OBJECTIVE To identify factors that may increase the risk of a sexually victimised adolescent boy developing sexually abusive behaviour. DESIGN Sexually victimised boys who had sexually abused other children were compared with sexually victimised boys who had not done so. SETTING Social services departments in south east England were invited to refer sexually abused and sexually abusing boys...

This article explores young adolescent boys’ narratives and lived experiences of growing up without fathers. We conducted Individual interviews with thirty-two adolescent boys, and used discursive data analysis methods to analyse meanings that these participants made about growing up without fathers. We found that participants in the study embraced alternative voices of masculinity that were no...

this survery investigated the secondary school students attitude regarding parent- adolescent inter-relationships. the study covered 19 town districts in tehran.   following a multi-stage process 150 girls and boys attending secondary school with an age range of 13-15 years were selected randomly.   a two parts questionnaire was developed. the first part covered information on personal and soci...

OBJECTIVES To stress the importance of social and environment (nutritional) factors in determining the growth spurt during puberty and the risk of excessive adiposity, two contrasting adolescent populations, one from a rural area of Senegal (West Africa) and the other from Martinique (French West Indies), were compared. DESIGN Cross-cultural comparison of contrasting populations. Adolescents ...

PURPOSE This study tested a comprehensive model of physical activity and healthy eating behavior. METHODS A sample of older adolescents (boys n = 206, girls n = 326) volunteered to complete a scientifically supported questionnaire assessing physical activity and healthy eating perceptions of competence, values, and behaviors once during class time. RESULTS Confirmatory factor analysis sugge...

Aim. This study aims to evaluate changes in the symptoms of adolescent depression during a 17-year period. Methods. The Kraków Depression Inventory (KID), version IO “C1” was administered to 17-year-old pupils of Kraków’s high schools in 1984 and 2001. The groups studied were selected using two-stage sampling. The KID IO “C1” results of the pupils who were screened as depressive (153 in 1984; 5...

This study investigated the roles of coping and masculinity in higher rates of depressive symptoms among adolescent girls, as compared to boys. A model was designed and tested through path analysis, which involved the variables of sex, gender, problem-focused coping, rumination, and distraction. The Reynolds Adolescent Depression Scale and the Bem Sex Role Inventory, as well as a measure of cop...

Using symbolic interaction, we developed a research model that proposed adolescent perceptions of parental support and psychological control would be related to adolescent depressed mood directly and indirectly through self-esteem. We tested the model using selfreport questionnaire data from 161 adolescents living with both of their biological parents. To examine possible gender of adolescent d...

BACKGROUND Verbal harassment, such as bullying and hate speech, has received considerable attention recently, but less is known about weight-based teasing and its potential harmful effects on young people's psychosocial well-being. OBJECTIVE To determine the associations of weight-based teasing and body satisfaction, self-esteem, depressive symptoms, and suicidal ideation and suicide attempts...