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ReviewInternational journal of adolescent medicine and health2014

A conceptual framework for early adolescence: a platform for research.

Robert W Blum, Nan Marie Astone, Michele R Decker, Venkatraman Chandra Mouli

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Review in International journal of adolescent medicine and health, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 112 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

112 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Robert W Blum
Nan Marie Astone
Michele R Decker
Venkatraman Chandra Mouli

Funding

Research Infrastructure for the Hopkins Population CenterR24HD042854 · NICHD · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI HAO, LINGXIN · 2003 to 2017
$5.1M
NICHD NIH HHS R24 HD042854World Health Organization 001
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Early adolescence (ages 10-14 years) is among the most neglected stages of development, yet there are few stages during the life course where changes are as dramatic. The present conceptual framework proposes four central goals to be achieved by early adolescence: engagement with learning, emotional and physical safety, positive sense of self/self-efficacy, acquisition of life/decision-making skills. The framework proposes an ecological model where the macro level factors (economic forces, historical events, national priorities, laws/policies/norms and values, national events, and political realities) all set the contexts that influence community, family, school and peer factors that all in turn influence the adolescent. Existing indicators for points of development are noted as are future areas of research priority.

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Decision MakingLearningSafetySelf ConceptAdolescentAdolescent BehaviorChildEconomicsFamilyHumansPolicyResidence CharacteristicsSchoolsSocial Environment

Identifiers

PMID24486726
PMCPMC4476282

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