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Peralta, Louisa; Rowling, Louise; Samdal, Oddrun; Hipkins, Rose; Dudley, Dean – Health Education Journal, 2017
Background: Health literacy research for adolescents and young people has been growing in importance. However, conceptualisation has been largely limited to concepts of adult health literacy in healthcare and disease prevention settings. The challenge for the future lies in developing a coherent concept that combines adolescent development,…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Health, Adolescents, Youth
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Goldfus, Carol; Karny-Tagger, Anit – LEARNing Landscapes, 2017
Education changes the brain. The purpose of this meta-review is to afford teachers access to the most up-to-date research regarding principal neuro-processes of adolescent development and behavior to improve students' well-being and motivation in the classroom. This includes facets such as emotional, social, risk and reward mechanisms, stressors,…
Descriptors: Perception, Adolescents, Brain, Adolescent Development
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Brookover, Dana L.; Hermann, Mary A.; Deitz, Michael E. – Journal of School Counseling, 2021
In order to support adolescent girls' social and emotional development, school counselors need to understand girls' current experiences and developmental needs. Researchers used phenomenological methodology to explore the experiences of 11 girls in Generation Z. They further examined girls' interactions with their high school counselors including…
Descriptors: Females, Social Development, Emotional Development, School Counselors
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Lerner, Jacqueline V.; Wong, Caitlin Aymong; Weiner, Michelle B.; Johnson, Sara K. – Journal of Moral Education, 2021
Despite acknowledgment that character operates as a multi-faceted system of multiple attributes, few efforts have examined this system by investigating how character attributes may combine in profiles and how profiles are related to individual internal strengths and contextual assets. Using data from 552 adolescents from the Northeastern United…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Personality, Values Education, Profiles
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Juang, Linda P.; Schachner, Maja K.; Pevec, Sharleen; Moffitt, Ursula – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2020
We examined whether German adolescents who participated in an adapted 8-week school-based intervention, the "Identity Project," reported greater changes in heritage and global identities and perceptions of classroom cultural climate. We used a longitudinal, wait-list control design pooling eight classrooms across the school years of…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Adolescent Development, Intervention, Educational Environment
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Wallner, Susanne; Stemmler, Mark; Reinecke, Jost – International Journal of Developmental Science, 2020
Psychological- and sociological-criminological research refers to, for example, cumulative risk factor models (e.g., Lösel & Bender, 2003) and Situational Action Theory (SAT; e.g., Wikström, 2006). The German longitudinal study "Chances and Risks in the Life Course" (research project A2, Collaborative Research Center 882; e.g.,…
Descriptors: Children, Adolescents, Antisocial Behavior, At Risk Persons
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Jansen, Katie; Kiefer, Sarah M. – Middle School Journal, 2020
Effective educators value young adolescents, are prepared to teach them, and are knowledgeable about this age group. Middle level educators' understanding of adolescent brain development and developmentally responsive teaching strategies can help to support all adolescents' cognitive and social-emotional development in school. This article…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Middle School Students, Cognitive Development, Social Development
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Baumert, Jürgen; Jansen, Malte; Becker, Michael; Neumann, Marko; Köller, Olaf; Maaz, Kai – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2023
This article examines the extent to which normative beliefs on acculturation constitute (a) individual resources and risk factors for adolescents facing developmental tasks and (b) institutional norms that define developmental milieus in secondary schools. To what extent do egalitarianism, multiculturalism, assimilationism, and segregationism help…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Grade 9, Grade 10, Foreign Countries
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Hamre, Bridget K.; Cappella, Elise – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2015
This special issue highlights recent research on measures of early adolescents' development and the school contexts in which they spend their time. We are particularly interested in measures with direct application--providing actionable data to teachers, principals, parents, school counselors, or the students themselves, in ways that promote…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Early Adolescents, Measures (Individuals), Educational Environment
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Lamont, Tracey – Religious Education, 2018
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops created a curriculum for Catholic secondary schools that describes "what" adolescents should learn including the importance of developing a religious and moral identity, encounters through service, and a deeper understanding of interreligious dialogue. This study adds the "how" to the…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Transformative Learning, Secondary Schools, Adolescents
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D'Urso, Giulio; Symonds, Jennifer; Pace, Ugo – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2021
In the current study, we investigated the developmental dynamics between positive youth development, being bullied in adolescence, gender, and sociocultural risk factors. Participants were 3,509 males (49%) and 3,656 females (51%) studied longitudinally across the ages of 9, 13, and 17 years in the Growing Up in Ireland study. Using structural…
Descriptors: Correlation, Bullying, Gender Differences, Risk
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Jabbari, Mahsa; Shahidi, Shahriar; Panaghi, Leili; Mazaheri, Mohammad Ali; Oberle, Eva – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2021
Character strengths are an important foundation for positive development and thriving in adolescence. Most research on character strengths has been conducted with youths in Western cultures. We examined character strengths in relation to positive and negative well-being indicators in a sample of Iranian youths. We investigated the reliability and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adolescent Development, Middle School Students, Personality Traits
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Lee, Sungsim; Jun, JuSung – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2021
The purpose of this study was to analyze the developmental trajectory of Korean adolescents' multicultural receptivity with a latent growth model. The study was performed using the data of 5,943 students (2,918 boys and 3,025 girls) who sincerely responded to all the questions used as variables in the data in the 2nd, 4th, and 6th years of the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adolescent Development, Adolescent Attitudes, Attitude Change
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Jevtic, Bisera; Miloševic, Danijela – Problems of Education in the 21st Century, 2021
Today, the media represent one of the main factors in the upbringing and education of adolescents due to the growing representation, availability of diverse content and more frequent use. In adolescence, the media have a special significance, because they greatly influence the preferences, attitudes, emotions, behavior, value orientations and the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adolescent Development, Preferences, High School Students
Pandith, Farah – Liberal Education, 2019
Farah Pandith is an author, foreign policy strategist, and former diplomat. She served as the first-ever special representative to Muslim communities for the US Department of State. She is the author of "How We Win: How Cutting-Edge Entrepreneurs, Political Visionaries, Enlightened Business Leaders, and Social Media Mavens Can Defeat the…
Descriptors: Females, Social Change, Resilience (Psychology), Ideology
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