Adolescence is the period of lifetime development in which many youth begin to make health and lifestyle choices that have a significant impact on overall wellbeing as they transition from childhood into young adulthood. Physical activity appears to be linked to making other hea…
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Hundreds of thousands of adolescents confronted war and political violence in many countries all over the world. Despite calls to refine and perform sophisticated studies on this special population had been made a decade ago, the knowledge base remained limited. This study was d…
The aim of this thesis is to investigate how Israel's collective narrative is transmitted to adolescents, and in turn how they actively engage with it to develop their own personal narratives of the conflict's past, present, and future. In order to examine this process, a mixed-…
Anabolic-androgenic steroids (AAS) are synthetic derivatives of testosterone used by over half a million adolescents in the US for their tissue-building potency and performance enhancing effects. Recent studies show AAS use is increasing among teenagers. AAS have behavioral effe…
Immigrant youth are a growing and potentially vulnerable sector of society who may face multiple challenges. Research shows that exposure to both family conflict and discrimination predicts poor psychological outcomes for this population. However, the unique contributions of the…
The current study was designed to examine the Profiles of Prevention among non-drinking and non-smoking adolescents. Research across age groups (elementary, middle and high school), populations (U.S., U.K., and Israel), and substances (tobacco, alcohol and other drugs) has consi…
Early adolescence is when many physical, biological and psychological changes occur. Among the many transition events going on at this time is the move from elementary to middle, junior high and high school. It is at this critical time that adolescents begin to question their id…
The main purpose of this research was to examine and describe the factors and attitudes that influenced sports participation among adolescent girls in Kenya. The research questionnaire was surveyed among adolescent girls 12-16 years (N=3942) in ten tribes residing in ten Distric…
The purpose of this study was to identify factors that influence performance on the FCAT Grade 10 Reading Test. Participants were fifty-five 11 th graders [23 males (42%) and 32 females (58%)], mostly Hispanic (1 African American, 1 Asian, and 53 Hispanic), from a diverse high s…
The purpose of the study was to determine differences in behaviorally disordered marijuana and non-marijuana abusing adolescents referred to family therapy. One hundred and eighty-eight male and female adolescents, as well as caretakers, were compared examining archival data obt…
This study examined the relationship between the personal and environmental factors of parental and peer tobacco use behaviors, psychological factors of self-esteem, health risk action of experimentation of tobacco use, and different forms of tobacco use and narghile use among Y…
As rates of HIV/AIDS continue to rise among youth in sub-Saharan Africa, the need for behavioral intervention to reduce rates of HIV/AIDS infection is becoming increasingly evident, The present study examined the association between risk and/or protective factors and HIV-hazardo…
We have never denied other people the right to identify and express their ownself apprehension. It is always others, beginning with the European colonizers who attempted to eradicate our own sense of identity, who have done this. (Soyinka, 1985, p. 31) The words of Wole Soyinka,…
In this present study, the relationships among selected cognitive variables and proportional reasoning ability, were examined in sample of eighth, tenth, and twelfth grade Saudi students. Also, this researcher investigated whether the same structure of proportional reasoning tas…
This study was designed to investigate the relationships between science misconceptions and working memory capacity in Saudi adolescent students. The participants in this study were from eleventh and twelfth grades; both male and female students and natural and social science Sa…
The purpose of this study was to explore the relationships among knowledge of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM), attitude toward diabetes, family and friends support, benefits of and barriers to treatment, and compliance with health regimens of Jordanian adolescents wit…
This study examines the mediating effect of social bonding on delinquent behavior among Kurdish teens. Major influences to the study of self concept and delinquency based on Hirschi's social bonding theory are reviewed. The data was collected from a sample of 100 Kurdish teens a…
This paper examines the effects of background, environmental, and experiential variables on accumulated reproductive knowledge of married adolescent females in Bangladesh. Multiple studies have examined knowledge of HIV/AIDS but general reproductive health knowledge has largely …
The current study explores the retrospective experience of Pakistani-American women during adolescence. Participants or coresearchers in the study included undergraduate college students who have spent the majority of their lives in the United States and were raised by Pakistani…