Youth Studies Australia articles from June 2009

Youth Studies Australia archives from June 2009

Research that matters.(Editorial)
June 1, 2009... In Australia, we are fortunate to have researchers who are interested in carefully examining youth-related issues, and a peer review system that allows us to evaluate their research within a recognised and rigorous framework of assessment. The...

Youth.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2009... Youth Gill Jones Polity Press (Key concepts series) 2009, UK14.99 [pounds sterling] ISBN: 9780745640952, 224pp. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Gill Jones is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Keele University. Now...

Researching young people's lives.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2009... Researching young people's lives Sue Heath, Rachel Brooks, Elizabeth Cleaver and Eleanor Ireland SAGE Publications Ltd. 2009, UK19.99 [pounds sterling] ISBN: 9781412910569, 213pp. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Sue Heath is...

Young people making a life.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2009... Young people making a life Ani Wierenga Palgrave Macmillan 2009; UK50.00 [pounds sterling] ISBN: 9780230549289 (hardcover); 243pp. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Ani Wierenga is a Future Generation Research Fellow at the...

The future by us: Young leaders imaging Australia beyond 2020.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2009... The future by us: Young leaders imagine Australia beyond 2020 Hugh Evans and Tom O'Connor (eds) Hardie Grant Books 2009; A$24.99 ISBN: 9781740667173, 239pp. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Edited by Hugh Evans, the 2020 Youth...

Bullying beyond the schoolyard: Preventing and responding to cyberbullying.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2009... Bullying beyond the schoolyard: Preventing and responding to cyberbullying Sameer Hinduja Corwin Press represented in Australia by Footprint Books 2009, A$77.00 ISBN: 1412966894, 254pp. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The...

How general practitioners determine young people's rights.(Report)
June 1, 2009... To explore how Victorian general practitioners understand and apply relevant legal authority when faced with a young person who requests the oral contraceptive pill, over 300 doctors were asked to make decisions about a hypothetical patient's...

Culturally appropriate mentoring for Horn of African young people in Australia.(Report)
June 1, 2009... Over recent years there has been a significant increase in the number of young people from the Horn of Africa entering Australia. These young people face unique challenges as a result of their age, ethnicity, migration and direct/indirect...

Cyberbullying: a TAFE perspective.(Technical and Further Education )(Report)
June 1, 2009... A cohort of young people undertaking a secondary education certificate was used to study the nature of cyberbullying within a TAFE setting. Cyberbullying is less prevalent !n TAFE institutes than in secondary schools, but still causes distress...

Music for engaging young people in education.(Report)
June 1, 2009... The use of music as a tool for engagement with young people in two learning environments--an ESL (English as Second Language) high school for newly arrived immigrant and refugee students and a residential care facility for adolescent boys--is...

The relationship between levels of perceived respect and bullying in 5th through 12th grades.(BULLYING)(Report)(Brief article)
June 1, 2009... S.W. Langdon & W. Preble, Adolescence, v.43, n.171, 2008, pp. 485-503. Although respect is thought to be negatively related to bullying, there is little empirical evidence to support this hypothesis. To explore the relationship between...

Social and religious factors in adolescents' drug use.(DRUGS)(Report)(Brief article)
June 1, 2009... S.C. Jones & J.R. Rossiter, Journal of Child & Adolescent Substance Abuse, v.18, 2009, pp. 85-92. Using data from a study on the effect of specific anti-cannabis messages on Australian high school students, this study sought to explain the...

Examining the relationship between typical drinking behaviour and 21st birthday drinking behaviour among college students: Implications for event-specific prevention.(DRUGS)(Reprint)
June 1, 2009... M.A. Lewis, K.R Lindgren, N. Fossos, C. Neighbours & L. Oster-Aaland, Addiction, v.104, n.5, 2009, pp. 760-67. Around 300 students from a public university in the Midwestern United States participated in this study, which compared students'...

Are adolescents who moderate their cannabis use at lower risk of later regular and dependent cannabis use?(DRUGS)(Report)(Brief article)
June 1, 2009... W. Swift, C. Coffey, J.B. Carlin, L. Degenhardt, B. Calabria & G.C. Patton, Addiction, v.104, n.5, 2009, pp. 806-14. The relationship between moderation in cannabis use during adolescence and subsequent reductions in cannabis use and risk...

Effects of single-sex and coeducational schooling on the gender gap in educational achievement.(EDUCATION)(Report)(Brief article)
June 1, 2009... S.J. Gibb, D. M. Fergusson & L.J. Horwood, Australian Journal of Education, v.52, n.3, 2008, pp. 301-17. Longitudinal data from the Christchurch Health and Development Study (CHDS), New Zealand, were examined to investigate the association...

Full-time students? Term-time employment among higher education students in Ireland.(EDUCATION)(Report)(Brief article)
June 1, 2009... M. Darmody & E. Smyth, Journal of Education and Work, v.21, n.4, 2008, pp. 349-62. Greater higher education participation, lower relative levels of student grants and rapid growth in general employment have contributed to higher levels of...

Friendship, loneliness and depression in adolescents with Asperger's Syndrome.(FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS)(Reprint)
June 1, 2009... A.J.O. Whitehouse, K. Durkin, E. Jaquet & K. Ziatas, Journal of Adolescence, v.32, n.2, 2009, pp. 309-22. Research suggests that adolescents with Asperger's Syndrome (AS) "may be less cognisant of the need for friendships and less likely...

Conflict resolution in parent-adolescent relationships and adolescent delinquency.(FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS)(Report)(Brief article)
June 1, 2009... M.D. Van Doorn, S.J.T. Branje & W.H.J. Meeus, Journal of Early Adolescence, v.28, n.4, 2008, pp. 503-27. The conflict resolution styles of 284 Dutch adolescents (50% boys, mean age = 13.3 years) and their parents were assessed to determine...

Positive effects of talking about the negative: Family narratives of negative experiences and preadolescents' perceived competence.(FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS)(Report)(Brief article)
June 1, 2009... K.A. Marin, J.G. Bohanek & R. Fivush, Journal of Research on Adolescence, v.18, n.3, 2008, pp. 573-93. Past research suggests that parental expressions of negative emotions are "detrimental to children's social competence and behaviour."...

Young Australian women's aspirations for work and family.(GENDER ISSUES)(Report)(Brief article)
June 1, 2009... M. Johnstone & C. Lee, Family Matters, n.81, 2009. pp. 5-14. Responses obtained from the first three waves of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health were analysed to determine the employment, relationship and motherhood...

Adolescents' use of purpose built shade in secondary schools: Cluster randomised control trial.(HEALTH)(Abstract)(Report)
June 1, 2009... S.J. Dobbinson, V. White, M.A. Wakefield, K.M. Jamsen, V. White, P.M. Livingston, D.R. English & J.A. Simpson, British Medical Journal, v.338 (online version). To determine whether secondary school students would use or avoid newly shaded...

Disordered eating behaviours: What about boys?(HEALTH)(Reprint)
June 1, 2009... F. Domine, A. Berchtold, C. Akre, PA. Michaud & J-C. Suris, Journal of Adolescent Health, v.44, n.2, 2009, pp. 111-17. To ascertain the factors associated with disordered eating behaviour (DEB) among adolescent males, researchers analysed...

From youth to adult homelessness.(HOMELESSNESS)(Reprint)
June 1, 2009... G. Johnson & C. Chamberlain, Australian Journal of Social Issues, v.43, n.4, pp. 563-82. The "social adaptation" hypothesis "suggests that the longer people are homeless, the more they adapt to homelessness as a 'way of life'". To assess...

Adolescence, pornography and harm.(MEDIA)(Reprint)
June 1, 2009... C. Bryant, Trends and Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice, n.368. Recent Australian and international research was reviewed in order to examine "social factors that place young people at increased risk of exposure, or of experiencing...

Personality assessment with adolescents: Challenges and guidelines.(MENTAL HEALTH)(Abstract)(Report)
June 1, 2009... T.D. Crespi & N.N. Politikos, Adolescence, v.43, n.171, 2008, pp.593-606. Schools and school-based psychologists are "in an unprecedented position from which to provide immediate relief" to the many adolescents suffering from unmet mental...

Childhood motor skill proficiency as a predictor of adolescent physical activity.(SPORT & LEISURE)(Abstract)(Report)
June 1, 2009... L.M. Barnett, E. van Beurden, P.J. Morgan, L.O. Brooks & J.R. Reid, Journal of Adolescent Health, v.44, n.3, 2009, pp. 252-59. This longitudinal cohort study, conducted in New South Wales, examined whether childhood motor skill proficiency...

Associations between interpersonal relationships in organised leisure activities and youth adjustment.(SPORT & LEISURE)(Abstract)(Report)
June 1, 2009... A-S. Denault & F. Poulin, Journal of Early Adolescence, v.28, n.4, 2008, pp. 477-502. This Canadian study investigated four types of interpersonal relationship experienced by adolescents within the context of youth activity participation...

Does positive youth development predict adolescent attitudes about sexuality?(SEXUALITY)(Abstract)(Report)
June 1, 2009... E.N. Chapman & R.J. Werner-Wilson, Adolescence, v.43, n.171, 2008, pp. 505-23. Based upon the assertion that healthy sexuality should be included as an important developmental outcome within the Positive Youth Development framework, this...

Why embarrassment inhibits the acquisition and use of condoms: A qualitative approach to understanding risky sexual behaviour.(SEXUALITY)(Abstract)(Report)
June 1, 2009... J. Bell, Journal of Adolescence, v.32, n.2, 2009, pp. 379-91. This qualitative study used findings from a larger study of young people's attitudes towards sexual behaviour and young parenthood to examine the role of embarrassment in young...

Young women, late modern politics, and the participatory possibilities of online cultures.(TECHNOLOGY)(Abstract)(Report)
June 1, 2009... A. Harris, Journal of Youth Studies, v.11, n.5, 2008, pp. 481-95. While it is widely acknowledged that young people in general feel alienated from and disenchanted with traditional modes of political participation, research indicates that...

"Explosions and examinations': Growing up female in post-Saddam Iraq.(TECHNOLOGY)(Abstract)(Report)
June 1, 2009... P. Campbell & R Kelly, Journal of Youth Studies, v.12, n.1, 2009, pp. 21-38. In recent years, blogs (weblogs) created by individuals living in Iraq have "provided an ongoing, unauthorised and unofficial accounting of the chaos that...

Intrafamilial adolescent sex offenders: Family functioning and treatment.(VIOLENCE)(Abstract)(Report)
June 1, 2009... J.A. Thornton, G. Stevens, J. Grant, D. Indermaur, C. Chamarette & A. Halse, Journal of Family Studies, v.14, n.2-3, 2008, pp.362-75. This Western Australian study examined family functioning among the families of intrafamilial adolescent...

Exposure to violence in adolescence and precocious role exits.(VIOLENCE)(Abstract)(Report)
June 1, 2009... D.L. Haynie, R.J. Petts, D. Maimon & A.R. Piquero, Journal of Youth and Adolescence, v.38, n.3, pp. 269-86. Exposure to risk factors during adolescence can alter individuals' transitions into adulthood, resulting in "precocious role exits"...

Programs and policies that promote positive youth development and prevent risky behaviours: An international perspective.(YOUTH DEVELOPMENT)(Abstract)(Report)
June 1, 2009... S. Naudeau, W. Cunningham, M.K.A. Lundberg & L. McGinnis, New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, n. 122, 2008, pp. 75-87. While "a certain amount of risk-taking can be considered normative and even developmentally...

Children and young people in hospitals: Doing youth work in medical settings.(YOUTH WORK)(Abstract)(Report)
June 1, 2009... S. Yates, M. Payne & S. Dyson, Journal of Youth Studies, v.12, n.1, 2009, pp.77-92. Young people with chronic health conditions and those in need of acute and emergency health care face a range of issues related to their hospital...

The changing world's view of Christian youth work.(YOUTH WORK)(Abstract)(Report)
June 1, 2009... M-A. Clayton & N. Stanton, Youth & Policy, n.100, 2008, pp. 109-18. In recent decades, the Christian youth work sector in the United Kingdom has experienced significant changes and challenges. The sector has faced a significant decline in...

Addresses of abstracted publications.(Directory)
June 1, 2009... Addiction ISSN 0965-2140 www.addictionjournal.org Adolescence ISSN 0001-8449 www.abe.pl/html/English/detailsj.php?id=0001-8449 Australian Journal of Education ISSN 0004-9411 www.acer.edu.au/aje ...

YouTHINK Hundreds of youth were part of the national conversation.(Youth Initiatives)(Australian Youth Forum )
June 1, 2009... On Friday 20 February, hundreds of young Australians from across the country, aged 15-24, attended the inaugural Australian Youth Forum (AYF) event--youTHINK--hosted by the Hon. Kate Ellis MP, Minister for Youth. Over 600 young people were...