Sentences with phrase «characteristic of adolescence»

A characteristic of adolescence is an increase in autonomy — the child breaks away from the family unit and forms his own identity.

The quintessential characteristic of adolescence is change.

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.

Not exact matches

The transition into late adolescence comes not when some level of biological maturation or chronological age has been reached, but rather when an individual achieves and masters those stable patterns of sexual fulfillment and interpersonal relationship which Sullivan thought characteristic of mature adulthood.

So, while it is too simple to simply claim people are «born that way» (sexuality doesn't emerge until adolescence), of the potential factors — genetic, hormonal, developmental, social, and cultural influences — the first three are going to be determined before birth by the genetic and chemical characteristics of the individual.

The connections develop very slowly over childhood, with a dramatic shift toward the end of childhood when the transition to adolescence brings about more adult - like characteristics.

Estrogen, the best known of these hormones, initiates the development of female secondary sexual characteristics during adolescence.

Growling and fighting, however, almost always reflect an underlying lack of confidence, characteristic of male adolescence.

Kitayama [9] stated that smoking initiation is strongly linked to the particular feelings, thinking, and behavior patterns of adolescents, suggesting that smoking in adolescence may start from specific psychological characteristics.

Multiple logistic regression analyses were used to determine the association between panic attacks during adolescence in 1983 and the risk of personality disorders during young adulthood in 1993, adjusting for differences in sociodemographic characteristics, adolescent personality disorders, and co-morbid depressive and substance use disorders.

After controlling for relevant demographic characteristics, parental co-morbid psychopathology, and offspring psychopathology, maternal depression was associated with higher levels of physical symptoms (β = 0 · 14, S.E. = 0 · 07) during adolescence, and higher levels of minor stressors (β = 2 · 52, S.E. = 1 · 07) and a greater risk for using mental health services (OR 1 · 86, 95 % CI 1 · 14 — 3 · 03) in young adulthood.

The survey was designed to examine the characteristics, circumstances and behaviour of children from birth to late adolescence, to inform policies affecting children and their families in Scotland.

This report adds to the current evidence base by using data from a large - scale longitudinal social survey designed to examine the characteristics, circumstances and behaviours of children from birth to late adolescence.

Given their typical age of onset, a broad range of mental disorders are increasingly being understood as the result of aberrations of developmental processes that normally occur in the adolescent brain.4 — 6 Executive functioning, and its neurobiological substrate, the prefrontal cortex, matures during adolescence.5 The relatively late maturation of executive functioning is adaptive in most cases, underpinning characteristic adolescent behaviours such as social interaction, risk taking and sensation seeking which promote successful adult development and independence.6 However, in some cases it appears that the delayed maturation of prefrontal regulatory regions leads to the development of mental illness, with neurobiological studies indicating a broad deficit in executive functioning which precedes and underpins a range of psychopathology.7 A recent meta - analysis of neuroimaging studies focusing on a range of psychotic and non-psychotic mental illnesses found that grey matter loss in the dorsal anterior cingulate, and left and right insula, was common across diagnoses.8 In a healthy sample, this study also demonstrated that lower grey matter in these regions was found to be associated with deficits in executive functioning performance.

However, it is also the case that those at risk for becoming drug abusers in adolescence show some of these same brain characteristics before exposure to drugs and alcohol.

Bivariate analysis of disordered eating characteristics in adolescence and young adulthood

Firstly, the stability of CU traits is not well established, as not all the children presenting these characteristics at the first evaluation will continue to show them across childhood, and until early adolescence [22 — 24].

The relationship characteristics support, negative interaction, and power were assessed in a 5 - wave longitudinal study of early to middle (ages 12 — 16) and middle to late adolescence (ages 16 — 20).

Social support, mother - grandmother relationships, maternal characteristics, and infant temperament may be particularly important factors influencing parenting for adolescents struggling with the emerging demands of parenthood and adolescence (Coley & Chase - Lansdale, 1998; Furstenburg et al., 1987; Hubbs - Tait et al., 1994; Lyons - Ruth & Block, 1996; Miller & Moore, 1990).

Identifying features of parent — adolescent relationships that make the transition to more autonomous self - care for adolescents smooth and how these characteristics may vary by culture is crucial for promoting positive health outcomes across adolescence.

Manic - depressive illness in early adolescence: a study of the clinical and diagnostic characteristics in six cases

The purpose of this study was two-fold: (1) to identify how school factors were related to perpetration of dating violence among adolescents; and (2) to assess how these factors may reduce or exacerbate the relationship between parental domestic violence and adolescents» perpetration of dating violence, while accounting for individual and family characteristics from early adolescence.