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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"adolescent behaviour"”.
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Relation of temperament and authoritative parenting on subtypes of adolescent behaviour
… conditional, and meditational pathways of adolescent aggression in relation to both temperament and parenting behaviours. However, no study to date has considered these relations with respect to a measure of aggression differentiated by form (e.g., overt, relational) and function (e.g., …
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A grounded theory of female adolescent behaviour in the sun: comfort matters.
… was to generate a grounded theory to explain the behaviour of young women in the sun. The study sought to explore the sun-related experiences of young women in order to gain new insights into the influences upon them. The study was qualitative by design and utilised grounded theory method as …
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It’s my life : staying in control. Developing a school-based intervention to facilitate adolescent behaviour change with respect to alcohol consumption
Trends in adolescent alcohol consumption are declining, however remain a cause for concern. Research evidences a relationship between alcohol-related mortality and socioeconomic deprivation, more disadvantaged social groups tending to experience disproportionately higher levels of alcohol …
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Poverty is behaviour: an evaluation of life history theory in Cape Town
… schools, parents and individual’s own behaviour. Multivariate regression was used to analyse the data. Results showed that the education system had the largest influence followed by adolescent behaviour and then parental behaviour. The environment had no significant effect. Both gender …
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Mental health literacy and intended help-seeking in adolescence
… and tested which draws on the Knowledge-Attitude Behaviour model (KAB) and incorporates subjective norms (Theory of Planned Behaviour, Ajzen, 1991; 1988), which are known to be particularly predictive of adolescent behaviour. The proposed framework of mental health literacy, stigma and …
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Low Heart Rate and Crime: Exploring the Link From an Analytical Perspective
… biological correlate” of antisocial behaviour, this association remains unexplained. Several theoretical explanations have been proposed throughout the years, but they have been mostly based on unfounded and questionable assumptions. Amongst these, fearlessness and stimulation-seeking …
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Parents and children together (PaCT): a tri-directional examination of parental personality, adolescent traits, parenting, and context in affecting adolescent behavioural strengths and difficulties
… of research on parental personality, parenting behaviour, and offspring developmental outcomes. However, no work yet has been done to synthesise the results, which is necessary to establish consistent results across studies and provide directions for new research on parental personality and …
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New direction for treating parent-adolescent conflict: comparison of problem solving skills training and social cognitive development training
… has been associated with both acting-out behaviours and psychiatric disorders in adolescence, which indicates serious conflicts have negative sequelae that goes beyond the specific area of disagreement. The efficacy of traditional cognitive-behavioural interventions focusing on …
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Youth at risk: politics, crime; its accessories and youth justice in South Africa
… factors underlying the reasons as to why adolescents, especially males, gravitate towards subcultures, such as gangs, it is, nonetheless, imperative that such youngsters are restrained and their behaviour restricted as the violence of the Apartheid years has led to the belief among many …
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Adolescent smoking and social norms: an appraisal of theory and application of social norms to understand risk factors for smoking and sensitivity to normative influence
… is critical for the formation of health behaviours that are carried into adulthood. The social reorientation that occurs during adolescence marks an important stage in development when normative influences become more salient, and social pressures to conform to the behaviours of peers …
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The development and feasibility testing of a digital health intervention for reducing Estonian adolescent and young adult alcohol and tobacco consumption.
… mobile phone intervention for reducing Estonian adolescent and young adult alcohol and tobacco consumption. A systematic review was conducted, including a meta-analysis based on 32 randomised controlled trials, to investigate the associations with effectiveness of digital interventions in …