Sentences with phrase «study of adolescent life»

1) Michigan Study of Adolescent Life Transitions [MSALT], 2) Childhood and Beyond Study [CAB], 3) Swiss Parent - Teacher - Collaboration Study [SPTCS]

The research was done on a data set collected over 17 years as part of the Michigan Study of Adolescent Life Transitions.

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But a new study finds that poor adolescents who live in communities with more social cohesiveness and control get some measure of protection; they're less likely to smoke and be obese as adolescents.

A variety of studies suggest that fathers» engagement positively impacts their children's social competence, 27 children's later IQ28 and other learning outcomes.29 The effects of fathers on children can include later - life educational, social and family outcomes.1, 2,26 Children may develop working models of appropriate paternal behaviour based on early childhood cues such as father presence, 30,31 in turn shaping their own later partnering and parenting dynamics, such as more risky adolescent sexual behaviour32 and earlier marriage.33 Paternal engagement decreases boys» negative social behaviour (e.g., delinquency) and girls» psychological problems in early adulthood.34 Fathers» financial support, apart from engagement, can also influence children's cognitive development.35

One of the possible confounding factors noted in their study was that the experimental group had more of the adolescents living with their parents, whereas adolescents in the control group were more likely to live with their significant other.

TEEN SUICIDE: The state will create a task force to study adolescent suicide and recommend policy changes to reduce the number of young people who take their own lives.

A new study by researchers at Dartmouth has found that adolescents living in medical marijuana states with a plethora of dispensaries are more likely to have tried new methods of cannabis use, such as edibles and vaping, at a younger age than those living in states with fewer dispensaries.

Mary Carskadon, Ph.D., director of the Bradley Hospital Sleep Research Laboratory, commented on Orzech's study, «We have long been examining the sleep cycles of teenagers and how we might be able to help adolescents — especially high school students — be better rested and more functional in a period of their lives where sleep seems to be a luxury.»

«This study tells us more about which children are most vulnerable to symptoms of PTSD and emphasizes the importance of limiting media exposure for all children and adolescents following life - threatening events such as acts of terrorism,» said senior author Dr. Margaret Sheridan.

«An enormous number of youth and adolescents have already experienced violence in their dating lives,» said lead study author Vijay Singh, MD, MPH, MS of the University of Michigan Injury Center and Department of Emergency Medicine in Ann Arbor, Mich. «Patterns that begin in adolescence can carry over to adulthood.

Adolescents completed a survey that contained a mixture of 20 negatively and positively worded items — such as such as «I felt sad,» «I enjoyed life,» «My appetite was poor,» and «People are unfriendly to me» — in the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES - D).

A total of 792 Black adolescents, ages 11 to 21, who lived in nine public housing developments in four major U.S. cities (including two in North Philadelphia), participated in the study.

«Although teen dating violence is typically viewed as a problem related specifically to adolescent development, our findings indicate that the risk for aggressive behavior and involvement in dating violence are related to stressors experienced much earlier in life,» says Jennifer A. Livingston, PhD, senior research scientist at RIA and lead author of the study.

For the study, 555 Palestinian adolescents between the ages of 12 and 18 were presented with a classic «trolley dilemma» that involved a Palestinian man being killed to save the lives of five children who were either Jewish - Israeli or Muslim - Palestinian.

Some of the best data available show that people who start drinking as adolescents and drink more heavily then are more likely to have problems with alcohol and drug abuse later in life, says Ilene Bernstein, a neuroscientist at the University of Washington, Seattle, and the senior author of the new study.

The study found that adolescents who had suffered a TBI sometime in their life had twice the odds of being bullied at school or via the Internet and almost three times the odds of attempting suicide or being threatened at school with a weapon compared to those without a TBI.

Another finding of the study: Less than half of those adolescents that had suffered from a mental health problem at least once in their lives so far sought professional help from a child and adolescent psychiatrist.

Living in rural households decreases a person's risk of developing inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), particularly for young children and adolescents, according to a new study by researchers at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) Research Institute, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES), and the Canadian Gastro - Intestinal Epidemiology Consortium (CanGIEC).

The study compared the level of physical fitness of adolescents living in Mediterranean countries (Spain, Italy and Greece) with adolescents from the centre and north of Europe.

Bauer LB, et al. 2015 A pilot study examining the effects of consuming a high - protein vs normal - protein breakfast on free - living glycemic control in overweight / obese «breakfast skipping» adolescents.

A study published in 2011 of 2,500 + individuals followed from 1995 - 2008 as part of the US National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health found that twice as many respondents with two 5 - HTTLPR long variants said they were very satisfied with life compared with carriers of two short versstudy published in 2011 of 2,500 + individuals followed from 1995 - 2008 as part of the US National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health found that twice as many respondents with two 5 - HTTLPR long variants said they were very satisfied with life compared with carriers of two short versStudy of Adolescent Health found that twice as many respondents with two 5 - HTTLPR long variants said they were very satisfied with life compared with carriers of two short versions.

Liz Claiborne Corporation made a number of interesting studies, for many years in the adolescent studies, specifically the frequency of dating violence in their lives.

Researchers used data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health and the National Health and Social Life Survey.

The study of plant life is a staple in biology curricula — children explore seeds and how plants grow, young adolescents focus on cells, and teenagers continue their studies with more in - depth investigations of botany and plant physiology.

In his now - classic 1961 study The Adolescent Society: The Social Life of the Teenager and Its Impact on Education (excerpts), Coleman identified a series of problems that resulted from the separate society that high school had created for teenagers.

These images study the physical and emotional changes in the adolescent phase of a girl's life in America.

The main objective of this study was to investigate how positive affect can be in relation to the dimensions of resilience and perceived self - efficacy in life skills in a sample of Italian adolescents.

In addition, Abolghasemi & Taklavi Varaniyab (2010) studied how the relationship between resilience and perceived stress can influence life satisfaction in a sample of Iranian adolescents, showing that resilience and perceived positive stress are positively related to life satisfaction.

The importance of this study can be due to the attention to the reduced amount of investigations focused on the relationship among affect states, resilience, and perceived self - efficacy in life skills in Italian healthy adolescents, and to the suitability to deepen the effects of positive growing factors such as «positive affectivity» in the life span of adolescents.

In this direction, some recent studies investigated that children and adolescents who attended educational programs focused on the promotion of self - efficacy in life skills reduced the onset of at - risk and maladaptive behaviors (Griffin et al., 2003; Botvin & Griffin, 2004; Yankah & Aggleton, 2008; Menrath et al., 2012; Jegannathan, Dahlblom, & Kullgren, 2014): it was possible to observe a significant and positive effect for the reduction of health - risk behaviors in the intervention group, compared to control group (see Menrath et al., 2012), confirming the efficacy of school - based on life skills programs.

In another recent study, Garcia et al. (2017) examined differences in subjective well - being and psychological well - being between Swedish and Italian adolescents and investigated if the relationships between the three constructs of subjective well - being (life satisfaction, positive affect and negative affect) and psychological well - being were influenced by the adolescents» nationality.

The main purpose of this study was to analyze the relationships of positive affect with dimensions of resilience and perceived self - efficacy in life skills in a sample of 147 Italian healthy adolescents.

The FFCWS studies add to a large body of earlier work that suggested that children who live with single or cohabiting parents fare worse as adolescents and young adults in terms of their educational outcomes, risk of teen birth, and attachment to school and the labor market than do children who grow up in married - couple families.

While there are still some researchers questioning whether obesity is an emergency, a new study published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism shows that gains in life expectancy over the past four decades, have not extended to those with obesity, and having obesity as an adolescent could shorten your lifespan.

A longitudinal study had similar findings in that after controlling for mental health disorders and adverse life events, the influence of parental and family factors on adolescent suicide was attenuated.51

Using the 1999 National Survey of American Families, Brown found that only 1.5 percent of all children lived with two cohabiting parents at the time of the survey.17 Similarly, an analysis of the 1995 Adolescent Health Study (Add Health) revealed that less than one - half of 1 percent of adolescents aged sixteen to eighteen had spent their entire childhoods living with two continuously cohabiting biological parents.18

This is in keeping with a cross-sectional study of Aboriginal children aged 14 or under living in Brisbane, which found more than half to have experienced a stressful life event in the last year.46 Living in a family that had experienced less than two stressful life events in the past year was associated with six times higher odds of good mental health among adolescents but was not significant in the final models for the cohort overall or among the younger participants specifiliving in Brisbane, which found more than half to have experienced a stressful life event in the last year.46 Living in a family that had experienced less than two stressful life events in the past year was associated with six times higher odds of good mental health among adolescents but was not significant in the final models for the cohort overall or among the younger participants specifiLiving in a family that had experienced less than two stressful life events in the past year was associated with six times higher odds of good mental health among adolescents but was not significant in the final models for the cohort overall or among the younger participants specifically.

Christine Buchanan, Eleanor Maccoby, and Sanford Dornbusch found that adolescents had fewer emotional and behavior problems following divorce if their mothers remarried than if they cohabited with a partner.31 Similarly, two studies of African American families found that children were better off in certain respects if they lived with stepfathers than with their mother's cohabiting partners.32 In contrast, Susan Brown found no significant differences between children in married and cohabiting stepfamilies.33 Although these data suggest that children may be better off if single mothers marry their partners rather than cohabit, the small number of studies on this topic makes it difficult to draw firm conclusions.

A self administered questionnaire was used to screen participants and gather data on demographic variables, depression (the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale [CES - D]-RRB-, suicide (3 items added to the CES - D), life changes (a modified version of the Coddington Life Event Schedule for Adolescents), and family environment (Family Adaptation and Cohesion Evaluation Scallife changes (a modified version of the Coddington Life Event Schedule for Adolescents), and family environment (Family Adaptation and Cohesion Evaluation ScalLife Event Schedule for Adolescents), and family environment (Family Adaptation and Cohesion Evaluation Scales).

The purpose of this study is to examine the predictive effect of life satisfaction and loneliness level of adolescents with divorced parents on resilience.

Adolescence is a critical period for the development of depression with prevalence rates rising sharply from childhood to early adulthood.1 Many adult depressive disorders have their first onset in adolescence2 with longer episode duration being the strongest predictor of future problems.3 In addition to increasing the risk of later mental health problems, adolescent depression is associated with significant educational and social impairment and is a major risk factor for suicide.1 Providing effective early interventions to shorten the duration of episodes and potentially reduce the impact on later life is therefore important.3 This study explores this question and compares the effects of...

A review of twenty studies on the adult lives of antisocial adolescent girls found higher mortality rates, a variety of psychiatric problems, dysfunctional and violent relationships, poor educational achievement, and less stable work histories than among non-delinquent girls.23 Chronic problem behavior during childhood has been linked with alcohol and drug abuse in adulthood, as well as with other mental health problems and disorders, such as emotional disturbance and depression.24 David Hawkins, Richard Catalano, and Janet Miller have shown a similar link between conduct disorder among girls and adult substance abuse.25 Terrie Moffitt and several colleagues found that girls diagnosed with conduct disorder were more likely as adults to suffer from a wide variety of problems than girls without such a diagnosis.26 Among the problems were poorer physical health and more symptoms of mental illness, reliance on social assistance, and victimization by, as well as violence toward, partners.

Scientific studies and clinical applications regarding children's and adolescents» personal and social skills have become quite important since the 80s, mainly due to the increasing recognition of the significant role of social - emotional development in children's well - being; Since Daniel Goleman's first publication of his best - selling popular book titled «Emotional Intelligence» (1995), it has been acknowledged that emotional and social skills may be more important to our happiness and success in life, than IQ or intelligence (Merrell & Gimpel, 2014).

Thus far, we have not found any studies that assess life outcomes for young people according to a combination of parental and adolescent anxiety and depression symptom load.

«In a study of 254 African - American male adolescents, boys living with both biological parents were most likely to cite their fathers as role models (96 percent), compared to only 44 percent of those not living with their fathers, and were more likely to stay in school.

Accordingly, the aim of this study was to investigate the relationships between participation in a sports club and SES, access to facilities, and family and peer support, for female adolescents in Year 7 and Year 11, living in metropolitan and regional / rural areas.

The Effects of a Community and School Sport - Based Program on Urban Indigenous Adolescents» Life Skills and Physical Activity Levels: The SCP Case Study

Adolescence is characterized by major biological, psychological and social challenges and opportunities, where interaction between the individual and environment is intense, and developmental pathways are set in motion or become established.2 — 4 Furthermore, adolescent psychopathology can have important consequences for education, relationships and socioeconomic achievement in later life.5 — 7 These characteristics of adolescence do not only set high demands for cohort studies aiming to capture the most salient aspects of developmental pathways, they also ensure a great gain in empirical knowledge and an invaluable source of information for public health policy from such studies.

The study used the Brief Symptom Inventory, the Family Environment Scale, and the Delinquency Scale in a structured interview format to measure psychological distress, family structure and relations, and levels of youth offending, in 219 older children and adolescents aged between 12 - 17 years living in areas associated with high levels of youth offending in the UK.

The Influence of Optimistic Expectations and Negative Life Events on Somatic Symptoms among Adolescents: A One - Year Prospective Study