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Author:   Roberta G. Simmons ,  Dale A. Blyth
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   AldineTransaction
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.725kg
ISBN:  

9780202362946

ISBN 10:   0202362949
Pages:   458
Publication Date:   15 January 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

I: Introduction; 1: Introduction; 2: Methods; II: Gender and Grade-Level Effects; 3: Gender Differences in Late Childhood and Early Adolescence *; 4: Trends Over Time and Changes in Gender Differences During Adolescence *; III: The Impact of Pubertal Timing and Physical Characteristics; 5: The Social-Psychological Effects of Puberty on White Females 1; 6: The Social-Psychological Effects of Puberty on White Males *; IV: The Impact of School Environment; 7: The Effect of Type of School Environment Upon Attitudes Toward School and Upon The Self-Image; 8: The Effects of Type of School Environment Upon Peer Relationships, Independence, Future Plans, and Conformity Behavior; 9: Individual Change and Recovery: Self-Esteem *; 10: Individual Change and Recovery: Extracurricular Participation and GPA *; V: Factors That Mitigate or Aggravate The Early Adolescent Transition; 11: Cumulation of Change *; 12: Adjustment to the Junior High School Transition: The Effect of School Properties and Individual Resources on Self-Esteem *; 13: Adjustment to the Junior High School Transition: Other Interrelationships *; VI: Conclusion; 14: Summary and Conclusion

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-This work is an impressive piece of sociological research and scholarship. The transition to adolescence is studied with an unusually large sample and a pertinent and careful methodology, which results in definitive tests of a number of important developmental hypotheses... [T]he analysis of significant data in this book provides a wealth of information and constitutes an important contribution to our understanding of the transition to adolescence within the context of the school.- --Lloyd Lueptow, Journal of Marriage and Family -Moving into Adolescence is not an easy book to read... The book contains nearly 100 pages of tables, more than most readers will want to grapple with. Yet for the student of adolescence or of our educational system, this is required reading.- --John A. Clausen, Contemporary Sociology

<p> This work is an impressive piece of sociological research and scholarship. The transition to adolescence is studied with an unusually large sample and a pertinent and careful methodology, which results in definitive tests of a number of important developmental hypotheses... [T]he analysis of significant data in this book provides a wealth of information and constitutes an important contribution to our understanding of the transition to adolescence within the context of the school. <p> --Lloyd Lueptow, Journal of Marriage and Family <p> Moving into Adolescence is not an easy book to read... The book contains nearly 100 pages of tables, more than most readers will want to grapple with. Yet for the student of adolescence or of our educational system, this is required reading. <p> --John A. Clausen, Contemporary Sociology

Author Information

Roberta G. Simmons (1937-1993) was professor of psychiatry and sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. She was a member of the governing council of the American Sociological Association and the Society for Research on Adolescence. Dale A. Blyth is center director and assistant dean of the Center for 4-H Youth Development at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Philosophy, Policies, and Programs for Early Adolescent Education: An Annotated Bibliography.

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