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Direct linkTrach, Jessica; Garandeau, Claire F.; Malamut, Sarah T. – Child Development, 2023
Anti-bullying interventions often assume that knowing how it feels to be bullied increases empathy for victims. However, longitudinal research on actual experiences of bullying and empathy is lacking. This study investigated whether within-person changes in victimization predicted changes in empathy over 1 year using random-intercept cross-lagged…
Descriptors: Bullying, Victims, Intervention, Empathy
Ceccon, Chiara; Schachner, Maja K.; Lionetti, Francesca; Pastore, Massimiliano; Umaña-Taylor, Adriana J.; Moscardino, Ughetta – Child Development, 2023
Abstract This registered report evaluated the efficacy of an Italian adaptation of the "Identity Project," a school-based intervention promoting adolescents' cultural identity. Migration background and environmental sensitivity were explored as moderators. After adapting and piloting the intervention, a randomized controlled trial was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Ethnicity, Intervention
Emily N. Cyr; Kathryn M. Kroeper; Hilary B. Bergsieker; Tara C. Dennehy; Christine Logel; Jennifer R. Steele; Rita A. Knasel; W. Tyler Hartwig; Priscilla Shum; Stephanie L. Reeves; Odilia Dys-Steenbergen; Amrit Litt; Christopher B. Lok; Taylor Ballinger; Haemi Nam; Crystal Tse; Amanda L. Forest; Mark Zanna; Sheryl Staub-French; Mary Wells; Toni Schmader; Stephen C. Wright; Steven J. Spencer – Child Development, 2024
Girls and women face persistent negative stereotyping within STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics). This field intervention was designed to improve boys' perceptions of girls' STEM ability. Boys (N = 667; mostly White and East Asian) aged 9-15 years in Canadian STEM summer camps (2017-2019) had an intervention or control…
Descriptors: Females, Womens Education, STEM Education, Summer Programs
Spoth, Richard; Redmond, Cleve; Shin, Chungyeol; Trudeau, Linda; Greenberg, Mark T.; Feinberg, Mark E.; Welsh, Janet – Child Development, 2022
This study evaluated emerging adult effects of the PROmoting School-Community-University Partnerships to Enhance Resilience (PROSPER) universal prevention delivery system implemented in middle schools. Twenty-eight rural school districts were randomized to intervention and control conditions, with 1985 nineteen-year-old participants (90.6% White,…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Prevention, Middle School Students, Rural Schools
Borgen, Nicolai T.; Frønes, Ivar; Raaum, Oddbjørn – Child Development, 2021
Although attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is among the most heritable psychiatric childhood disorders, social and gene-environment interactions seemingly play an important role in the etiology of ADHD. Consistent with this, this study finds that School-Wide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (SWPBIS) reduced the…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Positive Behavior Supports, Intervention, Adolescents
Spoth, Richard; Trudeau, Linda; Redmond, Cleve; Shin, Chungyeol; Feinberg, Mark E.; Greenberg, Mark T. – Child Development, 2019
This study examines crossover effects of adolescent substance misuse preventive interventions on academic success in college. It evaluates pathways of influence on college grades, via effects on school engagement, problem-solving skills, and substance misuse in high school. Data were collected as part of an Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT)…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Substance Abuse, College Students, Prevention
Herrera, Carla; Grossman, Jean Baldwin; Kauh, Tina J.; McMaken, Jennifer – Child Development, 2011
This random assignment impact study of Big Brothers Big Sisters School-Based Mentoring involved 1,139 9- to 16-year-old students in 10 cities nationwide. Youth were randomly assigned to either a treatment group (receiving mentoring) or a control group (receiving no mentoring) and were followed for 1.5 school years. At the end of the first school…
Descriptors: Mentors, Children, Adolescents, Academic Achievement
Chittleborough, Catherine R.; Mittinty, Murthy N.; Lawlor, Debbie A.; Lynch, John W. – Child Development, 2014
Randomized controlled trial evidence shows that interventions before age 5 can improve skills necessary for educational success; the effect of these interventions on socioeconomic inequalities is unknown. Using trial effect estimates, and marginal structural models with data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (n = 11,764,…
Descriptors: Intervention, Social Justice, Socioeconomic Influences, Longitudinal Studies
Yeager, David Scott; Trzesniewski, Kali H.; Dweck, Carol S. – Child Development, 2013
Adolescents are often resistant to interventions that reduce aggression in children. At the same time, they are developing stronger beliefs in the fixed nature of personal characteristics, particularly aggression. The present intervention addressed these beliefs. A randomized field experiment with a diverse sample of Grades 9 and 10 students (ages…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Aggression, Intervention, Personality Theories
Peer reviewedAllen, Joseph P.; Philliber, Susan; Herrling, Scott; Kuperminc, Gabriel P. – Child Development, 1997
Conducted an experimental evaluation of Teen Outreach, a national volunteer service program. Found that rates of pregnancy, school failure, and academic suspension, at exit nine months later, were substantially lower in the Teen Outreach group, even after accounting for group differences at entry. Results suggest potential value of interventions…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Adolescents, Experiments
Peer reviewedSeitz, Victoria; Apfel, Nancy H. – Child Development, 1994
Reviewed the medical and school records of 230 adolescent mothers to determine the effects of an alternative public school for pregnant teenagers. Found that pregnant mothers who did not attend the school until later in their pregnancy were more likely to deliver a preterm, low-birthweight infant than were mothers who began attending earlier. (MDM)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attendance, Birth Weight, Early Intervention
