Journal of Youth and Adolescence articles from December 2003

Journal of Youth and Adolescence archives from December 2003

Relationships between cognitive strategies of adolescents and depressive symptomatology across different types of life event.
December 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION A significant relationship between the experience of negative life events and adolescent depression is relatively well established (Goodyer, 1990; Seiffge-Krenke, 1993). However, the amount of variance in maladjustment...

Dimensions of emotional intelligence and their relationships with social coping among gifted adolescents in Hong Kong.
December 1, 2003... Traditionally, the study of intelligence or human abilities has largely focused on cognitive abilities and their adaptive uses (e.g., Piaget, 1950; Wechsler, 1958). In recent years, more encompassing approaches to the study of intelligence...

A longitudinal analysis of stress in African American youth: predictors and outcomes of stress trajectories.
December 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION Psychological stress is generally conceptualized as either an acute state in relation to a life event or a chronic state based on a set of events or circumstances in one's life (Chrousos and Gold, 1992; Cohen, 1988). Few...

Predictors of physical competence in adolescent girls.
December 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION Adolescence marks a time of emotional, physical, and social change. Adolescents make competence judgments about, and evaluations of the self. Such evaluations can lead to either positive or negative feelings of self-esteem...

Correlates of reduced misconduct among adolescents facing adversity.
December 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION Adolescent misconduct is high on the list of concerns among parents and educators who wish to promote socially acceptable behavior among youth (Feldman et al., 1991). Misconduct--acting up in school, cheating, damaging...

Shaping structured out-of-school time use among youth: the effects of self, family, and friend systems.
December 1, 2003... The matter of how youth use their time is of great interest and concern to parents, teachers, human services professionals, and of course to youth themselves. Much research has focused on the positive and negative outcomes associated with...

The nature and predictors of sexual victimization and offending among adolescents.
December 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION Sexual assault of female college students is a well-documented phenomenon due to the substantial attention that it has received from the media and academics during the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s (see Burkhart and...