Sentences with phrase «sample of adolescent boys»

For example, Klein and Wilson found in a national (United States) sample of adolescent boys and girls that the majority (70.9 %) report at least 1 of 8 potential health risks, but most (63 %) had not spoken to their doctor about any of these [2].

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The current study examined the joint contributions of pubertal maturation, parental monitoring, involvement in older peer groups, peer dating, and peer delinquency on dating in a sample of early adolescent boys and girls.

The mean age at menarche in this sample was13 years (range, 8.5 - 15 years), and 46 % of the adolescent boys had their growth spurt from ages 13 to 15 years.

This study tested whether the link between depressive symptoms and physical aggression differed between boys and girls in a large community - based sample of adolescents.

In contrast to this, Chen and Simons - Morton noted that among adolescents with high levels of depression, more boys than girls were in the highest trajectory for conduct problems over a 3 - year period (from Grade 6 to Grade 9) in a community sample [22].

For this purpose, a sample of 1371 adolescents (638 girls and 580 boys) completed measures of cognitive schemas, SIP, and Reactive - Proactive Aggression.

The primary aim of this study was to examine whether boys have worse adherence and metabolic control in a sample of predominantly African - American, low - income adolescents in chronically poor metabolic control.

Dependency, self - criticism, and depressive symptoms were assessed twice over a 1 - year interval in a large sample of early adolescent girls and boys.

An at - risk community sample of 203 early adolescent boys in the Oregon Youth Study, a multimethod / multiagent study, was divided into the following groups at Grade 6: (a) co-occurring conduct problems and depressed mood, (b) conduct problems only, (c) depressed mood only, and (d) neither problem.

The sample was composed of 1884 (52 % boys and 48 % girls) adolescents aged from 11 to 17 years old (M = 13.7, SD = 1.4) from the Valencia Community and Andalusia.

In Study 2, the three - factor structure proposed by authors was tested in a sample of 417 adolescents (270 girls and 147 boys) using confirmatory analysis, and indexes showed a suboptimal fit.

Participants consisted of 68 families with a 8 — 9 year old child with SB at T1 (37 boys, 31 girls, M age = 8.34) and a demographically matched sample of 68 families with an 8 - to 9 - year - old able - bodied child (37 boys, 31 girls, M age = 8.49), all of whom were part of a larger longitudinal study investigating family relationships and psychosocial adjustment in children and adolescents with SB (Holmbeck et al., 2003; Holmbeck, Coakley, Hommeyer, Shapera, & Westhoven, 2002; Holmbeck et al., 2002; Holmbeck, Shapera et al., 2002).

The four - class model comprised of children with low involvement with conduct problems (Low, 64 % of the sample, 48.9 % boys), childhood limited (CL, 15 % of the sample, 54.1 % boys), adolescent onset (AO, 12 % of the sample, 49.7 % boys), and early onset persistent (EOP, 9 % of the sample, 56.8 % boys).

These relationships, and their possible gender differences, were analyzed in a sample of 1319 Spanish adolescents (48 % boys and 52 % girls), ages 11 to 16 years (M = 13.7, SD = 1.5).

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.