Publications by authors named "Heidi M Renner"
The role of adolescent social inclusion in educational attainment among vulnerable youth.
Child Adolesc Ment Health
May 2024
Article Synopsis
- Completing high school helps people have better job chances and live healthier, happier lives.
- This study looked at how feeling included in social activities affects students who might struggle in school.
- The results showed that feeling socially included helps students who aren't as vulnerable, but doesn't really help those who are at a higher risk of dropping out.
Although consensual sending of sexts between adolescents is considered developmentally appropriate, it may also entail a range of negative consequences. Current sexting research lacks a comprehensive theoretical framework identifying a range of risk and protective factors underpinning adolescent consensual sending of sexts across individual, interpersonal, and distal levels. Further, there is a lack of systematic evaluation of how the importance of these factors may vary across adolescent age.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEnhancing social inclusion in young people could increase engagement in education, yet few longitudinal studies have examined this relationship. This study aimed to identify whether social inclusion in an Australian adolescent sample predicted high school completion three years later. Using state-representative data from the International Youth Development Study, two waves of the youngest cohort (51.
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