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Showing 1 to 20 of 52 for “"Male youth"”.
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Physical fitness norms for male youth national team football players
… (i) To make standardized fitness norms for male football players aged 15-22 in aerobic- and anaerobic capacity, speed, agility, and jumping ability. (ii) To investigate if/how physical ability changes with age in male youth football players. Method: Male football players in youth national …
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Community, School and Sport: Experiences of Male Youth from Rexdale
… schooling and sport experiences of racialized male youth from Toronto’s Rexdale community. Situated in the city’s northwest end, this marginal space is home to a highly racialized, economically disadvantaged and inordinately criminalized populace. Although the media continues to essentialize …
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Emotion Recognition, Emotion Regulation, and Callous: Unemotional Traits in Incarcerated Male Youth
Youth with Callous-Unemotional (CU) traits represent an important subgroup of antisocial youth whose behavioral, affective, and cognitive functioning appear sharply different from other youth with conduct problems. However, few, if any studies have examined the interaction of cognitive control and …
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Fatherless homes and delinquency: a study of institutionalized African American male youth
… it is perceived by African American adolescent males (N=23) who have been detained in a juvenile detention facility. This study is ethnographic, exploratory, and inductive in its approach. Hypotheses are generated or discovered rather than tested. The methodology that is employed is …
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Substance abuse practices and Intervention programmes for male youth offenders in Pollsmoor – Department of Correctional services
Substance use is on the increase among the youth in South Africa. Traditional concern about the youth (as the future of South Africa), and the portrayals in the media of severe drug and alcohol use among the country‟s youth have contributed to the need for research into this issue. Drugs and …
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The Relationship Between Resiliency In Rural African American Male Youth And Their Awareness Of Citizenship Practices
… loss in the population of African American males who otherwise could achieve stable and strong economic life styles. Large unemployment and under-employment of African American males is documented through U.S. data sources where declining rates of labor force participation of black males is …
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The effectiveness of resistance, plyometric and sprint training at different stages of maturation in male youth athletes
The trainability of youth at specific periods during growth and maturation has become a key issue in paediatric exercise science. The development of physical capacities such as movement speed, strength and power is difficult to predict in youth meaning that the structuring of training can be a …
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Living in Nyanga: an exploratory study on resilience among violence-affected male youth from a community in Cape Town
… aims to understand the resiliency factors of the youth of Nyanga who are not involved in crime and violence. To achieve this, the objectives were to explore the perceptions of the youth of Nyanga regarding crime in their community, the impact it has on their lives, and their views on resiliency …
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Investigating Exposure to Community Violence and Associated Internalizing and Externalising Behaviours in a Sample of South African Male Youth
… to community violence has suggested that youth with high levels of exposure to community violence may exhibit adverse emotional and behavioural outcomes. Although there is a large body of literature exploring exposure to community violence, there is a dearth of South African (SA) …
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A "Responsibility to Speak Out": Perspectives on Writing from Black African-Born Male Youth with Limited or Disrupted Formal Education
… on writing of eight Black African- born male youth with limited and disrupted formal education enrolled at a secondary school in northeastern United States. Participants from Liberia, Sudan, and Somalia relocated to the U. S. through refugee services between 2003 and 2006. At the time of …
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In their own words: A qualitative analysis of relational resilience in the lives of gay, bisexual, and questioning male youth
… interviews with same-sex attracted (SSA) male youth (i.e., self-identified gay, bisexual, and questioning (GBQ) male youth in order to explore and learn about growth-promoting relationships in their lives. The theoretical lens adopted for this effort was Relational-Cultural Theory (RCT). …
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Beyond Cognition: Examination of Iowa Gambling Task Performance, Negative Affective Decision-Making and High-Risk Behaviors Among Incarcerated Male Youth
… on the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) of a group of male adolescents aged 16-18 years incarcerated at a secure corrections facility located near New York City. At the time of IGT administration, 45% of the study participants had been charged with crimes but not yet sentenced; 55% of the study …
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The Effects of Learning about Black History on Racial Identity, Self-efficacy, Self-esteem, and Depression Among Low-Income African American Male Youth
… <p>The literature is clear that African American youth receive a shallow account from parents and schools about Black history. More importantly, African American male youth from low-income families rarely receive information about Black history. Youth today watch television for entertainment and …
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The Black Church and African -American Youth: The Black Church as a Socializing Institution for African -American Male Youth Living in Low -Income Communities
… suggested that the increased involvement of male youth in church-sponsored activities is associated with the number of Educational Definers to whom youth are exposed and that the church affords access to positive models beyond youths' immediate neighborhood.
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ONTARIO ICE-HOCKEY PARTICIPATION FOR MALE YOUTH BETWEEN THE AGES OF 10 AND 15 YEARS: AN EXAMINATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RELATIVE AGE AND DROPOUT RATES
Sport is one avenue through which positive youth development (PYD) can occur (Jones et al., 2011). While some aspects about sport participation are positive, structural issues and registration cut-off dates may detract from positive development. The relative age effect (RAE) suggests that athletes …
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Growing Up Gay in Black America: An Exploration of the Coming Out Process of Queer African American Youth
… marginalization influence queer African American male youth, there is very little research to back up this belief. Due to the paucity of information for clinicians, families, and communities on the relational dynamics of queer African American male youth and their parents, queer African American …
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Disparities in Juvenile Justice Processing of African-American Males in Champaign County, Illinois, 1998--1999
… examined the ""risk indicator"" of incarcerated youth. In particular, the study sought to compare the characteristics of incarcerated African-American and White male youth."
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Measuring the impact of a mentoring program: preparing African American males for success beyond high school
… struggles befalling countless African American male youth have been the source of consternation in many homes, schools, and communities across America. When compared to males from other ethnic groups, as well as females, Black males often lag behind in many academic categories from elementary …
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