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Wang, Qing; Lin, Mengyun; Li, Fan – Education Economics, 2021
This paper examines the intergenerational effects of maternal education on adolescents' development in education and health by using data from the China Education Panel Survey. The ordinary least squares and two-stage least squares estimates indicate that maternal education increases both children's cognitive test scores and the probability of…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Parent Background, Foreign Countries, Adolescent Development
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Wantchekon, Kristia A.; Umaña-Taylor, Adriana J.; Sladek, Michael R.; McDermott, Elana R.; Updegraff, Kimberly A. – Developmental Psychology, 2021
Research suggests that the process of adolescents exploring and developing clarity about their ethnic-racial identity (ERI) is an important developmental competency. However, the extent to which individuals view their ERI as central to their overall self-concept (i.e., ERI centrality) informs the degree to which they choose to explore their ERI,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Racial Identification, Self Concept, Intervention
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Harrison, Lisa M.; Bishop, Penny A. – Current Issues in Middle Level Education, 2021
"The Successful Middle School" builds upon many decades of commitment to the middle school concept. The fifth edition of AMLE's landmark position paper amplifies the importance of responding both to young adolescents' developmental needs and to their social identities. The edition's release amidst a global pandemic and increasing…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Early Adolescents, Adolescent Development, Equal Education
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Sakiz, Halis; Mert, Abdullah; Sariçam, Hakan – Journal of Psychologists and Counsellors in Schools, 2021
The purpose of this research was to examine the associations between self-esteem, perceived social competence, ostracism and loneliness among adolescent students. For the investigation of self-esteem and perceived social competence as key developmental constructs concerning negative experiences such as ostracism and loneliness, it is important to…
Descriptors: Self Esteem, Interpersonal Competence, Adolescents, Adolescent Development
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Naudé, Luzelle; Capitano, Tracy-Ann – Youth & Society, 2021
This qualitative phenomenological study aimed to capture experiences of spiritual identity development in a purposive sample of South African adolescents, using semi-structured interviews and reflective writing exercises. Participants confirmed the prominence of religiosity and spirituality, as intertwined concepts central to their sense of…
Descriptors: Spiritual Development, Identification (Psychology), Foreign Countries, Adolescents
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Ballonoff Suleiman, Ahna; Ballard, Parissa J.; Hoyt, Lindsay Till; Ozer, Emily J. – Youth & Society, 2021
In light of the increasing global population of young people, practitioners and policy makers face formidable challenges in promoting positive youth development and the successful transition to adulthood. Youth participatory research is one promising and rapidly growing approach for generating evidence to inform policy and intervention strategies…
Descriptors: Participatory Research, Action Research, Youth, Developmental Stages
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Ruth E. Wallace – Journal of Human Sciences & Extension, 2021
Praise in the context of behavior-specific encouragement, positive reinforcement, and recognition may provide a linkage in positive youth development to teen leaders' feelings of contribution and motivation at 4-H Camp. Existing literature on praise in academic settings, combined with literature related to positive youth development, organized…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Leaders, Youth Programs, Camps
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Liane C. Pereira; Deborah A. Ith – Psychology in the Schools, 2024
Poor mental health in childhood and adolescence has a significant impact on both physical and mental health throughout life. However, growing evidence suggests that current levels of child and adolescent mental health (CAMH) care are insufficient to meet the needs of many children and adolescents in the United States as evidenced by increasing…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Access to Education, Mental Health Programs, Developmental Stages
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Emily Horton – Professional Counselor, 2024
Body neutrality is a concept wherein individuals embody a neutral attitude toward the body that is realistic and flexible, appreciate and care for the function of the body, and acknowledge that self-worth is not defined by one's outward appearance. Family behavior regarding body image has been related to higher levels of body dissatisfaction and…
Descriptors: Human Body, Parent Child Relationship, Self Concept, Food
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Mroczkowski, Alison L.; Price, C. Aaron; Harris, Natalie C.; Skeeles-Worley, Angela D. – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2022
Supportive community contexts are critical to positive youth development. Out-of-school time (OST) programs serve as supportive community contexts, and participation in OST programs is associated with a host of positive outcomes for youth. Cultural centers, such as museums, have been identified as potentially supportive community contexts for…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Youth, Museums, Youth Programs
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Thury, Eva Maria – Children's Literature in Education, 2022
This paper considers the Twilight novels alongside the Vampire Academy books, as young adult readers regularly invoke these series as touchstones of the contemporary adolescent Gothic genre. The abiding appeal of these vampire novels is related to the ways they reflect the experiences of young adults with the rapacity and greed displayed in our…
Descriptors: Novels, Adolescent Literature, Young Adults, Literary Genres
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Busey, Christopher L.; Gainer, Jesse – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2022
Early adolescents go through developmental changes which are also mediated through social and structural forces that reproduce stratifying hierarchies around race, class, gender, and sexuality. Despite the intersection of early adolescent development with social and institutional forces, critical concepts such as race are often omitted in general…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Adolescent Development, Racial Bias, Social Bias
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Laurson, Kelly R.; Baptista, Fátima; Mahar, Matthew T.; Welk, Greg J.; Janz, Kathleen F. – Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science, 2022
We developed age- and sex-specific smoothed percentiles for vertical and long jump, as well as vertical jump power, in healthy 10-18 year olds (n = 529, 47.1% female). Jump height and distance were measured and vertical jump power was assessed via mechanography. LMS regression was used to create smoothed age-specific reference curves, separated by…
Descriptors: Psychomotor Skills, Preadolescents, Adolescents, Age Differences
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Karacan-Ozdemir, Nurten; Ayaz, Ahmet – Journal of Career Development, 2022
The current study suggested and tested a model to investigate the associations between adolescent future expectations of work and education (AFE-WE; adaptive responses) and positive future expectations (PFE; adaptivity) through concern, control, curiosity, and confidence (adaptability resources) as well as the role of the gender. The data were…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Expectation, Academic Aspiration, Occupational Aspiration
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Rohit Batra; Silvia A. Bunge; Emilio Ferrer – Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2022
Studying development processes, as they unfold over time, involves collecting repeated measures from individuals and modeling the changes over time. One methodological challenge in this type of longitudinal data is separating retest effects, due to the repeated assessments, from developmental processes such as maturation or age. In this article,…
Descriptors: Children, Adolescents, Longitudinal Studies, Test Reliability
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