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Gangrade, Navika; Botchwey, Nisha; Leak, Tashara M. – Health Education Research, 2023
Adolescents from urban communities are at risk for unhealthy snacking behaviors. Youth advocacy interventions are shown to improve certain adolescent health behaviors, such as substance use. However, it remains unclear if youth advocacy is a feasible method to promote healthy snacking. As such, the aim of this study was to examine the feasibility…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Eating Habits, Health Promotion, Advocacy
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Kirsti Pedersen Gurholt – Sport, Education and Society, 2024
This article explores multilevel governance networking and innovation to better understand how nature-based public health can be promoted at a grassroot level within an urban context. Hence, the leading research question examines the "extent of networking and collaboration within state and municipal policymaking and the implementation of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Urban Youth, Public Health, Health Promotion
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Yan, Lixia; Wang, Siyuan; Yuan, Yang; Zhang, Yu; Zhang, Junhua – SAGE Open, 2022
There are many contradictions in previous studies of the status of depressive symptoms among Chinese migrant children, the number of which in the compulsory education stage is about 13.9 million. This systematic review and meta-analysis were designed to compare depressive symptoms among migrant children and their urban children. Around 2,710…
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Migrants, Children
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Zhu, Jingjing; Xiao, Bowen; Li, Yan; Xie, Mengyu; Zhang, Lingli – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: The goal of the present study was to examine the moderating role of child effortful control (EC) in the relation between shyness and social-emotional adjustment difficulties among young Chinese children. Participants included 195 children (117 boys, 78 girls, Mage = 4.28 years, SD = 0.31) enrolled in 6 classes attending…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Young Children, Urban Youth
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Maloney, Erin K.; Bleakley, Amy; Stevens, Robin; Ellithorpe, Morgan; Jordan, Amy – Health Education Journal, 2023
Background: In the USA, lower income minority ethnic children and teenagers report high consumption of sugar sweetened beverages, which cause dental erosion and dental carries, and play a significant role in overweight, obesity and diabetes. Objective: This study aimed to examine urban adolescents' beliefs about sports and energy drinks to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Late Adolescents, Blacks, Hispanic Americans
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Schultz, Celeste M.; Corte, Colleen – Journal of School Nursing, 2022
Early alcohol use places youth at risk for adverse health, academic, and legal consequences. We examined the content of the total array of self-cognitions in urban youth to determine whether specific self-concept profiles were associated with early drinking, drinking-related self-cognitions, and conduct problems. We conducted a secondary analysis…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Behavior Problems, Self Concept, Urban Youth
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Simin Zhang; Bowen Xiao; Yujia Zhang; Xinyi Zhu; Qiyiru Dong; Xuechen Ding – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2024
The goal of the present study was to explore the relations between social avoidance, peer preference, loneliness, and social sensitivity among urban Chinese children. Participants were 951 children attending primary and middle schools from grade 3 to grade 7. Cross-sectional data were collected using self-report assessments and peer nominations.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Psychological Patterns
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Hendrix-Soto, Aimee – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2021
In this article, I focus on the critical literacies of Black and Latinx youth participating in a youth participatory action research project, as well as the pedagogies that engaged those literacies. Critical ethnographic study of the Youth Equity Agents' literacy practices revealed that they enacted a practice of reading school, wherein they…
Descriptors: Critical Literacy, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Urban Youth
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Gustafson, Elena; Cohen, Alison K.; Andes, Sarah – Youth & Society, 2021
Youth civic engagement is relatively low in the United States. However, when students are involved in an action civics class (like Generation Citizen), they enthusiastically take action on a wide variety of topics. To systematically assess what issues youth are interested in, we analyzed administrative data from 1,651 action projects conducted by…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Civics, Student Projects, Urban Youth
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Cadaret, Michael C.; Hartung, Paul J. – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2021
The efficacy of a three-week career construction counselling group intervention that was structured using the My Career Story workbook [Savickas, M. L., & Hartung, P. J. (2012). My career story: An autobiographical workbook for life-career success. www.vocopher.com] was examined using a pre/post-test design. The group intervention was…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Career Development, Intervention, Group Counseling
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Heather F. Clark – Science Education, 2024
This paper presents the argument that climate change should be taught in schools as a sociopolitical and scientific process, and that students should be able to use their science knowledge to think critically about climate change as a social justice issue. A necessary and achievable outcome of science education is critical climate awareness--an…
Descriptors: Climate, Knowledge Level, Science Education, Outcomes of Education
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Li, Fang; Jiang, Yong; Zhang, Beibei; Zhu, Xingjian; Sha, Tianyan – Early Child Development and Care, 2023
This study aimed to examine the effects of rater, age and gender on the relationship between theory of mind (ToM) and preschoolers' social competence with peers (SCP). A sample of 152 Chinese urban children aged 4 to 6 years (78 boys and 74 girls) were given ToM scale. Their SCP was measured by teacher report and parent report. There were three…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Interpersonal Competence, Peer Relationship, Foreign Countries
Baranov, Vladimir V.; Savinov, Andrey M.; Ashrafullina, Gulnaz Sh.; Makarov, Alexandr L.; Korzhanova, Alla A.; Dzhamalova, Bika B.; Magomedrasulov, Magomedrasul N. – Journal of Educational Psychology - Propositos y Representaciones, 2020
The relevance of this article is the need to study the leisure sphere of modern youth, since free time is one of the important means of forming a young person's personality. The use of free time by young people is a kind of indicator of culture, the range of spiritual needs and interests of a particular personality of a young person. The aim of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Leisure Time, Recreational Activities, Urban Youth
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Ahl, Peter; Hill, Eddie; Leary, Andrew; Lawhon, Ben – Journal of Outdoor Recreation, Education, and Leadership, 2022
This study describes a program developed with the coordination of four agencies to reconnect urban youth to nature by combining the best of each partner. Many urban youth are disconnected from nature. Recent studies show that youth only spend about 15-25 minutes daily outdoors recreating. Youth are now exposed to high-arousing stimuli from…
Descriptors: Urban Youth, Natural Resources, After School Programs, Outdoor Education
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Chen, Yuanyuan; Huo, Yongquan – Youth & Society, 2023
This study explored the relationship between social interaction anxiety (SIA) and problematic smartphone use (PSU) among Chinese adolescents. Further, the roles of online basic psychological needs satisfaction (online BPNS), nature connectedness (NC), and related differences between urban and rural adolescents were examined. We recruited 840…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Interpersonal Relationship, Anxiety
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