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For Better or Worse? System-Justifying Beliefs in Sixth-Grade Predict Trajectories of Self-Esteem and Behavior across Early Adolescence
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Godfrey, Erin B.; Santos, Carlos E.; Burson, Esther – Child Development, 2019
Scholars call for more attention to how marginalization influences the development of low-income and racial/ethnic minority youth and emphasize the importance of youth's subjective perceptions of contexts. This study examines how beliefs about the fairness of the American system (system justification) in sixth grade influence trajectories of…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Beliefs, Grade 6, Predictor Variables
The Adolescent Relational Dialectic and the Peer Roots of Adult Social Functioning
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Allen, Joseph P.; Chango, Joanna; Szwedo, David – Child Development, 2014
The long-term import of a fundamental challenge of adolescent social development--establishing oneself as a desirable peer companion while avoiding problematic behaviors often supported within peer groups--was examined in a community sample of 184 adolescents, followed from ages 13 to 23, along with parents, peers, and romantic partners. The…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Behavior Problems, Peer Relationship
The Younger Sisters of Childbearing Adolescents: Their Attitudes, Expectations, and Behaviors.
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East, Patricia L. – Child Development, 1996
Compared attitudes, expectations, and behaviors of early adolescent girls with an adolescent childbearing sister to those of girls with nonchildbearing adolescent sisters. Found that the younger sisters of childbearing adolescents were consistently different from those of nonchildbearing adolescents on key characteristics known to be correlated…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescents, Comparative Analysis, Early Adolescents
Brazilian Adolescents' Prosocial Moral Judgment and Behavior: Relations to Sympathy, Perspective Taking, Gender-Role Orientation, and Demographic Characteristics.
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Eisenberg, Nancy; Zhou, Qing; Koller, Silvia – Child Development, 2001
This study examined demographic and individual difference variables that predicted level of Brazilian adolescents' prosocial moral judgment and self-reported prosocial behavior; it also tested mediating or moderating relations among predictors. Findings generally were consistent with contention that tendency to take others' perspectives and to…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Behavior, Adolescents, Demography
A Model of the Effects of Perceived Parent and Peer Support on Adolescent False Self Behavior.
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Harter, Susan; And Others – Child Development, 1996
Hypothesized a model linking three perceived support variables--level of support, quality of support, and hope about future support--to false self-behaviors (not the "real me"). The best fitting model for the parent and peer data revealed that perceived quality and level of parental support predicted hope about future parental support,…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Behavior, Adolescents, Models
Parenting and Adolescents' Accuracy in Perceiving Parental Values.
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Knafo, Ariel; Schwartz, Shalom H. – Child Development, 2003
Examined potential predictors of Israeli adolescents' accuracy in perceiving parental values. Found that accuracy in perceiving parents' overall value system correlated positively with parents' actual and perceived value agreement and perceived parental warmth and responsiveness, but negatively with perceived value conflict, indifferent parenting,…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescents, Family Communication, Foreign Countries