Three categories of potential moderators of the link between best friend's deviancy and boys' delinquency during early adolescence were investigated: personal (i.e., disruptiveneness profile during childhood, attitude toward delinquency), familial (i.e., parental monitoring, attachment to parents), and social (i.e., characteristics of other friends). Best friend's and other friends' deviancy we...

Adolescence is often described as a "transition" period be ween childhood and adulthood.. Parents of adolescents are faced the challenge of enccaraging their adolescent offspring to achieve autonomy, while retaining a certain degree of responsibility for their actiona. This study examined how differing parental qualities such as attitudes and parenting styles relate to parental satisfaction. Su...

Parents are the prime educators until the child attends an early year setting of the school and they remain a major influence on their children’s learning throughout school and beyond. The school teachers and parents both have crucial roles to play in case of Mentally Challenged children. Nevid, Rathus and Greene (2000) agree that people who have mental retardation are often demeaned and ridicu...

background: this paper aims to examine the reproductive health and behaviors which might expose young people at risks of stis/hiv and potential correlates of such behaviors among female college students in tehran. methods: this paper focuses on the study conducted on a sample of 1743 female undergraduate students in four multidisciplinary universities in tehran during 2005-2006 using a two-stag...

BACKGROUND Few studies in Europe have investigated home smoking bans and their association with child smoking. METHODS A nationwide survey of 12 to 18-year olds in 2005 (n = 6503, response rate 66%) was used to study home smoking bans in Finland. Multinomial logistic regression analyses were used to study association of home smoking bans and child smoking. RESULTS Of the respondents, 58% re...