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Diego Palacios; Christian Berger; Bernardette Paula Luengo Kanacri; Mark Huisman; René Veenstra – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2024
Background: Peers constitute an important developmental context for adolescent academic behaviour providing support and resources to either promote or discourage attitudes and behaviours that contribute to school success. When looking for academic help, students may prefer specific partners based on their social goals regarding academic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Prosocial Behavior, Friendship, Peer Relationship
Deutsch, Nancy L.; Reitz-Krueger, Cristina L.; Henneberger, Angela K.; Futch Ehrlich, Valerie A.; Lawrence, Edith C. – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2017
Group mentoring is an increasingly popular intervention, but is still under-studied. This article reports findings from a qualitative study of the Young Women Leaders Program (YWLP), a combined group and one-on-one mentoring program for early adolescent girls. Protégés (n = 113) were interviewed post-program about changes they made as a result of…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Mentors, Study Habits, Females
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Anderson, Stacey A.; Fuller, Gerald B. – School Psychology Quarterly, 2010
This quantitative study was an investigation of the effect of lyrical music on reading comprehension by adolescents. Existing research has produced results that range from concluding such distraction may be detrimental to finding it could be helpful. The reading comprehension subtest of the Gates-MacGinitie Reading Tests, 4th edition (MacGinitie,…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Music, School Psychologists, Reading Tests
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Cheung, Cecilia S.-S.; Pomerantz, Eva M.; Dong, Wei – Child Development, 2013
The role of adolescents' disclosure to their parents in their academic adjustment was examined in a study of 825 American and Chinese adolescents (mean age = 12.73 years). Four times over the seventh and eighth grades, adolescents reported on their spontaneous disclosure of everyday activities to their parents, the quality of their relationships…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Parent Child Relationship, Self Disclosure (Individuals), Foreign Countries