Sentences with phrase «low social acceptance»

We therefore hypothesized that a combination of low social acceptance and adolescents» affiliation with risky peers would be associated with increased risk for health - risk behavior.

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Traps constitute a major investment, especially in light of lower fur prices in part due to animal protectionist's efforts to change the social acceptance of wearing fur.

In societies which have a low degree of acceptance of large daily amounts of alcohol, mainly those will be exposed to the risk of addiction who on account of high psychological vulnerability have an inducement to go against the social standards.

Those two actions in our communities would be especially helpful to low - income women, where studies show that social support and acceptance are paramount to breastfeeding success 2.

Children who enter school with low SEH are at greater risk of developing difficulties in reasoning and problem solving, as well as having reduced attention spans and experiencing decreased social acceptance.

A higher GPA predicted * lower * social acceptance during the following year.

Social science has shown that if we talk to people about a problem but don't offer a solution, our acceptance of that problem is radically lower, thereby causing indifference or inaction.

Obese girls scored lower in these domains than obese boys and also had reduced perceived social acceptance.

These problems include attention deficit disorder; externalizing problems such as aggression, anger, conduct disorder, cruelty to animals, destructiveness, oppositional behavior and noncompliance, and drug and alcohol use; internalizing problems such as anxiety, depression, excessive clinging, fears, shyness, low self - esteem, passivity and withdrawal, self - blame, sadness, and suicidal tendencies; symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder such as flashbacks, nightmares, anxiety and hypervigilance, sleep disturbances, numbing of affect, and guilt; separation anxiety; social behavior and competence problems such as poor problem - solving skills, low empathy, deficits in social skills, acceptance, and perpetration of violence in relationships; school problems such as poor academic performance, poor conduct, and truancy; somatic problems such as headaches, bedwetting, insomnia, and ulcers; and obsessive - compulsive disorder and other assorted temperamental difficulties.

Although these changes are normative, they also may lead to increased risk for depression among youth who are particularly reactive to social evaluation, and / or experience high levels of peer rejection and low levels of peer acceptance.

These programs have proven to be effective for children with low peer acceptance or social - behavioural problems and developmental disabilities.

In particular children who are isolated from such friendship groups are expected to be denied of the possibility to attain positive group experiences including a sense of belongingness and support from other clique members, resulting in cognitive - emotional responses such as feelings of loneliness and low perceived social acceptance, and subsequent depressive symptoms.

Our finding that the probability of being isolated from cliques from age 11 to 13 years were associated with low perceived social acceptance seems to support the theory that children's self - esteem regarding their social competencies is based on their actual experiences in the peer group (Cole 1991; Harter et al. 1996; Mead 1934).

The combined findings of mediation by loneliness but not by low perceived social acceptance seem to suggest that the acute awareness of being isolated from cliques — rather than the more indirect process of developing negative self - schemata concerning one's own role in this specific negative experience — underlies the association between clique isolation and subsequent depressive feelings.