Relations among body image satisfaction and social comparisons to either same-sex peers or media models were examined in 2 studies of adolescent boys and girls. In the first study, 9th and 10th graders described their conceptions of attractiveness for sameand opposite-sex adolescents. These attractiveness attributes were then used in Study 2 in which 7thand 10th-grade boys and girls reported on...

Introduction This research was done with the objective of "Determine the effectiveness of learning coping strategies with Irrational Beliefs based on the theory of rational-emotional Alice on students’ attitude toward premarital relations in Yazd city". Materials and Methods In this semi experimental research 60 female students of Yazd-Iran, selected by using of Cochran’s formula and divided in...

BACKGROUND Awareness of health disparities based on sexual orientation has increased in the past decades, and many official public health agencies throughout Europe call for programs addressing the specific needs of lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) individuals. However, the acceptance of LGB individuals varies significantly in different countries, which potentially influences health and well-bei...

This study examines and compares how males and females in same-sex and __o^osite-sex romanjic^elationships^^perience and express^ romanHc^jealousy. Undergraduates at a large, southern university and visitors at a metropolitan Pride Celebration (N = 149) completed measures assessing cognitive and emotional jealousy experience, jealousy expression, and demographic information. The reported usage ...

CONTEXT Little research has explored how teenagers think about abstinence and how it functions in their lives. These questions are particularly salient in light of widespread funding of abstinence-only programs in the United States. METHODS Data on attitudes and intentions related to abstinence and sex were collected from 365 adolescents aged 12-15 who participated in an HIV risk reduction pr...

OBJECTIVE The authors sought to clarify the nature of sex differences in the etiologic pathways to major depression. METHOD Retrospective and prospective assessments of 20 developmentally organized risk factors and the occurrence of past-year major depression were conducted at two waves of personal interviews at least 12 months apart in 1,057 opposite-sex dizygotic twin pairs from a populatio...

attitudes as the predictor and the other using sex attitudes. A third regression examined whether the interaction between abstinence attitudes and sex attitudes was a stronger predictor of sexual activity than either alone. Similarly, our hypothesis on the influence of teenagers’ intentions on having sex was tested in separate regressions for abstinence and sex intention, followed by a regressi...

attitudes as the predictor and the other using sex attitudes. A third regression examined whether the interaction between abstinence attitudes and sex attitudes was a stronger predictor of sexual activity than either alone. Similarly, our hypothesis on the influence of teenagers’ intentions on having sex was tested in separate regressions for abstinence and sex intention, followed by a regressi...