OBJECTIVE Increased exposure to cigarette advertisements is associated with increases in adolescent smoking but the reasons for this association are not known. This study evaluated whether the developmental maturity of the self-concept, operationalized as self-conflict, moderated smoking intentions following exposure to cigarette advertisements among adolescents who have never smoked. METHODS...

The authors used a dynamic systems theoretical approach to examine intraindividual variability in emotional responses during the transitional period of adolescence. Longitudinal diary data were collected regarding conflicts between 17 teenage girls and their mothers over a period of a year. The results revealed a reversed u-shaped relation between girls' emotional variability and the number of ...

Inter Vehicle Communication (IVC) has become a major topic during the last few years. Within the FleetNet project a novel mobile ad hoc network will be developed based on the UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Time Division Duplex (UTRA TDD) air interface to interconnect vehicles and vehicles with roadside gateways via a mobile Internet. This paper focuses on the possibilities of reservation conflic...

This essay introduces a new featured section, to be published in Small Axe annually, that explores the critical vocabulary of field Caribbean studies.

The article covers the essence of organizational conflicts and their causes in management organizations. organizations are discussed detail paper, also human reaction to changes is shown. expediency using a democratic style reduce staff resistance change emphasized. Additionally, phases conflict development studied. Keywords: conflicts, management, development.

Five-year longitudinal patterns and the influence of developmental transitions on 76 middle-class African American late adolescents' (M=18.43 years) relationships with parents were examined. Late adolescents were closer to mothers than to fathers. Controlling for age, late adolescent females who had left home reported less negative relationships with mothers than did adolescents living at home ...