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Direct linkLee, Moosung; Kim, Yeonjeong; Chesters, Jenny – Multicultural Education Review, 2022
As immigrants account for an increasing proportion of American youth, understanding how these young people experience change in their citizenship status is an important, yet rarely examined area for research. There is a plethora of evidence that opportunities to participate in American society are stratified according to class, race and ethnicity.…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Citizenship, Adolescents, Attitudes
Barney, David C.; Pleban, Francis T.; Lewis, Terrance – Physical Educator, 2019
The purpose of this study was to explore grade-level differences (7th, 8th, and 9th) among junior high school students' perceptions of the effects of participation in physical education (PE) class on individual environmental stress. The role of physical activity as a stress reduction tool has been well documented. However, physical activity as a…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Junior High School Students, Grade 7, Grade 8
Tomlinson, Kristin L.; Cummins, Kevin M.; Brown, Sandra A. – Journal of Child & Adolescent Substance Abuse, 2013
The present study examines several types of social anxiety that may be associated with the onset of alcohol use in middle school students, and whether the relationship differs by sex and grade. Students in the seventh and eighth grades (N = 2,621) completed the Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescents and a measure of lifetime drinking via schoolwide…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Drinking, Anxiety, Interpersonal Competence
Download full textBarr, Elissa M.; Moore, Michele J.; Johnson, Tammie; Merten, Julie; Stewart, William P. – Health Educator, 2014
Reducing risky sexual behaviors and their negative health outcomes in youth remains a priority for health educators. Years of research have documented media's effect on various adolescent health risks, including sexual behaviors. As technology evolves and youth access to media increases, understanding the role of media in adolescent health risk…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Sexuality, Correlation, At Risk Students
Billings, Tawny J. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This mixed-method research study sought to investigate the relationship between middle school configuration and the academic achievement of eighth grade students in English Language Arts (ELA) and Algebra 1. The California Content Standards exam scores of 646 elementary middle schools (K-8) and 1,282 traditional middle schools (6-8, 7-8) in…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Middle Schools, Academic Achievement, Grade 8
Perez, Rose M.; Dawson, Beverly Araujo; Suarez-Orozco, Carola – Journal of Family Social Work, 2011
Although the relationship between varying levels of acculturation and depressive symptoms has been established among Latino(a) youth, the positive role of family involvement in relation to depressive symptoms among immigrant Latino(a) families has been studied less. This study draws on a sample of first-generation Latino(a) youth from the…
Descriptors: Family Involvement, Acculturation, Depression (Psychology), Immigrants
