Journal of Youth and Adolescence articles from August 2002

Journal of Youth and Adolescence archives from August 2002

Perceptions of giftedness and self-concepts among junior secondary students in Hong Kong.(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 2002... Interests in meeting the social and emotional needs of gifted students have generated concerns and studies on how giftedness and students' perceptions of their giftedness affect the self-concepts of gifted students. Self-concepts...

Psychosocial predictors of emerging adults' risk and reckless behaviors.(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 2002... INTRODUCTION Arnett (2000) has recently proposed the term "emerging adulthood" to refer to the phase of life from the late teens through to the late twenties, with a focus on the years 18-25. He argued that, at least in contemporary...

Friends: the role of peer influence across adolescent risk behaviors.(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 2002... INTRODUCTION Adolescents encounter numerous risks in their daily lives. Publicly, peers are often blamed for the onset of risk behaviors ranging from substance use to teen pregnancy (Harris, 1998). Recent work has supported and extended...

Aggressive problem-solving strategies, aggressive behavior, and social acceptance in early and late adolescence.(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 2002... INTRODUCTION Aggressive behavior is a substantial social problem, particularly in adolescence. Adolescents resort to aggressive behavior relatively often and have various means of inflicting damage on their victims by fighting, arguing,...

African American mothers' and daughters' beliefs about possible selves and their strategies for reaching the adolescents' future academic and career goals.(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 2002... INTRODUCTION It is of considerable concern that the numbers of African American young adults who are obtaining college degrees have been declining in recent years (Welch and Hodges, 1997). For most young adults, education beyond high...

Willingness to self-disclose among late adolescent female survivors of childhood sexual abuse.(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 2002... The long-term effects of childhood sexual abuse have been extensively documented (e.g., Beitchman et al., 1992; Brayden et al., 1995; Chu and Dill, 1990; Silverman et al., 1996). A history of sexual abuse has been linked with various...

Understanding the authoritative parenting--early adolescent tobacco use link: the mediating role of peer tobacco use.(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 2002... Developmental researchers have consistently demonstrated that one specific style of parenting, termed authoritative, is both associated with and predictive of a wide range of indicators of adolescent competence. Authoritative parenting (see...