Through a qualitative case study (Merriam, 1998; Yin, 2009), this inquiry examined how eight African American adolescent girls wrote representations of themselves and which contextual factors contributed to their writings. The girls, ages 12-17 years old, participated in a four-…
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Previous research has demonstrated that rates of depressive symptoms in adolescents may be higher in the military community of deployed personnel than in other adolescents. Depression decreases quality of life and increases risk of suicide in adolescents; therefore, it is import…
There has been limited research examining gender role socialization and identity development in Jewish girls. This study examined the cultural influences of being Jewish and female, the role of Jewish mothers in their daughters' development, and the usefulness of self in relatio…
Peer and parental influences are important predictive variables for smoking initiation in adolescence. No research exists addressing the relationships between these variables in Pakistani adolescents. Based on social learning theory and protection motivation theory, the present …
One aspect of children's and adolescents' sense of self is their awareness of their collective (ethnic, national, and religious) identity. Western stage models for racial and ethnic identity development in American youth of color do not account for the development of Palestinian…
Predictors of academic achievement among urban low-income African American adolescents have primarily been investigated by examining “main effects,” or limited interactions with conventional statistical techniques. This paper adds to the literature by examining the factors that …
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…
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,…