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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"adolescent female"”.
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Skin Cancer Risk Perception and Sunscreen Use in Adolescent Female Soccer Athletes
… are diagnosed annually in the United States. In adolescent females ages 15-19, melanoma is the second most common form of cancer. The greatest risk factor for skin cancer is ultraviolet rays from the sun. Research has shown that sunscreen use is protective of all skin cancers, especially …
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Effect of nutrition education on food and beverage choices of adolescent female dancers
… whether providing nutrition education to adolescent females enrolled in dance classes influenced their beverage and food choices. It was hypothesized that providing six 10-minute nutrition education sessions for three weeks to adolescent dancers would increase their healthy beverage and …
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Factors that Influence Adolescent Female Participation in Physical Education Classes at the Secondary Level
… have seen a decline in participation levels in adolescent females in physical education classes. These declines in physical activity can lead to health problems such as obesity, diabetes, and/or cardiovascular health concerns. As educators, they need to look at the factors that influences …
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Differences in Bone Mineral Density Among Adolescent Female Tennis Players and Non-Tennis Players
… 1) to determine the differences in BMD among adolescent female tennis players (TP) and non-tennis players (NTP); 2) to determine the differences in body composition (BC) between adolescent female TP and NTP; 3) to determine whether BC variables (weight, fat mass, and lean mass) were predictive …
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The Effects of Neoprene Sleeve Application on Knee Joint Proprioception in Adolescent Female Athletes.
<p>Fifteen female subjects ages 13-16 were recruited to determine if differences exist in knee joint proprioception, with and without application of a neoprene knee sleeve (NKS), when performing reproduction of target angle test (RTA), movement sensation test (MS) using a Biodex testing machine, …
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Social Emotional Development in School: The Anatomy of One School's Role in Adolescent Female Development
… the structure of the school being small and all female. These results support previous research related to the enhancement of social-emotional development and parallel thefive recommendations outlined by CASEL related to how schools as institutions can promote social-emotional development.
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Intent to perform protective behaviors to prevent pregnancy in the adolescent female age 13-18
… knowledge about cognitive factors influencing adolescent decision-making to use protective behaviors to prevent pregnancy. Data were collected from a sample of (N = 858) adolescent females age 13-18 from three schools in rural East Texas. Four measurement instruments were used to collect data. …
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The Impact of Group Counseling on Students Who Have Been Identified as Adolescent Female Relational Aggressors
… is to study the impact of group counseling on female middle school students, who have been identified as instigators of relational aggression. Relational aggression can be devastating to a victim’s self-concept as it, “undermines some of the most significant personal needs and goals of youth: …
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The Effect of Maternal Separation and Postnatal Oxytocin Administration on Social Recognition in Adolescent Female Mice
… dissertation was to determine whether separating female infant mouse pups from their mother, but not siblings, for 3 hrs daily, during the first two weeks of life, influences social recognition during adolescence (Experiment 1). This dissertation also sought to evaluate whether postnatal …
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Beauty, Breasts, and Brains: An Exploration of Using the Adolescent Female Body as a Resistance Site
Adolescent girls are continuously barraged with messages regarding what it means to be a girl and the appropriate way in which to do so. Particularly within the South, there are strict boundaries for acceptable forms of femininity both within school and in the broader social context. However, …
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Adolescent Female Embodiment As A Transformational Experience In The Lives of Women: An Empirical Existential-Phenomenological Investigation
… As articulated in the literature related to adolescent female development, a changing body may be at the heart of what can make this a time of profound transition for the adolescent girl as she attempts to negotiate alterations in her identity and self-concept, and consequently her social …
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An Examination of Racial Differences in Anxiety Disorder Symptom Structure and Trajectories among Pre-Adolescent Female Youth
… the experience of anxiety among children and adolescents is well documented in the literature, relatively little empirical study has focused on this topic. Existing research is essentially void of studies into gender-specific aspects of anxiety development and maintenance or race-based …
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Investigating the effectiveness of infant feeding school-based education on the breastfeeding knowledge and attitudes of adolescent female students
… infant feeding intentions of secondary school adolescent females. Design: A one-group, pre-test/post-test, quasi-experimental design Methods: A convenience sample of 77 adolescent secondary school female students received one 70-minute educational breastfeeding session during health education …
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A Comparison of Markers of Iron Status between Vegetarian and Non-Vegetarian Female High School Cross Country Runners. Is Routine, Pre-Season Screening Warranted?
… differ between vegetarian or non-vegetarian adolescent female high school cross-country runners. Fifteen non-vegetarian and six vegetarian female cross-country runners completed questionnaires used to obtain anthropometric data, health history, menstrual status, diet history and training …
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The Adolescent Grotesque: Transgressing Boundaries of Female Sexuality in Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory and Jamaica Kincaid’s Annie John
… </em>and <em>Annie John</em>, to amplify the female adolescent voice and provide unmitigated access to the female adolescent experience. During adolescence, the female body is in sexual flux – steadily losing its amorphousness as puberty runs its course. The adolescent female body peregrinates …
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An Analysis of the Changing Roles of Female Characters in Newbery Award-Winning Fiction Since 1964
… by categorizing each major or supporting adult female character into one of five categories of the "Occupational Prestige Rating Scale'' (Appendix A), based mainly on salary ranges. Major or supporting female characters were categorized by the "Leadership Potential Scale'' (Appendix B), based on …
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Examining Family Structure and Parenting Processes as Predictors of Delinquency in African-American Adolescent Females
This study employed a sample of African-American adolescent females from intact (n=279) and non-intact (n=219) families to examine the relationship between parenting processes (parental monitoring, parent-adolescent communication, parent-adolescent attachment, authoritative parenting) and …
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A Psychoanalytic Inquiry into Social Aggression as a Form of Bullying among Female Students
Bullying among children and adolescents, particularly within the school setting, has drawn much attention in recent years as a reaction to an onslaught of high profile school violence in the 1990s. While much attention and research focused upon physical violence that was prevalent among male …
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