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Download full textScharrer, Erica; Zhou, Yuxi – Journal of Media Literacy Education, 2021
Research shows that young people are likely to encounter considerable amounts of violence in the media they use. Some of those depictions trivialize the severity of violence. Past studies show that media literacy education can spur critical thinking regarding violent portrayals in media texts. But rarely do prior studies employ qualitative methods…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Critical Thinking, Mass Media, Media Literacy
Direct linkLow, Sabina; Liu, Lin – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2023
Limited research attention has been devoted to disparate vulnerabilities to social-ecological risk factors and how these may explain group differences in bullying by race. To address this gap, the present study used data of early adolescent respondents (M[subscript age] = 11.2 years) from 36 public middle schools (N = 2701) to assess the nexus of…
Descriptors: Bullying, Peer Relationship, Racial Differences, At Risk Students
Lacoe, Johanna – Urban Education, 2020
A safe environment is a prerequisite for productive learning. Using a unique panel data set of survey responses from New York City middle school students, the article provides insight into the relationship between feelings of safety in the classroom and academic achievement. The survey data include the reported feelings of safety for more than…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, School Safety, Educational Environment, Urban Schools
Ðurišic, Maša – Research in Pedagogy, 2018
Numerous studies have confirmed the connection between the family climate and various forms of externalizing behaviour problems, such as aggressive and violent behaviour, vandalism, skipping school and running away from home, substance abuse and others. Therefore, it is of particular importance to point out those risk factors, that according to…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Family Influence, Behavior Problems, Child Behavior
Schwartz, David; Hopmeyer, Andrea; Luo, Tana; Ross, Alexandra C.; Fischer, Jesse – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2017
This longitudinal study examined the psychosocial adjustment of adolescents who affiliate with antisocial crowds in a gang-impacted urban environment. We followed 405 adolescents (219 boys, 186 girls; average age of 11.51 years, SD = 0.61; 84% Latino, 9% Asian, and 7% other or unclassified) for one academic year. These youth attended a middle…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Middle School Students, Early Adolescents, Juvenile Gangs
Uusitalo-Malmivaara, Lotta – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2013
This study examined the experiences of peer and adult victimization of 737 12-year-old Finnish students. Of the respondents, 28.4% had experienced peer or adult, or both kinds of violence. Peer violence was the most common type of violence, while adult violence was rare. The associations between victimization and depression, somatization and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Peer Relationship, Victims, Bullying
Van Ryzin, Mark J.; Dishion, Thomas J. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2013
Background: Aggression is one of the more stable characteristics of child and adolescent development, and violent behavior in early adulthood is often foreshadowed by aggressive behavior in childhood and early adolescence. Considerable evidence has linked coercive family interactions to aggressive behavior in childhood, but less research has been…
Descriptors: Friendship, Aggression, Antisocial Behavior, Adolescents
Goldner, Jonathan; Peters, Tracy L.; Richards, Maryse H.; Pearce, Steven – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2011
This study examined protective and risky companionship and locations for exposure to community violence among African American young adolescents living in high crime, urban areas. The Experience Sampling Method (ESM), an in vivo data collection method, was employed to gather information from 233 students (62% female) over 3 years, beginning in the…
Descriptors: Low Income Groups, Early Adolescents, Urban Areas, Violence
Bundy, Alysha; McWhirter, Paula T.; McWhirter, J. Jeffries – Education and Treatment of Children, 2011
This study was designed to evaluate the effectiveness of booster sessions on the maintenance of intervention gains following an anger management prevention program: "Student Created Aggression Replacement Education Program" ("SCARE"). Participants who had completed the "SCARE" program a year earlier were randomly…
Descriptors: Violence, Prevention, Empathy, Psychological Patterns
Simon, Thomas R.; Miller, Shari; Gorman-Smith, Deborah; Orpinas, Pamela; Sullivan, Terri – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2010
Relatively little is known about the prevalence of physical dating violence behaviors and perceived norms about dating violence among early adolescents. A sample of 5,404 sixth-grade students was recruited from four diverse U.S. sites. Over half of the respondents reported that girls hitting their boyfriends was acceptable under certain…
Descriptors: Violence, Females, Dating (Social), Grade 6
Simon, Thomas R.; Ikeda, Robin M.; Smith, Emilie Phillips; Reese, Le'Roy E.; Rabiner, David L.; Miller, Shari; Winn, Donna-Marie; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Asher, Steven R.; Horne, Arthur M.; Orpinas, Pamela; Martin, Roy; Quinn, William H.; Tolan, Patrick H.; Gorman-Smith, Deborah; Henry, David B.; Gay, Franklin N.; Schoeny, Michael; Farrell, Albert D.; Meyer, Aleta L.; Sullivan, Terri N.; Allison, Kevin W. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2009
This study reports the findings of a multisite randomized trial evaluating the separate and combined effects of 2 school-based approaches to reduce violence among early adolescents. A total of 37 schools at 4 sites were randomized to 4 conditions: (1) a universal intervention that involved implementing a student curriculum and teacher training…
Descriptors: Intervention, Violence, Prevention, Social Influences
McMahon, Susan D.; Felix, Erika D.; Halpert, Jane A.; Petropoulos, Lara A. N. – Journal of Community Psychology, 2009
Past research has shown that exposure to violence leads to aggressive behavior, but few community-based studies have examined theoretical models illustrating the mediating social cognitive processes that explain this relation with youth exposed to high rates of violence. This study examines the impact of community violence on behavior through…
Descriptors: Violence, Aggression, Structural Equation Models, Self Efficacy
Potgieter, Ferdinand J.; van der Walt, Johannes L.; Wolhuter, Charl C. – International Journal of Children's Spirituality, 2009
As part of a research project on religion, spirituality and education, the authors attended to the role that children's divine dreams could play in religious education (RE). They contend that such dreams can indeed be used by RE teachers as the gateway to understanding the spirituality of their learners. They defend their claim by firstly…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Religion, Religious Factors, Religious Education
Miller, Shari; Gorman-Smith, Deborah; Sullivan, Terri; Orpinas, Pamela; Simon, Thomas R. – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2009
This study examined parenting and peer predictors of physical dating violence perpetration during early adolescence and tested moderation among these predictors and gender. Participants were 2,824 ethnically diverse sixth-grade students with a recent boyfriend/girlfriend who was part of a multisite, longitudinal investigation of the development…
Descriptors: Violence, Aggression, Parenting Styles, Drug Use
Georgiou, Stelios N.; Stavrinides, Panayiotis – School Psychology International, 2008
This study aimed at examining the differences between bullies, victims, bully-victims and students that are non involved in peer violence in terms of their temperament, their degree of deviation from the typical in appearance or behaviour and the degree of their peer acceptance. Furthermore, the study compared the attributions used by the members…
Descriptors: Emotional Disturbances, Peer Acceptance, Bullying, Victims of Crime
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