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Symonds, Jennifer; Dietrich, Julia; Chow, Angela; Salmela-Aro, Katariina – Developmental Psychology, 2016
Underpinned by stage-environment fit and job demands-resources theories, this study examined how adolescents' anxiety, depressive symptoms, and positive functioning developed as they transferred from comprehensive school to further education, employment or training, or became NEET (not in education, employment, or training), at age 16 years, in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Mental Health, Education Work Relationship
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Kendall, Alex – Literacy, 2008
In this paper I will argue that while young adult readers may often be represented through "othering" discourses that see them as "passive," "uncritical" consumers of "low-brow," "throw-away" texts, the realities of their reading lives are in fact more subtle, complex and dynamic. The paper…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Reading Habits, Adult Education, Young Adults
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Standage, Martyn; Duda, Joan L.; Ntoumanis, Nikos – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2006
In the present study, we used a model of motivation grounded in self-determination theory (Deci & Ryan, 1985, 1991; Ryan & Deci, 2000a, 2000b, 2002) to examine the relationship between physical education (PE) students' motivational processes and ratings of their effort and persistence as provided by their PE teacher. Data were obtained…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Structural Equation Models, Physical Education, Student Motivation