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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Psychology, Adolescent"”.
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Improving Depressive Symptom Measurement in Adolescents: A Psychometric Evaluation of the Quick Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology, Adolescent Verison
Major depressive disorder (MDD) in children and adolescents is a common and debilitating psychiatric disorder. Current instruments used to identify the presence of and monitor the treatment of depression in adolescents vary in validity, reliability, appropriateness, cost and ease of administration, …
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Ecological Influences on Adolescent Behavior
… outlined by Bronfenbrenner (1994), to understand adolescent behavior. It was hypothesized that proximal ecological influences would be significantly related to behavioral outcomes. Participants (N= 244) were students attending traditional and continuation high schools in a Southern California …
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The Relationship of Self-Esteem Level and Substance Abuse in Adolescents
… collect data from two groups of substance abuse adolescent students. One group consists of substance abuse adolescents participating in peer counseling therapy sessions. Treatment of the data will include descriptive statistics for both demographic and study variables, and the independent T-tests …
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The influence of family environment on psychological separation in late adolescence
Family social environment -- Late adolescent females -- Psychological Separation Inventory -- Family Environmental Scale -- Cohesion and expressiveness -- Conflictual independence.
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The influence of family environment on psychological separation in late adolescence
Family social environment -- Late adolescent females -- Psychological Separation Inventory -- Family Environmental Scale -- Cohesion and expressiveness -- Conflictual independence.
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Effects of a Parenting Group on Family Relationships and Child Behavior Problems
… parenting group used with the parents of adolescents, 12 to 15 years old, who have been identified as experiencing behavior problems. The Parent Project focuses on improving the parent child relationship and family environment. Participants included 12 caretakers who have completed the …
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A Holistic Model Of The Interplay Of Parent-adolescent Interaction Varialbes: Outcomes As A Result Of Conflictual Processes
… have been analyzed in order to understand parent-adolescent interactions and outcomes for adolescents. These variables must be integrated into a model that demonstrates the holistic interplay of parent-adolescent interaction variables so that a more comprehensive understanding of parent-adolescent …
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Parent Attachment and Early Adolescents' Life Satisfaction: The Mediating Effect of Hope
… relationship factors associated with adolescents' subjective well-being has identified a number of predictors of adolescents' life satisfaction (LS). Among these studies, research using attachment theory framework has provided evidence that parent attachment is one of the crucial …
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Adolescent Psychopathy in an Adjudicated Male Population: The Role of Sensation Seeking, Impulsivity, and Externalizing Disorders
… and oppositional defiant disorder have on adolescents classified as psychopaths. The participants consisted of 79 adjudicated male adolescents in a maximum-security facility. As hypothesized, adolescent male psychopaths had higher levels of sensation seeking, impulsivity, conduct disorder …
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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DIMENSIONS OF EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING AND RUMINATION IN YOUTH: A LONGITUDINAL AND BIDIRECTIONAL STUDY
Extensive work has examined the relationship between rumination and executive functioning (EF) mainly in adult samples, lending support for theory that rumination is characterized by poorer shifting, inhibition, and/or working memory updating abilities. However, literature on the relationship …
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Depression, Anxiety, Self-Esteem, and Coping in Children and Adolescents Newly Diagnosed with Cancer and Children and Adolescents on Cancer Treatment for a Period of Seven Months or Longer
Differences in self-reported depression, anxiety, self-esteem, and coping were evaluated in two groups of pediatric oncology patients: newly diagnosed (less than six months post-diagnosis) (n=5) and patients on cancer treatment for seven months or longer (n=5). Participants (6 males, 4 females, …
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Body Image Satisfaction in Infant and Pediatric Cardiac Transplant Recipients as Adolescents
… self-concept, depression, and social stress in adolescents age 13-18 who received a heart transplant either as an infant or child, and compared these variables to non-transplant, non-clinical controls. The Body Esteem Scale for Adolescents and Adults, Piers Harris Children’s Self-Concept …
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Can Computers Assist Treatment? Virtual Reality as a Possible Cue Exposure Technique With Adolescent Substance Abusers
… of the most common psychiatric diagnoses among adolescents; marijuana is the illicit drug used most frequently by youth. Treatment dropout and relapse following treatment are common; innovative strategies are needed to improve treatment outcomes for youth substance abusers. The aim of this study …
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A Factorial Analysis of School-Related Subjective Well-Being Among A Sample of Adolescents
… of well-being also exists for children and adolescents (Huebner & Dew, 1996). In light of the large amount of time that children and adolescents spend in school, it seems reasonable to suggest the presence of a school-based SWB construct which might parallel multidimensional SWB in adults. …
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Body Self-Esteem and Sexual Risk-Taking in Caribbean Adolescents
… to young adults. This is also a time when many adolescents make decisions about risk behaviors that may affect their developing bodies such as drug use, smoking, and engaging in sexual activity. The current study examined the link between body self-esteem and sexual activity with the aim of …
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