Measures of Early Adolescent Development and School Contexts

Based on resilience and feminist criminological theories, several individual, family, and community characteristics were hypothesized to predict late-adolescent delinquency for girls varying in early-adolescent risk. Girls aged 12 and 13 were interviewed each year as part of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997. Predictors of late-adolescent delinquency were compared for girls in and below the top 10% in self-reported early-adolescent delinquency. Girls who were higher in delinquency in early adolescence were resilient by 2002 if they had no incarcerated family members and high parental monitoring. Girls with little or no early delinquency were at risk for illegal activity by age 17 primarily due to contextual adversities, low hope for the future, poverty status, and minority racial status. Persistently delinquent girls require programming to address multiple risk and protective factors over an extended time. To prevent delinquency beginning later in adolescence, girls need safe community and school contexts.

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School Climate, Early Adolescent Development, and Identity: Associations with Adjustment Outcomes

10.33915/etd.6670 ◽

2015 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Megan Lorraine Smith

Keyword(s):

School Climate ◽

Adolescent Development ◽

Early Adolescent ◽

Adjustment Outcomes

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KENAKALAN REMAJA AWAL DI LINGKUNGAN SEKOLAH DITINJAU DARI KETIDAKHADIRAN ORANG TUA KARENA MERANTAU

Jurnal Litbang Media Informasi Penelitian Pengembangan dan IPTEK ◽

10.33658/jl.v11i2.70 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 11 (2) ◽

pp. 143-150

Author(s):

Siti Qorrotu Aini

Keyword(s):

Substance Abuse ◽

Secondary School ◽

Adolescent Development ◽

Behavioral Problems ◽

School Environment ◽

Early Adolescent ◽

School Age ◽

Hormonal Changes ◽

Adolescent Delinquency ◽

School Life

ENGLISHEarly adolescent phase that coincided with the beginning of secondary school age have characteristics that emotionally still volatile because of the influence of hormonal changes in adolescents. This forms a distinctive characteristic in early adolescence which includes aspects social behavior, moral, religious, affective, cognitive and personality. The reviewed purpose is to explain the potential of early adolescent delinquency in the school environment on students whose parents migrated for temporary. Adolescent phase needs nurturing, guidance, direction and supervision. The parents roles is needed for the success of adolescent development. Adolescent who left by their parents for temporal migration have psychosocial youth impact in their school life. Adolescent beside studied academicly also required to comply with the applicable rules at school. Adolescent who are left for temporal migration and have psychosocial problem, forms of delinquency includes substance abuse such as alcohol, behavioral problems includes coming late, ditching, not doing homework, words are rude, alcohol, viewing pornography, fighting, courting school environment, write inappropriate words on the walls of the bathroom and indications brawl. INDONESIAFase remaja awal yang bertepatan dengan usia sekolah menengah memiliki karakteristik yang secara emosional masih bergejolak karena pengaruh perubahan hormonal dalam diri remaja. Hal ini membentuk karakteristik yang khas pada masa remaja awal yang meliputi aspek perilaku sosial, moral, religi, afeksi, kognitif dan kepribadian. Tujuan penulisan untuk menjelaskan potensi kenakalan remaja awal di lingkungan sekolah pada siswa yang orang tuanya merantau. Fase remaja membutuhkan pengasuhan, bimbingan, arahan dan pengawasan. Peran orang tua sangat dibutuhkan untuk keberhasilan perkembangan anak remaja. Remaja yang ditinggal orang tuanya merantau memiliki dampak psikososial remaja dalam kehidupannya bersekolah. Remaja, selain belajar secara akademis juga dituntut untuk mematuhi aturan yang berlaku disekolah. Remaja yang ditinggal merantau dan memiliki masalah psikosial, bentuk-bentuk kenakalannya meliputi penyalahgunaan zat berupa minuman keras, masalah perilaku meliputi terlambat, membolos, tidak mengerjakan tugas/PR, perkataan yang kasar, minuman keras, melihat pornografi, berkelahi, pacaran dilingkungan sekolah, menulis kata-kata tidak pantas di tembok kamar mandi dan indikasi tawuran.

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Meaning in Life as Mediator of Family Allocentrism and Depressive Symptoms Among Chinese and Italian Early Adolescents

Youth & Society ◽

10.1177/0044118x20921637 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 0044118X2092163 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Alessandro Germani ◽

Delvecchio Elisa ◽

Li Jian-Bin ◽

Lis Adriana ◽

Mazzeschi Claudia

Keyword(s):

Depressive Symptoms ◽

Adolescent Development ◽

Meaning In Life ◽

Protective Factor ◽

Early Adolescents ◽

Well Being ◽

Mediation Effect ◽

Early Adolescent ◽

Presence Of Meaning ◽

The Relationship

Establishing a coherent meaning in life has long been considered to be a protective factor of well-being, but this construct has been understudied in early adolescent development. The current study investigated the relationships between family allocentrism and depressive symptoms as well as the mediation effect of meaning in life in 214 Chinese and 201 Italian early adolescents. Although family allocentrism was higher in Chinese than Italian participants, it was significantly associated to lower depressive symptoms in both countries. Moderated mediational analyses showed that in both countries: (a) family allocentrism was positively related with presence of meaning; (b) family allocentrism and presence of meaning were negatively related to depressive symptoms; and (c) presence of meaning mediated the relationship between family allocentrism and depressive symptoms. In conclusion, family allocentrism and presence of meaning in life are important preventive factors of early adolescents’ depressive symptoms in both collectivistic and in individualistic countries.

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