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Showing 1 to 20 of 95 for “"adolescent development"”.
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FAMILY SCAPEGOATING AND ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT
… as well. The study utilized self-reports of 403 adolescents to assess the frequency and distribution of scapegoating in normal families and what adolescent difficulties are associated with family scapegoating. Most adolescent respondents reported experiencing family scapegoating. The pattern of …
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Educational Travel and Adolescent Development
… for novel learning experiences that enhance adolescent development by enabling students to make choices about their own survival in an unfamiliar setting. This biological adaptation is driven by stimulation of the midbrain which produces high levels of dopamine, the chemical associated with …
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Educational Travel and Adolescent Development
… for novel learning experiences that enhance adolescent development by enabling students to make choices about their own survival in an unfamiliar setting. This biological adaptation is driven by stimulation of the midbrain which produces high levels of dopamine, the chemical associated with …
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Adolescent development and parental alcohol use patterns
… family" system and a model of psychosocial development specific to children of alcoholics. Both theoretical frameworks proposed that family and individual growth and development were delayed or stagnated by the effects of parental alcoholism. This study explored possible effects of problem …
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Nonresident fathers parenting and child and adolescent development
… <p>NONRESIDENT FATHERS PARENTING AND CHILD AND ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT</p> <p>by</p> <p>HEMA OSHOONE MASON</p> <p>August 2011</p> <p>Advisor: Dr. Douglas Barnett</p> <p>Major: Psychology</p> <p>Degree: Doctor of Philosophy, Psychology (Cognitive, Developmental and Social Psychology)</p> <p>This …
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Students who change majors: a study of adolescent development at MIT.
Thesis: B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Humanities, 1968
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Sex differences in PFC-related behavior after amphetamine exposure and across adolescent development
… especially harmful consequences, however, as adolescent-onset substance use is more likely to lead to dependence. Brain regions within the mesocorticolimbic circuit are involved in the control of reward behavior and undergo dramatic and sex-specific remodeling during adolescence. In …
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The Influence of Technology on Adolescent Development: An Eco-Cultural Analysis of Cybersocial Activity
… and experience leisure time. For those American adolescents with access to technology, the use of the Internet to develop and maintain relationships is quickly becoming ubiquitous, especially through social network sites; the most popular network site, MySpace, has grown exponentially since its …
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Identitiy and Belonging: Urban Nature and adolescent development in the City of Cape Town
… education and awareness programmes to adolescents in Cape Town, particularly in relation to: their understanding of and sense of belonging to the natural order, and the process of identity development. The study drew on Erikson&amp;acirc;s (1968) theory of psycho-social development, …
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The Development of Reward Sensitivity- Exploring the Role of Culture and Parental Education on Adolescent Development
… of risk taking. One proposed reason for this developmental pattern is a rise during adolescence (relative to earlier and later periods) in the degree to which behaviors are driven by reward-seeking. However, there are individual differences in the extent to which adolescents respond to …
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Delay and probability discounting: a longitudinal study of neural, cognitive, and emotional processes contributing to adolescent development.
… and brain structure and function. The development of decision-making was examined in a group of adolescents (age 9-23) followed longitudinally over a two-year period. Delay and probability discounting tasks were used to assess decision-making. Change in discounting was examined in …
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The Adolescent Rebellion against Panoptical Society: A Foucauldian Analysis of Adolescent Development in Contemporary Young Adult Novels.
… from a didactic means of behavioral control over adolescents to a means of promoting the reader's psychological development as an independent individual. In contemporary works (1970s onward), the use of Foucault's theory of the Panoptical society has given way to the development of the role of the …
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The Use of Group Art Therapy to Facilitate the Development of Identity with Adolescents in a Residential Substance Abuse Treatment Center
… to the East Bay Community Foundation for the development of an ongoing art therapy group for male and female adolescents with a dual diagnosis in a long-term residential substance abuse treatment center. The intervention is a 10 week art therapy group with a focus on identity development. The …
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Adolescent Risk Behaviors: Considering the Influences and Interactions of Multiple Contexts
… of social contexts and social influences on adolescent development by examining contextual systems, such as peers, parents, school, and community. Participants included 14,548 middle school students comprised of 78.6% White, 5.4% Biracial, 4.8% Asian, 4.8% Black, and 3.6% Hispanic. …
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Longitudinal Associations among Adolescent Socioeconomic Status, Delay Discounting, and Substance Use
… about how socioeconomic status (SES) influences adolescent decision making and behavior across development to add to these risks. This prospective longitudinal study used latent growth curve modeling (GCM) to examine the contributions of SES on adolescent delay discounting and substance use in a …
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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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Psychometric integrity of a measure of dysfunctional separation-individuation in young adolescents
… consistently identified as a critical process in adolescent development. Dysfunction in the separation-individuation process has previously been linked to pathology among college students and adults. The purpose of this study was to validate the psychometric integrity of the Dysfunctional …
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"Pot of gold at the end of the rainbow" : experiences of unaccompanied refugee girls in Cape Town
… of stability and safety for functional adolescent development and what happens when stability and safety are absent.
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