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Showing 1 to 20 of 94 for “"Early Adolescence"”.
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Friendship formation in early adolescence
The objectives of this study were to (a) examine temporal features of youths' peer relationships during the transition to high school and (b) examine prospectively the earliest phases of friendship formation. Students were tested six times as they moved from Grade 6 in small elementary schools into …
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Strain, coping, and adaptation in early adolescence
Role strain, coping, and adaptational outcomes were examined for a sample of 205 eighth grade adolescents. Differences by gender and family type on amount of role strain, use of coping strategies, and levels of emotional stress and well-being in family and peer roles were identified. Results …
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Positive Affect, Coping, and Student Engagement In Early Adolescence
<p>Fredrickson's (1998, 2001) Broaden and Build Theory hypothesizes that positive emotions broaden thinking, improve coping, and create continually 'building' upward spirals of improved social resources and increasing well-being. This study seeks to examine this hypothesis within a school context. …
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Influence of Peer Group Norms on Aggression in Early Adolescence
The present study builds on previous research that has established group influences on individual aggressive behavior. It is hypothesized that group norms regarding aggression influence individual aggression, and that this influence is mediated by social status. Participants were 647 Chilean 5th …
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The Nature and the Consequences of Achievement Goals During Early Adolescence
… uninvolvement, and end of semester GPA of 588 early adolescents were assessed both fall and spring before and after middle school transition. The results indicated that all three goals declined during early adolescence with pronounced drops within school years. Students' goal adoption differed …
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The impact of paternal incarceration on the transitional period of early adolescence
This study explores the coping strategies fostered by a pair of adolescent siblings during a period of time in their life when their father was incarcerated. This research examines how these young adolescents adapt to living in such an environment, the negotiation of this risk and the development …
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Getting out of trouble: understanding developmental pathways from early adolescence to adulthood
… describes the development, from childhood to early adulthood, of eight people who were failing in school and involved in criminal activity during early adolescence. At age twenty-five: three respondents were thriving; three were struggling to live independently, and two share characteristic …
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Parenting and internalizing symptoms in early adolescence: The moderating role of vagal tone
The present study investigated baseline respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) as moderator of the prospective association between parenting and internalizing symptoms among a group of typically developing adolescents across the transition to middle school. At Time 1 (5th grade; spring before middle …
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Family interaction in early adolescence: assessing contributions to early adolescents’ socio-emotional adjustment
… relationships are an important influence on early adolescents’ socio-emotional adjustment, although we know less about how family-level relationship quality influences development specifically. To help address this gap in the literature, I used data from a subsample of two-parent families …
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Exploring Parent-Adolescent Conflict: An Examination of Correlates and Longitudinal Predictors in Early Adolescence
… factors, parent factors, contextual factors, and adolescence-specific factors as concurrent correlates and longitudinal predictors of parent-adolescent conflict. Participants include 218 mother-child dyads, adolescents’ mean age (11years, 11months). Parent and adolescent data was collected during …
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PEER GROUP SOCIALIZATION OF AGGRESSION IN EARLY ADOLESCENCE: SOCIAL STATUS, GROUP CHARACTERISTICS, AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
… results from this study indicate that, in early adolescence, peers in a group differ in the strength of influences which varies across group and individual characteristics. These findings imply that future researchers should consider the variability in the strength of peer influences and in …
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Work It Out: Three Case Studies Examining Dance and Girls' Body Image in Early Adolescence
… the body image issues that frequently occur in adolescence? Which pedagogical strategies have the potential to foster a more positive corporeal self-conceptualization? And how can educators use dance in a range of settings to encourage positive body image? Overall, this research shows that in …
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Mentalization in early adolescence and its associations with attachment, abuse and emotional and behavioral difficulties /
… to emotional and behavioral difficulties in early adolescence are still understudied. The aim of the dissertation was to analyze the characteristics of mentalization in early adolescence and to assess its links with attachment in the middle childhood, abuse and emotional and behavioral …
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Youth at Risk for Gang Affiliation, and Measures of Social/Emotional Competency in Early Adolescence
News reports of an escalating youth gang problem are frequent in current Canadian media. However, empirical study of factors contributing to youth gang affiliation, particularly in regards to protective factors that may be targeted in intervention and prevention efforts is lacking, especially in …
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Peer victimization and substance use in early adolescence: longitudinal analyses of risk and protective factors
… 34% Caucasian) middle school sample of 1132 early adolescents. Longitudinal structural equation modeling was used the primary data analytic technique. A transactional association was found between peer victimization and substance use. Additionally, all the variables examined significantly …
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Adversity in early adolescence alters female rats' anxiety-related behaviours and serotonergic innervation profiles in adulthood
Stress during early development produces lasting effects on psychopathological outcomes. The impact of prior intermittent, physical stress (IPS) during early-adolescence (PD 22-33) on anxiety-related behaviour of female rats was analyzed in adulthood. After behavioural testing, serotonergic …
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Exploring a Dispositional Conceptualization of Leisure in Early Adolescence: An Examination of the Self-as-Entertainment Construct
… evidence for a leisure disposition in adolescence and preliminary support for the utility of the measures. However, the nonsignificant findings for 4 of the 6 subjective state variables examined and the days effect indicate the need for further refinement of the measures and the …
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Coping with social stress in early adolescence: The interactive contribution of observed emotional climate and youth physiology
… of coping strategies, especially during early adolescence when youth are experiencing increasing social challenges. Yet, less is known about whether characteristics of the relational context of parental socialization of coping also contribute to the development of coping. Additionally, …
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