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Geagea, Antoinette; MacCallum, Judith; Vernon, Lynette; Barber, Bonnie L. – Australian Journal of Educational & Developmental Psychology, 2017
Positive school experiences increase school satisfaction and educational aspirations and are important developmental opportunities for adolescents. Associations between time-varying school-based arts participation, students' school satisfaction and university expectation were investigated using data collected from 1,215 students in 29 Western…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Participation, High School Students, Student Surveys
Allen, Kelly A.; Bowles, Terence – Australian Journal of Educational & Developmental Psychology, 2012
Belonging has been shown to have a significant impact on a range of factors associated with wellbeing. These areas include life satisfaction, general wellbeing, clinical depression, cognitive performance, academic outcomes, and physical health. Belonging is an important aspect of psychological functioning. Schools offer unique opportunities for…
Descriptors: Well Being, Physical Health, Depression (Psychology), Life Satisfaction
Skues, Jason L.; Cunningham, Everarda G. – Australian Journal of Educational & Developmental Psychology, 2013
This study examined the validity of using teacher-administered educational and intelligence tests to screen students for learning disabilities (LDs). Twenty-seven Technical and Further Education (TAFE) students from regional Victoria who were enrolled in a program that was designed to reconnect school dropouts with education via TAFE participated…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Disabilities, Disability Identification, Screening Tests
McConnell, Megan; Moss, Ellen – Australian Journal of Educational & Developmental Psychology, 2011
The purpose of this paper is to provide a comprehensive review of the empirical findings on the stability of attachment from infancy through adulthood. More specifically, the paper discusses the longitudinal research concerning the continuity of attachment from infancy to adulthood as well as those studies that have assessed stability within a…
Descriptors: Infants, Adolescents, Adults, Longitudinal Studies
Deb, Sibnath; Chatterjee, Pooja; Walsh, Kerryann – Australian Journal of Educational & Developmental Psychology, 2010
The broad objective of the study was to understand better anxiety among adolescents in Kolkata city, India. Specifically, the study compared anxiety across gender, school type, socio-economic background and mothers' employment status. The study also examined adolescents' perceptions of quality time with their parents. A group of 460 adolescents…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Employment Level, Mothers, Psychological Testing
Mansfield, Caroline F. – Australian Journal of Educational & Developmental Psychology, 2010
Student motivation during adolescence has become an increasingly important issue for educators and researchers. Using a goal theory perspective, researchers have investigated a range of goals (including achievement goals, social goals and future goals) that influence students' desire to achieve at school. The present study examines the range of…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, Student Motivation, Adolescents, Researchers
Blomfield, Corey; Barber, Bonnie – Australian Journal of Educational & Developmental Psychology, 2010
Adolescent participation in extracurricular activities is associated with numerous positive outcomes, yet the mechanisms underlying this relationship are largely unknown. This study had two goals: to investigate the association between participation in extracurricular activities and indicators of positive and negative development for Australian…
Descriptors: Adolescents, High School Students, Extracurricular Activities, Participation
Dedousis-Wallace, Anna; Shute, Rosalyn H. – Australian Journal of Educational & Developmental Psychology, 2009
We examined teacher characteristics predicting likelihood of intervening in indirect bullying (N=55) and piloted a 45-minute educational presentation about its mental health impact. Teachers' global empathy and perceived seriousness of indirect bullying vignettes were predictors of their likelihood of intervening, but knowledge of mental health…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Teacher Characteristics, Bullying, Self Efficacy
Fleming, Manuela – Australian Journal of Educational & Developmental Psychology, 2005
A population of 12-19 year-old adolescents (n = 994) was selected from a pool of 7264 students in order to study adolescent's perception of autonomy. Eleven behavioural autonomy items were elected by the adolescents and used to evaluate the frequency of desire, achievement and disobeying parents in early (12-13 year-old) and late (18-19 year-old)…
Descriptors: Late Adolescents, Adolescents, Personal Autonomy, Puberty
Watt, Helen M. G. – Australian Journal of Educational & Developmental Psychology, 2005
Adolescents from grade 9 in Sydney Australia (N = 60) were interviewed regarding why they would or would not consider pursuing maths-related careers. Open-ended interview data explored the comprehensiveness of explanations within the Expectancy-Value framework. The Expectancy-Value model is the major motivational framework for explaining students'…
Descriptors: Careers, Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Grade 9