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1997
This pamphlet summarizes the key findings of a two-part study that investigated the messages that young women (age 10 to 17) get from the media. A content analysis examined messages to girls across a range of media most heavily used by adolescent girls: television, movies, magazines, music videos, television commercials, and magazine…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Content Analysis, Females, Films

Storch, Eric A.; Zelman, Elissa; Sweeney, Michael; Danner, Gina; Dove, Sarah – Child Study Journal, 2002
This study investigated the relationship between overt and relational victimization and internalizing behavior disorders among 75 African American and Hispanic elementary aged students. Findings indicated that overt victimization, but not relational victimization, was significantly correlated with social-evaluative anxiety, social avoidance, and…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Behavior Problems, Black Youth, Depression (Psychology)

Ozyurek, Asli – Journal of Child Language, 1996
Investigates how Turkish children of different ages discuss a conversation they have witnessed during a televised dialog between two Sesame Street characters. Findings reveal that there is a developmental change in children's ability to use appropriate linguistic means to orient their listeners to the different properties of a conversation. (17…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Child Language, Communicative Competence (Languages)

Orion, Judi – NAMTA Journal, 2002
Discusses how Montessori infant and toddler communities provide an occasion for child development education for upper elementary and adolescent students within the school. Uses a question-and-answer format to illustrate how the program addresses the reality of lifestyles other than that of the traditional family. (Author/KB)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Development, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education

Barry, Carolyn McNamara; Wigfield, Allan – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2002
Examined stability and change from middle childhood to middle adolescence in participants' perceptions of their friendship-making ability and their friends' deviant behavior. Although perceptions were not highly stable over 5 years, participants perceived their friendship-making ability as greater during childhood than during adolescence;…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Attitude Change, Delinquency

De Moor, Carl; And Others – Journal of Drug Education, 1989
Compared generic tobacco use among Hispanic, White, Black, and Asian youths (N=4,980) in grades 4, 7, 10, and 12. Found prevalence of regular use was highest among Whites, followed by Hispanics, Blacks, and Asians. Marijuana, alcohol, and other drug use explained approximately 40 percent of variance in tobacco use in each ethnic group. Other…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Asian Americans, Black Students, Comparative Analysis

Crowder, William W. – Social Studies, 1988
Suggests five strategies to promote wise use of free time, including acquainting students with several major types of activities, examining leisure activities of people in other countries, researching the meaning of leisure, conducting a community survey of leisure opportunities, and considering related career opportunities. (LS)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Athletics, Career Awareness, Citizen Participation

Iarusso, Marilyn Berg – Catholic Library World, 1989
Summarizes current research on teaching children to love reading, and identifies techniques that can be used by parents, teachers and librarians to foster this attitude. The topics discussed include the value of reading aloud to children, selecting children's books, the different interests of boys and girls, and reading to develop values. (six…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Elementary Education, Library Role, Motivation

Qouta, Samir; And Others – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 1995
This study examined effects of the Israeli-Palestinian peace treaty on 64 Palestinian children, ages 11 through 12. The level of neuroticism was significantly lower after the treaty than before, and children's earlier exposure to trauma was significantly related to high neuroticism and low self-esteem after the treaty. (Author/SW)
Descriptors: Conflict Resolution, Coping, Emotional Adjustment, Emotional Disturbances

Maggs, Jennifer L.; And Others – Journal of Early Adolescence, 1995
Examined concurrent and longitudinal relations among adolescents' problem behavior (PB), self-image, and peer relations. Analyses showed age increases correlated with disobedience, school misconduct, substance use, and peer involvement. Longitudinal increases in PB were associated with decreases in positive self-image and increases in peer…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Problems, Child Behavior, Concurrent Validity

Alsaker, Francoise D. – Journal of Adolescence, 1995
Considers factors that may be involved in changes in the socialization process at puberty, and examines some central findings from the literature on pubertal changes from a socialization perspective. Pubertal maturation is expected to be accompanied with socialization problems in terms of unclear and different expectations to the developing…
Descriptors: Behavior Standards, Cognitive Development, Elementary Education, Maturity (Individuals)

Domino, George – Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 1992
Studies whether Chinese children are more cooperative, whereas U.S. children are more competitive, using 76 10- to 12-year-old children in each country. Results using the Social Values Task indicate that Chinese children favor strategies that result in equality and group enhancement, and U.S. children favor individualistic and competitive…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Chinese, Competition, Cooperation

Dekovic, Maja; Janssens, Jan M . A . M. – Developmental Psychology, 1992
In a study of 112 children of 6-11 years of age and their parents, authoritative/democratic and authoritarian/restrictive factors in parent behavior predicted the child's prosocial behavior and sociometric status. Results support the idea that popular and rejected children have different family experiences. (BG)
Descriptors: Developmental Psychology, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries

Dishion, T. J.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1991
Compared early adolescent involvement with antisocial peers and boys' experiences at age 10. Poor parental discipline and monitoring, peer rejection, and academic failure at age 10 predicted involvement with antisocial peers at age 12. Continuity between boys' antisocial behavior and peer contact at ages 10 and 12 was found. (BC)
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Antisocial Behavior, Delinquency, Discipline

Hagan, Margaret Stanley – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1992
Discusses the research methodology of the longitudinal study that makes up this monograph issue. Discusses (1) subjects; (2) experimental procedure; (3) assessment measures of demographic factors, children's adjustment, adult depression, marital relationship, parent-child relationship, sibling relationship, and family interactions; and (5)…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Demography, Depression (Psychology)