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Wheeler, Heather A.; Wintre, Maxine Gallander; Polivy, Janet – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2003
Examined the role of female undergraduates' perceived reciprocity in parental relationships, their sense of incompetence, and their identity style and commitment in predicting disordered eating symptoms. Found that disordered eating was related to a sense of incompetence, avoidant identity style, and lack of identity commitments. A lack of a…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, College Students, Eating Disorders, Late Adolescents

Rubin, Kenneth H.; And Others – Child Development, 1997
Examined toddlers' behavioral inhibition and wariness with peers in novel situations involving unfamiliar settings, adults, and peers. Found little consistency of inhibited behavior across the three situations. Consistently inhibited toddlers had fearful temperaments, showed distress after maternal separation, and had mothers who were warm and…
Descriptors: Adult Child Relationship, Inhibition, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Parent Child Relationship

Middleton, Eric B.; Kelly, Kevin R. – Counseling and Values, 1996
Evidence suggests that community service programs can instill values and nurture development of positive personality and behavioral characteristics. This study sought to determine the effects of participation in community service activities on the personality development of high school students. Quantitative analysis yielded limited evidence of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Citizen Participation, Community Services, High School Students
Miller, John A. – Camping Magazine, 1995
Parents responding to a survey on children's self-esteem viewed the environment as the most important factor in personality development, realized the significant role parents have in the development of children's self-esteem, and felt that separation or divorce negatively affects children's self-esteem. Only 29 percent of respondents thought camp…
Descriptors: Camping, Child Development, Family Environment, Institutional Advancement

Morrison, Johnetta Wade; And Others – Journal of Black Psychology, 1994
Explored associations between the present emotional and social development of low- and middle-income African American male and female college students and the substitute care arrangements they experienced as infants. Questionnaire results from 282 college students show that the experience of substitute care arrangements during infancy did not…
Descriptors: Blacks, Child Rearing, College Students, Emotional Development

van den Boom, Dymphna C.; Hoeksma, Jan B. – Developmental Psychology, 1994
To further understanding of temperament-interaction relationships, patterns of interactive behavior were observed in 30 lower-class mother-infant dyads (15 irritable and 15 nonirritable infants) at monthly intervals over a 6-month period. Findings revealed that maternal behavior was systematically more positive with nonirritable infants that with…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Foreign Countries, Infants, Lower Class Parents

Cornell, Dewey G.; And Others – Gifted Child Quarterly, 1991
Thirty-three female early college entrants were administered a psychological inventory at the beginning and end of the first college year. Accelerants evidenced a consistent pattern of healthy personality growth over the year, which was not observed in a control group of capable nonaccelerants still attending high schools. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Acceleration (Education), College Admission, College Freshmen
Hague, William J. – Gifted Education International, 1998
Describes higher levels of morality by contrasting Kohlber's Cognitive Developmentalism and Dabrowski's Positive Disintegration. It argues that far from being a gift, high-level morality is a function of the whole person. It is something chosen and striven for, and the result of compassion and some kind of disintegration. (Author/CR)
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Cognitive Development, Definitions, Empathy

Haines, Annette – NAMTA Journal, 2001
Discusses the goal of Montessori education to develop environments for children that support their evolution as human beings. Proposes social, moral, cognitive, and emotional developmental outcomes for preschoolers, elementary children, and adolescents. (JPB)
Descriptors: Child Development, Educational Objectives, Emotional Development, Montessori Method
Deal, James E.; Halverson, Charles F., Jr.; Havill, Valerie; Martin, Roy P. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2005
While there is a general consensus that temperament forms the enduring, biologically based foundation of personality and that this biological basis should imply some continuity within the individual across time, there is a limited literature exploring linkages between these areas. The purpose of this article was to provide an initial assessment of…
Descriptors: Late Adolescents, Personality Assessment, Young Adults, Children
Carlson, Jon; Kurato, Yoshiya; Ruiz, Elizabeth; Ng, Kok-Mun; Yang, Julia – Family Journal Counseling and Therapy for Couples and Families, 2004
The use of knife and fork common in Western cultures has influenced Japanese people not only in terms of eating habits but also Japanese personality characteristics. This influence fosters the notion of segmentation - that all areas of life, including people, can be sectioned into parts and so analyzed. Mind and body are considered two discrete…
Descriptors: Personality Development, Foreign Countries, Values, Cultural Differences
Schuler, Nobel – Reclaiming Children and Youth: The Journal of Strength-based Interventions, 2006
How can spiritual development be fostered in a manner that respects students from backgrounds of various faith traditions? The author describes a program that nurtures holistic growth in a school serving troubled students. Youth participate in a "ministry arts" program combining creative visual arts, music, adventure education, service projects,…
Descriptors: Visual Arts, Spiritual Development, Adventure Education, Music
Gottfried, Allen W.; Gottfried, Adele Eskeles; Guerin, Diana Wright – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2006
The Fullerton Longitudinal Study is a contemporary prospective investigation that spans approximately a quarter of a century. Commencing at age 1, children and their families were systematically followed every 6 months from infancy through preschool and annually at ages 5 through 17. They were again assessed at age 24. The course of development…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Gifted, Learning Motivation, Young Children
Mayberry, Maralee – Journal of Gay & Lesbian Issues in Education, 2006
This paper draws from a larger analysis of literature on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered (LGBT) youth to illustrate how the dominant rhetorical frameworks construct an individual-LGBT student-in identity crises and "at risk." Taylor and Whittier's (1992) framework for understanding "identity construction" in social…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Activism, Homosexuality, Literature Reviews
Macgillivray, Ian K. – Journal of Gay & Lesbian Issues in Education, 2006
In 2004, a group of high school students at a private American school in Mexico City started the first gay-straight alliance in Mexico. A small group of conservative parents and a Mormon principal organized in opposition. This paper details the students' struggle to keep their club and offers lessons learned about student activism, school change,…
Descriptors: Activism, Foreign Countries, Homosexuality, High School Students