HDF 306 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: School Violence

• School: CMU
• Department: Human Development & Family
• Course: HDF 306
• Professor: Tzu Fen Chang

Document Summary

Contexts: family, peer groups, school, work, leisure, and media. Psychosocial development: identity, autonomy, intimacy, sexuality, achievement, psychosocial problems. Large school: providing a variety of activities, providing diverse curriculums. Hard to be selected to extracurricular activities. Small school: more likely to be involved in extracurricular activities, low achieving students are more likely to be included, psychological attachment. Predictors for good transition from elementary into secondary school: close family or peer relations, having older siblings who share experiences, supportive teachers, previous psychological health. Ethnic diverse school school with few ethnic minority students: for ethnic minority adolescents. Pros: allow teachers design lessons fitting students" ability, high-track students tend to benefit from high quality education. Cons: low-track students gain limited educational resources, low-track students tend to have negative self-concepts, low-achieving high-track students tend to have psychological problems. Big fish-little pond effect: students who attend high school with high-achieving peers feel worse about themselves than comparatively successful individuals with lower achieving peers.