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Brittany Pinkerton; Stacie K. Pettit – Strategies: A Journal for Physical and Sport Educators, 2024
To foster positive youth development (PYD), sport organizations, programs, coaches, and program leaders should use holistic youth development in a pro-social manner and provide a nurturing climate. This article offers an idea for a tangible way to promote PYD in sport and physical activity settings via a patch system.
Descriptors: Athletics, Adolescent Development, Children, Adolescents
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Katherine L. Long; Atefeh Karimi; Antonella Mini; Dionne P. Stephens; Eliza L. Nelson – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2024
Background: Parents' conceptualizations of adulthood for their emerging adults with Down syndrome have the potential to impact the transition planning process as families prepare for life after graduation. Aims: This study aimed to explore parent perceptions of the meaning of adulthood for their emerging adults with Down syndrome. Methods: In this…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Young Adults, Down Syndrome, Adolescent Development
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Silvia López-Alvarado; Jessica Castillo-Nuñez; Ana Cevallos-Neira; Nancy Arpi-Becerra; Elena Jerves-Hermida – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2024
Teenage pregnancy is a phenomenon that causes concern due to its consequences. In this context, sex education has been considered as a good means of prevention. However, while teenage pregnancy prevails, sex education perspectives from the voices of teenage fathers and mothers remain under-explored. This qualitative study aimed at exploring sex…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Adults, Early Parenthood, Pregnancy
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Jaffe, Julia; Loebach, Janet – Youth & Society, 2024
This paper proposes a new conceptual approach to the development and utilization of youth-led environmental assessments to inform the planning of youth-enabling environments. Interdisciplinary research has established the influential effects of the physical environment on children and adolescents' well-being and development, yet there is a gap in…
Descriptors: Youth, Physical Environment, Evaluation, Well Being
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Allison R. Durbin – Visions of Research in Music Education, 2024
The purpose of this paper is to propose a conceptual model of contextual influences on musical engagement in a person's life. I developed this domain-specific conceptual model based on Bronfenbrenner's (2001) bioecological theory of human development. The model accounts for multiple, interacting contexts that may influence an adolescent's musical…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Environmental Influences, Participation, Music Activities
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Chang, Hawk – Children's Literature in Education, 2023
The mysterious and unspoken secrets of life can be a source of fascination for young people. The bildungsroman quest for identity is often coupled with a protagonist's attempts to decode a range of secrets. Jamaica Kincaid's work of fiction, "Annie John" (1985), illustrates this journey. In this novel, the female protagonist's maturity…
Descriptors: Females, Self Concept, Novels, Fiction
Tiona Imari Sykes – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The SUGAR Program Manual was designed based on an extensive literature review on bullying, adolescent development, resilience and protective factors, and anti-bullying programs. Literature on anti-bullying programs showed a deficit for older adolescents, particularly high school students. A whole-school approach is proposed by incorporating…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Bullying, Adolescents, Adolescent Development
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M. Nicole Buckley; Maria Abdul-Masih; Qingqing Yang; Arya Ansari; Kelly M. Purtell – High School Journal, 2023
This study examined the extent to which residential mobility in the first 15 years of life was cumulatively associated with high school truancy at age 15 and whether there were specific developmental periods during which residential mobility was more consequential. To address these aims, we used data drawn from 4,848 children and families who…
Descriptors: Student Mobility, Adolescents, Truancy, Child Development
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Hale Savci; Arzu Gülbahçe – International Journal of Psychology and Educational Studies, 2024
The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between childhood traumas experienced by adolescents and their future expectations. The sample comprised 408 high school students, with 212 girls and 196 boys. The researchers employed the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire Short Form (CTQ-SF) to assess participants' childhood trauma, the Future…
Descriptors: Trauma, Expectation, Adolescents, High School Students
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Robert P. Lubeznik-Warner; Michael Froehly; Taylor Wycoff; Victoria Povilaitis; Luke Cloward; Shannielle Taylor; Seunghee Moon – Journal of Experiential Education, 2024
Background: Summer camp is an experiential learning setting that supports youth development. Due to high fees, youth from low-income backgrounds often have fewer opportunities to attend. Subsequently, there is little literature about these youth's camp experiences. Purpose: This research examined growth and the characteristics supporting growth in…
Descriptors: Camps, Low Income Groups, Summer Programs, Experiential Learning
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Santiago Morales; Maureen E. Bowers; Lauren Shuffrey; Katherine Ziegler; Sonya Troller-Renfree; Alexis Hernandez; Stephanie C. Leach; Monica McGrath; Cindy Ola; Leslie D. Leve; Sara S. Nozadi; Margaret M. Swingler; Jin-Shei Lai; Julie B. Schweitzer; William Fifer; Carlos A. Camargo Jr.; Gurjit K. Khurana Hershey; Allison L. B. Shapiro; Daniel P. Keating; Tina V. Hartert; Sean Deoni; Assiamira Ferrara; Amy J. Elliott – Developmental Psychology, 2024
A large body of research has established a relation between maternal education and children's neurocognitive functions, such as executive function and language. However, most studies have focused on early childhood and relatively few studies have examined associations with changes in maternal education over time. Consequently, it remains unclear…
Descriptors: Mothers, Educational Attainment, Child Development, Thinking Skills
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Benjamin J. Parry; Maira Patino; Barry A. Garst; Edmond P. Bowers; William H. Quinn; Leslie E. Heffington – Applied Developmental Science, 2024
For teens growing up in military-connected families, challenges relating to relocation, parental deployment, and reintegration add layers of stress to an already complex time of life. Out-of-school time programs provide military-connected teens opportunities to utilize existing strengths, develop new skills, and build support networks, as…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Leadership Training, Youth Programs, Armed Forces
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Bettens, Talley; Warren, Amye R. – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2023
Police officers are often trained to use the Behavior Analysis Interview (BAI) to detect deceit, but it is based on faulty indicators of lying that may be especially problematic for juveniles due to developmental immaturities. Juveniles, young adults, and adults were assigned to guilt or innocence conditions, read a criminal scenario, and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Young Adults, Adults, Beliefs
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Wang, Gloria; Scotto-Lavino, Elisabeth; Baily, Supriya – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2023
During adolescence, activism provides an outlet for ideas, visions, and concerns about societal issues as teens stake their claim in society. Girls often engage in activism as they begin to form their independent identities and explore their communities. However, the extent of parental influence on activist engagement is unclear, as gendered…
Descriptors: Females, Activism, Parent Influence, Adolescents
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Qu, Yang – Child Development Perspectives, 2023
Adolescence is often viewed in Western cultures as a time of rebellion and irresponsibility. In this article, I synthesize recent research on stereotypes of adolescence that uses an interdisciplinary approach, integrating developmental psychology, cultural psychology, and neuroscience. I first discuss empirical evidence on cultural differences in…
Descriptors: Stereotypes, Adolescents, Cultural Differences, Interdisciplinary Approach
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