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Ratner, Kaylin; Burrow, Anthony L.; Burd, Kayla A.; Hill, Patrick L. – Applied Developmental Science, 2021
A minimal amount of information is known about how adolescents and emerging adults construe purpose and meaning in life, leaving many researchers to assume youth think about these constructs consistent with scientific understandings. In this preregistered study, we compared adolescent and emerging adult conceptions of purpose and meaning using…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Content Analysis, High School Students, College Students
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Kerestes, Michael; Youniss, James; Metz, Edward – Applied Developmental Science, 2004
This study examined the association between adolescents' religious development, social integration, and risk-taking behaviors. Religious development was tracked along 4 trajectories from sophomore to senior year in high school: low religiosity (sophomore)-low religiosity (senior), low-high, high-low, and high-high. Civic integration was measured…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Spiritual Development, Religion, Social Integration