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Kolb, Bryan – Education Canada, 2000
Recent research findings show that experiences alter the anatomical structure of the brain, that the effects of experience on the brain differ at different ages and between males and females, and that brain development is not complete until about age 18. (SV)
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Age Differences, Anatomy, Brain
Rarick, G. Lawrence – Journal of Physical Education and Recreation, 1980
The shaping of human motor development is demonstrated by the orderly sequence of events which occur throughout the individual's development process. Muscular strength and proficiency in gross motor skills improve with advancing chronological age throughout childhood and adolescence, with sex differences in performance tending to favor males. (JN)
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Body Weight, Child Development, Cognitive Development
Download full textHardesty, Constance; And Others – 1992
Data from the National Survey of Children (Waves 1 and 3), a longitudinal survey of 2,000 children who were between the ages of 7 and 11 during the first wave in 1976 and between the ages of 16 and 20 during the third wave in 1987, were analyzed to examine the impact of paternal involvement during childhood as well as the ongoing father-child…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Child Development, Children
Peer reviewedHetherington, E. Mavis – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1992
Summarizes research on single-parent households and families whose mothers have remarried. This research concentrates on the effect of marital transitions on family functioning and children's adjustment. Introduces a longitudinal study that examined transformations in marital, parent-child, and sibling relationships following the remarriage of a…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescent Development, Age Differences, Behavior Problems
McCord, Joan, Ed.; Widom, Cathy Spatz, Ed.; Crowell, Nancy A., Ed. – 2001
This book discusses patterns and trends in crimes committed by children and adolescents, analyzing youth crime as a subset of general crime and studying the impact of race and gender. It evaluates different approaches to forecasting future crime rates. Data come from a national panel that examined what is known about juvenile crime and its…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, At Risk Persons, Child Development, Crime Prevention
Harter, Susan – 1999
Drawing upon extensive theoretical knowledge and decades of empirical research, this book traces changes in the structure and content of self-representations from early childhood through late adolescence. Chapter 1 includes a discussion of the self as subject (I-self) and object (Me-self) and describes the historical roots of contemporary issues…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Age Differences, Child Abuse
Rotenberg, Ken J., Ed.; Hymel, Shelley, Ed. – 1999
Despite the apparent universality of loneliness and its link to psychosocial maladjustment, research on loneliness has emerged rather recently in the history of psychology. This book brings together varied theories and lines of research on loneliness among children and adolescents to provide a source for future research. The chapters are: (1)…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Attachment Behavior, Child Development
