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Sexual Behavior of Adolescents
Postgraduate Medicine, 1969Unwanted pregnancy is a disease with consequences that affect every level of society. Illegitimacy is rising to the point where it is a major social problem. Findings of the National Center for Health Statistics show that in the 1940-1965 period illegitimacy tripled. More than 40% of unwed mothers are teenagers.
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Postgraduate Medicine, 1982
Human sexuality is a lifelong process with biologic, psychosocial, and moral consequences. During adolescence, coping with sexual feelings and controlling sexual drive become urgent tasks that are made more difficult by today's society. Recent studies document a dramatic increase in the frequency of sexual activity among teenagers as well as a decrease
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Human sexuality is a lifelong process with biologic, psychosocial, and moral consequences. During adolescence, coping with sexual feelings and controlling sexual drive become urgent tasks that are made more difficult by today's society. Recent studies document a dramatic increase in the frequency of sexual activity among teenagers as well as a decrease
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Recurrent Adolescent Suicidal Behavior
Pediatrics, 1977Suicide is the third leading cause of death among people in the age group 15 to 25 years.1 Self-destructive behavior in children and adolescents is a continuum that ranges from drug intoxications to gestures of low lethality to suicide attempts with high lethality of intent. In our survey of 1,100 self-poisonings in people aged 6 to 18 who were seen at
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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.
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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 ...
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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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