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Hernandez-Torrano, Daniel; Prieto, Maria Dolores; Ferrandiz, Carmen; Bermejo, Rosario; Sainz, Marta – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2013
What are the characteristics leading teachers to nominate gifted students in Spain? To answer this question, several demographic (i.e., gender, grade) and psychological (i.e., multiple intelligences, emotional intelligence, intellectual aptitude, and divergent thinking) characteristics of 563 secondary students nominated as gifted by their…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Stress Management, Emotional Intelligence, Foreign Countries
Swapna Balkundi; Stephanie S. Fredrick – Contemporary School Psychology, 2024
The current study investigated the associations among student perceptions of COVID-19 stress, internalizing problems, and school social support (teacher and classmate support) and how these relations differed across elementary/middle and high school students. Based on data from 526 4th- through 12th-grade students from a school district in the…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, COVID-19, Pandemics, Anxiety
Barney, David C.; Pleban, Francis T.; Lewis, Terrance – Physical Educator, 2019
The purpose of this study was to explore grade-level differences (7th, 8th, and 9th) among junior high school students' perceptions of the effects of participation in physical education (PE) class on individual environmental stress. The role of physical activity as a stress reduction tool has been well documented. However, physical activity as a…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Junior High School Students, Grade 7, Grade 8
Olson, Cheryl K.; Kutner, Lawrence A.; Warner, Dorothy E. – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2008
Numerous policies have been proposed at the local, state, and national level to restrict youth access to violent video and computer games. Although studies are cited to support policies, there is no published research on how children perceive the uses and influence of violent interactive games. The authors conduct focus groups with 42 boys ages 12…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Video Games, Focus Groups, Males
Özer, Esin – International Journal of Psycho-Educational Sciences, 2018
The present study aimed to construct a theoretical model based on the correlation between social emotional learning and coping with peer bullying in junior high school students and to test this theoretical model with respect to the gender variable.The study group included 295 students attending a junior high school in Düzce province (Turkey)…
Descriptors: Bullying, Social Development, Emotional Development, Junior High School Students
Butzer, Bethany; LoRusso, Amanda Marie; Windsor, Regina; Riley, Frankye; Frame, Kate; Khalsa, Sat Bir S.; Conboy, Lisa – Advances in School Mental Health Promotion, 2017
The present study was part of a group randomized controlled trial in which 7th grade students were assigned to a yoga intervention or physical-education-as-usual. Sixteen students were randomly selected from the yoga condition to participate in one-on-one interviews. Qualitative analyses revealed 13 themes that were organized into two categories:…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Middle School Students, Qualitative Research, Metacognition
Pyne, Jaymes; Borman, Geoffrey D. – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2020
Recent evidence suggests that helping students reappraise common social and academic worries during the difficult transition to middle school can improve their academic achievement. To further test this outcome, we conducted a pre-registered randomized controlled trial at scale among students transitioning to middle school in seventh grade (N =…
Descriptors: Intervention, Student Adjustment, Middle School Students, Grade 7
Pozzoli, Tiziana; Gini, Gianluca; Scrimin, Sara – School Psychology, 2022
School closure and distance learning during the COVID-19 pandemic have posed several challenges to children. Drawing upon the social--ecological framework, in this preliminary study, we tested what factors may help to explain students' difficulties with distance learning during COVID-19 lockdown, by analyzing family, school, and individual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing
Strom, Paris S.; Strom, Robert D.; Sindel-Arrington, Tricia – American Secondary Education, 2016
Junior high school presents a significant increase in time demands both for study and for social relationships. The students (N = 240) in grades 7 and 8 at a junior high school anonymously completed online the Time Management Poll concerning their own use of time and the way their school managed time. The 20 items in the poll allowed them to…
Descriptors: Time Management, Adolescent Attitudes, Junior High School Students, Scheduling
Hampel, Petra – Journal of Adolescence, 2007
The study investigated age and gender effects on coping with common stressors among 494 Austrian children and adolescents (age 8-14 years). Participants were subdivided into subgroups of late children comprising third and fourth graders, early adolescents consisting of fifth and sixth graders, and middle adolescents including seventh graders.…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Grade 4, Grade 7, Grade 6
Huan, Vivien S.; Yeo, Lay See; Ang, Rebecca P.; Chong, Wan Har – Journal of Educational Research, 2012
The authors investigated the role of gender in moderating the type of coping strategies employed by intellectually gifted adolescents in Singapore when confronted with different types of concerns. A total of 1,791 adolescents participated in this study, and data were obtained using self-report measures. Initial findings indicated that boys and…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Social Support Groups, Peer Relationship, Grade 7
de Haan, Laura; Boljevac, Tina – Journal of School Health, 2009
Background: Although rural adolescents use of alcohol is at some of the highest rates nationally, rural adolescent alcohol use has not been studied extensively. This study examines how community attitudes and behaviors are related to adolescent drinking in rural environments. Methods: Data were gathered in 22 rural communities in the Upper Midwest…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Drinking, Early Adolescents, Rural Areas
Efficacy of a School-Based Primary Prevention Program for Coping with Exposure to Political Violence
Slone, Michelle; Shoshani, Anat – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2008
A paradigm conceptualizing resilience as factors moderating between political violence exposure and psychological distress administered in a 7-year research project yielded a profile of factors promoting Israeli children's coping in conflict conditions. Three factors--social support mobilization, self-efficacy, and meaning attribution--were…
Descriptors: Intervention, Violence, Self Efficacy, Prevention