Adolescent Motivation Research Articles

Potret Konformitas dalam Kelompok Remaja Laki-Laki Urban Komunitas BC

This article is a research study on communication behavior, especially regarding group conformity and communication motives that occur in urban adolescents. The BC community is a unique urban teenage boy community as a group of young people who are digitally literate and prioritize the value of conformity in their group. Therefore, the author wants to describe the conformity and motives of adolescents in the community. This study uses the Schutz phenomenology method because it observes the communication behavior of the study of group conformity and male adolescent motives. The results of the research showed that the conformity of the group in the BC community was formed due to personal factors and situational factors; The motives underlying the male adolescent communication behavior in the BC community are classified into because of motives and to motives. In the end, the writer found that conformity and motive are two different things but inherent in the individual so that the author can see what trends will be done by male adolescents. This is an impact arising from the conformity and motives they have.

Lack of Adolescent Interest in Education in Pinjauan Tinggi Village

This study aims to find out: 1) internal factors that influence the lack of interest in adolescents in education in the village of Pinjauan Tinggi. 2) External factors that influence the lack of interest in adolescents in education in the village of Pinjauan Tinggi. This research uses a qualitative approach. Data collection techniques used in this study were interviews and observation. Data analysis was performed using an interactive analysis model. The data validity technique uses data and source triangulation techniques. The result showed that: 1) internal factors that influence are: (a) lack of motivation of adolescents to continue their education, (b) choosing migrants looking for work, 2) external factors that influence: (a) Parents income, (b) school environmental, (c) community environmental factors.Keywords: Interest, Education Youth, Internal Factors, External Factors

Peer relationships, motivation, self-efficacy, and science literacy in ethnic minority adolescents in China: A moderated mediation model

This study aims to investigate the possible mediating and moderating factors in the relationship between peer relationships and science literacy in ethnic Zhuang adolescents, the largest ethnic minority group in China. Altogether 596 Grade 9 Zhuang students (Nfemale = 293, Mage = 14.74, SD = 1.38) were surveyed and tested with PISA Science (2008). The descriptive and PROCESS analyses have confirmed that motivation acted as a mediator between peer relationships and science literacy, and self-efficacy acted as a moderator. This model indicated that positive peer relationships would cause higher motivation associated with higher science literacy. Besides, self-efficacy could significantly moderate the mediation effect of motivation in females, indicating that more attention should be paid to female Zhuang students to enhance their self-efficacy and, accordingly, science literacy.

A 24-week intervention based on nutrition care process improves diet quality, body mass index, and motivation in children and adolescents with obesity

Higher motivation could support to lead behavioral change for obese children and adolescents. This study aimed to evaluate the effects of a nutrition care process (NCP)–based intervention targeted on diet and weight status in moderate to severe obese children and adolescents in Korea. One hundred four subjects (mean age: 10.95 years, body mass index (BMI) ≥97th percentile of age-sex) participated in the present study. Subjects were divided into a usual care group (UG) and a nutrition group (NG). All participants underwent nutrition education 6 times. The NG received individual access and continuous monitoring and setting goals with respect to nutritional problems. Consumption of high-calorie, low-nutrient (HCLN) food was significantly decreased (P < .05) and the Diet Quality Index-International (DQI-I) score also increased with respect to sodium (P < .001). The total self-efficacy score was increased from 9.15 to 10.14 points (P < .01). After 24 weeks, the BMI-z-score decreased from 2.27 to 2.19 in the NG (P < .05); however, no group difference was found. BMI-z-score was negatively associated with self-efficacy (β = -0.03, P < .019). NCP-based intervention might be helpful to solve dietary problems by enhancing self-efficacy and lower BMI-z-score in moderately to severely obese children and adolescents.

Komunikasi kesehatan bagi pelajar dengan pendekatan peer education

Purpose: Health communication has a strategic role in minimizing the risk of Covid-19 transmission. This is because the public's understanding of the implementation of the health protocols recommended by the government has not been implemented equally among all groups. One of the community groups that is quite vulnerable is a group of students in Kampung Lengkong Kaler, Desa Samarang, Kecamatan Samarang, Kabupaten Garut, who carry out offline learning activities as an additional effort of online learning which is carried out only twice a week. This activity happens to be a cluster for the spread of the virus if there is no health protocol such as the use of masks. The purpose of this activity is as an effort to prevent the spread of Covid 19 through Health Socialization to adolescents. Research methodology: The methodology used in this activity is health socialization and offline learning assistance to adolescents using the Peer Education approach. Peer educators or peer educators are proven to have considerable potential at adolescence in terms of attitudes. This is caused by peers who represent an attitude of acceptance, and there is motivation for adolescents who acknowledge by their group. Results: There was a change in behavior and the application of new habits through post-socialization health protocols and assistance to adolescents who were members of the study groups in Lengkong Kaler Village. Limitation: The inhibiting factor for health socialization activities with a peer education approach is the limited media space that represents students to conduct socialization simulations to their peers. Contribution: The solution to the existing obstacles is to use the Garut University Service Team post on loan by local residents. Keywords: Health communication, Socialization, Peer education

Body Image Relates to Exercise-Induced Antinociception and Mood Changes in Young Adults: A Randomized Longitudinal Exercise Intervention

Background: An important motivation for adolescents and young adults to engage in aerobic exercise (AE) is to improve fitness, body composition and physical appearance. These parameters have an impact on bodily perception as conceptualized by the ‘body image’ (BI) construct. AE is known to have positive effects on pain perception, mood, and body image (BI). However, no study has hitherto investigated their interrelationship within one study. Methods: Participants were randomly assigned to an intervention group (IG, n = 16, 6 months of AE) or a passive control group (CG, n = 10). Frankfurt Body-Concept Scales (FKKS), Positive and Negative Affect Scale (PANAS), State and Trait Anxiety Inventory, warmth and heat pain thresholds (WPT, HPT), pain tolerance, and graded exercise test data from baseline (T0) and the end of the intervention (T6) were analyzed using a paired t-test (p < 0.05). Results: A significant increase in the BI dimension ‘physical efficacy’ was identified from T0 to T6, which correlated positively with PANAS Positive Affect Scale and HPT. Conclusion: Data in young adults undergoing AE indicate that changes in the BI sub-category ‘physical efficacy’ are closely linked with changes in positive affect and antinociception. These novel findings suggest that BI plays a role in antinociception and positive affect.

Open trial of the Parent Behavior Change Intervention (PBC-I): Study protocol.

Parents have profound impacts on adolescents' health behaviors. Yet parents receive minimal training in the elements of conversations that optimally inspire their children toward engaging in healthy behaviors. The current study examines a novel interpersonal target: parent-adolescent conversations about adolescent health behavior change. Derived from advances in the science of behavior change, the Parent Behavior Change Intervention (PBC-I) contains conversational elements (e.g., behavior change techniques, positive communication strategies) hypothesized to reduce parent-adolescent coercion and conflict and facilitate upward spirals of healthy behavior change in adolescents. The first phase of the study involves the development of the PBC-I in a small case series (N = 12 dyads). The second phase involves an open trial of the PBC-I (N = 36 dyads). Adolescents will receive six 50-min sessions of the Transdiagnostic Sleep and Circadian Intervention to improve sleep while their parents receive six50-min sessions of the PBC-I. Parent-adolescent dyads will be assessed before and after the intervention. The primary analysis will examine whether postintervention use of behavior change techniques and positive communication strategies by parents is higher than preintervention use and whether increased use by parents predicts more positive conversational behaviors, less parent-adolescent conflict, higher adolescent motivation for change, and improved adolescent sleep. This research provides an initial test of the hypothesis that improving the parent-adolescent conversation will improve adolescent sleep health behavior. While sleep-related health behaviors are the focus of this study, the research is designed to be relevant to a broad range of health behavior change in young people. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).

Reading Motivation in Bi/Multilingual Latinx Adolescents: An Exploratory Structural Equation Model

This study investigated reading motivation among high school bi/multilingual students whose first language was Spanish. Latinx English Learners (N = 171) from four southeastern, suburban high schools completed the Adolescent Motivation to Read Profile (AMRP; Pitcher et al., 2007), a survey that proposes to measure two dimensions of reading motivation. Using exploratory structural equation modeling (ESEM), the researchers sought to determine the factors that underlie the data and the relationship between reading motivation latent and observed variables. Results revealed that the two latent variables, namely reading self-concept (RSC) and reading attitude (RA), have a small but significant relationship with each other. Moreover, variables such as the length of time students spent in the U.S. and gender were significantly related to both RSC and RA. Specifically, the longer participants had resided in the U.S., the less they were motivated to read. When examining the role of gender in reading motivation, females demonstrated higher RSC and more positive RA compared to their male counterparts. Findings are interpreted in light of the expectancy-value theory (Atkinson, 1957). Implications for reading research and teaching are presented.

Reliability and Validity of the Internet Fiction Reading Motivation Scale for Chinese Adolescence

This study aimed to investigate the construct of the Internet fiction reading motivation scale for Adolescents, and examine its reliability and validity in Chinese adolescence. 747 adolescence finished the prior scale to complete exploratory analysis and 1648 adolescents completed the final scale and the criterion scale for confirmatory analysis. Exploratory analysis and confirmatory analysis supported the three-dimension model of the scale, the internal consistency coefficients of the total scale and three dimensions were 0.91, 0.81, 0.82 and 0.83 respectively. There were significant positive correlations between the total score, three dimensions and Internet fiction frequency and type. In conclusion, The Internet fiction reading motivation scale is a reliable and valid scale for assessing fiction reading motivation in Chinese adolescence.

Moral Emotions and Moral Motivation Beyond Childhood: discussion to the special issue

Research on the role of moral emotions in moral judgment, both in hypothetical dilemmata and in real-life moral decision making, has focused on preschool and elementary school age, with few studies spanning a larger age range, into adolescence and adulthood. The present special issue addresses a neglected area, the development of moral emotions and moral motivation in adolescence and adulthood. The focus is on the “Happy Victimizer Phenomenon”, a pattern of emotion attributions to a moral transgressor that has been primarily observed in childhood, but that does not seem to disappear with age. We begin by briefly reviewing 30 years of developmental research on moral emotion attribution and the “happy victimizer phenomenon”. This review is followed by a discussion of the present papers. &nbsp;

Метапредметные компетенции в профилактике делинквентного поведения подростков

An attempt to establish the relationship between the formation of meta-subject competencies in delinquent adolescents in the framework of educational and extracurricular activities in an educational institution and the transition of forms of its behavioral manifestations from social disapproval to behavior regulated by legal norms was made. The authors outline that in order to structure knowledge about metasubject competencies, they are classified into meta-activities, meta-ways and meta-abilities that directly affect the rehabilitation of delinquent adolescents by means of educational and extracurricular activities organized in an educational institution. Methods of research: comparative and theoretical analysis of psychological and pedagogical literature, monographs and thesis works, documentation; generalization, comparison, systematization. Research result. The authors come to the conclusion that delinquent adolescent, due to the features of their socially disapproved forms of life, have well-defined formed competencies, but apply them in asocial behavioral manifestations. The article pays attention to the importance of improving the effectiveness of activity of educational institutions on the formation of delinquent adolescents’ metasubject competencies as a means of overcoming adolescent deviation. However, attention is drawn to the possible risks in this area of activity due to the delinquent adolescents’ frequent absence from school, so the authors also paid attention to the need to form academic motivation in delinquent adolescents to achieve the goals of forming metasubject competencies and overcoming delinquency.

Believing and Achieving: Gendered Pathways Toward Upward Educational Mobility in the United States.

Little research has investigated the impact of adolescent motivational resources, other than educational plans, on adult educational attainment, or whether their effects differ by gender and social class. Data from the St. Paul Youth Development Study (n = 874, 55% female, 30% children of college graduates) are used to estimate a second-order latent motivation factor encompassing adolescent (age 15-16) educational plans, academic self-concept, economic self-efficacy, and mastery. Then, using logistic regression, the effect of this second-order factor on odds of college graduation in adulthood (ages 26-27 to 37-38) is estimated. Heterogenous effects of motivation by gender and parental education are investigated. The results show that the second-order motivation factor had strong positive effects on educational attainment after adjusting for family background variables. The effect of motivation did not differ by gender in the whole sample nor among children of college graduates. However, among children of less-educated parents, women were found to benefit more than men from these psychological assets for achieving upward educational mobility. These findings suggest that adolescent motivation, especially among U.S. women whose parents do not have college degrees, may be a resource for higher educational attainment.

Adolescent Motivation Toward Physical Exercise: The Role of Sex, Age, Enjoyment, and Anxiety.

Physical exercise declines during adolescence due to several factors, such as lack of intrinsic motivation or enjoyment, high physical exercise anxiety, and so on. The objectives of this study were to validate the psychometric structure of the Behavioral Regulation in Exercise Questionnaire-2 to confirm the existence of five levels of motivation toward physical exercise in adolescent population, as well as to analyze the differences in motivation according to sex and age, and the role of age and sex in the relationship between motivation and enjoyment. To do so, 666 students between 10 and 16 years old completed the Behavioral Regulation in Exercise Questionnaire-2 and questionnaires related to enjoyment and physical exercise anxiety. The confirmatory factor analysis of the Behavioral Regulation in Exercise Questionnaire-2 showed a five-factor structure. However, a more parsimonious four-factor structure with a single intrinsic-identified regulation emerged through an exploratory factor analysis. The more self-determined types of motivation were positively associated with enjoyment and negatively with anxiety, the type of physical exercise motivation fluctuated depending on age and sex, and the age moderated the relationship between motivation and enjoyment. This study highlights the importance of fostering specific types of motivation to improve the physical exercise and the relevance of age and sex when developing interventions.

Exploring Adolescent Motivation to Read with an Online YA Book Club

ABSTRACT This article describes findings related to changes in the reading motivation of 12th grade language arts students who participated in an online book club partnership with college students. The study investigated the motivational impact of self-selected young adult novels, social interaction with college students and peers, and the online context of the club. Analysis suggests having text choice and interacting with college students promotes greater engagement and motivation in high school readers. An unexpected finding was the influence of teacher-determined expectations on student participation.

Professionalizing Care Workers: Outcomes of a ‘Motivational Interviewing’ Training in Residential Youth Care

ABSTRACT Behavioral change in adolescents is often an important aim of residential youth care, but difficult to achieve. Care workers can increase the intrinsic motivation of adolescents to change their behavior by applying Motivational Interviewing (MI). The aim of this study is to investigate whether there is a difference in workers’ performance vis-à-vis adolescents before and after an MI training course. To measure this difference, we coded transcripts of audio recordings of one-on-one conversations between adolescents and workers, using the MITI 4.2.1 and MISC 2.5. We compared the transcripts made before the MI training course with the transcripts made after the training course. The results show that the 13 workers made significantly more use of MI adherent behaviors after the training course. Moreover, a trend toward using fewer MI non-adherent behaviors after the training was observed. The results suggest that workers are able to evoke more ‘change talk’ with adolescents after a training course. In conclusion, after attending a training course, workers are able to engage in conversations that are more in line with the MI-spirit. However, these are still not “real” MI conversations yet. We recommend to train workers more intensively in how to apply MI.

Task-related motivation and academic achievement in children and adolescents with ADHD.

Academic impairment in individuals with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is in part due to reduced motivation for academic tasks, which is likely to vary as a function of task characteristics. The current study employed a new questionnaire-the Child and Adolescent Motivational Profile (CHAMP)-to examine; (1) which task characteristic participants with ADHD perceive as most motivating relative to typically developing peers (TDP) and (2) whether these differences mediate academic functioning. 34 participants with ADHD and 435 TDP (8-16years) completed the CHAMP. Academic achievement (grade point average) and self-reported positive/negative classroom experiences were recorded. No task characteristics were rated higher in terms of their motivational salience in the ADHD group than in the control sample. Marked/graded, Socially evaluated, Collaborative, Requiring focus and Cognitively challenging task characteristics were rated significantly lower by the ADHD group than controls. The lower rating of Socially evaluated was explained by comorbid ODD symptoms. Cognitively challenging was rated as particularly unmotivating by individuals with ADHD. ADHD was associated with a decreased GPA and a more negative classroom experience. The associations between ADHD and GPA/negative classroom experience were both partially mediated by scores on the Cognitively Challenging scale. For children and adolescents with ADHD tasks that are cognitively challenging were not particularly motivating. To increase task motivation, and improve academic performance of individuals with ADHD, it may be important to include rewarded task elements as they are appraised as particularly motivating by these individuals and this appraisal was similar to that of TDP.

Exploring the contributing factors that influence the volition of adolescents with cerebral palsy: A directed content analysis

Background Communication, behavioural disturbances and low motivation influence the functional potential and the effectiveness of interventions in adolescents with cerebral palsy (CP). While the model of human occupation (MOHO) is a conceptual model in occupational therapy, no research on the volition of adolescents with CP in daily activities has been undertaken. Aim To explore the elements contributing to the volition of adolescents with CP based on their own experience Methods A qualitative approach using directed content analysis with volition of MOHO as a framework was applied. Semi-structured in-depth interviews were carried out with five adolescents with CP and five parents of the same adolescents. Results In this study primary codes were categorized into eight categories: family and community-related values, individual values, individual perceptions of ability level, sense of control over conditions, enjoying performing activities, enjoying interpersonal relationships, physical context features and social context features. Conclusions Personal causation in interaction with environmental features is strongly influenced by adolescents’ motivation. Significance Occupational therapists could improve the motivation of adolescents with CP in interaction with the individual’s volition with focussing on self-efficacy for promoting personal causation. Adapting to the physical environment and changing the attitudes of others to these adolescents is necessary.

Informal education of specialists working with at-risk teenagers at the facility of the “Compass” day center of the Kharkiv charity foundation “Blago”

This article reveals the problem of continuous training of specialists for work with children at risk, a growing number of which in Ukraine is caused, in particular, by the increase in social risks, caused by the socio-economic instability, uncontrolled population movements in the absence of effective mechanisms for regulation of migration processes in the interests of national development, a high level of external labor migration of the adult population, reduced educational potential of the family and other social institutions; publishes, develops, and implements at the facility of the day center Compass Kharkiv Charitable Foundation Blago the system of organizational-methodical and resource support for the training of specialists to provide quality and timely services to adolescent drug users.This article aims to show the effectiveness of the use of modern forms of training specialists in juvenile probation, juvenile prevention, school police officers, teachers and specialists of social-pedagogical service of educational institutions on the example of preparation of specialists to work with at-risk adolescents at the day center Compass Kharkiv Charitable Foundation Blago. Regarding professional development, the team of authors does not have in mind the legal term, but the general increase of the level of knowledge and skills in working with adolescents at risk by professionals, engaged in educational, preventive activities or carrying out social support of adolescents in difficult life circumstances. The creation of such a flexible and sustainable lifelong education, providing advanced training not only to specialists, but also to adolescents and not fully engaged employment groups (unemployed, elderly, students), prepares them for the development and implementation of new social and educational projects, aimed at training juveniles to life in the context of globalization and increasing migration, providing them with samples of the peaceful, orderly behavior, safe for the society.The proposed study can address issues, reduce the effects of labor migration of Ukraine's population in the aspect of reducing the level of social orphanhood, compensation of the pedagogical influence, lacked by children at risk, left without proper parental supervision, it is often the result of the distribution of the phenomenon of labor migration. The development of theoretical aspects of this form of enhancing the pedagogical potential of specialists will facilitate the empowerment of law enforcement and social professionals, probation services, social and psychological services of educational institutions to develop adolescent skills of safe behavior to maintain their sexual and reproductive health. In the future, this will influence the formation of a motivation for adolescents to further their professional development, their self-realization in Ukraine and, as a consequence, the state of the national labor market, while preserving the potential of skilled workers

Психолого – педагогические условия формирования мотивации у подростков к службе в вооруженных силах РФ

Психолого – педагогические условия формирования мотивации у подростков к службе в вооруженных силах РФ

Development of the Stanford Social Dimensions Scale: initial validation in autism spectrum disorder and in neurotypicals

BackgroundThe aim of this paper was to provide an initial validation of a newly developed parent questionnaire—the Stanford Social Dimensions Scale (SSDS), designed to capture individual differences across several key social dimensions including social motivation in children and adolescents with and without psychiatric disorders.MethodsThe initial validation sample was comprised of parents of 175 individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) (35 females, 140 males; Mage = 7.19 years, SDage = 3.96) and the replication sample consisted of 624 parents of children who were either typically developing or presented with a range of neurodevelopmental and neuropsychiatric disorders (302 females, 322 males; Mage = 11.49 years, SDage = 4.48). Parents from both samples completed the SSDS and the Social Responsiveness Scale (SRS-2).ResultsExploratory Structural Equation Modeling indicated that a 5-factor model provided adequate to excellent fit to the data in the initial ASD sample (comparative fit index [CFI] = .940, Tucker-Lewis Index [TLI] = .919, root mean square error of approximation [RMSEA] = .048, standardized root mean square residual [SRMR] = .038). The identified factors were interpreted as Social Motivation, Social Affiliation, Expressive Social Communication, Social Recognition, and Unusual Approach. This factor structure was further confirmed in Sample 2 (CFI = 946, TLI = .930, RMSEA = .044, SRMR = .026). Internal consistency for all subscales was in the good to excellent range across both samples as indicated by Composite Reliability scores of ≥ .72. Convergent and divergent validity was strong as indexed by the pattern of correlations with relevant SRS-2 and Child Behavior Checklist domains and with verbal and non-verbal intellectual functioning scores in Sample 1 and with the Need to Belong Scale and Child Social Preference Scale scores in Sample 2. Across both samples, females had higher social motivation and expressive social communication scores. Discriminant validity was strong given that across all SSDS subscales, the ASD sample had significantly higher impairment than both the typically developing group and the group with other clinical conditions, which in turn, had significantly higher impairment than the typically developing group.ConclusionsOur findings provide initial validation of a new scale designed to comprehensively capture individual differences in social motivation and other key social dimensions in ASD.