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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Male and female adolescents"”.
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The Role of Self-Efficacy As A Mediator Between Parent Social Support and Physical Activity In Male and Female Adolescents
… health concern, especially among underserved adolescents is minimal engagement of physical activity. Furthermore, girls engage in fewer minutes per day of physical activity (PA) than boys. Social cognitive theory (SCT) suggests that behavior is influenced by cognitive and interpersonal factors …
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Resilience amongst adolescents in a Namibian residential care centre : an exploratory study of why some youth succeed despite adversity
… this mixed-method approach study was to explore and describe key protective factors that contribute to resilience among adolescents in long-term residential care in Namibia. The sample consisted of three caregivers and 61 male and female adolescents between the ages of 11-19 years (mean …
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The Relationship Between Self-Reports of Delinquent Behaviors and Adolescents' Perceptions of Parental Care and Protectiveness
<p>The current study examined adolescents’ perceptions, in regards to parent levels of Caring and Overprotection, as correlates of self-reported delinquent behaviors in 135 males and female adolescents. As hypothesized, the results showed correlations between perceived Parental Care and …
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Emotional Expression and Adjustment of Adolescents Who Have Experienced a Military Parent Deployed
Gender is a context by which males and females are socialized. Social stereotypes based on gender influence emotional expressions. This study examined the emotional expression and adjustment of male and female adolescents who have experienced military deployment. Group interviews were held and …
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Sex Differences in the Oxygen Uptake Kinetic Response to Moderate Intensity Exercise in Obese Adolescents
… provides insight into aerobic performance and the efficiency of the body to maintain oxygen demand during the initiation of exercise. Previous research in normal weight children reports insignificant differences in gender VO2 on-kinetic responses to moderate exercise. No study has evaluated …
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The Use of Group Art Therapy to Facilitate the Development of Identity with Adolescents in a Residential Substance Abuse Treatment Center
… development of an ongoing art therapy group for male and female adolescents with a dual diagnosis in a long-term residential substance abuse treatment center. The intervention is a 10 week art therapy group with a focus on identity development. The literature review focuses on three main areas: …
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Do Gender, Delinquent Peer Affiliations, and Parenting Practices Moderate the Relation Between Callou-Unemotional Traits and Delinquency
… components of callous-unemotional (CU) traits and delinquency for male and female adolescents. More specifically, it considered delinquent peer affiliations and ineffective parenting practices as moderators in this relation with the belief that those moderators would exert a different influence …
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A multicontextual study of environmental influences on the development of eating disordered symptomology in adolescents
Eating disorder symptoms are serious and prevalent problems in industrialized societies. Although many studies have individually investigated the influence of environmental factors on the development of eating disorder symptoms, few have considered the relative and cumulative impact of various …
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Cuidate mija: power in everyday discourses about adolescent pregnancy in urban Ecuador
… which is heavily contested by local, national, and international entities. Problematically, the topic is predominantly referred to as a "social problem," a view which is often rooted in pathologized narratives about young people and their sexual and reproductive lives. This critical ethnography …
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The relative risk : parenting, poverty, and peers in the three city study of moving to opportunity
… shows how kin networks, parental monitoring, and housing mobility structure low-income adolescents' engagement in risky and delinquent behavior. I use ethnographic data from a mixed-method study of a randomized housing experiment: The Three City Study of Moving to Opportunity. The ethnography …
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The association between perceived parenting styles and adolescent substance use
… on Baumrind's theory of Parenting Styles and how perceptions of these are associated to adolescent at-risk behaviour, this study set out to examine whether any parenting style increased or decreased adolescent substance use. The central aim of this study was to examine the association …
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Determinants of Dating Violence Among Youth in the U.S.
… is a major public health concern among adolescents in the United States. Research has shown that determinants of PDV victimization are different for male and female adolescents. However, inconsistent findings entail that further research needs to be done using a representative sample of …
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Factors influencing unplanned pregnancy among learners in a selected high school in Collins Chabane Municipality, Limpopo Province, South Africa
Unplanned pregnancy is a major medical, social and public health problem worldwide. This problem affects learners’ performance and leads to a high learner drop-out rate at schools. The purpose of this study was to investigate the factors influencing unplanned pregnancy among high school learners in …
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A Structural Equation Model of Contributing Factors to Adolescent Social Interest
… the relationships between family influences (FI) and school influences (SI) on factors hypothesized to be associated with adolescent social interest: school belonging (SB), extracurricular participation (EP), and peer/romantic involvement (PRI). The final model consisted of FI and SI that …
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Interrogating the 'crisis of fatherhood' : discursive constructions of fathers amongst peri-urban Xhosa-speaking adolescents
… 'crisis', this study explored how Xhosa-speaking adolescents - whose voices have been predominantly ignored in fathering literature - discursively construct fathers and fathering. Using Photovoice methodology, semi-structured photo-elicitation interviews were conducted with 17 male and female …
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Relationship between familism and ego identity development of Puerto Rican and immigrant Puerto Rican adolescents
… the frameworks of Erikson's psychosocial theory and Heller's conceptualization of familism. Ego identity was measured by the Revised Version of the Extended Objective Measure of Ego Identity Status-2, an instrument based on Erikson's theoretical formulations. The Heller's Familism Scale was …
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An investigation into the sources of sexual information amongst the pupils in standards 9 and 10 in a co-educational high school in Cape Town
An investigation into the actual and preferred sources of sexual information among male and female adolescents in standards 9 and 10 at a private school was undertaken. A review and theoretical consideration of the sources of sexual information among pre-adolescents, adolescents and tertiary …
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Rethinking Psychosocial and Energetic Influences on Cortisol, Testosterone, and Hormonal Coupling among Jordanian, Syrian, and Indigenous Qom Adolescents
… of stress derived from displacement, poverty, and armed conflict exposures may confer lasting changes to the neuroendocrine system and may impact the pace of development for children and adolescents. Evolutionary theorists suggest that early life stressors may accelerate or suppress pubertal …
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Coed Adolescent Soccer Players In A Competitive Learning Milieu: An Ethnographic Assessment Of Gender Attitudes, Perceptions And Sport Specific Component Testing
… of association soccer dates back to the 1800's, and all indications are that prospects for the female athlete was scarce in all sports. The researcher has arranged an environment where young females can train with males in a soccer setting that has all the necessary elements for the athletes to …