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Hao Zheng; Yao Zheng – Applied Developmental Science, 2024
Leisure activities engagement could promote freshmen's well-being by providing social support and improving positive mood. Little is known about the day-to-day variability in leisure activities and stress and their links to daily well-being. Using a month-long daily diary design among 273 Canadian freshmen (M[subscript age] = 18, 73% female, 32%…
Descriptors: Leisure Time, Recreational Activities, Stress Variables, Well Being
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Barthel, Dana; Kriston, Levente; Guo, Nan; Yao, Esther Doris; Armel, Koffi Ekissi Jean; Fordjour, Daniel; Mohammed, Yasmin; Kotchi, Carine Esther Bony; Eberhardt, Kirsten Alexandra; Hinz, Rebecca; Ehrhardt, Stephan; Bindt, Carola – Applied Developmental Science, 2022
There is a lack of feasible and psychometrically sound instruments assessing social-emotional development in young children in low- and middle-income countries. The objective of this cross-sectional study was to investigate the psychometric properties of the Brief Infant-Toddler Social and Emotional Assessment (BITSEA) in two West-African…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychometrics, Social Development, Emotional Development
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Guedes, Carolina; Ferreira, Tiago; Leal, Teresa; Cadima, Joana – Applied Developmental Science, 2023
This study aimed to examine the unique and joint contributions of behavioral and emotional self-regulation to key but understudied emergent literacy and early social skills, disentangling sex-differentiated paths. The participants were 231 Portuguese preschoolers (50% boys; M[subscript age] = 59.5 months; SD = 8.5) enrolled in 47 classrooms. In…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Self Management, Self Control
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Hamilton, Mary Agnes; Hamilton, Stephen F. – Applied Developmental Science, 2015
Social inventions are new ways of solving human problems. This article reports on an action research project designed to find social inventions to reduce structural lag in four programs that support the transition to adulthood of marginalized youth in Latin America. The investigators engaged youth and staff members in identifying important…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Disadvantaged Youth, Youth Opportunities, Youth Programs
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Costa, Frances M.; Jessor, Richard; Turbin, Mark S.; Dong, Qi; Zhang, Hongchuan; Wang, Changhai – Applied Developmental Science, 2005
A theoretical framework about protective factors (models protection, controls protection, support protection) and risk factors (models risk, opportunity risk, vulnerability risk) was employed to articulate the content of 4 key contexts of adolescent life--family, peers, school, and neighborhood--in a cross-national study of problem behavior among…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Sanctions, Risk, Adolescents