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"We are not all one puzzle piece" : youth voice, homelessness, and positive youth development

Creator:: Nott, Brooke Dolenc
Abstract:: Positive youth development posits that all youth possess the capacity to change and grow as they interact with their contexts. That capacity is activated and nurtured by a beneficial ecological environment often unavailable for homeless youth. Only a limited number of studies focus on the positive development and strengths of...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: to social well-being (Eisenberg & Morris, 2004). Teens in early adolescence move from self

Emotion regulation and hyperactivity during the transition into adolescence

Creator:: Lewis, Kendra M.
Abstract:: This study posited that maturational growth in emotion regulation should be associated with reduction in hyperactivity during the transition into adolescence. The longitudinal design assessed emotion regulation and hyperactivity in an urban community sample of children in three waves, at ages 10.6, 11.6, and 12.6 years. A parallel growth curve...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: associated with reduction in hyperactivity during the transition into adolescence. The longitudinal

Adolescent health-risk behavior : a study of 15,650 images

Creator:: Benthin, Alida C.
Abstract:: Despite recognition in the literature that adolescence represents a relatively high-risk developmental period for health-risk behaviors, only limited attention has been given to the subjective meanings adolescents assign to such behaviors. One potentially fruitful avenue to explore in understanding the adolescent perspective on health-risk behaviors is the use of word...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Despite recognition in the literature that adolescence represents a relatively high-risk developmental

The relationship of child temperament and maternal behavior to the child's self-esteem

Creator:: Sorte, Joanne Godard
Abstract:: High levels of self-esteem (the individual's assessment of self-worth) have been associated with a variety of positive child outcomes, while low levels of self-esteem have been related to problems in child growth and development. The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between specific child temperament and parenting...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Self-Esteem by Joanne Godard Sorte A THESIS submitted to Oregon State University in partial

The effect of religious coping on depression and anxiety in adolescence

Creator:: Olszewski, Mary Elizabeth
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: of stress in early adolescence, including high self- esteem, an internal locus of control

Coping resources mediating the relationship between stressful life events and delinquent behavior among adolescents

Creator:: Sim, Hee-og
Abstract:: Stressful events of both major and minor magnitude in the lives of children and adolescents are significantly related to emotional and behavioral problems (Compas, 1987a; Johnson, 1986). It is also apparent, however, that this relationship is complicated and that individuals vary greatly in their responses to stress. The purpose of...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

"I'm the best of both worlds" : factors influencing the racial identities of biracial youth

Creator:: Mouzong, Christine LeAnn
Abstract:: This study examined the social and contextual factors that lead to differences in the way biracial adolescents interpret their racial identity. Using 11 interviews with a sample of biracial youth between the ages of 14 and 17-years-old, this study also explores the strategies these individuals use to achieve social validation...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: sense of self during adolescence can be tied to developmental outcomes such as self-esteem and

Preoperational spatial representation among preschool children in small-scale space

Creator:: Kozick, Stephanie A.
Abstract:: This study examined the effects of stage of preoperational thought, sex and mode of exploration on preschoolers ability to represent a small-scale model configuration of objects. Forty-eight subjects between the ages of 2 years, 5 months and 5 years, 4 months were classed in spatial conceptualization as either Stage I...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: & Inhelder, 1967), representation extends perception. In a review of the developmental literature on visual

Examining multidimensional resilience in at-risk adolescents

Creator:: Taylor, Amanda L.
Abstract:: The bulk of resilience research has focused on developmental outcomes in a single domain of functioning (e.g., academic achievement), overlooking the complex interplay of positive and negative developmental outcomes that may co-occur within an individual (Luthar, Cicchetti, & Becker, 2000). Resilience may strengthen over time and across domains (e.g., psychological...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: of resilience in late childhood and adolescence. Theory The field of resilience studies grew

Longitudinal study of the relationship between family coalitions and adolescent antisocial behavior

Creator:: Coughlin, Chris D.
Abstract:: Family therapists have proposed that specific types of family interactions are dysfunctional for the family system and can produce long-term negative effects for the child. They further propose that, for healthy family functioning to be maintained, parental alliances must be sustained and excessive cross-generational coalitions (parent-child alliances) must be blocked....
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: James (1979), a high correlation between conflict in the home and self-reported deviant behavior was

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"We are not all one puzzle piece" : youth voice, homelessness, and positive youth development

Emotion regulation and hyperactivity during the transition into adolescence

Adolescent health-risk behavior : a study of 15,650 images

The relationship of child temperament and maternal behavior to the child's self-esteem

The effect of religious coping on depression and anxiety in adolescence

Coping resources mediating the relationship between stressful life events and delinquent behavior among adolescents

"I'm the best of both worlds" : factors influencing the racial identities of biracial youth

Preoperational spatial representation among preschool children in small-scale space

Examining multidimensional resilience in at-risk adolescents

Longitudinal study of the relationship between family coalitions and adolescent antisocial behavior

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