This study examined the impact of Family Check‐Up (FCU) and linked intervention services on reducing health‐risk behaviors promoting social adaptation among middle school youth. A total 593 students their families were randomly assigned to receive either or as usual. Forty‐two percent engaged in service received FCU. Using complier average causal effect analyses, engagement moderated outcomes. Families who had youth reported lower rates antisocial behavior substance use over time than did a...

Self–determination theory states that satisfaction of the needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness promotes well–being, with each need making an independent contribution to well–being. Although this prediction has been supported in studies college students adults, no study examined concurrent future levels well–being children adolescents. The current relation a sample 331 third seventh graders. Satisfaction autonomy was associated positive negative affect. competence affect depressive...

The authors propose that peer relationships should be included in a life history perspective on adolescent problem behavior. Longitudinal analyses were used to examine deviant clustering as the mediating link between attenuated family ties, marginalization, and social disadvantage early adolescence sexual promiscuity middle childbearing by adulthood. Specifically, 998 youths, along with their families, assessed at age 11 years periodically through 24 years. Structural equation modeling...

Effortful control has been proposed as a set of neurocognitive competencies that is relevant to self-regulation and educational attainment (Posner & Rothbart, 2007). This study tested the hypothesis multiagent report adolescents' effortful (age 17) would be predictive academic persistence 23-25), after controlling for other established predictors (family factors, problem behavior, grade point average, substance use). Participants were 997 students recruited in 6th from 3 urban public middle...

This 17-year longitudinal study tested whether low peer-perceived acceptance and association with aggressive-disruptive friends during preadolescence predicted students' failure to graduate from secondary school. Participants were 997 Caucasian, French-speaking boys low-socioeconomic status, urban neighborhoods. The recruited in kindergarten (age 6) followed through early adulthood 23). Low levels of prosocial behaviors high childhood expected predict negative preadolescent peer experiences....

This study tested whether grade retention at the transition into secondary school had a significant impact on adolescent psychosocial adjustment. A quasi-experimental design was used in which propensity score matching implemented. Univariate ANCOVAs were subsequently run subsample of 181 students enrolled one typical French-speaking region Belgium ( M = 12.91 years, 55.8% girls). These analyses revealed that retained experienced decreases self-esteem, perceived parental support for...

As children become adolescents, peers assume greater importance in their lives. Peer experiences can either help them thrive or negatively affect psychosocial adjustment. In this review article definitions for the types of peer are provided followed by an overview common issues encountered adolescents. Past research that has pointed to risk and protection factors emerge from during adolescence role influences context current relevant adolescent education discussed. Research suggests...

Given the high prevalence of psychological distress among vocational training (VT) students, this study aimed to assess role interpersonal emotional competence as a resilience factor promoting educational success population. We postulated that would promote success, both directly and indirectly by fostering students’ help-seeking intentions when facing personal or school-related problem. To test these hypotheses, we used sample 219 VT students from Canadian province Quebec (68% women, M age...

High school teachers often struggle to engage students who have little or no motivation learn. We argue that improving students' perceptions of affective relationships with may the potential positively influence their motivation, and vice versa. This study looks at reciprocal associations between teacher–student relationship climate (PTSRC) three components academic (autonomous, controlled, amotivation), measured two time points, over a 12–month period. recruited 328 (on average 15 years...

Socioeconomic status (SES) is relatively stable across generations, but social policies may create opportunities for upward mobility among disadvantaged populations during periods of economic growth. With respect to expanded educational that occurred in Québec (Canada) the 1960s, we hypothesized children's and academic competence would promote mobility, whereas aggression withdrawal have opposite effect. Out 4,109 children attending low-SES schools 1976-1978, a representative subsample 503...

Aggressive behaviours in adolescence often originate early development. This study tested three longitudinal pathways starting childhood, a sample of 325 Belgian participants (162 girls) assessed every 1 or 2 years from birth through age 14. Structural equation models supported the “mother dissatisfaction” pathway toward adolescent aggression, but neither “cognitive functioning” nor “early aggressive behaviour” gained clear support. Mother’s dissatisfaction with her child was point series...

Au début de l’adolescence, l’estime soi est instable et les pairs deviennent plus en importants. La théorie du sociomètre suggère que la position sociale des adolescentes adolescents au sein réseau liée à leur estime soi, ce qui pourrait aider expliquer variations cette période vie. Nous avons émis l’hypothèse l’interaction entre jeunes clique popularité influence changements d’estime sur un an. Les personnes participantes étaient 348 belges (âge moyen : 13 ans; 61 % filles). Pour cliques...

La transition vers l’école secondaire au début de l’adolescence est une période durant laquelle les influences sociales évoluent rapidement et peuvent interagir manière complexe. Cette étude s’intéresse aux relations parent–enfant ainsi qu’aux affiliations sein du groupe pairs en tant que facteurs pouvant contribuer fonctionnement scolaire des adolescent·es parcours secondaire. Spécifiquement, elle examine l’effet modérateur soutien parental sur le lien entre l’appartenance jeunes à un ayant...

Considérant l’absence d’outils permettant de mesurer la réussite éducative en formation professionnelle, cette étude visait à développer et valider un tel instrument. Le Questionnaire professionnelle (QRÉ-FP) comprend 24 énoncés mesurant selon les trois missions l’école québécoise : instruire, socialiser qualifier. Une collecte par questionnaire a été effectuée personne auprès 212 élèves francophones dans région Montréal, dont 50 ont répondu nouveau 4 semaines plus tard. QRÉ-FP présente des...