The current study examined vulnerability to depression during the transition from early to middle adolescence from the perspective of the response styles theory. During an initial assessment, 382 adolescents (ages 11-15 years) completed self-report measures assessing rumination and depressive symptoms as well as a semistructured clinical interview assessing current and past major depressive epi...

background: self-esteem is one of the basic needs for all individuals especially in adolescence. the aim of this study was to determine associations between adolescents’ self-esteem and perceived maternal parenting styles as well as its dimensions in terms of family type. methods: in this analytic cross-sectional study, 356 high school students (250 two-parent nuclear family and 106 single-pare...

background self-esteem plays a critical role in promoting mental health and affects performance, development patterns, interaction with others and the mental health. accordingly, improving the self-esteem of students, as future builders of the community, is very important. objectives the purpose of this study was to determine and compare the self-esteem of nursing students in grades one to four...

There is extraordinary diversity in how the construct of self-control is operationalized in research studies. We meta-analytically examined evidence of convergent validity among executive function, delay of gratification, and self- and informant-report questionnaire measures of self-control. Overall, measures demonstrated moderate convergence (r(random) = .27 [95% CI = .24, .30]; r(fixed) = .34...

Many children with cerebral palsy (CP) encounter great difficulties mastering self-feeding. We present a prototype for assessing their self-feeding skills via a novel instrumented spoon that monitors upper extremity biomechanics involved in eating. Author