A longitudinal study of self-esteem in 22 adolescents with cerebral palsy is reported. The subjects were matched with nondisabled adolescents by age, sex, IQ, and school. Seven years later, 39 of the 44 subjects (mean age = 22.8 years) completed the Tennessee Self-Concept Scale (Roid & Fitts, 1988), the Social Support Inventory (McCubbin, Patterson, Rossman, & Cooke, 1982), and a demographic qu...

The purpose of this article was to examine the association between health risk behaviors (tobacco, alcohol, and drug use) and psychosocial distress indicators among high school students. The sample consisted of 4,210 adolescent students from public schools in Pernambuco State, Brazil. The Global School-based Student Health Survey was used to collect personal (demographic and socioeconomic) and ...

The development of depressive symptoms in childhood and adolescence can follow different pathways. This study examined heterogeneity in the development of self-reported depressive symptoms and the predictive influence of mothers' depressive symptoms, the number of life events, and loss events via growth mixture modeling over a four-year period in a large community sample of German children and ...

BACKGROUND Menstruation is a natural physiological process that requires proper management. Unlike other normal bodily processes, menstruation is linked with religious and cultural meanings that can affect the perceptions of young girls as well as the ways in which the adults in the communities around them respond to their needs. OBJECTIVES This review aims to answer the following questions: ...

Self-acceptance is associated with psychological well-being and at the same time influences decision-making capacity. The main objective of paper was to research relationship between level self-acceptance adolescents decisional two hypotheses tested during study were: self-esteem which are positively correlated an efficient process; there a statistically significant difference in unconditional ...

The data of the study relationship between components psychological well-being and existential fulfillment in late adolescence are presented. It was suggested proved that first fundamental motivation (according to methodology V.B. Shumsky, E.M. Ukolova, E.N. Osin, Ya.D. Lupandina "Diagnostics fulfillment") concerning possibility being world is significantly related self-acceptance competence. s...

Along with the development of technology, social media, and mass we hear news reports about violent incidents against adolescents. Types violence diversify into influence personal characteristics individual. This study aimed to identify personality traits battered adolescent girls. Identify girls, they were surveyed using questionnaire list females battered. Findings showed that (222) female su...

OBJECTIVES To assess gender differences in the proportion of adolescents reporting teen dating violence (TDV) and the frequency of TDV at multiple age points across adolescence in a high-risk sample of youth with previous exposure to violence. METHODS A cross-sectional, high-risk sample of boys and girls (n = 1149) ages 11 to 17 years completed surveys assessing TDV and self-defense. Indices ...