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Minna J. Ikävalko; Erkko T. Sointu; Matthew C. Lambert; Rebecca Lazarides; Jaana Viljaranta – Psychology in the Schools, 2024
The study investigated the development of sources of self-efficacy in self-regulation in 9-12 year old (N = 317, primary school) students during one school year. We used latent growth curve modeling to determine (1) how the different sources of self-efficacy for self-regulation (i.e., mastery experience, vicarious experience, social persuasion,…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Self Management, Elementary School Students, Gender Differences
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Sandra Wachholz; Nancy Artz; Douglas Chene – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2014
Purpose: The literature on climate change knowledge and attitudes has focused on primary and secondary school children. The limited research on college students is dated or narrowly focused. This study aims to contribute to a comprehensive understanding of views about climate change across a wide range of current college students.…
Descriptors: College Students, Knowledge Level, Student Attitudes, Climate
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Makara, Kara A.; Madjar, Nir – Developmental Psychology, 2015
Students' social goals--reasons for engaging in interpersonal relationships with peers-are consequential for students' interactions with their peers at school and for their well-being. Despite the salience of peer relationships during adolescence, research on social goals is generally lacking compared with academic goals, and it is unknown how…
Descriptors: High School Students, Peer Relationship, Goal Orientation, Predictor Variables
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Urosevic, Snezana; Collins, Paul; Muetzel, Ryan; Lim, Kelvin; Luciana, Monica – Developmental Psychology, 2012
Adolescence is a period of radical normative changes and increased risk for substance use, mood disorders, and physical injury. Researchers have proposed that increases in reward sensitivity (i.e., sensitivity of the behavioral approach system [BAS]) and/or increases in reactivity to all emotional stimuli (i.e., reward and threat sensitivities)…
Descriptors: Brain, Neurological Organization, Behavior, Motivation
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Blair, Clancy; Raver, C. Cybele; Berry, Daniel J. – Developmental Psychology, 2014
In the current article, we contrast 2 analytical approaches to estimate the relation of parenting to executive function development in a sample of 1,292 children assessed longitudinally between the ages of 36 and 60 months of age. Children were administered a newly developed and validated battery of 6 executive function tasks tapping inhibitory…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Parent Child Relationship, Correlation, Executive Function
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Lee, In Heok; Rojewski, Jay W. – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2012
The complex phenomenon of intraindividual and interindividual differences in the development of occupational aspirations and factors influencing this development were examined in a longitudinal sample of 5,727 Korean adolescents over a 4-year period. A downward trajectory of occupational aspirations from junior high school to the first year of…
Descriptors: Occupational Aspiration, Early Adolescents, Individual Differences, Career Development
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Way, Niobe; Greene, Melissa L. – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2006
Findings are presented from an ecologically grounded, longitudinal study of 206 urban, ethnic minority adolescents that used hierarchical linear modeling to examine: (1) individual trajectories of change in adolescents' perceptions of general and closest same-sex friendship quality from middle to late adolescence; (2) the effects of gender and…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Friendship, Urban Youth, Longitudinal Studies