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Weiner, Cheryl – Journal of Jewish Education, 2020
What does it mean to be a Jewish girl today and how do Jewish adolescent girls navigate their identity? The study that I undertook is exploratory and designed to understand how three girls, who are recent day school graduates, experience the process of identity development as they begin high school. While the sample is small, the study reveals new…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Females, High School Students, Jews
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Ericson, Stine; Hesla, Marianne Winge; Stadskleiv, Kristine – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2022
Adolescents with intellectual disability experience psychological and social challenges in their transition to adulthood. Knowledge about the diagnosis and insight into own strengths and difficulties can help them manage the limitations and barriers they face, but suitable interventions with this purpose are scarce. The present paper presents a…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Mild Intellectual Disability, Psychoeducational Methods, Intervention
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Yan, Jinjin; Hou, Yang; Shen, Yishan; Kim, Su Yeong – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2022
The current study investigates how and under what conditions family obligation benefits Mexican American adolescents' adjustment. The study used two waves of data from 604 Mexican American adolescents (54.3% female, Mage.wave1 = 12.41 years, SD = 0.97) and their parents. Structural equation modeling revealed that both adolescents' and parents'…
Descriptors: Family Relationship, Responsibility, Expectation, Child Rearing
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Gomez-Baya, Diego; Santos, Teresa; Gaspar de Matos, Margarida – Applied Developmental Science, 2022
Positive Youth Development (PYD) model is a strength-based perspective of transition to adulthood derived from developmental systems theory. Developmental assets (DAs) framework describes the individual and contextual resources that may promote PYD. This work aims to analyze the associations between internal and external DAs and PYD, as well as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Adolescent Development, High School Students
Lucina Q. Uddin; Andres De Los Reyes – Grantee Submission, 2022
Biological psychiatry, like many other scientific fields, is grappling with the challenge of revising its practices with an eye towards promoting diversity, equity, and inclusivity (DEI). One arena in which much of this work will have significant impact is in developmental science generally, and the study of adolescence specifically. Adolescence…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Adolescent Development, Psychiatry, Diversity
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Vernelle Mitchell-Hawkins; Deborah Dietrich – Journal of Youth Development, 2022
Southeast Pennsylvania 4-H Extension educators identified a need for professional development in order to further develop current urban 4-H programs. The expectation was that increased awareness and knowledge would lead to increased skills competency in planning, implementing, and evaluating urban 4-H youth development programs. An interstate…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Urban Programs, Interstate Programs, Extension Agents
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Mustafic, Maida; Yu, Jing; Stadler, Matthias; Vainikainen, Mari-Pauliina; Bornstein, Marc H.; Putnick, Diane L.; Greiff, Samuel – Developmental Psychology, 2019
Complexity is one of the major demands of adolescents' future life as adults. To investigate adolescents' competence development in applying problem-solving strategies in complex environments, we conducted a 2-wave longitudinal study in a sample of Finnish adolescents (11-17 years old; N = 1,959 at Time 1 and N = 1,690 at Time 2, 3 years later).…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Adolescent Development, Foreign Countries, Difficulty Level
Rebora, Anthony – Educational Leadership, 2019
In an interview, educator and psychologist Thomas Armstrong says that schools need to do a better job of speaking to--rather than resisting or crushing--adolescents' neurological development. "Essentially, the curriculum in high school needs to be more affective," he argues. "It needs to be more engaging in terms of humor, vitality,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Brain, High School Students, Adolescent Development
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Unis, Brian; Bjuresäter, Kaisa; Nilsson, Jan – American Journal of Sexuality Education, 2023
The aim of this grounded theory study was to explore late-adolescents' process of sexual development along with their information- and support-seeking behaviors in a Swedish context. Data were collected in semi-structured interviews with late-adolescents aged between 18 and 21 years in high schools in central Sweden. The results showed that…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Late Adolescents, Adolescent Development, Information Seeking
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Aghatabay, Rabea; Vaezi, Aliakbar; Mazloomy Mahmoodabad, Seyed Saeed; Rahimi, Mehdi; Fallahzadeh, Hosein; Alizadeh, Somayeh – Psychology in the Schools, 2023
Achievement of a positive identity and its transition to adulthood is the most important task of the adolescent era. This cross-sectional explanatory mixed-method study sought to better understand barriers to identity development in female adolescents in Iran by explaining their own experiences and using a Positive Youth Development model as a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Adolescents, Self Esteem
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Williams, Catherine – Brock Education: A Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 2018
This article explores the topic of adulthood within children's literature. Because adults author, illustrate, and produce children's literature, adults construct what childhood looks like, as well as the degree of diverse representation within children's texts. The varied, and sometimes conflicting, depictions of child characters reveal the…
Descriptors: Adults, Childrens Literature, Individual Development, Definitions
Wise, Bob – Alliance for Excellent Education, 2018
Over the next two years, public education faces a critical moment created by the federal Every Student Succeeds Act requiring states and school districts to identify underperforming schools and create evidence-based plans to improve learning experiences and academic performance of all students. This report recommends key strategies for ensuring…
Descriptors: Public Education, Adolescent Development, Research and Development, Theory Practice Relationship
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Wellenreiter, Benjamin R. – Middle School Journal, 2021
Hallways, cafeterias, buses, bathrooms, locker rooms, and other spaces in and around school property serve as venues for positive and negative social processes. Middle school educators can gain important insights into the adolescent world by exploring student perspectives of these spaces vital to middle school social experiences. Often unseen or…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Middle School Students, Grade 7, Student Experience
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Umemura, Tomotaka; Lacinová, Lenka; Juhová, Dana; Pivodová, Lenka; Cheung, Hoi Shan – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2021
Although Bowlby proposed that adolescence is a major developmental period to transfer their attachment figures from parents to other people, no comprehensive longitudinal study on attachment transfer from early to late adolescence exists. This study employed 215 early to late adolescents between ages 11 and 18 years (X-bar[subscript age] = 14.02,…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Late Adolescents, Adolescent Development, Social Development
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Polasek, Tanya – BU Journal of Graduate Studies in Education, 2021
While parental involvement is often seen as a cornerstone in high school students' success, too much involvement can be problematic. Often teachers feel caught between supporting students' personal growth and parental expectations of students' academic achievement. Certain practices can be developed and implemented at a classroom and school level…
Descriptors: High School Students, Parent Participation, Personal Autonomy, Self Control
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