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Motivation and Engagement among Indigenous (Aboriginal Australian) and Non-Indigenous Students
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Martin, Andrew J.; Ginns, Paul; Anderson, Michael; Gibson, Robyn; Bishop, Michelle – Educational Psychology, 2021
Among a sample of 472 Indigenous high school students, juxtaposed with 15,884 non-Indigenous students from the same 54 schools, we investigated variation in motivation and engagement from school to school, and the role of motivation and engagement in predicting various academic outcomes (aspirations, buoyancy, homework completion, and…
Descriptors: High School Students, Indigenous Populations, Student Motivation, Learner Engagement
Developing Self-Concept, Coping Skills, and Social Support in Grades 3-12: A Cluster-Randomized Trial of a Combined Mental Health Literacy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Program
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Katz, Jennifer; Mercer, Sterett H.; Skinner, Sarah – School Mental Health, 2020
A multisite cluster-randomized trial (by school) was conducted to examine the effects of a combined mental health literacy and dialectical behavior therapy skills program implemented by teachers on three protective factors related to social and emotional well-being. The sample of eight schools that were randomly assigned to intervention included…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Mental Health, Literacy
Examining the Link between Stress Events and Prosocial Behavior in Adolescents: More Ordinary Magic?
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Larson, Andrea; Moses, Tally – Youth & Society, 2017
Scholarship regarding adolescent resilience has typically defined resilience as the absence of negative outcomes rather than the existence of positive outcomes. This study drew on the challenge model of resilience, which anticipates a curvilinear relationship between stress exposure and adaptive functioning, to test whether adolescents reporting…
Descriptors: Correlation, Prosocial Behavior, Adolescents, Resilience (Psychology)
Music Listening, Coping, Peer Affiliation and Depression in Adolescence
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Miranda, Dave; Claes, Michel – Psychology of Music, 2009
This study was conducted with 418 French-Canadian adolescents from Montreal (Canada) and had three objectives: (1) to find empirical evidence that music listening in adolescence can lead to peer affiliation based upon music preferences; (2) to find out whether three styles of coping by music listening (original self-report scale: emotion-oriented,…
Descriptors: Music, Females, Coping, Foreign Countries
Psychological Reactions to Israeli Occupation: Findings from the National Study of School-Based Screening in Palestine
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Ziad Abdeen; Radwan Qasrawi; Shibli Nabil; Mohammad Shaheen – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2008
Children exposed to violent war-like and repeated political violence often experience a continued threat to life and their sense of safety, as well as a disruption of daily functioning. The purpose of the study was to examine the psychological impact of exposure to Israeli occupation on Palestinian school children in the West Bank and Gaza,…
Descriptors: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Identification, Coping, Foreign Countries
The Effect of Attachment on Adolescent Violence
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Franke, Todd M. – Prevention Researcher, 2003
Violence among American youth is a significant societal problem. The past decade witnessed juvenile arrests for violence, weapons, drugs, and curfew violations peak in the mid 90's. Analogous to the arrest trends for older juveniles, the arrest rate for young offenders rose 63% from 1987 until 1994 when it declined slightly. Since that time,…
Descriptors: Violence, Young Adults, Adolescents, Juvenile Justice