Sentences with phrase «adolescent girls than boys»

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A study of the relationship between binge drinking and eating problems among Russian adolescents has found that problematic eating behaviors and attitudes are commonplace, and that binge drinking is associated with more eating problems in girls than boys.

Currently, it is recommended that teenagers perform a minimum of 60 minutes of daily exercise to prevent future disease, however according to the Health Survey for England less than 30 % of adolescent boys and 20 % of adolescent girls achieve this amount.

The study found that more than 25 percent of boys and 50 percent of girls ages six to 11 and more than 50 percent of male and 75 percent of female adolescents ages 12 to 19 had not met the WHO recommendation.

As it happens, both young men and women experience a growth spurt in adolescence that is second only to the rapid growth that occurs in the first year of life.2 With the onset of puberty come increases in height, weight and bone mass; cognitive changes; and reproductive maturation.3 Adolescent boys gain more in bone size and mass than adolescent girls.3 To support this intensive and multifaceted period of growth, the total nutrient needs of adolescents are higher than at any other lAdolescent boys gain more in bone size and mass than adolescent girls.3 To support this intensive and multifaceted period of growth, the total nutrient needs of adolescents are higher than at any other ladolescent girls.3 To support this intensive and multifaceted period of growth, the total nutrient needs of adolescents are higher than at any other life stage.

Spike Lee executive produced this film about an adolescent girl growing up in Brooklyn's Fort Greene neighborhood, who discovers that she likes other girls more than boys.

Some observers have argued that female offenders can, in theory, be either adolescent - limited or life - course - persistent and that the relative scarcity of early - onset aggression in females indicates that they are generally less likely to follow the latter pathway.56 Others, however, have argued that the relative prevalence of adolescent - onset aggression in girls (compared with childhood - onset) indicates that persistent delinquency simply manifests at a later age in girls than it does in boys.57 In Persephanie Silverthorn and Paul Frick's model, girls and boys are influenced by similar risk factors during childhood, but the onset of delinquent behavior in girls is delayed by the more stringent social controls imposed on them before adolescence.

Conclusions and Relevance Sexual communication with parents, particularly mothers, plays a small protective role in safer sex behavior among adolescents; this protective effect is more pronounced for girls than boys.

Sexual communication with parents, particularly mothers, plays a small protective role in safer sex behavior among adolescents; this protective effect is more pronounced for girls than boys.

Girls will demonstrate higher average levels of depressive symptoms than adolescent boys will during adolescence.

In contrast to this, Chen and Simons - Morton noted that among adolescents with high levels of depression, more boys than girls were in the highest trajectory for conduct problems over a 3 - year period (from Grade 6 to Grade 9) in a community sample [22].

This study found that the relationship between physical aggression and depressive symptoms is stronger among adolescent girls than adolescent boys.

Attachment relationship and adolescent's life satisfaction: Some relationship matter more to girls than boys

We expected adolescents to report lower HRQoL than children and we expected girls to display lower HRQoL than boys.

Research on aggressive behavior in children and adolescents originally addressed direct, physical forms of aggression, documenting that these were more common among boys than among girls (e.g., Hyde [1984]-RRB-.

Furthermore, only a very small minority of female gamers played violent games, and even if adolescent girls played violent games, they spent much less time on them than boys did.

Factors related to whether sexual discussions occur include parent gender, with mothers more likely than fathers to communicate with children; adolescent gender, with girls reporting more communication with parents than boys; and parental education, with those with more education communicating with children more frequently (Raffaelli & Green, 2003).

[jounal] Ma, C. Q. / 2008 / Attachment relationships and adolescents» life satisfaction: Some relationships matter more to girls than boys / Psychology in the Schools 45 (2): 177 ~ 190