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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Career Development from Adolescence through Emerging Adulthood: Insights from Information Technology Occupations
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Messersmith, Emily E.; Garrett, Jessica L.; Davis-Kean, Pamela E.; Malanchuk, Oksana; Eccles, Jacquelynne S. – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2008
Career development theories suggest that social-contextual experiences are influential in individuals' career interests, aspirations, and skill development and may be a source of gender and ethnic differences in certain career fields. In this mixed methods study, we examine the supportive and obstructive career-related experiences of 13 men and 13…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Skill Development, Career Development, Adolescents
Relations Between Social Self-Perceptions, Time Use, and Prosocial or Problem Behaviors During Adolescence
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Jacobs, Janis E.; Vernon, Margaret K.; Eccles, Jacquelynne S. – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2004
This study investigated the relations between social self-perceptions, time use, and later involvement in prosocial or problem behaviors during early, middle, and later adolescence. The authors used an idiographic approach to identify four different patterns of social self-perceptions (confident, anxious, unconcerned, desperate) and then examined…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Group Membership, Interpersonal Competence, Time Management
A Qualitative Exploration of Adolescents' Commitment to Athletics and the Arts.
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Fredricks, Jennifer A.; Alfred-Liro, Corinne J.; Hruda, Ludmila Z.; Eccles, Jacquelynne S.; Patrick, Helen; Ruan, Allison M. – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2002
Examined factors that influence adolescents' commitments to extracurricular activities over time. Found that psychological factors of perceived competence and peer relationships, as well as contextual factors of perceived challenge, cost, benefits, and emerging identity, were decisive in adolescents' choice to remain involved in activities or…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Aspiration, Athletics, Extracurricular Activities
Whatever Happened to the Jock, the Brain, and the Princess? Young Adult Pathways Linked to Adolescent Activity Involvement and Social Identity.
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Barber, Bonnie L.; Eccles, Jacquelynne S.; Stone, Margaret R. – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2001
Examined young adult participation in high school activities and identity group as predictors of later substance use, psychological adjustment, and educational and occupational outcomes. Found both participation and identity may consolidate specific skills, attitudes, values, and social networks that have a far-ranging impact on the transition to…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Developmental Stages, Employment Patterns
Academic Functioning and Mental Health in Adolescence: Patterns, Progressions, and Routes from Childhood.
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Roeser, Robert W.; Eccles, Jacquelynne S.; Freedman-Doan, Carol – Journal of Adolescent Research, 1999
Examined patterns of academic functioning and mental health in middle school students and the relation of such patterns to their prior and subsequent functioning. Found variegated patterns of academic and emotional functioning at eighth grade and stability in these patterns across the high school transition. Found some long-term stability among…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Need, Adolescent Development, Adolescents
Student Council, Volunteering, Basketball, or Marching Band: What Kind of Extracurricular Involvement Matters?
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Eccles, Jacquelynne S.; Barber, Bonnie L. – Journal of Adolescent Research, 1999
Examined benefits/risks of participation in five types of extracurricular activities (prosocial, team sports, school involvement, performing arts, academic clubs). Data for 1,259 adolescents were drawn from the Michigan Study of Adolescent Life Transitions. Found that prosocial involvement was linked to positive educational trajectories and low…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, At Risk Persons