Sentences with phrase «attempts at adulthood»

Or pick up Don't Worry, It Gets Worse: One Twentysomething's (Mostly Failed) Attempts at Adulthood by Alida Nugent.

Not exact matches

At least our three protagonists feel like real guys in their cartoony way; they beat the miserable whiners of The Last Kiss, another flick that attempts to deal with guys who shift into real adulthood.

Other new research echoes the Canada research, suggesting that the mental health effects of divorce may linger well into adulthood and put the children of divorce at greater risk of suicide, according to Dr. Dana Alonzo, an associate professor at Columbia University specializing in social work, conducted a study along with colleagues to determine whether or not having parents who divorced or having parents who abused alcohol would lead to an increased likelihood of a suicide attempt as an adult.

The original ACE Study, conducted at Kaiser Permanente Hospital in San Diego, California, was the first attempt at comprehensively examining the potential relationship between ACEs and negative health outcomes in adulthood (Felitti et al., 1998).

Victims have been shown to experience more post-traumatic stress and dissociation symptoms than non-abused children, 8 as well as more depression and conduct problems.9 They engage more often in at - risk sexual behaviours.10 Victims are also more prone to abusing substances, 11 and to suicide attempts.12 These mental health problems are likely to continue into adulthood.13 CSA victims are also more at risk than non-CSA youth to experience violence in their early romantic relationships; 14 women exposed to CSA have a two to three-fold risk of being sexually revictimized in adulthood compared with women without a history of CSA exposure.15

The offspring who were younger (r = − 0.08, P =.05), who were female (OR, 2.73; 95 % CI, 1.06 - 7.01), who had psychiatric disorders during middle adolescence (OR, 2.98; 95 % CI, 1.28 - 6.92), and whose parents had psychiatric disorders (OR, 4.55; 95 % CI,1.77 - 11.70) were also at an elevated risk for suicide attempts during late adolescence or early adulthood.

Although this is the first prospective longitudinal study to investigate this mediational hypothesis in a systematic manner, our findings are consistent with previous findings indicating that disruption of interpersonal relationships is a predominant risk factor for suicide10, 13,49 and that interpersonal conflict or separation during adulthood partially mediated an association between neglectful overprotective parenting and subsequent suicide attempts.23 The present findings are also consistent with research indicating that stressful life events mediated the association between childhood adversities and suicidal behavior during adolescence or early adulthood, 8 that suicide is multidetermined, 2 and that youths who experience numerous adversities during childhood and adolescence are at a particularly elevated risk for suicide.18, 22,49

Logistic regression analyses were conducted to investigate the mediation hypotheses, using an established 3 - step procedure.48 First, we investigated whether there was a significant bivariate association between a high level of maladaptive parenting (operationally defined as ≥ 3 maladaptive parenting behaviors) or abuse during childhood or early adolescence (by a mean age of 14 years) and risk for suicide attempts during late adolescence or early adulthood (reported at a mean age of 22 years) and whether the magnitude of this association was reduced when interpersonal difficulties during middle adolescence (reported at a mean age of 16 years) were controlled statistically.

For example, researchers have found that attendance in a high - quality early childhood program has short - and long - term benefits for children, their families, and the wider society.33 These benefits range from reduced need for special education services or remedial support during the K - 12 years to reduced dependency on government assistance in adulthood and increased tax revenue.34 Attempts to quantify these benefits have found a return on investment of between $ 3 and $ 13 for every dollar invested in early childhood.35 Even at the low end of this estimate, this is a significant return.