Adolescent Motivation

Troubled Parents, Motivated Adolescents: Predicting Motivation to Change Substance Use among Runaways

by Gizem Erdem

Slesnick, N., Bartle-Haring, S., Erdem, G., Budde, H., Letcher, A., Bantchevska, D., & Patton, R. (2009). Troubled parents, motivated adolescents: Predicting motivation to change substance use among runaways. Addictive Behaviors, 34, 675–684.

HIV risk and the freedom to act without thinking: Alcohol use and sexual behavior among adolescents on probation

by Lisa Fontes

Motivational predictors of continuing motivation and achievement for early adolescent instrumental music students

by Kristen Anguiano

Choosing to belong: increasing adolescent male engagement in the ELA classroom

by Tim Fredrick

The author conducted an action research study in his ninth grade English classroom in order to help the boys in his... more The author conducted an action research study in his ninth grade English classroom in order to help the boys in his class to be more engaged. He decided to enable students to make more choices in the reading and writing activities so that both boys' and girls' literacies could be valued. He used independent reading and literature circles to help boys find books that met their diverse interests, and designed writing assignments which enabled students to choose topics which matched their out-of-school interests. Boys and girls benefited from such choice. He observed boys, especially, engaging in more literate behaviours—such as talking about books and sharing each others' writing.

“The Harsh Reality of Being a Woman”: First Bra Experiences

by Ian Brodie

Ethnologies, Volume 29, numéro 1-2, 2007, p. 81-106

The first bra purchase, which implies the first bra wearing or at least the first bra specifically purchased for the... more The first bra purchase, which implies the first bra wearing or at least the first bra specifically purchased for the young woman, introduces two phases beyond the demarcation of girl as woman: a lifetime of wearing bras and a lifetime of shopping for bras. In an effort to explore some of the consequences of using the term “rites of passage” in contemporary contexts, this article sets out to identify the elements common to the “rite” of the first bra purchase. It is an activity more or less inevitable in North American women’s culture; it is a commercial transaction, and thus can be affected by socioeconomic class status; and it is inherently associated with the transformations of puberty, both physiological and social (in van Gennep’s sense). Finally, although it is distinct from adolescent sexuality, it is nevertheless virtually inextricable therefrom and thus a gendered activity, one from which the male fieldworker is excluded for reasons that extend far beyond mere impropriety.