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Deutsch, Nancy L. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2022
The prevailing cultural narrative about middle school is that those years are extremely difficult, and the best students can hope for is to endure them until finding relief in high school. Nancy Deutsch argues that these years are, in fact, a time of great potential if schools can abandon their stereotypes about young adolescents and create school…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Middle School Students, Adolescents, Stereotypes
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Jin Suk Ra – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2024
This study aimed to examine the moderating effect of student engagement between weight bias internalization and depressive symptoms in Korean adolescent girls with higher weight. Ninety-nine girls with higher weight ([greater than or equal to]85th body mass index percentile) in early adolescence (aged 12-14 years) participated in this…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Body Weight, Social Bias, Depression (Psychology)
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Serap Dogan; Candan Hasret Sahin; Yasemin Ergenekon – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2024
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic is thought to have a variety of effects on people with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The purpose of this study was to look into the perspectives and experiences of people with ASD and their mothers regarding the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Method: The current study employs a qualitative research…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Student Attitudes, Mother Attitudes
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Rueth, Jana-Elisa; Kerkhoff, Denny; Lohaus, Arnold – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2023
The importance of emotional awareness (EA) and emotion regulation (ER) for children's and adolescents' development has been suggested in numerous studies, but longitudinal trajectories of these aspects of emotional competence have rarely been examined. Therefore, the main aim of this study was to investigate developmental trends of EA and ER in…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Emotional Response, Psychological Patterns, Self Management
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Demkowicz, Ola; Bagnall, Charlotte; Hennessey, Alexandra; Pert, Kirsty; Bray, Lucy; Ashworth, Emma; Mason, Carla – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2023
Background: Children and young people experience various transitions throughout their education. Theory and evidence highlight that these can be complex, and poor experiences of transitions can be associated with worsened outcomes, necessitating a need to develop and implement wellbeing support. However, children and young people's views are…
Descriptors: Well Being, Transitional Programs, Children, Adolescents
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Linda P. Juang; Adriana J. Umaña-Taylor; Maja K. Schachner; Ann Frisén; C. Philip Hwang; Ughetta Moscardino; Frosso Motti-Stefanidi; Brit Oppedal; Vassilis Pavlopoulos; Amina K. Abdullahi; Rebecca Barahona; Sofia Berne; Chiara Ceccon; Nadya Gharaei; Ursula Moffitt; Anastasios Ntalachanis; Sharleen Pevec; David J. Sandberg; Angeliki Zacharia; Moin Syed – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2023
A global challenge for developmental psychology is to better understand how young people around the world make sense of their identities growing up in pluralistic societies. The study of ethnic-racial identity provides an important lens for this process. This paper describes how five European countries (Germany, Greece, Italy, Norway, and Sweden)…
Descriptors: Intervention, Racial Identification, Ethnicity, Foreign Countries
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Kristen S. Starks; Dauda Kamara; Kathryn H. Jacobsen – Journal of School Health, 2024
BACKGROUND: The 2020 World Health Organization Guidelines on Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior are the first to provide evidence-based recommendations for reducing both dimensions of languorous behavior. The relationship between sitting time and exercise remains understudied among diverse adolescent populations worldwide. METHODS: The 2017…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Activity Level, Adolescents
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Kristin Conradi Smith; Bong Gee Jang; Tori J. Ostot – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2025
An issue devoted to foundational skills and adolescents might center the cognitive skills and practices most needed to accelerate learning. While an understanding of these--whether multisyllabic decoding, fostering comprehension through discussion, or argumentative writing--is important, in this article, we advocate for the importance of attending…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Adolescents, Motivation, Literacy
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Melanie Labusch; Manuel Perea; Rosa Sahuquillo-Leal; Isabel Bofill-Moscardó; Ángel Carrasco-Tornero; Antonio Cañada-Pérez; Ana García-Blanco – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
A potential underlying mechanism associated with the difficulties in social interactions in Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD) concerns the abnormal development of moral reasoning. The present study examined utilitarian and deontological judgments in impersonal and personal moral dilemmas, comparing 66 individuals with ASD and 61 typically…
Descriptors: Children, Adolescents, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Decision Making
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Michelle R. Kaufman; Chichun Lin; Deb Levine; Maritza Salcido; Albert Casella; Jeannette Simon; David L. DuBois – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2024
This study explored how mentoring begins and the benefits provided for African American sexual and/or gender minority (SGM) youth. Participants were mentors and mentees living in three Mid-Atlantic cities. Mentees (ages 15-21, n = 14) identified as African American; cisgender male, transgender female, or non-binary assigned male; and had sexual…
Descriptors: Mentors, LGBTQ People, Minority Group Students, Adolescents
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Claire Hawkins – Pastoral Care in Education, 2024
Applying established definitions of bullying to the more recent phenomenon of cyberbullying often results in an ill-fitting definition which is contested by academics. There are particular difficulties when applying the well-documented facets of intentional harm, repetition and power imbalance to the context of online bullying. A contested…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Experience, Definitions, Bullying
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Elisabeth L. De Moor; Theo A. Klimstra; Lotte Van Doeselaar; Susan Branje – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2024
Identity research focuses on multiple processes capturing how adolescents form and maintain a sense of self. However, identity content (the "what" of identity) might impact associations between identity and the association with well-being. We examined this potential role of content (i.e., valence and life domain) in two studies, focusing…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Thinking Skills, Well Being, Correlation
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Stathis Grapsas; Judith van de Wetering; Jenna Spitzer; Astrid M. G. Poorthuis; Sander Thomaes – Applied Developmental Science, 2024
The sustainability motive-alignment hypothesis posits that adolescents will be motivated to act sustainably when they view sustainable behavior as aligned with their motives for autonomy and peer status. Based on this hypothesis, we developed the Sustainability Motive-Alignment Scale (SMAS), a brief self-report scale of individual differences in…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Adolescents, Motivation, Measures (Individuals)
Charlyn Harper Browne – Center for the Study of Social Policy, 2024
The Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP) developed the "Strengthening Families Approach and Protective Factors Framework" (SF) and the "Youth Thrive Protective and Promotive Factors Framework" (YT) in response to an urgent need in the fields of child maltreatment prevention and youth services to shift from a primary…
Descriptors: Children, Adolescents, Child Welfare, Child Development
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Melina Furman; Natali Savransky; Ariel Merpert; Mariana Sajón; Bárbara Funtowicz; Tobías Yatche – Learning Environments Research, 2024
This article reports youths´ interests and concerns during the COVID-19 pandemic by analyzing what Argentine students aged 12 to 18 years expressed within the 2020 edition of TED-Ed Clubs, an extracurricular school program aimed at developing and communicating an idea following a TED-talk format. Based on video recordings of a random sample of 100…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Student Attitudes
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