents or other caregivers. Adolescence can be a very confusing time. They experience changes in sleep, diet, mood, weight and attitude and a decreased pleasure from daily activities.…
Descriptors: Brain, Adolescents, Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development
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Jacobvitz, Deborah B.; Bush, Nell F. – Developmental Psychology, 1996
Examined how women's reconstruction of various family patterns during childhood and adulthood relate to levels of depression, anxiety, and self-esteem. Found that women who recalled cross-generational alliances or triangulated family patterns, and whose parents were emotionally distant, were more at risk for depression, anxiety, and low…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Behavior Patterns, College Students
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Ge, Xiaojia; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1996
Evaluated prevalence of the co-occurrence of depressive symptoms and conduct problems in a community sample of 10th-grade adolescents participating in a four-year longitudinal study. Found that early hostile parent behavior increased the probability of later occurrence and co-occurrence of elevated depressive symptoms and conduct problems, whereas…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Behavior Patterns
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Ge, Xiaojia; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1996
Examined evidence for reciprocal influence between adoptive parents' behavior and heritable characteristics of adopted children. Found that psychiatric disorders of biological parents were significantly related to children's antisocial/hostile behaviors and consequently with adoptive parents' behavior. Also, the adoptee's antisocial/hostile…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Adopted Children