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Emma Armstrong-Carter; Emily S. Bibby; Melissa Burroughs; Jessica E. Flannery; Benjamin W. Nelson; Natasha Duell; Mitch J. Prinstein; Eva H. Telzer – Grantee Submission, 2022
This study examined how adolescents' risk-taking behaviors were related to their prosocial behaviors on a daily level and how this association differed depending on adolescents' daily and average levels of sensation seeking and social craving. Adolescents (N = 212; M[subscript age] = 15 years) completed daily diaries for 14 days. Adolescents were…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Prosocial Behavior, Risk, Interpersonal Relationship
Melissa Webster Rhodes – ProQuest LLC, 2021
There are many factors which contribute to college/university retention rates, two of which are a sense of entitlement and a lack of academic coping skills among rising college freshmen. The theoretical foundations of this research is conflict theory in education and social construct theory. This study examines grade inflation and social promotion…
Descriptors: Grade 11, Grade 12, High School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
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Farrell, Ann H.; Vaillancourt, Tracy – Developmental Psychology, 2021
Indirect aggression has been associated with antisocial personality traits like Machiavellianism, but there is a lack of evidence on their longitudinal development across adolescence. Therefore, the joint developmental trajectories of adolescent indirect aggression and Machiavellianism across 3 years of high school (Grades 10 to 12) were…
Descriptors: Aggression, Antisocial Behavior, Personality Traits, Predictor Variables