This study examined two such factors, romantic competence and romantic experiences, and their role in the cross-sectional and longitudinal associations between pubertal timing and depressive symptoms among 83
early adolescent females (89 % Caucasian).
Participants were 96
early adolescent females from 2 parent families.
Sugar and spice and all things not - so - nice: Aggression within
early adolescent female friendships.
Not exact matches
In this moment, Campion finds one of her
earliest platforms for experimenting with expressionistic conventions of cinema like the chiaroscuro - style lighting of Ingmar Bergman, the inky suburban subconscious of David Lynch and Peter Weir's haunting images of lost girls.3 With this scene, Campion also perfectly encapsulates the isolating, confusing and ultimately frightening mood around
adolescent,
female sexuality in pre-feminist Australian suburbia of the «60s.
Neonatal Isolation Stress Inhibits Pre-Weaning Weight Gain and Mild - Stressor Induced Locomotor Activity in
Early Adolescent Male and
Female Rats
Silverthorn, Frick, and Richard Reynolds report evidence from a sample of seventy - two incarcerated youth that supports the contention that
adolescent - onset
females more closely resemble
early - onset than
adolescent - onset males in their
early risk exposure.58 Norman White and Alex Piquero similarly conclude that late - onset
females exhibit constellations of risk similar to those of
early - onset males.
The use of male -
female co-leadership in an
early adolescent girls» activity group: Social Work with Groups Vol 6 (2) Sum 1983, 67 - 80.
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.
We tested each model's plausibility, examining longitudinal associations between entity theories of thoughts, feelings, and behavior and psychopathology in
early adolescents across one school year (N = 59, 52 %
female, ages 11 — 14, 0 % attrition).
Hypotheses are assessed using logistic regression models predicting the odds of
early onset of sexual intercourse among 9959 respondents (53 %
female, 47 % male) from the National Longitudinal Study of
Adolescent to Adult Health.
We hypothesized that whole - brain and region - of - interest analyses would identify differences in cortical thickness in prefrontal (especially anterior cingulate, middle frontal gyrus and orbitofrontal cortex) brain regions in
female adolescents with
early onset SUD, compared to controls.
Overall, interventions including male and
female youth and youth in
early adolescence (age 10 to 14 or in 5th to 8th grade) were more beneficial than interventions including
female - only or both young and older
adolescents.
In a sample of 444 Chinese American
adolescents (54 %
females), we identified three distinct patterns of adjustment in
early adolescence, middle adolescence, and emerging adulthood: the well - adjusted group, which was the largest, exhibited high achievement and low psychological distress; the poorly - adjusted group exhibited poor achievement and moderate distress; and the paradox group exhibited relatively high achievement and high distress.
An ethnically diverse sample of 70
early adolescents (51 %
female) and their mothers participated in this multimethod investigation.
Participants included 410
early adolescents (53 %
female; 51 % African American; Mean age = 12.84 years) who completed measures of social anxiety and depressive symptoms at three time points (Times 1 — 3), as well as measures of general interpersonal stressors, peer victimization, and emotional maltreatment at Time 2.
Participants were 152 community - based
early adolescent individuals (72
female, 80 male; mean age 12.6 years, s.d. 0.4 years; range 11.4 — 13.7 years), from a larger sample of 2479 grade 6 students (from 97 separate schools, representative of Victorian school sector type and socioeconomic classification) as part of a broader
adolescent development study conducted at Orygen Youth Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, the aim of which was to investigate risk factors for psychopathology during adolescence.