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Nutrition Reviews, 2009
Girls' perception of what constitutes normal body weight is often unrealistic. Many of them are preoccupied with fear of being fat. Such misconceptions can strongly influence eating behavior.
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Girls' perception of what constitutes normal body weight is often unrealistic. Many of them are preoccupied with fear of being fat. Such misconceptions can strongly influence eating behavior.
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EARLY ADOLESCENTS' SEXUAL BEHAVIORS
Issues in Comprehensive Pediatric Nursing, 1999The purpose of this study was to analyze changes in early adolescents' intimate behaviors and the initiation of sexual intercourse over a one-year time period. The changes are interpreted within the context of recent progress in understanding the development of early adolescents. Public school students in sixth and ninth grades of selected schools in a
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BEHAVIOR PROBLEMS IN EARLY ADOLESCENCE
Child Development, 1965for 518 seventh- and eighth-grade children by their teachers. Factor analysis revealed that the majority of the variance could be accounted for by two factors, "conduct problem" and "personality problem." For the eighth grade an additional factor, apparently related to behavioral immaturity, was found.
H C, QUAY, L C, QUAY
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Peer Suicidal Behavior and Adolescent Risk Behavior
Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease, 2005The relationship between adolescent suicide attempts and death by suicide and psychosocial functioning of peers remains poorly understood, especially in the myriad ways that these suicidal behaviors might impact friends. This study explored the relationship between peer suicidal behavior and adolescent risk behavior using a large, nationally ...
Julie, Cerel +2 more
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Journal of Social Service Research, 1998
ABSTRACT This was a study of 1,093 adolescents from six public high schools designed to test a deviance syndrome perspective by examining how much overlap there is between certain deviant behaviors, and by investigating whether the same theoretical elements account for variance in those behaviors. A log-linear analysis of suicide attempts, alcohol use,
Brent B. Benda, Robert Flynn Corwyn
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ABSTRACT This was a study of 1,093 adolescents from six public high schools designed to test a deviance syndrome perspective by examining how much overlap there is between certain deviant behaviors, and by investigating whether the same theoretical elements account for variance in those behaviors. A log-linear analysis of suicide attempts, alcohol use,
Brent B. Benda, Robert Flynn Corwyn
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Journal of Adolescent Research, 1990
Despite numerous studies on adolescent sexuality, few use coherent theoretical models and multivariate analyses on data from high school students. This study tested a social-learning model for its ability to explain adolescent sexual intercourse from a multivariate approach.
Frederick A. DiBlasio, Brent B. Benda
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Despite numerous studies on adolescent sexuality, few use coherent theoretical models and multivariate analyses on data from high school students. This study tested a social-learning model for its ability to explain adolescent sexual intercourse from a multivariate approach.
Frederick A. DiBlasio, Brent B. Benda
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Contraceptive Behaviors in Adolescents
Pediatric Annals, 2005A wide range of factors influence adolescents' contraceptive behaviors, from personal characteristics to family context to social support to knowledge about and access to contraception. Improving knowledge about contraception and counseling about successful contraceptive use can be helpful in decreasing the remarkably high US rates of adolescent ...
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Adolescent risk-taking behavior
Journal of Adolescent Health Care, 1987There is general agreement that violence in adolescence is occurring at unprecedented and unacceptably high levels. Society has begun to grapple with this problem but lacks the information to help guide it toward a resolution. Are our young people purposely or unconsciously pursuing a self-destructive course?
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Journal of Social Service Research, 1994
This study tested a path model, composed of concepts from social control, social learning and differential association theories, to determine its use in explaining frequency of adolescent sexual intercourse. The model was tested using two-stage least squares regression procedures, and it was based on assumptions underlying recent refinements in ...
Brent B. Benda, Frederick A. DiBlasio
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This study tested a path model, composed of concepts from social control, social learning and differential association theories, to determine its use in explaining frequency of adolescent sexual intercourse. The model was tested using two-stage least squares regression procedures, and it was based on assumptions underlying recent refinements in ...
Brent B. Benda, Frederick A. DiBlasio
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Journal of Multicultural Social Work, 2000
SUMMARY The focus of this study was on the association between family characteristics (e.g., family structure, family cohesion), race/ethnicity and their relationship to violent behaviors in adolescents. Family characteristics represent one piece of a larger ecological model that includes individual, peer, school, and neighborhood/community factors ...
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SUMMARY The focus of this study was on the association between family characteristics (e.g., family structure, family cohesion), race/ethnicity and their relationship to violent behaviors in adolescents. Family characteristics represent one piece of a larger ecological model that includes individual, peer, school, and neighborhood/community factors ...
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