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Chinese Life Purpose Orientation Questionnaire: Assessing Purpose Orientations among Chinese College Students
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Wang, Tong; You, Xu Qun; Huang, Xi Ting – Applied Developmental Science, 2022
Life-purpose orientations can highly influence people's life paths and well-being. However, existing psychological measurements tend to dismiss the need for assessing the individual's life purpose orientations, especially in non-Western cultures. This study sought to develop a new measure to assess purpose orientations specific to the Chinese…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Attitudes, Goal Orientation
Socioeconomic Disparities in Early Language Development in Two Norwegian Samples
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Ribeiro, Luísa A.; Zachrisson, Henrik Daae; Naerde, Ane; Wang, Mari Vaage; Brandlistuen, Ragnhild Eek; Passaretta, Giampiero – Applied Developmental Science, 2023
Socioeconomic disparities in early language are widespread and have long-lasting effects. The aim of this study is to investigate when social gaps in language problems arise and how they change across the first years of schooling. We address this question in two large longitudinal Norwegian datasets: the Behavior Outlook Norwegian Developmental…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Language Acquisition, Social Differences, Foreign Countries
A Person-Centered Exploration of Children of Immigrants' Social Experiences and Their School-Based Well-Being
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Pieloch, Kerrie A.; Marks, Amy K.; García Coll, Cynthia – Applied Developmental Science, 2018
This study aimed to explore commonalities among discrimination, stereotyping, and peer-related social experiences of children of immigrants, and to see if these experiences might relate to children's school-based well-being. Two age-based cohorts of 294 children and their immigrant parents from Portugal, the Dominican Republic, and Cambodia were…
Descriptors: Children, Immigrants, Well Being, Social Discrimination
Extracurricular Activity Participation and the Acquisition of Developmental Assets: Differences between Involved and Noninvolved Canadian High School Students
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Forneris, Tanya; Camiré, Martin; Williamson, Robert – Applied Developmental Science, 2015
In order to prepare students for adulthood and responsible citizenship, most high schools offer extracurricular activities designed to facilitate the learning of a wide range of competencies. The purpose of this study was to examine how participation in a single or a combination of extracurricular school activities for high school students may…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Extracurricular Activities, Competence
Seeking Social Inventions to Improve the Transition to Adulthood
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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
Intensity of Participation in Organized Youth Activities during the High School Years: Longitudinal Associations with Adjustment
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Denault, Anne-Sophie; Poulin, Francois; Pedersen, Sara – Applied Developmental Science, 2009
The goal of this study was to explore the longitudinal associations between youth activity participation and adjustment over the high school years by examining (a) correlations between participation and adjustment growth curves, and (b) bidirectional links between participation and adjustment from one year to the next. Participation was…
Descriptors: Grades (Scholastic), Clubs, Drinking, Depression (Psychology)