The Impact of Negative Life Events on Young Adolescents: Comparing the Relative Vulnerability of Middle Level, High School, and College-Age Students

Autor/inn/en	Mann, Michael J.; Kristjansson, Alfgeir L.; Sigfusdottir, Inga Dora; Smith, Megan L.
Titel	The Impact of Negative Life Events on Young Adolescents: Comparing the Relative Vulnerability of Middle Level, High School, and College-Age Students
Quelle	In: RMLE Online: Research in Middle Level Education, 38 (2014) 2, (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1940-4476
Schlagwörter	Early Adolescents; Middle School Students; High School Students; College Students; Comparative Analysis; At Risk Persons; Experience; Influences; Emotional Response; Gender Differences; Foreign Countries; Trauma; Psychological Patterns; Proximity; Anxiety; Depression (Psychology); Family Environment; Parent Background; Educational Attainment; Family Income; Age Differences; Least Squares Statistics; Statistical Analysis; Regression (Statistics); Iceland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; High school; High schools; Oberschule; Studentin; Collegestudent; Risikogruppe; Erfahrung; Influence; Einfluss; Einflussfaktor; Emotionales Verhalten; Geschlechterkonflikt; Ausland; Lebensnähe; Angst; Familienmilieu; Elternhaus; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Familieneinkommen; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Statistische Analyse; Regression; Regressionsanalyse; Island
Abstract	Early adolescence represents a particularly vulnerable period of development during which young people are susceptible to establishing lifelong behavior patterns associated with poor life, health, and educational outcomes. Previous research demonstrates older adolescents and young adults often experience negative life events (NLEs) prior to corresponding periods of depression, anxiety, and anger and that NLE-related distress can influence students' readiness to learn. Educators, especially in the middle grades, must provide increasingly responsive support and intervention to help reduce the lifelong educational and health-related consequences too often associated with NLEs. In this study, the authors investigated the relative influence of NLEs on middle level, high school, and college students. Specifically, they examined young adolescents' emotional vulnerability to NLEs and described how these vulnerabilities changed during adolescence. The authors also assessed the impact of event intensity, timing, and gender. This study makes an important contribution to the professional literature on readiness to learn in the middle grades by helping researchers and practitioners better understand how emotional vulnerability changes during adolescence and by discussing the implications of these changes for professional practice. Further, it promises to help middle level professionals become better prepared to assist young people coping with NLEs and to create school environments that support student success. (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10