Acknowledgments 5 Jul 2013 | 04:46 pm

Body Dissatisfaction and Characteristics of Disordered Eating Among Black and White Early Adolescent Girls and Boys 5 Jul 2013 | 04:46 pm

Multiple measures of body dissatisfaction and behaviors associated with disordered eating were studied in 258 White girls, 223 White boys, 106 Black girls, and 82 Black boys. All participants were unp...

Academic Self-Presentation Strategies and Popularity in Middle School 5 Jul 2013 | 04:46 pm

This study examined early adolescents’ beliefs about which academic self-presentation strategies hypothetical hard-working, high-achieving students should use with popular peers, adolescents’ own use ...

The Effects of Privileging Moral or Performance Character Development in Urban Adolescents 5 Jul 2013 | 04:46 pm

This study compared the effects of emphasizing moral character development or performance character development at three high-performing, high-poverty urban middle schools. Performance character consi...

The Timing of School Transitions and Early Adolescent Problem Behavior 5 Jul 2013 | 04:46 pm

This longitudinal study investigates whether rural adolescents who transition to a new school in sixth grade have higher levels of risky behavior than adolescents who transition in seventh grade. Our ...

Finnish Sixth Graders as Victims of Adult, Peer, and Co-Occurring Adult and Peer Violence: Depression, Somatization, and Violent Ideation in Relation ... 5 Jul 2013 | 04:46 pm

This study examined the experiences of peer and adult victimization of 737 12-year-old Finnish students. Of the respondents, 28.4% had experienced peer or adult, or both kinds of violence. Peer violen...

An Investigation of Desired Friendships During Early Adolescence 5 Jul 2013 | 04:46 pm

This study of 384 young adolescents (45% girls, M age = 12.94 years) and their desired friendships (friendships that adolescents indicate they would like to form in the future) examined whether (a) ad...

Young Adolescents' Responses to Positive Events: Associations With Positive Affect and Adjustment 2 May 2013 | 02:47 pm

This study examined how maximizing and minimizing responses to positive events were associated with sustained positive feelings about the events and adjustment in a community sample of 56 young adoles...

Anticipated Coping With Interpersonal Stressors: Links With the Emotional Reactions of Sadness, Anger, and Fear 2 May 2013 | 02:47 pm

The same stressor can evoke different emotions across individuals, and emotions can prompt certain coping responses. Responding to four videotaped interpersonal stressors, adolescents (N = 230, $${\ov...

The Specificity of Autobiographical Memories in Early Adolescence: The Role of Mother-Child Communication and Attachment-Related Beliefs 2 May 2013 | 02:47 pm

Although autobiographical memory specificity is an important developmental feature fostering adaptation throughout life, little is known about factors related to interindividual differences in autobio...