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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"middle school adolescents"”.
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Academic resilience: narratives of high-achieving Black female middle school adolescents
… 6, high-achieving Black females in an urban middle school. Using the interpretive lenses of Feminism, Critical Race Theory, Critical Race Feminism, Intersectionality and Identity Formation, roles and identities were explored with word choice and language analysis. Habits and factors …
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Sexual assault Prevention Programs: Examining the effects on Middle School Adolescents' Attitudes and Behaviors
… to the violence at younger ages. Some schools have begun implementation of sexual violence prevention programs to curb this type of crime in adolescents. The Metropolitan Organization to Counter Sexual Assault (MOCSA) is an organization that aids in the prevention of sexual violence …
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The Role of Self-Efficacy, Family Support, Family Affection, and Family Conflict on Adolescent Academic Performance.
… factors and academic performance among adolescents. The participants included 685 middle school adolescents from rural and semirural public schools. Family environment factors were gathered using the Family Environment Scale (Moos & Moos, 1981) and included family conflict, family …
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Perceptions of Middle School Counselors on Adolescent Anxiety Coping Skills Post-Pandemic in One Suburban School Division
… many challenges when returning to the physical school building and environment after the disruption to our educational systems throughout the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Educational leaders across the U.S. have expressed concerns over the substantially higher levels of anxiety and chronic …
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Pink and Dude Chefs: Effectiveness of an After-School Nutrition Knowledge and Culinary Skills Program for Middle School Students to Increase Fruit and Vegetable Consumption
<p>The rate of overweight and obesity among adolescents aged 12-19 years has more than tripled since 1980, and disproportionately impacts low-income and marginalized populations. Reduction in adolescent obesity rates may result in decreased health risks, decrease healthcare costs, and increased …
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Pink and Dude Chefs: Efficacy of an Online Train-the-Trainer Mechanism and Student Program Outcomes
… The rate of overweight and obesity among adolescents aged 12-19 years has quadrupled since 1980. Reducing obesity is a key public health priority, as obesity is associated with individual and population-level health and economic consequences. Afterschool-based obesity prevention programs …
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Self-concept in Adolescents: The Role of Ethnicity and Contextual Variables in the Manifestation of Depression
… comprising a proposed model of depression for middle school adolescents. The investigation of the validity of a newly proposed dimension of self-concept (i.e., ethnic evaluations) for African-American versus Caucasian adolescents was also a major thrust. An additional emphasis of the present …
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Developmental Trajectories of Physical and Relational Aggression and Their Relation to Delinquency and Substance Use in Adolescence
… Violence Prevention Project, conducted at 19 middle schools from four sites with a predominantly low-income, minority sample of students (N = 2,822). Growth curves showed significant linear increases and quadratic trends for physical and relational aggression. Boys and girls had similar shaped …
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Equal or Not? An Exploration of Eighth-Grade Students' Experience of Algebra
… instruction nationwide has shifted from high school to middle school. In Georgia, all eighth-grade students have been required to take a course that is equivalent to about 80 percent of a traditional Algebra 1 course. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore how a selected group of …