Adolescents' behavior is often a matter of concern, given their increased likelihood of enacting antisocial behaviors, which cause disruptions in the social order and are potentially harmful for the adolescents themselves and for the people around them. In this six-wave longitudinal study we sought to examine the interplay among maternal empathy, multiple indicators of mother-adolescent relatio...

the increasing prevalence rate of breast cancer among asian-american women shows the more significant role of lifestyle factors in etiology than genetic factors. the search engine pubmed was used for searching related paper by “breast cancer”, “soy”, “isoflavones”, “phytoestrogen” as the key words. we selected papers which published during 1990 to 2012. various experimental studies reported the...

Despite the gradual increase of research on social conflicts, psychometric characteristics of social-conflict scales have not been extensively examined, especially in the adolescent population. In this study, the internal consistency, test-retest reliability, and criterion-related validity of 2 established social-conflict scales were examined in a sample of 581 Chinese adolescents. There were h...

Recent research has highlighted the presence of Young's Early Maladaptive Schemas (EMSs) in individuals with an eating disorder (ED). This study assessed the EMSs reported by adolescent females with Anorexia Nervosa (AN) compared with a community group. Thirty-six adolescent females diagnosed with AN or subthreshold AN and 111 female secondary school students completed a questionnaire that incl...

background: as part of the process of developing a decision aid for carpal tunnel syndrome (cts) according to the ottawa decision support framework, we were interested in the level of ‘decisional conflict’ of hand surgeons and patients with cts. this study addresses the null hypothesis that there is no difference between surgeon and patient decisional conflict with respect to test and treatment...

BACKGROUND Over half of displaced civilians in humanitarian emergencies are children, and these settings pose unique threats to children's safety with long-lasting consequences. Our study broadens the limited evidence on violence against adolescent girls in emergencies by estimating prevalence and predictors of violence among adolescent girls aged 13-14 in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the...

Title of Thesis: THE ROLE OF MOTHERS’ AUTHORITATIVE PARENTING IN ADOLESCENT ATTACHMENT AND SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS Kathryn Maria Beck, Master of Science, 2011 Thesis Directed by: Associate Professor Leigh A. Leslie Department of Family Science Research has shown the increasing importance of peer relationships for adolescents and a variety of positive outcomes for adolescents with quality, supporti...