A random sample of Alberta high schools yielded data for 1,084 males and 1,024 females. Measures completed included the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale. Within each age and sex group a strong, unrotated factor was invariant. There was significant variation of mean scores across age-groups within female students. In each age group females had significantly lower selfesteem than males. Evidence of co...

Pregnancy is a period in which a woman’s body undergoes changes, with distinct characteristics in each trimester [1]. These changes often involve musculoskeletal, hormonal and psychosocial adaptations that affect a woman’s quality of life. In this respect, changes in sexual response (phases of desire, arousal, orgasm and resolution) may lead to a decline in selfesteem, in addition to compromisi...

12 13 Further, several recent studies suggest that approximately 35-70% of female mental health patients self-report, if asked, a childhood history of sexual abuse (Briere, 1996). Equally problematic in many cultures is childhood psychological abuse and neglect, although the prevalence of these forms of maltreatment is harder to quantify (Hart, Brassard, Binggeli, & Davidson, 2002; Erickson & E...

Background: One of the body image concepts is spouse image of body. It has an important role in selfesteem, relationship satisfaction and women's sexual health. That is, women with more positive spouse image of body may be more confident that their partners will continue to accept them and thus have more sexual function. This study therefore aimed to compare the relationship of spouse imag...

Objective: Obesity can be defined as body weight above the desired level. has gone beyond being a cosmetic problem and is now referred to disease, there currently significantly increasing number of studies examining relationship between obesity psychopathology. The psychological social effects also affect self-confidence individual behavioral orientation at onset sexual intercourse avoidance. a...

The vulnerability of young people with developmental disabilities is intensified for a number of reasons; isolation, limited cognitive abilities, language, speech or vocabulary barriers, dependence on others for personal care, risk of low selfesteem, depersonalization, powerlessness, lack of education on sexuality and abuse/ harassment prevention, non-protective organizational structures and po...

This study examined area-specific self-esteem scores by sexual behavior relative to adolescents’ values concerning participation in sexual intercourse as an unmarried teenager. The sample consisted of 332 students in grades 7–12 from a Southern rural school district. Students were asked if they had ever had sexual intercourse (yes/no) and if they had participated in sexual intercourse in the la...

Background Sexuality is conditioned by the integrated action of biological, psychological and socio-cultural factors. Inhibition or distortion of this function, as well as disharmony with other spheres of human personality is causing the sexual dysfunction. Idiopathic scoliosis (IS) manifested many deformities in the trunk often occurs in periods of change in the development of the child psyche...

*Corresponding author at: Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center, CIMCYC, Spain, Campus Universitario de Cartuja, s/n, 18011 Granada, Spain. E-mail address: [email protected] (M.T. Ramiro). Abstract Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and HIV are important health problems that affect adolescents. The aim of the present study was to analyze the relationship between 1) depression, self-esteem a...

*Corresponding author at: Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center, CIMCYC, Spain, Campus Universitario de Cartuja, s/n, 18011 Granada, Spain. E-mail address: [email protected] (M.T. Ramiro). Abstract Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and HIV are important health problems that affect adolescents. The aim of the present study was to analyze the relationship between 1) depression, self-esteem a...