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Edmunds, Chrisse; Alcaraz, Melissa – Youth & Society, 2021
Adolescent mental health has implications for current and future wellbeing. While a link exists between poverty and mental health, little is known about how experiencing material hardship, such as insecurity of food, housing, utilities, and medical care, throughout early childhood affects adolescent mental health. We examine the relationship…
Descriptors: Poverty, Mental Health, Well Being, Correlation
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Azarova, Elena A.; Basyuk, Victor S.; Vikhtodenko, Alexander V.; Zholudeva, Svetlana V. – International Journal of School & Educational Psychology, 2021
Background: Personal characteristics of troubled adolescents are affected by psychological deprivation, which contributes to the manifestation of deviant and delinquent behavior in individuals. Aim: This study comprehensively examines structural units of self-consciousness, higher mental functions, and the emotional sphere of troubled adolescents…
Descriptors: Individual Characteristics, Adolescents, Behavior Problems, Residential Programs
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Xiao, Bowen; Bullock, Amanda; Liu, Junsheng; Coplan, Robert – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2021
In this study, we explored the longitudinal linkages among Chinese early adolescents' unsociability, peer rejection, and loneliness. Participants were N = 445 primary school students in Shanghai, P.R. China followed over 3 years from Grades 6 and 7 to Grades 8 and 9. Measures of adolescents' unsociability, peer rejection, and loneliness were…
Descriptors: Peer Acceptance, Rejection (Psychology), Psychological Patterns, Early Adolescents
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Leer, Jane; Gassman-Pines, Anna; Djé Blé, Eric; Kainessie, Josephine; Kennedy, Catherine; Press, Sarah; Schubert, Heidi – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2022
This study investigated attitudes toward restrictive gender norms among adolescents in Côte d'Ivoire and Sierra Leone (pooled N = 1,793, M[subscript age(baseline)] = 10.3, M[subscript age(follow-up)] = 11.6, 50% boys/girls). We examined individual and contextual predictors of gender attitudes, assessed change in gender attitudes over 2 years, and…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Sex Stereotypes, Gender Bias, Social Attitudes
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Carey, Roderick L. – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2022
As researchers and school stakeholders determine ways to best support Black and Latino adolescent boys from low-income communities in actualizing their postsecondary future ambitions, more attention is needed on the types of futures these boys imagine and how family members influence this process. Guided by "future orientations" and…
Descriptors: Males, Adolescents, Low Income Groups, Hispanic American Students
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Skoog, Therése; Kapetanovic, Sabina – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2022
We used latent growth curve analysis to extend research on associations between early puberty and adverse peer relations by examining the role of pubertal timing in the developmental trajectories of peer victimization and offending from early- to mid-adolescence. We made use of three-wave longitudinal data collected annually from a cohort of…
Descriptors: Puberty, Bullying, Victims, Adolescent Development
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Wade, Mark; Parsons, Jill; Humphreys, Kathryn L.; McLaughlin, Katie A.; Sheridan, Margaret A.; Zeanah, Charles H.; Nelson, Charles A.; Fox, Nathan A. – Child Development Perspectives, 2022
Over the last 20 years, we have learned much about the extent to which early-life deprivation affects the mental health of children and adolescents. This body of evidence comes predominantly from studies of children raised in institutional care. The Bucharest Early Intervention Project (BEIP) is the only randomized controlled trial designed to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Foster Care, Transitional Programs
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Lisa A. Keister; James W. Moody; Tom Wolff – RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2022
Wealth ownership is a critical component of economic well-being, and wealth in early adulthood provides important clues about the trajectories along which individuals move throughout their lives. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), we find an association between growing up rural and adult wealth that…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Money Management, Urban Areas, Rural Urban Differences
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Gerhardt, Peter F.; Bahry, Shanna; Driscoll, Natalie M.; Cauchi, Jessica; Mason, Brian K.; Deshpande, Madhura – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2023
A meaningful curriculum is one that is individualized, inclusive of the individual's unique needs and interests, and focused on building independence in current and future environments. A meaningful curriculum addresses an individual's needs and prioritizes instructional programs based on what is, potentially, most important to their lives and not…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Curriculum, Skill Development, Intervention
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Smith, Chauncey D.; Smith Lee, Jocelyn R. – Applied Developmental Science, 2020
This commentary engages the three elements of a social justice framework in the study of African American Boys and Men's (AABM) positive development, proposed by Barbarin, Tolan, and Gaylord-Harden (2019). In agreement with the importance of and in support of employing a social justice framework in developmental science, we offer theoretical and…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Humanism, African Americans, Males
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Breit, Moritz; Brunner, Martin; Preckel, Franzis – Developmental Psychology, 2020
Differentiation of intelligence refers to changes in the structure of intelligence that depend on individuals' level of general cognitive ability (ability differentiation hypothesis) or age (developmental differentiation hypothesis). The present article aimed to investigate ability differentiation, developmental differentiation, and their…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Cognitive Ability, Adolescents, Age Differences
Eleanor Kane – ProQuest LLC, 2020
School lunch is a universal experience for students everywhere and yet remains largely understudied by educational researchers. This dissertation explores school lunch through the lens of adolescent identity theory, with the purpose of investigating the unarticulated and overlooked complexities inherent in the lunch block, from issues of the…
Descriptors: Dining Facilities, Nutrition, High School Students, Food
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Gayapersad, Allison; Ombok, Caroline; Kamanda, Allan; Tarus, Carren; Ayuku, David; Braitstein, Paula – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2019
Background: The negative impact of institutionalization on children's development and well-being has led to a global recommendation for deinstitutionalization. In countries with weak infrastructure and family support, some children in institutional care have been found to have better outcomes, which may be due in part to the family-like…
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, Residential Programs, Children, Family Environment
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Marquis, Willa A.; Baker, Bruce L. – Journal of Mental Health Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2019
Introduction: While transitioning to adulthood presents challenges for youth with developmental disabilities (DD), opportunities to develop adult social roles and communication skills may foster more optimal outcomes. One such opportunity is developing conflict resolution skills within parent-adolescent relationships. Methods: We examined how…
Descriptors: Mothers, Adolescents, Parent Child Relationship, Intellectual Disability
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Hagler, Matthew; Raposa, Elizabeth B.; Rhodes, Jean – Applied Developmental Science, 2019
Youth who form bonds with supportive, nonparent adults within their existing social networks (i.e., natural mentors) experience a range of positive outcomes, but a relatively minimal amount is known regarding the psychosocial factors that prospectively predict the formation of natural mentoring relationships. Analyzing longitudinal youth data from…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Profiles, Adolescent Development, Social Development
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