Sentences with phrase «affected youths study»
The present study aims to investigate the pathways from WE and PWE to mental ill - health and to define opportunities for intervention through analysis of the war - affected youths study (WAYS) cohort study.
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«This study doesn't answer whether sport specialization itself interferes with a youth athlete's sleep and well - being,» he said, «but it does suggest there are differences between single and multi-sport youth athletes that could affect injury risk, performance, or lifelong athletic participation.
Physical punishment is associated with a range of mental health problems in children, youth and adults, including depression, unhappiness, anxiety, feelings of hopelessness, use of drugs and alcohol, and general psychological maladjustment.26 — 29 These relationships may be mediated by disruptions in parent — child attachment resulting from pain inflicted by a caregiver, 30,31 by increased levels of cortisol32 or by chemical disruption of the brain's mechanism for regulating stress.33 Researchers are also finding that physical punishment is linked to slower cognitive development and adversely affects academic achievement.34 These findings come from large longitudinal studies that control for a wide range of potential confounders.35 Intriguing results are now emerging from neuroimaging studies, which suggest that physical punishment may reduce the volume of the brain's grey matter in areas associated with performance on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, third edition (WAIS - III).36 In addition, physical punishment can cause alterations in the dopaminergic regions associated with vulnerability to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.37
Researchers at the Mailman School of Public Health with colleagues at Johns Hopkins University studied the degree to which two such behaviors, adolescent sexual behaviors and gambling, affected African American youth in nine primary schools in Baltimore, MD..
They suggest that future studies incorporating animal models of childhood obesity take place over longer periods to determine how inactivity during youth contributes to adult consequences of obesity and whether interventions, such as reintroducing exercise, can affect this trajectory.
About Blog Youth Voice Journal (YVJ) is an international, multidisciplinary, peer reviewed journal that publishes theoretical contributions and empirical studies on issues affecting young people worldwide.
Nationally, 40 percent of undocumented adults ages 18 to 24 did not complete high school, according to Gonzales» current longitudinal study of about 2,700 undocumented youth, the National UnDACAmented Research Project (NURP), which is investigating how DACA affects this group.
(June 2003) NCSET NLTS2 Data Brief This report of the demographic characteristics of youth with disabilities participating in the National Longitudinal Study - 2 provides important information about factors other than disability that affect the educational and transition experiences of youth with disabilities.
The key elements of the studies included how youth - centered school reform was happening in schools; when and where the reforms took place, and; whom they affected.
About Blog Youth Voice Journal (YVJ) is an international, multidisciplinary, peer reviewed journal that publishes theoretical contributions and empirical studies on issues affecting young people worldwide.
Among the limits of the present study, it is possible to point out the necessity: 1) to replicate this investigation with a large number of Italian healthy adolescents for the representativeness of the sample; 2) to adopt the double analysis both for positive and negative affect, considering that literature review seems to indicate these two aspects as separate but equally important variables; and, finally, 3) to carry out a longitudinal study, from early adolescence to young adulthood, in order to emphasize the change in these aspects of youth development.
The major study limitation was the possibility that Black youth with more severe symptoms may be systematically less likely to be given the opportunity to participate in research trials which may affect generalizability and statistical significance.
However, studies on facial affect processing in youth with depressive symptoms are lacking.
Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) This study evaluated the effectiveness of The Parent Project, among parents of at - risk youth in the areas of general child management, family involvement, negative parent — child affective quality, substance use rules communication, and parental self - efficacy (PSE) in the ability to affect adolescent substance use.
Containment and Holding Environments: Understanding and Reducing Physical Restraint in Residential Child Care Steckley (2010) Children and Youth Services Review, 32 (1) View Abstract Describes a Scottish study of the views of residential care staff and inpatient youth affected by physical restrYouth Services Review, 32 (1) View Abstract Describes a Scottish study of the views of residential care staff and inpatient youth affected by physical restryouth affected by physical restraint.
The center conducts high - quality research studies with children at all stages of development and shares it with the people and institutions whose decisions and actions affect children and youth.
A growing body of evidence suggests that stressors associated with war - related events may predispose youth to adverse outcomes.10 - 17 This stream of research is consistent with family systems theory, which suggests that the experiences of a military - connected parent will affect the functioning of youth in that family system.18 Although some studies have considered the impact of military life during wartime, 12,17,19 to our knowledge, most researchers have examined negative outcomes associated specifically with deployments.1, 7,20 These studies have examined the psychosocial functioning of children during the deployment of a parent4, 14 or following 1 or multiple deployments.11, 13,21 Although many military - connected youth fare relatively well despite stressors, these studies concluded that a sizeable proportion appears to struggle with experiences of deployment and other war - related stressors.
Findings from this study indicate that youth - reported BGM affect is associated with glycemic control, even when factors such as diabetes - specific family conflict and quality of life are controlled.
Notwithstanding these limitations, the findings of the current study contribute to the theoretical understanding of how relations with peers may affect youths» behaviors, by demonstrating that the way in which adolescents and young adults talk about sexuality - related topics with their friends (i.e., the amounts of normativity and deviance) relates to their individual perceptions of peer norms regarding sexual behavior, which, in turn, have been found to be related to adolescents» actual sexual behavior (van de Bongardt et al., 2015).
The acquisition of affect regulation skills is often impaired or delayed in youth with mental health problems but the relationship between affect dysregulation and risk behaviors has not been well studied.
The current study adds to the limited research on positive affect socialization and offers some evidence that youth's self - control may serve as a vantage - sensitivity factor in the association between maternal positive affect socialization and youth adjustment.
Trajectories of externalizing problems among war - affected youth in Sierra Leone: Results from a longitudinal study.