Data from 752 Bahamian youth and their parents were analyzed to examine the relationship of youth depression with youth risk involvement, parental monitoring, and parent-youth communication. Depressed youth were older, more likely to engage in risk behaviors, and they perceived significantly lower levels of parental monitoring and higher levels of SOCIAL BEHAVIOR AND PERSONALITY, 2006, 34(10), ...

-This study focuses on the parental perception of their children’s viewership of violence in television programmes with respect to risk behaviour factors such as Explicit ‘Aggression’, ‘Identification’, ‘Imitation’, ‘Isolation’ and ‘Behaviour contingency’ as well as on other factors such as ‘Parental Mediation’ and ‘Parent-Child

We examined the relationships between parent-adolescent discrepancies in perceived parenting characteristics (indexed by parental responsiveness, parental demandingness, and parental control) and adolescent developmental outcomes (indexed by achievement motivation and psychological competence) in poor families in Hong Kong. A sample of 275 intact families having at least one child aged 11-16 ex...

This study tested associations between adolescent perceptions of interparental conflict, adolescent attachment security with parents, and adolescent marital expectations and romantic experiences. Participants were 96 early adolescent females from 2 parent families. Insecurity was examined as a mediator of the association between negative perceptions of parental conflict and romantic outcomes. R...

Children who have been programmed by one parent to be alienated from the other parent are commonly seen in the context of child-custody disputes. Such programming is designed to strengthen the position of the programming parent in a court of law. Many evaluators use the term parental alienation syndrome (PAS) to refer to the disorder engendered in such children. In contrast, there are evaluator...

we determined the knowledge of parents of 200 pediatric patients for bacterial endocarditis prophylaxis (bep ), using an eight question survey pertaining to their knowledge of their child's cardiac disease, medications, and bep. the patient's cardiac lesion and current medications were verified at the time of admission for diagnostic or interventional cardiac catheterization. each pat...

background. this study aimed to evaluate whether the parents’ knowledge about the adverse effects of oral habits and dentoskeletal discrepancies would improve by an educational pamphlet. methods. a parallel-group randomized clinical trial was conducted on parents in kindergartens of shiraz, iran, 2013. the parents completed a designed questionnaire to determine the pre-intervention score. the s...

We assessed the narrow-sense heredity and genetic gains of multiple traits obtained using indirect selection method for progeny Cryptomeria japonica D. Don by artificial crossing. Using stress wave velocity Pilodyn penetration depth as indicative parameters, wood properties could be improved in future generations C. plus trees forest breeding programs will become more efficient. To advance popu...

BACKGROUND In this paper we study the long-term consequences of parental divorce in a comparative perspective. Special attention is paid to the heterogeneity of the consequences of divorce for children’s educational attainment by parental education. OBJECTIVE The study attempts to establish whether the parental breakup penalty for tertiary education attainment varies by socioeconomic background...