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Extracurricular Involvement and Adolescent Adjustment: Impact of Duration, Number of Activities, and Breadth of Participation
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Fredricks, Jennifer A.; Eccles, Jacquelynne S. – Applied Developmental Science, 2006
The purpose of the current investigation was to examine the associations between a variety of measures of extracurricular participation and indicators of youth development. We use data from the Childhood and Beyond Study, a larger longitudinal study of adolescent development. The sample is primarily White middle-class adolescents in Grades 7…
Descriptors: Extracurricular Activities, Youth Clubs, Athletics, Participation
Synchronization in Ratings of Pubertal Maturity and Faulty Beliefs about Family Relationships.
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Papini, Dennis R.; Micka, Jill C. – New Directions for Child Development, 1991
Examined the possibility that the degree of synchronization between parent and adolescent ratings of pubertal maturity is related to faulty beliefs about interpersonal relationships in the family. Results indicated that adolescent-parent synchrony affected adolescents' faulty beliefs. Mothers' endorsement of faulty beliefs was related to…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Family Attitudes, Family Relationship
Developmental Implications of Shared versus Distinct Perceptions of the Family in Early Adolescence.
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Carlson, Cindy I.; And Others – New Directions for Child Development, 1991
Assessed the significance of distinctive versus shared family realities. Data indicated a divergence of adolescents' and parents' perception of the family in domains that concerned adolescents' emerging intellectual and emotional autonomy. Parents' and adolescents' perceptions converged in regard to domains that threatened family cohesion. (BC)
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Daughters, Developmental Stages, Family Attitudes