Adolescence articles from June 1995

Adolescence archives from June 1995

Factors associated with sexual behavior among adolescents: a multivariate analysis.
June 22, 1995... INTRODUCTION The United States has the highest teenage pregnancy rate of any developed nation, with nearly one million teenage pregnancies each year (Jones et al., 1985). Adolescent childbearing has become a prominent social issue because of...

Football, fast cars, and cheerleading: adolescent gender norms, 1978-1989.
June 22, 1995... During the past decade, there has been substantial interest in examining and explaining changes in gender-role attitudes and behaviors in the United States. This line of research has shown that gender-role attitudes have become markedly less...

Is bipolar disorder the most common diagnostic entity in hospitalized adolescents and children?
June 22, 1995... INTRODUCTION Several studies have brought attention to the fact that bipolar disorder is often unrecognized or misdiagnosed in children and adolescents as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (A.D.H.D.), Conduct disorder, adolescent...

Psychosocial variables associated with teenage pregnancy.
June 22, 1995... Over one million adolescents between the ages of 15 and 19 become pregnant each year, a number that has remained relatively stable since 1973 (Henshaw, Kenney, Somberg, & Van Wort, 1989; Carrera & Dempsey, 1988). Research into the phenomenon of...

Pre-school responses to the 19th-century youth crisis.
June 22, 1995... The travails of 19th-century urban youth were a precondition to the invention of modern adolescence and the rise of the modern secondary school. These travails, already documented by this author in Adolescence (Nos. 89 and 92), led to a...

Treasured possessions and their meanings in adolescent males and females.
June 22, 1995... Research over the past 40 years has established that the attachments which infants and young children develop to certain soft, cuddly objects (e.g., blankets or teddy bears) serve important developmental functions. These objects are thought to...

The influence of victim's attire on adolescents' judgments of date rape.
June 22, 1995... Recent estimates on the incidence of rape committed by persons who know their victim are alarmingly high, particularly in the case of date rape among teens and young adults. In one report, Koss, Gidcyz, and Wizniewsky (1987) estimated that...

Sociology and psychology.(Movie Portrayals of Juvenile Delinquency, part 2)
June 22, 1995... INTRODUCTION This paper is the second part of a review of the phenomenology of movie portrayals of juvenile delinquency, the first part having described the epidemiology and criminology of the content of such films (Snyder, 1995). The...

Depression among adolescents in Northern Ireland.
June 22, 1995... The present research attempts to describe the nature, frequency, and pattern of self-reported depression among a sample of secondary school students living in Northern Ireland. The study focuses on adolescents in the community rather than on...

Symptom clusters among young adolescents.
June 22, 1995... INTRODUCTION Recurrent symptoms for which no organic etiology can be found are common among adolescents. Headache, chest and abdominal pain, and chronic fatigue are some of the more frequently reported functional or "psychosomatic" symptoms...

Psychosexual characteristics of male university students in Brazil.
June 22, 1995... INTRODUCTION Defining normal and abnormal development during the adolescent years is a very difficult task. Stereotypes and a general lack of knowledge about the peculiarities of this stage of development contribute to the difficulty. Few...

"I am neither general nor diplomat": reflections on the Persian Gulf War by gifted Canadian adolescents.
June 22, 1995... INTRODUCTION Does a war ever end? When one considers the amount of attention given to the reams of post-war analysis, research, and ongoing debate, perhaps it is a reflection of the very nature of war itself that events, circumstances, and...

Self-esteem and value of health as correlates of adolescent health behavior.
June 22, 1995... INTRODUCTION Much recent research in the health behavior field has adopted a psychosocial approach centering on personal variables. Significant work on the relationship between health behavior and personality factors has included studies of...

A multiple case study comparison of normal private preparatory school and substance abusing/mood disordered adolescents and their families.
June 22, 1995... Historically, the nuclear family has been viewed as the central institution of human society with the major responsibility for socializing children. A child or adolescent's ability to learn socially and psychologically acceptable behavior depends...

Adolescent female offenders: unique considerations.
June 22, 1995... Given the emergence of a psychology of women in the mainstream of research and practice, it is critical that correctional educational practices become responsive to adolescent females. While in the past, few research studies focused on the needs...

A model of motivational orientation for youth sport: some preliminary work.
June 22, 1995... During the past ten years considerable effort has been devoted to developing an understanding of children's experience in sport. The impetus behind this research focus appears to have been twofold. First, the tremendous number of children who...

Synchrony in adolescence.
June 22, 1995... Optimal development occurs when an individual interacts with a social environment that is responsive and adaptive to his or her changing needs. A good match is necessary between the developing adolescent's need for autonomy and the opportunities...

Accident or suicide? Single-vehicle car accidents and the intent hypothesis.
June 22, 1995... INTRODUCTION The number of vehicular deaths recorded in the United States total 48,800, 46,620, 43,980, and 41,040 for 1989, 1990, 1991, and 1992, respectively (Monthly Vital Statistics Reports August 28, 1991; May 28, 1992; June 30, 1993). It...

Family violence, abuse, and related family issues of incarcerated delinquents with alcoholic parents compared to those with nonalcoholic parents.
June 22, 1995... Family-related variables consistently have been shown to be factors in the absence or presence of criminality. Travis Hirschi, the theorist most closely identified with Social Control or Bonding Theory, links delinquent behavior to the quality of...

Is there a need for observationally based assessment of affective symptomatology in child and adolescent psychiatry?
June 22, 1995... Research on affective disorders in childhood and adolescence has appeared with increasing frequency in the psychiatric and pediatric literature. The active pace and ferment of research on this topic highlights the importance of accurate and...

Stories and solutions in psychotherapy with adolescents.
June 22, 1995... INTRODUCTION Therapeutic work with adolescents is often seen as more challenging, difficult, and less fulfilling than work with adults or younger children. For example, Trepper (1991) described working with adolescents as an "adversarial...