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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Adolescent adjustment"”.
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Reel Guidance: Midcentury Classroom Films and Adolescent Adjustment
… of a psychological understanding of personality adjustment. These films reflected the influence of ideas from both the progressive education movement inspired by John Dewey and the theories of mental hygiene from prewar psychologists. By viewing these films, students encountered advice about …
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Physiology of parenting and adolescent adjustment in peer context
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-12-01
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Growth Trajectories of Neurocognitive Self-Regulation and Adolescent Adjustment
… more vulnerable to the development of adjustment problems such as internalizing and externalizing symptomatology. Extant research demonstrates how self-regulation can predict adjustment outcomes in adolescence; however, it has yet to be examined how longitudinal growth in …
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Forgiveness Education as a Factor in Adolescent Adjustment to Parental Divorce
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An Exploration of the Relationship between Adolescent Adjustment to Diabetes Mellitus and Parent-Child Relationship Problems
The focus of this study is on adolescents who have diabetes mellitus and their adjustment to that disease. This study explores the relationship between adolescent adjustment to diabetes mellitus and the parent-child relationship. Erik Erikson's Theory of Cognitive Development served as the …
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A prospective investigation of the effects of socioeconomic disadvantage, life stress, and social support on early adolescent adjustment
… the alarming rate at which children and adolescents are experiencing serious problems while growing up and later, ""rotten"" outcomes as adults. Frequent problems relating to emotional and behavioral adaptation, as well as high rates of academic failure have been documented in this work. …
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Identifying Psychosocial Variables Related to Child and Adolescent Adjustment Following a Residential Fire: The Role of Appraisal, Coping, and Family Environment
… emotional impact of trauma on children, adolescents and their caregivers has been amply documented within the general disaster literature. However, research addressing the specific psychological impact of residential fire on child and family functioning is still considered to be in its …
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A Mediational Model Predicting Adjustment in Affluent Adolescents: The Role of Parental Perfectionism, Perceived Parental Pressure, and Organized Activity Involvement
… and life satisfaction in a sample of affluent adolescents. Findings indicated that parental perfectionism, and specifically other-oriented and socially prescribed perfectionism, is an important contextual factor negatively influencing affluent adolescent adjustment. Additionally, perceived …
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The influence of single-mother migration on social and emotional adjustment of Jamaican adolescents
… single-mother migration and social and emotional adjustment in Jamaican adolescents, and to ascertain what factors influenced adolescent adjustment. The participants were 187 Jamaican adolescents ages 13 to 17 years, from five high schools and two junior high schools from a rural parish. There …
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The Hidden Costs of Success: A Mixed Methods Approach to Examining Achievement Pressures in Affluent Youth
… youth from affluent backgrounds report elevated adjustment problems (Csikszentmihalyi & Schneider 2001; Luthar & Lantendresse 2005a), yet contributing factors have rarely been investigated. The present study explored various parenting variables and their influence on adolescents from affluent …
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Intergenerational aspects of psychological control and irrational beliefs between parents and adolescents
… to whether parents are a relevant contributor to adolescent psychological distress. First, the relationship and direction of influence between parental psychological control and adolescent adjustment was considered in a review of literature. Second, a research study investigated whether parents …
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The Long-Term Effects of Direct Verbal Victimization and Family Support on Anxious and Aggressive Behaviors in Urban Adolescents: Do Mean Words Have a Lasting Impact?
… interpersonal relationships are problematic for adolescents. Peer victimization, a stressful interpersonal event, involves acts of both physical and verbal harassment, and can contribute to psychosocial maladjustment among youth. Direct verbal victimization is a specific form of peer …
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Motivation and adjustment and story sequence analysis
This study examined the relationship between adjustment and motivation in upper elementary aged students. 18 students from grades six and seven wrote stories to a ten picture Children's Apperception Test-Human figures. From these stories the childrens' motivational levels were derived. The stories …
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Factors influencing the psychological adjustment of young patients with Type 1 diabetes in the first year after diagnosis
… identified in association with the psychological adjustment of children and adolescents with Type 1 diabetes such as metabolic control (McDonnell et al., 2007), maternal functioning (Schmidt, 2007) and protective parenting (Mullins et al., 2004). Parenting factors may have an impact on young …
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Social media engagement among early adolescents: Motivational and adjustment correlates
… media engagement has become a critical part of adolescent social interactions, making it important to examine individual differences in motivations for social media engagement as well as associated adjustment outcomes. Additionally, much of the extant research focuses on how much time …
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Parent and sibling relationship influences on late adolescent social anxiety and other adjustment outcomes
… among several family relationships and adolescent social anxiety utilizing a family systems perspective. The second objective was to investigate specific family relationships and their association with adolescent adjustment outcomes such as depression, general anxiety, global self-worth, …
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Family Socioeconomic Hardship and Adolescent Academic and Substance Use Outcomes: The Mediating Roles of Parental Monitoring and Self-Regulation
… socioeconomic status can directly be related to adolescent adjustment outcomes including self-regulation, academic performance, and substance use as well as be indirectly related to these outcomes through the mediator of parental monitoring. Data obtained from 220 adolescent (male = 55%, female = …
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Reflecting the Past and Shaping the Future: A Study of Adolescent Schemas and Exposure to Community Violence
… which exposure to community violence impacts adolescent adjustment are unclear. A change in adolescent schemas has been proposed as a mechanism through which the impact occurs. The goals of this study were to develop a measure of relevant adolescent schemas and examine their relation to …
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Multiple Maltreatment, Attribution Of Blame, And Adjustment Among Adolescents
… of five maltreatment types to variance in adolescent adjustment (i.e., physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, neglect and exposure to family violence). In accordance with contemporary social learning theory (social cognitive theory), it was hypothesized that aggressive forms of …
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Future Orientation as a Mediating Factor in the Relation Between Family Instability and Adolescent Problem Behavior: A Moderated Mediation Model
Adolescent delinquency represents a significant threat to the health and future of developing persons. Due to the important implications of adolescent problem behaviors, it is essential that we understand the complex mechanisms in the life and mind of a developing person that may lead to these …
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