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Lane, Julie; Therriault, Danyka; Dupuis, Audrey; Gosselin, Patrick; Smith, Jonathan; Ziam, Saliha; Roy, Mathieu; Roberge, Pasquale; Drapeau, Marti; Morin, Pascale; Berrigan, Felix; Thibault, Isabelle; Dufour, Magali – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2022
Background: Several studies conducted since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic have shown its harmful effects on young people's mental health. In Québec and Canada, few studies have focussed on adolescents, and even fewer of these studies have examined this subject using a methodology that involved comparisons of data obtained before and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Adolescents
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Savage, Michael; DiBiase, Anne-Marie – Brock Education: A Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 2016
The maladaptive personality and neuropsychological features of highly relationally aggressive females were examined in a group of 30 grade 6, 7, and 8 girls and group-matched controls. Employing a multistage cluster sampling procedure, a group of highly, yet almost exclusively, relationally aggressive females were identified and matched on a…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Neuropsychology, Individual Characteristics, Interpersonal Relationship
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Flett, Gordon L.; Coulter, Lisa-Marie; Hewitt, Paul L.; Nepon, Taryn – Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 2011
The present study examined trait perfectionism, automatic perfectionistic thoughts, rumination, worry, and depressive symptoms in early adolescents. A group of 81 elementary school students in Grades 7 and 8 completed 5 questionnaires: the Child-Adolescent Perfectionism Scale, the Perfectionism Cognitions Inventory, the Children's Response Styles…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Adolescents, Measures (Individuals), Grade 7
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Brendgen, Mara; Lamarche, Veronique; Wanner, Brigitte; Vitaro, Frank – Developmental Psychology, 2010
The present study examined to what extent different types of friendship experiences (i.e., friendlessness, having depressed friends, and having nondepressed friends) are associated with early adolescents' longitudinal trajectories of depressed mood. On the basis of a sample of 201 youths (108 girls, 93 boys), we identified 3 distinct longitudinal…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Friendship, Adolescents, Depression (Psychology)
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Donnon, Tyrone – Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 2010
In this study, the self-report Youth Resiliency: Assessing Development Strengths (YR:ADS) questionnaire is used with adolescents from seven junior and senior high schools (N = 2,991) to investigate the function of resiliency profiles as a model for understanding why adolescents engage in bullying and acts of aggression and how having these…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, High School Students, Bullying, Adolescents
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Linden-Andersen, Stine; Markiewicz, Dorothy; Doyle, Anna-Beth – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2009
Perceived similarity of personality in same-sex friends was examined in a sample of 124 adolescents (63 girls). Adolescents rated themselves and a nominated friend (n = 42 reciprocated, 82 non-reciprocated dyads) on developmentally relevant personality items assessing autonomy, prosociality, and responsive caregiving. Results from hierarchical…
Descriptors: Friendship, Personality Traits, Early Adolescents, Gender Differences
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Stornelli, Deborah; Flett, Gordon L.; Hewitt, Paul L. – Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 2009
The current study examined the association between dimensions of perfectionism and levels of academic achievement and affect in school-aged children. A sample of 223 students (90 boys, 133 girls) from regular, gifted, and arts programs completed measures of self-oriented and socially prescribed perfectionism, perceived academic competence, and…
Descriptors: Gifted, Mathematics Achievement, Reading Achievement, Academic Achievement