Sentences with phrase «behaviors of adolescent boys»
Our results indicated that mothers» dating behaviors directly influenced the sexual behaviors of adolescent boys, and indirectly influenced adolescent girls» sexuality by affecting their sexual attitudes.
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Back in Sparta, when adolescent boys strayed beyond the bounds of acceptable behavior, older men nudged them back into line.
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.
She warned against unnecessary stigmatizing of troubled adolescents: «Although many boys display at - risk behaviors and attitudes, very few will actually become school shooters.»
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.
Erkut's research on children and adolescents included a research program on raising confident and competent girls, Puerto Rican youth development, the effects of sports on girls» and boys» development and sexual behavior, evaluating youth - serving agencies» science and math programs for girls and children of color, and a study of racial / ethnic identification among adolescents from mixed - ancestry backgrounds.
Future studies should explore whether depressed adolescent girls have a higher risk of other impulsive behaviors in comparison to boys, and, if this is the case, whether irritability mediates these relationships.
Participants were 302 Latino / a recent immigrant adolescents (53.3 % boys, M age = 14.51 years at Time 1, SD =.88 years) who completed measures of discrimination, depressive symptoms, and prosocial behaviors at 6 - month intervals.
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-.
Sibling conflict and effective parenting as predictors of adolescent boys» antisocial behavior and peer difficulties: Additive and interactional effects
Psychopathic traits are found to be present in a wide range of youths (i.e., high - risk as well as general population sample, young children as well as adolescents, boys as well as girls) and are related to delinquent behavior.