this study focuses on the level of suffering from social problems and tests the moderator role of community size in relation with suffering from social problems. our study was conducted in gharbia governorate, egypt. two contrasting villages were chosen as the highest and lowest on human development index (hdi). a purposive sample of inhabitants in the age category 18-40 years was chosen. sampl...

BACKGROUND Youth with chronic physical health problems often experience social and emotional problems. We investigate the relationship between participation in the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Canada community-based mentoring programs (BBBS) and youth social and mood outcomes by youth health status. METHODS Youth newly enrolled in BBBS were classified by health status (one or more chronic phys...

The current investigation examined if changes in youth internalizing problems as a result of a family group cognitive behavioral (FGCB) preventive intervention for families with a parent with a history of depression had a cascade effect on youth social problems over 24 months and the bidirectional nature of these effects. One hundred eighty families with a parent with a history of major depress...

Special and general educators need to be well informed about the mental health problems of youth because significant proportions of students can experience social and emotional problems that interfere with learning, yet few students with mental health problems receive school-based treatment in programs designed specifically for youth with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD; Adelman & Taylo...

Longitudinal studies have found associations between parenting and the development of conduct problems, and have found that resistant to control temperament moderates these associations. Intervention studies have found associations between intervention-induced changes in parenting and subsequent reductions in children's conduct problems. However, no study to date has evaluated whether parents' ...

Links between parents' psychiatric symptoms and their children's behavioral and emotional problems have been widely documented in previous research, and the search for moderators of this association has begun. However, family structure (single versus dual-parent households) has received little attention as a potential moderator, despite indirect evidence that risk may be elevated in single-pare...

The juvenile justice system in the United States is experiencing a social movement aimed at responding to the mental and emotional problems of delinquent youths. Ironically, this movement arose in the wake of a decade of reform in juvenile justice that had set aside the system's 100-year tradition of rehabilitation for delinquents in the interests of their punishment and a primary emphasis on p...

PURPOSE Social disparities among youth have been recognized as an important influence on disease risk later in the life cycle. Despite this, social problems are seldom assessed in a clinical setting. The primary objective of our study was to evaluate the impact of social disparities on the health of youth. METHODS A self-directed, web-based screening system was used to identify social dispari...

on one hand having undergone many remarkable structural and value changes and on the other hand considering the disorganized and uncoordinated social condition of the subsystems, marriage is conceived as one of the prominent social problems. so, this paper seeks to explore the attitudes of unmarried youth towards marriage and its problematic nature. the results demonstrate that the youth's...