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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"developmental task"”.
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Autonomy in Asian-American Adolescents: Its Development, Relation to Parent-Child Closeness, and Associations With Adjustment
… has long been considered an important developmental task for adolescents. The developmental task of gaining autonomy often runs in parallel with changes in adolescents' relationships with their parents. For example, for some adolescents, relationships with parents grow closer, while for …
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Advances in Student Self-Authorship: A Program Evaluation of the Community Standards Model
Universities are increasingly applying student developmental theories in a variety of contexts in order to better understand students and to accomplish institutional educational objectives. Robert Kegan's constructive-developmental theory has been utilized in the creation of the Community Standards …
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Hmong American College Women's Experiences of Parent-Child Relationships
… a balance.</italic> <underline> The emerging developmental task for these college-age Hmong American women is to successfully negotiate roles and identities while balancing both cultures. </underline> Implications of the study are also discussed.
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The Role Of Individual Character Strengths In Adolescent Academic Achievement And Risky School Behavior
<p>Adolescent achievement is a major developmental task in adolescence and reducing Risky School Behaviors is an important part of the process. Patterns of adolescent achievement and general development are the result of the cumulative process that includes a long history of experience and …
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Extending our Understanding of Social Belonging: College Students' Use of Technology, Psychosocial Well-Being, and Sense of Community in University Life
… students confront a substantial number of developmental challenges that are extraordinarily diverse and complex (Evans, Forney, & Guido-DiBrito, 1998). Erikson's (1968) theory of psychosocial development posited that the major developmental task of early adulthood is to establish close …
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High school athletic participation : its relationship to student development
… participation with regard to the achievement of developmental tasks as described by A. W. Chickering and measured through the administration of the Student Developmental Task Inventory, Revised, Second Edition. The investigation was designed to determine whether there was a statistically …
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A descriptive and comparative analysis of peer advisor psychosocial development
… study was to examine advancement toward three tasks of psychosocial development for a national group of academic peer advisors. Previous research and program evaluations have shown the positive impact serving as a peer advisor has on undergraduate students, in addition to the institutional and …
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Separation anxiety and adjustment to college: an attachment-theoretical perspective
… resolution of the distress associated with the developmental task of emancipating from home. All but one member of the preoccupied group had clinical levels of separation anxiety at the beginning of the year, and although they reported some decline in symptomatology over time l decrease in the …
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The Relationship of Parental Attachment, Peer Attachment, and Self-Concept to the Adjustment of First-Year College Students
… for an extended period, making it an important developmental task (Kenny, 1987) that requires a variety of adaptational resources. Bowlby's (1969/1982, 1973, 1980) attachment theory has been refined by Kenny and Rice (1995) to explain how internal working models of late adolescents are the bases …
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Intellectual and Interpersonal Competence Between Siblings: The College Years
… interested in the development of their students. Developmental theorists, such as Chickering (1969), provide a lens through which to view developmental task, and issues facing those tasks. One influence on development is friendship and student communities including siblings. This study expanded …
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Developing purpose as a psychosocial task related to college students' perceived tendency to seek help from counseling centers
… level of "developing purpose" as a psychosocial task and their tendency to seek help from a professional counselor at a university counseling center for a variety of personal and vocational concerns. Chickering's (1969) theory of college student development provided the theoretical basis for this …
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The Self-perceptions of Adolescents with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
… has the building of self-identity as its chief developmental task. Adults with positive self-perceptions tend to be more productive members of society. Most of the studies directed at understanding the self-perceptions of those with ADHD have been done with children and those studies have …
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Living with hearing loss: exploring the lived experience of identity construction among adolescents and young adults
… Identity construction is the predominant developmental task in adolescence and young adulthood. Disabling hearing loss (HL) exacerbates the psychosocial challenges faced by adolescents and young adults (AYA) in their identity construction. The primary goal of this research study was to …
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A Profile of Psychosocial, Learning Style, Family, and Academic Self-Efficacy Characteristics of the Transition Program Students at North Carolina State University
… Self-Efficacy Scale (CASES), and the Student Developmental Task and Lifestyle Assessment (SDTLA); and the parents completed the parents completed the Family Characteristics Survey (FCS). Seventy students responded to the ILS and the CASES and 31 responded to the SDTLA. Of the 70 parent and …
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Hubungan antara kontrol diri dengan perilaku delinquency pada remaja di SMP BHAKTI Turen Malang
… and the adult life. In addition, teens have a developmental task that must be completed, not all teens are able to pass through all these hard times, There are some teenagers who then fall on negative behaviors. So many teens are finally doing something naughty, or in terms of psychology known …
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Matching teaching strategy to available M-Space: a Neo- Piagetian approach to word problems
… and subtraction problem-solving competencies are developmental in nature and that these competencies build upon counting abilities. They postulate that, in beginning addition and subtraction, a type of problem-solving strategy termed counting-all develops prior to another kind of strategy termed …
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Stadsbarndom : Om barns vardag i en modern förort
Children's conditions in urban environments are an important theme for understanding modern childhood, yet children have rarely been asked about their views of urban childhood conditions. The aim of the dissertation is: To describe the experts' attempts to create good conditions for growing up in …