This research constitutes the first twin study - based examination of genetic and environmental factors that contribute to both low attention control and four distinct anxiety
symptoms in early adolescence.
Criminal activity is concentrated among minority males; it
begins in early adolescence and peaks when most youth should still be enrolled in secondary school.
To address these gaps in knowledge, we investigated whether self -
esteem in early adolescence predicted depressive symptoms in late adolescence and early adulthood.
For girls, statistically significant reciprocal influence existed between parenting behaviors and delinquent
behaviors in early adolescence, but not in late adolescence.
Most individuals who interact with
girls in early adolescence are not surprised to learn that many of them experience negative feelings about their bodies at this time.
Higher maternal weight, maternal smoking during pregnancy, lower maternal education, and lack of infant breastfeeding were contributors to elevated adolescent obesity
risk in early adolescence.
Environmental pathways from child adversity to adolescent depression were confirmed in girls, partly accounted for by negative life
events in early adolescence.
Here, we explore the relationship between the capacity to resist peer
influence in early adolescence and brain activity during perception of face or hand movements performed with an emotion.
Now research shows that scientific
interest in early adolescence is associated with increased trust in climate scientists in adulthood irrespective of political ideology.
Together, our findings suggest that one way to prevent depressive symptoms among early - maturing girls could be to address sexual harassment in preventive
intervention in early adolescence.
The program aims to achieve its goals by emphasizing core relationship issues and
pressures in early adolescence and by teaching skills to promote safer decision - making with peers and dating partners.
Self -
esteem in early adolescence was directly, and indirectly via avoidance motivation, associated with social problems in late adolescence.
The results showed that romantic involvement in adolescence,
especially in early adolescence, was associated with more depressive symptoms and behavior problems.
Specifically, prevention efforts could benefit from viewing internalizing
problems in early adolescence as phenomena that occur within a group context.
«Although peer victimization starts to decrease by the end of childhood, individuals in the severe trajectory group were still being exposed to the highest level of
victimization in early adolescence,» write the authors.
Thus, clique isolation seems to be a social risk factor for depressive symptoms
in early adolescence for both boys and girls.
Conduct problems, depressive symptomatology and their co-occurring presentation in childhood as predictors of adjustment in early adolescence
The researchers looked at whether parents» greater use of psychological
control in early adolescence can hinder teens» development of autonomy in relationships with peers.
That is, the finding that clique isolation predicted an increase in depressive symptoms indicates that viewing peer relations from a group perspective contributes significantly to the existing knowledge about problematic peer experiences as social risk factors for
depression in early adolescence.
Indeed, adolescents are more likely to experience loneliness
in early adolescence as opposed to late adolescence (Ladd and Ettekal 2013), which may accentuate the experience of social isolation (Laursen and Hartl 2013).
The study, published today in the journal SLEEP, shows that children reporting frequent nightmares before the age of 12 were three and a half times more likely to suffer from psychotic
experiences in early adolescence.
C Squad harnesses what the latest scientific research tells us are the optimal conditions for
learning in early adolescence and reflects current findings in brain development research.
The study, published in American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, found that school mobility during childhood heightens the risk of developing psychotic - like symptoms
in early adolescence by up to 60 %.
I often wish social network theory was more integrated into introductory Mental health and social
networks in early adolescence: A dynamic study of objectively - measured social interaction behaviors
This longitudinal study examined the development of reading motivation, engagement, and
achievement in early adolescence by comparing interrelations of these variables in struggling and advanced