Adolescence is a period of increased sensitivity to social contexts. To evaluate how social context sensitivity changes over development-and influences reward learning-we investigated how children and adolescents perceive and integrate rewards for oneself and others during a dynamic risky decision-making task. Children and adolescents (N = 75, 8-16 years) performed the Social Gambling Task (SGT...

SIM WON LEE, JAE HWAN KIM, MAN GYUN NA, DONG SU KIM, KEUK JONG YU, and HAN GON KIM Department of Nuclear Engineering, Chosun University 375 Seosuk-dong, Dong-gu, Gwangju 501-759, Republic of Korea Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute Dukjin-dong, Yuseong-gu, Daejon 305-600, Republic of Korea Central Research Institute, KHNP 25-1 jang-dong, Deajeon 305-343, Republic of Korea Corresponding auth...

4 Myung-Sun Kim 1 , Keun-Young Lim 1 , Dong-Hyun Lee 1 and Nam-Young Cho 1* 5 6 1 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Chonnam National Uuniversity College of Medicine, 671, 7 Jebong-Ro, Dong-Gu, 501-757, Gwangju, Korea. 8 9 10 E-mail: Myung-Sun Kim [email protected]; Keun-Young Lim – [email protected]; Dong-Hyun 11 Lee – [email protected]; Nam-Young Cho * [email protected]; 12 13 14 *Corres...

OBJECTIVE This study applied a multi-method approach to examine the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and the experience of victimization during adolescence by investigating the role of intrapersonal feelings. METHODS The sample consisted of 2051 adolescents (M=13.8 years, S.D.=0.7; 51% male) from seven high schools in the Netherlands. Participants' weight and height were measured an...

smoking. Self-efficacy can be assumed as the best predictor of smoking behavior in adolescents. Aim: The present study aimed to investigate the effects of a school-based interventional program on smoking refusal self-efficacy in adolescent females. Method: This randomized controlled trial was conducted on 53 adolescent females in 2017. The participants were randomly divided into two groups of i...

Haemophilia and its treatment interfere with patients' life, so health-related quality of life (HRQoL) should be assessed when evaluating treatments. This study investigated the HRQoL of patients with haemophilia A treated prophylactically with a new recombinant factor VIII. Two phase 3 trials investigated turoctocog alfa in patients with severe haemophilia A: one in children, one in adults and...

This study considers the development of resemblance between 741 adolescents and their biological parents, across six NEO-PI-R personality traits known to be important in psychological problems: anger-hostility, impulsiveness, vulnerability, assertiveness, excitement-seeking, and self-discipline. We modelled the association between perceived parental warmth and rejection at age eleven and person...