Journal of Youth and Adolescence articles from December 2002

Journal of Youth and Adolescence archives from December 2002

Factors contributing to gender differences in depressive symptoms: a test of three developmental models.
December 1, 2002... An increase in depressive symptoms in early adolescence has been well established (for a review, see Offord et al., 1987). In addition, more serious depressive symptoms in adolescent girls compared to adolescent boys have been consistently...

Relationship of the family environment to children's involvement in bully/victim problems at school.
December 1, 2002... INTRODUCTION In the 1980s peer aggression and victimization in schools were identified as a significant threat to the development of mental and social well-being among children and adolescents (Olweus, 1984, 1992; Rigby and Slee, 1993;...

A short-term longitudinal study of pubertal change, gender, and psychological well-being of Mexican early adolescents.
December 1, 2002... INTRODUCTION Adolescence is a time of transition marked with an increased risk for psychopathology. One of the most devastating disorders associated with puberty is depression. There is also a link between depression in adolescence and...

Sociocultural variations in the body image perceptions of urban adolescent females.
December 1, 2002... INTRODUCTION Eating disorders such as anorexia, bulimia, and excessive dieting are prevalent among adolescent females in contemporary U.S. society (Brumberg, 1988; Kreipe et al., 1995; Phelps and Bajorek, 1991; Schoen et al., 1997)....

Like-sex versus opposite-sex effects in transmission of gender role ideology from parents to adolescents in Israel.
December 1, 2002... INTRODUCTION The family, as the institution most central to primary socialization of children, is generally considered an important context for the development of young people's attitudes. The congruence of values and attitudes between...

An early community-based intervention for the prevention of substance abuse and other delinquent behavior.
December 1, 2002... In spite of the proliferation of drug abuse prevention strategies under investigation prior to the 1990s, there was little examination of conceptually based models under experimental or quasi-experimental conditions (Schaps et al., 1981;...

"Mitigating instigation": cultural phenomenological influences of anger and fighting among "big-boned" and "baby-faced" African American youth.
December 1, 2002... INTRODUCTION While the violent behavior of youth continues to strike fear in the hearts of American citizens, the struggles of avoiding, engaging, and preventing violence from the adolescent's perspective are invisible. Crime statistics...