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Hong, Jun Sung; Lee, Jungup; Caravita, Simona C; Kim, Sei Eun; Peguero, Anthony A – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2022
The current study examines the association between risk behaviors and victimization and race-based victimization amongst U.S.-born and foreign-born Asian, Black, and Latinx adolescents. Data were derived from the U.S. subset of the 2009-2010 Health Behavior in School-aged Children study. Samples include 662 Asian, 2413 Black, and 3188 Latinx…
Descriptors: Victims, Asian American Students, African American Students, Hispanic American Students
Poulin, Francois; Denault, Anne-Sophie – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2013
The goal of this study was to provide an in-depth examination of friendships within organized activities. The prevalence of friendships with co-participants, their quality and characteristics, and their associations with adjustment were investigated. A sample of 281 (60% girls) 8th grade adolescents reported their friendships, activities, and…
Descriptors: Incidence, Grade 8, Behavior Problems, Friendship
Vest, Andrea E.; Simpkins, Sandra D. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2013
Little is known about how adolescents' peer relations might alter whether sport participation is associated with alcohol use. Consistent with social learning theory, we found that sport participation was protective against alcohol use if these peers had low alcohol use, but athletes were likely to use alcohol if their sport friends and teammates…
Descriptors: Drinking, Team Sports, Risk, Health Behavior
Bohnert, Amy M.; Aikins, Julie Wargo; Arola, Nicole T. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2013
Although organized activities (OAs) have been established as important contexts of development, limited work has examined the role of OAs across the high school transition in buffering adolescents' social adjustment by providing opportunities for visibility and peer affiliation. The transition to high school is characterized by numerous changes…
Descriptors: Social Adjustment, High School Students, Peer Relationship, Depression (Psychology)
Li, Jin; Yue, Xiaodong – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2004
We present our recent research on children's learning goals and personal agency in the domain of learning in order to show the complexity of selves in Chinese culture. Our research poses challenges to the widely claimed collectivist self-concept in Chinese children and calls for reexamination of selves in specific domains across cultures.…
Descriptors: Asian Culture, Self Concept, Foreign Countries, Children
Winston, Cynthia E.; Rice, David Wall; Bradshaw, Brandi J.; Lloyd, Derek; Harris, Lasana T.; Burford, Tanisha I.; Clodimir, Gerard; Kizzie, Karmen; Carothers, Kristin Joy; McClair, Vetisha; Burrell, Jennifer – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2004
Narrative theories of personality help elucidate the complexity of success. (Contains 1 figure.)
Descriptors: Personality, Adolescents, Science Achievement, African American Students