Sentences with phrase «than male adolescents»

These differences may be understood in the light of gender differences in peer relationships, indicating that female rather than male adolescents tend to spend more time in dyadic interactions with their friends (for a review, see Rose and Rudolph 2006).

Moreover, when dealing with stressful situations, female adolescents rely more on their close friends and seek support within their best friendships more than male adolescents do (e.g., Colarossi and Eccles 2000; De Goede et al. 2009).

Female adolescents, in particular, reported both higher levels of conflict and stronger bonds with their mothers, than male adolescents.

Significantly more female than male adolescents reported sexual and romantic avoidance.

Not exact matches

«HIV - infected young males have higher rates of bone loss than females: Study suggests macrophage activation as possible reason for differential bone loss in adolescent males.»

Male adolescents are the top fructose consumers, deriving between 15 to 23 percent of their calories from fructose — three to four times more than the maximum levels recommended by the American Heart Association.

The study found that more than 25 percent of boys and 50 percent of girls ages six to 11 and more than 50 percent of male and 75 percent of female adolescents ages 12 to 19 had not met the WHO recommendation.

Females were less likely than males to receive medications, as were African American and Hispanic teens compared to Caucasian adolescents.

For almost 2.5 years, the researchers observed a community of more than 30 wild bonobos in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Salonga National Park, keeping a close eye on the adult and adolescent males — nine in all.

The study indicated that while physical abuse is a significant contributor to violent behavior, physical neglect alone is an even stronger predictor of male adolescent violence than physical abuse, or even physical abuse and neglect combined.

As a result, many adolescents developed anxiety disorders, with females reporting a greater number of PTSD symptoms than males.

A research team led by Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) and the University of California, Davis, reveals that childhood gunshot injuries, while uncommon, are more severe, require more major surgery, have greater mortality and higher per - patient costs than any other mechanism for childhood injury — particularly among adolescent males.

It's just a collection of male adolescent daydreams that puts the emphasis on «This looks cool» rather than «This is worth caring about.»

At the ten - month peak, testosterone levels in adolescent male dogs may be as much as five to seven times greater than adult levels.

«Adolescents and young adults (15 - 19 years) and adults aged 40 years and older have the highest bicycle death rates.3 Children (5 - 14 years), adolescents, and young adults (15 - 24 years) have the highest rates of nonfatal bicycle - related injuries, accounting for more than one - third of all bicycle - related injuries seen in U.S. emergency departments.3 Males are much more likely to be killed or injured on bicycles than are females.3 Most bicyclist deaths occur in urban areas and at non-intersection locations.4» https://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/bicycle/ Pucher J, Buehler R, Merom D, Bauman A. Walking and cycling in the United States, 2001 — 2009: Evidence from the National Household TravAdolescents and young adults (15 - 19 years) and adults aged 40 years and older have the highest bicycle death rates.3 Children (5 - 14 years), adolescents, and young adults (15 - 24 years) have the highest rates of nonfatal bicycle - related injuries, accounting for more than one - third of all bicycle - related injuries seen in U.S. emergency departments.3 Males are much more likely to be killed or injured on bicycles than are females.3 Most bicyclist deaths occur in urban areas and at non-intersection locations.4» https://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/bicycle/ Pucher J, Buehler R, Merom D, Bauman A. Walking and cycling in the United States, 2001 — 2009: Evidence from the National Household Travadolescents, and young adults (15 - 24 years) have the highest rates of nonfatal bicycle - related injuries, accounting for more than one - third of all bicycle - related injuries seen in U.S. emergency departments.3 Males are much more likely to be killed or injured on bicycles than are females.3 Most bicyclist deaths occur in urban areas and at non-intersection locations.4» https://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/bicycle/ Pucher J, Buehler R, Merom D, Bauman A. Walking and cycling in the United States, 2001 — 2009: Evidence from the National Household Travel Surveys.

In the three geographic regions included in the current study, a greater proportion of adolescent females had had sex before age 15 in Brong Ahafo (21 %) than in Greater Accra (5 %) or Northern (8 %); among adolescent males, 23 % had had sex before this age in Greater Accra, as had only 7 % in Brong Ahafo and 3 % in Northern.

Regardless of whether increased arrest rates represent a true increase in violent behavior among female adolescents compared with males or a policy shift toward arrest rather than alternative treatment of violent females, it is indisputable that the juvenile justice system is handling a rapidly growing share of girls.

Suicidal behaviour in adolescents is common, 1 and suicide is the leading cause of death in young Australians.2 More startling is the number of young Australians who deliberately self - harm, with adolescent females engaging in substantially more acts of deliberate self - harm than males do.3

On average, female adolescents are more likely than males to react to stressors with depressive symptoms (Piccinelli & Wilkinson, 2000), which could lead to stronger effects of chronic illness on depressive symptoms.

Male AI / AN adolescents have a higher risk than their white counterparts of skipping breakfast, having poor / fair health status, and perpetrating violence.

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 likelihood of attempting suicide increased dramatically as the number of risk factors to which an adolescent was exposed increased, up to a 14-fold increase with all 3 risk factors present; however, for both male and female adolescents, adding protective factors was equally or more effective than decreasing risk factors in terms of reducing suicide risk.

There is a trend towards females having higher odds of good mental health across all age groups; however, this association is only statistically significant for adolescents, with females aged 12 — 17 years having more than four times higher odds of good mental health than males (OR = 4.4, 95 % CI 1.7 to 11.5).

Female adolescents were more connected to their families than males.

It is difficult to compare our findings with studies of general population youth because rates vary widely, depending on the sample, the method, the source of data (participant or collaterals), and whether functional impairment was required for diagnosis.50 Despite these differences, our overall rates are substantially higher than the median rate reported in a major review article (15 %) 50 and other more recent investigations: the Great Smoky Mountains Study (20.3 %), 56 the Virginia Twin Study of Adolescent Behavioral Development (142 cases per 1000 persons), 57 the Methods for the Epidemiology of Child and Adolescent Mental Disorders (6.1 %), 32 and the Miami — Dade County Public School Study (38 %).58 We are especially concerned about the high rates of depression and dysthymia among detained youth (17.2 % of males, 26.3 % of females), which are also higher than general population rates.51,56 - 61 Depressive disorders are difficult to detect (and treat) in the chaos of the corrections milieu.

In addition, adolescent OAD was a stronger predictor of later depression in males than GAD.

Furthermore, the level of physical activity, and more specifically participation in sport, is consistently lower for female adolescents than it is for males [49 — 52].

Results revealed that the stress of urban adolescents was greater than rural; the anger of urban adolescents was more than the rural; the stress of female adolescents was more than the male and the anger of female adolescents was more than male.

One aspect of concern of depression and anxiety disorders is the greater prevalence of these disorders among adolescent and adult's females may simply be more likely than adolescent males to endorse all items on common measures of depression and anxiety because adolescent females are more willing to disclose personal information.

Results indicated that nearly all adolescents in the sample reported being satisfied with treatment; however, male adolescents had significantly higher rates of treatment satisfaction than female adolescents, and African American adolescents had significantly higher rates of treatment satisfaction than Caucasian adolescents.

Multi-group analysis revealed more commonalities than differences between male and female adolescents, with the exception of teacher support, which seemed to have a higher significance for the SOC of females.

Consistent with the developmental literature, main effects revealed that older adolescents and females reported more symptoms of depression than did younger adolescents and males.

They also appeared to have healthier narcissism than did adolescents from single - parent families without Big Brothers, but were more anxious when relating to male teachers than were adolescents from intact families.

Moreover, a female - specific pathway for the development of APD has been suggested with stronger associations between adolescent conduct problems and adult APD for females than for males and with more females than males starting to exhibit antisocial behaviors in adolescence without displaying childhood disruptive behavior problems (Silverthorn and Frick 1999).

Dr Stavropoulos, who has studied the impact of internet addiction and excessive online gaming on adolescents, says studies show male adolescents, particularly those aged 16 to 18, are generally at higher risk than female adolescents.

Male biracial adolescents were more likely to have elevated social adjustment problems than biracial females.

Biracial youth withAsian American heritage, especially male biracial part - Asian American adolescents and male biracial adolescents with Black heritage had more social adjustment problems than did other biracial adolescents.

In contrast, alcohol and drug abuse was the strongest contributing factors in female delinquent behavior, although the level of alcohol and drug abuse was much higher among male adolescents than among female adolescents.

Parental support seems to be more necessary for 15 - to 18 - year - old male adolescents than for 11 - to 14 - year - old adolescents.

The results revealed that (1) for females and males, higher levels of depressive symptoms correlated with a more depressive attributional style; (2) females and males who met diagnostic criteria for a current depressive disorder evidenced more depres - sogenic attributions than psychiatric controls, and never and past depressed adolescents; (3) although no sex differences in terms of attributional patterns for positive events, negative events, or for positive and negative events combined emerged, sex differences were revealed on a number of dimensional scores; (4) across the Children's Attributional Style Questionnaire (CASQ) subscale and dimensional scores, the relation between attributions and current self - reported depressive symptoms was stronger for females than males; and (5) no Sex × Diagnostic Group Status interaction effects emerged for CASQ subscale or dimensional scores.

Yet, although male adolescents may be generally somewhat more predisposed to engage in alcohol misuse than female adolescents, unlike depressive symptoms, gender differences on peer relationships may be less relevant when it comes to socialization of drinking behaviors.

The aim of the present study was to assess empathic accuracy (EA), emotion recognition, and affective empathy in male adolescents with Conduct Disorder (CD) and higher versus lower levels of callous - unemotional (CU) traits, using a more ecologically - valid task than has been used previously.

Adolescent females were found to be more frequently involved in intimate and reciprocal social relationship than males [21 — 23].

When looking at the broader literature on empathy and prosocial behavior, evidence can be found for empathy being a stronger predictor of prosocial behavior in males than females, in children and adolescents (e.g., [39], [45]-RRB-.

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.

On the contrary, similarity at Time 2 was actually lower than at Time 1 for male adolescents in reciprocal very best friendships (ZPF = 2.04; p = 0.041).

This study extends previous research on empathy by demonstrating that, even when using rich and multi-sensory stimulus materials that are more ecologically - valid than those used in previous studies, male adolescents with CD still display significant impairments in emotion recognition and affective empathy — these deficits were particularly evident for sadness, fear, and disgust.

Results from laboratory research suggest that, when exposed to similar stressors, adolescent females have stronger physiologic reactivity to stress than adolescent males [55]; this physiologic reactivity can lead to metabolic disturbances that can impair sensitization of satiety signals [56, 57].

For example, the results of a meta - analysis by Asscher et al. [4] showed that the effect size of psychopathy on delinquent behavior was larger in adolescent female samples than in adolescent male samples.

Finally, results evidenced significant effects for adolescents» and parental gender on achievement - oriented psychological control, with mothers rated higher than fathers by males and fathers rated higher than mothers by females.