Differences in health status by race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status have been well documented in the literature. Inter-organizational collaborations (IOCs) are a strategy used to address public health concerns and are useful in addressing differences in health status that …
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Eating disorders are among the most prevalent psychiatric conditions in both developed and developing countries. In Turkey, eating disorders have been increasing in prevalence among adolescents. Family relations and parenting have been studied as sociocultural influences that sh…
This study addressed the problem of underachieving female English as second language students in the Persian Gulf Region. The purpose of this correlational study was to explore the relationship between parental participation, as measured by a middle school parent-participation s…
Being active has been shown to improve physical ability and health. Greater health benefits accompany physical activity (PA), and being active has been proven to help address many diseases that adolescents face as they grow and develop (U.S. Department of Health and Human Servic…
The objective of this dissertation was to quantitatively study Iraqi students (N=90) who arrived in the U.S.A. in the last 20 years. A non-experimental, descriptive research design was used for this study, which took place in one of three high schools in a large Midwestern subur…
The effects of war on children and adolescents were investigated using projective and questionnaire techniques. One-hundred-seventy-six (176) children (evenly divided by gender: ages 5, 9 and 14) were selected from two war/conflict areas (the Lebanese Border in Israel and Belfas…
Problem. The first problem involved developing a smoking prevention invention that incorporates both a multimedia CD-ROM and print-based lesson plans for 7th and 8th grade adolescents. The second problem involved the evaluation of its efficacy on students' knowledge, attitudes, …
Previous research conducted in the United States and selected countries revealed that students' learning-style preferences were significantly discriminated by age, achievement, gender, and cultural differences. This researcher further investigated the learning-style characterist…
This research examined the LS differences and similarities of 905 German students compared with a cohort of 1,637 counterparts from five countries—Bermuda, Brunei, Hungary, New Zealand, and Sweden. The appropriate language version of the Learning Style Inventory (LSI) (Dunn, Dun…
The main purpose of this study was to examine adolescents' post-disaster experiences and reactions 13 months after the devastating 1999 Marmara earthquake in Turkey. More specifically, goals included: (a) providing detailed information about the incidence of posttraumatic stress…
This research examined the Learning-Style (LS) differences and similarities among 905 Brazilian students compared with a cohort of 1,637 counterparts from five countries-Bermuda, Brunei, Hungary, New Zealand, and Sweden. The appropriate language version of the Learning Style Inv…
La presente etude porte sur 142 adolescents de 82 familles suivies par l'Action social a Dakar (Senegal). Elle explore les liaisons entre les caracteristiques des adolescents, celles des familles, les conditions de vie familiale avec les problemes situationnels et/ou de comporte…
Sassy, published between 1988 and 1996, was an American magazine written for young women. Although magazines such as YM began in 1932, marketing to adolescents was a relatively new tactic beginning after World War II. Seventeen was founded in 1944, and ‘Teen started in 1957; dur…
This thesis addresses the question of how equine-facilitated psychotherapy (EFP) can be a beneficial modality for adolescents with borderline personality disorder (BPD) in working through various symptoms including suicidality, self-injurious behavior, history of trauma, impulsi…
This quantitative study explores factors related to suicide-related behaviors among high school students in a southeastern urban racially diverse school district. It sought to examine whether race was a moderator of identified predictors and the outcome variable of suicide-relat…
The literature establishes the importance of religious affiliations in the lives of youth. However, mental health professionals overlook this factor in assessment and treatment planning. The purpose of this qualitative, descriptive phenomenological study was to explore how menta…
Civic education is increasingly being used to impart political skills and knowledge to young citizens in emerging democracies. Research on the effectiveness of these efforts has been generally scant, but attention to this area has begun to grow, especially as geopolitical events…
The present investigation was an exploratory study designed to assess the spiritual needs of Jewish adolescents. Their spiritual beliefs, experiences, interest in developing spiritually, and factors which facilitate and interfere with spirituality were evaluated. A survey was co…
This study used narrative inquiry to investigate the construction of self-identity by fifteen incarcerated female adolescents involved in a story-telling program in a Midwestern state juvenile detention facility. A combination of critical theory, feminism, and the Islamic religi…