Journal of Youth and Adolescence articles from August 2005

Journal of Youth and Adolescence archives from August 2005

Sixth graders' conflict resolution in role plays with a peer, parent, and teacher (1).
August 1, 2005... Teenagers engage in an expanding variety of interpersonal contacts with increasing independence from the familial context. One aspect of this developing social realm is confronting conflict. Conflict situations are a useful social scenario...

Sense of belonging among high school students representing 4 ethnic groups.
August 1, 2005... When asked to recount their high school experience, teenagers typically report that interpersonal features are critical to their school engagement (Coleman, 1961; Wentzel, 1989). Researchers have begun to examine this adolescent assertion by...

Constructing counseling through narrating adolescence.
August 1, 2005... The central task of this study is to describe and understand how school counseling students perceive the influence of their own adolescence on their present views on adolescence and counseling. Our main premise is that counseling students'...

The effects of adolescent activities on delinquency: a differential involvement approach.
August 1, 2005... INTRODUCTION For more than 3 decades, Hirschi's (1969) version of control theory has stimulated considerable interest and research among students of delinquency. Control theory assumes that deviance is natural, while conformity must be...

Early adolescent social and overt aggression: examining the roles of social anxiety and maternal psychological control.
August 1, 2005... INTRODUCTION A large literature documents the role of aggression in negative individual and interpersonal outcomes. Traditionally, this literature has been dominated by studies examining the determinants and consequences of physical...

"Thinking about makin' it": Black Canadian students' beliefs regarding education and academic achievement.
August 1, 2005... INTRODUCTION The academic underachievement of Black students has been well documented: Numerous American studies show that African American children do not perform as well as other children on various indicators of school performance,...

Studying adolescent male sexuality: where are we?
August 1, 2005... INTRODUCTION Adolescent males are rarely the focus of research related to adolescent sexuality or sexual activity. The focus of most studies has been females and their sexual activity (Jadack and Keller, 1998; Kalmuss et al., 2003;...

Risk and protective factors associated with alcohol, cigarette, and marijuana use during adolescence.
August 1, 2005... Adolescents and families who enroll in mental health services often present with a variety of needs above and beyond mental health needs that require treatment. Unfortunately, mental health professionals often focus exclusively on the...

Construct validity of the Offer Self-Image Questionnaire and its relationship with self-esteem, depression, and ego development.
August 1, 2005... Although the centrality of the self in psychology is well acknowledged, the use of self-conceptualizations is varied and often not explicitly defined. Recently, for example Harre (1998) has argued that this diversity of the...

Sixth graders' conflict resolution in role plays with a peer, parent, and teacher.
August 1, 2005... Teenagers engage in an expanding variety of interpersonal contacts with increasing independence from the familial context. One aspect of this developing social realm is confronting conflict. Conflict situations are a useful social scenario...