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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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Frizzarin, Anna; Demo, Heidrun; de Boer, Anke A. – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2023
Former literature found that various 'different' students experience exclusion and rejection by their peers in schools. This may be linked with the attitudes that their school and classmates hold towards them. Identifying someone as 'Other' may indeed result in prejudicial attitudes which, in turn, can lead to his/her marginalisation and…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Diversity, Peer Acceptance, Power Structure
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ter Doest, Laura; Dijkstra, Arie; Gebhardt, Winifred A.; Vitale, Salvatore – Health Education & Behavior, 2009
The theory of planned behavior identifies important proximal determinants of behavior, including attitude toward the behavior, perception of subjective norms exerted by significant others, and perception of perceived control over performance of the behavior. Because research in the planned behavior tradition has focused on desirable target…
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Smoking, Adolescents, Schemata (Cognition)
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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
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Lorenzo, Mary Kwan; And Others – Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal, 1995
Examined the social, academic, emotional functioning, and the social support systems of teenage Asian American students. Ninety-nine students were compared to 404 Caucasian students. Results show that Asian American students exhibited less delinquent behavior and better academic performance, but were significantly more isolated, depressed, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescents