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Walters, Glenn D. – Youth & Society, 2024
The goal of this study was to determine the significance of variable order when it comes to using child and parent reports of parental support to predict delinquency. It was hypothesized that a social context variable (parental support as rated by the parent) would precede a perceptual variable (perceived parental support competence as rated by…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Delinquency, Parent Child Relationship, Parenting Styles
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Walsh, Lucas; Black, Rosalyn – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2023
Young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander or Indigenous Australians experience pervasive marginalisation. Indigenous youth leadership programmes are often positioned as ameans of empowering such young people by encouraging and enabling their participation in their communities as well as, by extension, wider social and political contexts. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Youth Leaders, Empowerment
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Walker, Ruth; Mangelsdorf, Ruby; Leahy, Deana; Boyle, Jaqueline – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2023
Young people aged >15 years (Years 11 and 12 students) in Australia are unlikely to receive school-based sexual and reproductive health (SRH) education. The aims of this study were to gather the perspectives of young people regarding their experiences of school-based SRH education and explore what they considered should be the core components…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 11, Grade 12, Secondary School Students
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Carroll, Annemaree; Bower, Julie M.; Povey, Jenny; Muspratt, Sandy; Chen, Holly – International Journal of Educational Methodology, 2023
Social identity is an important social determinant of student outcomes such as mental health and well-being. Currently, no validated social identity measures exist for adolescents in secondary school settings. A new 'Adolescent Social Identity' measure was developed by adapting two social identity dimensions from a validated reputation enhancement…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Social Influences, Adolescents, Measures (Individuals)
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Dezuanni, Michael; Reddan, Bronwyn; Rutherford, Leonie; Schoonens, Amy – Learning, Media and Technology, 2022
This article explores how selfies and shelfies on the digital platforms Instagram and TikTok contribute to the dynamics of intermediation for Australian teen readers by presenting two contrasting case studies. The first features Australian Bookstagrammer @BookBookOwl whose social media accounts feature aspirational content in which identity…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Media, Adolescents, Reading Materials
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Shelton, Nichola; Munro, Natalie; Keep, Melanie; Starling, Julia; Tieu, Lyn – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2023
Background: Social media is increasingly used by young people, including those with communication disability. To date, though, little is known about how speech-language therapists (SLTs) support the social media use of young people with communication disability. Aims: To explore what services SLTs provide to facilitate the social media use of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Communication Disorders, Disabilities
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Bevan, Nadia; Drummond, Claire; Abery, Liz; Elliott, Sam; Pennesi, Jamie-Lee; Prichard, Ivanka; Lewis, Lucy K.; Drummond, Murray – Sport, Education and Society, 2021
In Australian culture, males dominate sports such as football, cricket and Australian Rules Football. Girls and women in such sports are frequently required to negotiate persistent gender constructs and stereotypes. Despite this, in recent years there has been an increase in girls' participation in sports that are constructed as masculine. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Females, Sex Stereotypes
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Borgonovi, Francesca; Han, Seong Won; Greiff, Samuel – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2023
Effective collaborative problem solving comprises cognitive dimensions, in which men tend to outperform women, and social dimensions in which women tend to outperform men. We extend research on between-country differences in gender gaps by considering collaborative problem solving and its association with two indicators of societal-level gender…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Problem Solving, Cooperation, Cultural Differences
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Korpershoek, Hanke; King, Ronnel B.; McInerney, Dennis M.; Nasser, Ramzi N.; Ganotice, Fraide A.; Watkins, David A. – Research Papers in Education, 2021
The purpose of this research was to explore gender differences and cultural differences in school motivation among students from eight culturally diverse groups from Western and non-Western societies. The selected groups come from Hong Kong, the Philippines, Singapore, Australia, the Netherlands, and Qatar. More than 10,000 secondary school…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Cultural Differences, Student Motivation, Achievement Need
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Pang, Bonnie; Hill, Joanne – Sport, Education and Society, 2018
This paper aims to explore young Chinese girls' aspirations and ideal environments for engagement in Health and Physical Education (HPE) and physical activity (PA) in Greater Western Sydney. Interviews are used to elicit these girls' perceptions of their future and ideal environments in relation to HPEPA. Their data offer insights into key…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Asians, Females, Aspiration
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Jong, Stephanie T.; Drummond, Murray J. N. – Asia-Pacific Journal of Health, Sport and Physical Education, 2016
At an age identified as the period with the most intense focus on appearance, and where young girls are establishing their identity, it appears that social networking site (SNS) interactions are playing a pivotal role in determining what is, and what is not, socially endorsed. This paper draws on data obtained during five separate focus group…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Females, Feedback (Response), Social Media
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Williams, John – Sport, Education and Society, 2018
This article is about how Indigenous students from Year 7 to 10 at three government schools in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) experience PE. The research question being, how do Indigenous students experience PE at the schools selected for the research? A process oriented approach was used to answer this question. In particular,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Grade 7, Grade 8
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Merga, Margaret Kristin; Moon, Brian – High School Journal, 2016
Aliteracy, the state in which the skill to read has been acquired, but not the will, is a growing concern in research on adolescence internationally. The West Australian Study in Adolescent Book Reading (WASABR) aimed to discover current attitudes toward and levels of engagement in recreational book reading among 520 adolescent students from 20…
Descriptors: High School Students, Recreational Reading, Social Influences, Parent Influence
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Andrew, Rachel; Tiggemann, Marika; Clark, Levina – Developmental Psychology, 2016
This study aimed to investigate prospective predictors and health-related outcomes of positive body image in adolescent girls. In so doing, the modified acceptance model of intuitive eating was also examined longitudinally. A sample of 298 girls aged 12 to 16 years completed a questionnaire containing measures of body appreciation, potential…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Females, Self Concept, Body Composition
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Rescorla, Leslie A.; Ginzburg, Sofia; Achenbach, Thomas M.; Ivanova, Masha Y.; Almqvist, Fredrik; Begovac, Ivan; Bilenberg, Niels; Bird, Hector; Chahed, Myriam; Dobrean, Anca; Dopfner, Manfred; Erol, Nese; Hannesdottir, Helga; Kanbayashi, Yasuko; Lambert, Michael C.; Leung, Patrick W. L.; Minaei, Asghar; Novik, Torunn S.; Oh, Kyung-Ja; Petot, Djaouida; Petot, Jean-Michel; Pomalima, Rolando; Rudan, Vlasta; Sawyer, Michael; Simsek, Zeynep; Steinhausen, Hans-Christoph; Valverde, Jose; van der Ende, Jan; Weintraub, Sheila; Metzke, Christa Winkler; Wolanczyk, Tomasz; Zhang, Eugene Yuqing; Zukauskiene, Rita; Verhulst, Frank C. – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2013
We used population sample data from 25 societies to answer the following questions: (a) How consistently across societies do adolescents report more problems than their parents report about them? (b) Do levels of parent-adolescent agreement vary among societies for different kinds of problems? (c) How well do parents and adolescents in different…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Parents, Reliability
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