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Showing 1 to 20 of 63 for “"early adolescents"”.
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The Impact of Council on Early Adolescents
… effort to explore the impact of Council on early adolescent children ages 11-13 years old. Nine middle school students were interviewed. Core findings included: (a) Council provides a safe environment in which one is able to share emotional and personal stories that promote healthy …
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Acculturation, Social Acceptance, And Adjustment Of Early Adolescents
… focused primarily upon Caucasian children and adolescents. As a result, more investigation of the unique characteristics of youth from ethnically diverse backgrounds, particularly those from Hispanic American and African American backgrounds, is needed (Balls Organista, Organista, & Kurasaki, …
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Peer influences on sexual violence perpetration among early adolescents
… in predicting sexual violence perpetration in early adolescence. Additionally, greater adherence to traditional masculinity attitudes was significantly predictive of individual level sexual violence perpetration. Furthermore, peer group level endorsement of dismissive attitudes toward sexual …
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Social media engagement among early adolescents: Motivational and adjustment correlates
… of the extant research focuses on how much time adolescents spend on social media; researchers have only recently begun to differentiate specific social media behaviors and their varied role in adolescent development (e.g., Valkenberg & Peter, 2011). Based on recent research, I investigated four …
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Acculturation, peer influence, and academic achievement among Hispanic descent early adolescents
… and academic achievement among Hispanic early adolescents. The study utilized an existing data set. The data were based on a survey which was constructed by the principal investigators (Carlson, Lain, Schott, & Uppal, 1998). The sample consisted of 846 early adolescents of Hispanic origin …
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Parent Attachment and Early Adolescents' Life Satisfaction: The Mediating Effect of Hope
… relationship factors associated with adolescents' subjective well-being has identified a number of predictors of adolescents' life satisfaction (LS). Among these studies, research using attachment theory framework has provided evidence that parent attachment is one of the crucial …
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Peer and school externalizing behaviors among early adolescents: an ecological systems analysis
… of peer and school externalizing behaviors among early adolescents (ages 12-14). The current research addressed the following hypotheses for the direct effects: learning problems, poverty, and peer and school externalizing behaviors at Time 1 (socio-demographics); negative peer influence …
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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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The effects of an educative program in rational emotive techniques on early adolescents
… students was investigated. A sample of thirty adolescents, ages fourteen and fifteen was used, with fifteen subjects each in the experimental and control groups. The experimental group participated in a six week study group on Rational Emotive Education, with the researcher as the instructor. …
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Integrating Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Processes with Information-Processing Theory in Anxious Early Adolescents
… acceptance, and avoidance play during adolescents’ cognitive experiences in hypothetical situations. Self-report data of ACT variables, I-P variables, and anxiety were collected from 288 middle-school students of primarily Latinx backgrounds (87%). Findings indicated that across …
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Reading Interests of Early Adolescents in the Parochial Schools of the City of Omaha
… and growing mind. To direct the reading of the early adolescent is a vast problem. In order to direct this reading properly and with the best success, it is essential that the individual's interests and appreciation as well as literary background be known. This study, therefore, is concerned …
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Utilizing Social Norms Theory to Delay the Sexual Debut of Early Adolescents: An Intervention Strategy
… SOCIAL NORMS THEORY TO DELAY THE SEXUAL DEBUT OF EARLY ADOLESCENTS: AN INTERVENTION STRATEGY Anna M. Gerard, MSW, LCSW Dr. Jeffrey Applegate, Ph.D. Background and Significance: Numerous programs have been developed in the last twenty years aimed at reducing the prevalence and consequences of risky …
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Informal Status among Hungarian Early Adolescents Popularity, Coolness, and Acceptance from a Mixed Methods Perspective
A kutatásomban magyarországi korai serdülők (11-13 évesek) informális státuszát vizsgáltam kevert módszertannal. A vonatkozó nemzetközi szakirodalom jellemzően két státuszdimenziót különböztet meg: egy affektív dimenziót mely az egyén csoportbeli kedveltségére vonatkozik és egy reputációhoz és …
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Sex Differences in Math Performance Among Early Adolescents: The Role of Children's Approaches to School
Although much attention has been devoted to girls' vulnerabilities, relatively little is known about their strengths. Prior research has shown that girls consistently outperform boys in the classroom, even in stereotypically masculine subject areas such as math and science. The central aim of the …
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Parents’ peer restriction in the United States and China: A longitudinal study of early adolescents
This research examined parents’ exertion of control over children’s peer relationships in the United States and China. Three times over a year, 934 American and Chinese children (M age = 12.67 years) reported on their parents’ peer restriction (i.e., efforts to limit children’s connection or time …
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Resilience and African American Early Adolescents: The Protective Function of Religion and Structured After-School Activities
… against the development of depression for young adolescents exposed to high incidence of community violence and deviant peer affiliation. The results suggest that religious beliefs and practices protects against depression for adolescents exposed to community violence. The implications of this …
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Your Body Is Your Home: Using Intuitive Eating to Foster Positive Health Outcomes in Early Adolescents
… disordered eating among adults, studies in early adolescence are lacking, notably in terms of descriptive data, measurement, and potential efficacy. Broadly, initial cross-sectional evidence suggests that IE in adolescence is associated with better physical health, psychological health, and …
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The Role of Parents' Control in Early Adolescents' Psychological Functioning: A Longitudinal Investigation in the United States and China
… as to the role of parents' control in early adolescents' psychological functioning in the US and China."
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Cyber-victimization, social stress, and depressive symptoms among early adolescents: an examination of friendship qualities and victimization from friends
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-15 without embargo terms
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Constructing Stage-Environment Fit: Early Adolescents' Psychological Development and their Attitudes Towards School in English Middle and Secondary School Environments
… approach to examine the development of early adolescents’ psychology during pubertal and school transitions. It explored potential associations between attitudes to school, perceptions of school life and transfer, home and peer relations, and puberty over the course of a school year. It …
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