Showing papers in "Journal of Adolescence in 2000"

TL;DR: Finnish adolescents surveyed about bullying and victimization in relation to psychosomatic symptoms, depression, anxiety, eating disorders and substance use found that eating disorders were associated with involvement in bullying in any role, among boys with being bully-victims.

TL;DR: Assessment of adolescent involvement in community-based leisure activities, peer and adult social relations, and antisocial behavior showed that participation in highly structured leisure activities was linked to low levels of antissocial behavior, while participation in activities with low structure was associated with high levels ofantisocial behavior.

TL;DR: Multiple regression analyses indicated that for both sexes frequent peer victimization and low social support contributed significantly and independently to relatively poor mental health.

TL;DR: Investigating the extent to which adolescents' achievement strategies are associated with the parenting styles they experience in their families showed that adolescents from authoritative families applied most adaptive achievement strategies characterized by low levels of failure expectations, task-irrelevant behaviour and passivity, and the use of self-enhancing attributions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the causal links between different types of stressors, coping styles and adolescent symptomatology were investigated, and withdrawal, a form of avoidant coping, emerged as a significant predictor of adolescent symptom at all times.

TL;DR: Analysis of relative contributions of egocentrism and sensation-seeking to risk-taking behavior in adolescents and college students indicates a latent factor labeled risk-seeking indeed predicted a latent factors labeled delinquent behavior.

TL;DR: Levels of global self-esteem significantly predicted adolescent report of problem eating, suicidal ideation, and multiple health compromising behaviours at age 15, in a large sample of young New Zealanders.

TL;DR: Together, risk judgements, personality factors, age and sex were found to be significant predictors of risk behaviours; however, the personality factor of significance was found to differ depending upon the risk type.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relationship between a variety of approach and avoidance factors associated with professional psychological help-seeking and found that suicidal ideation, attitudes, psychological distress, treatment fears, gender, and prior help seeking were significant predictors accounting for approximately 23% of students' self-rated helpseeking intentions.

TL;DR: Results suggest that, among late adolescents, perceived benefits of the unhealthy behavior (unprotected sex) were better determinants of sexual risk-taking than were perceived benefits (or costs) associated with the healthy behavior (condom use).

TL;DR: Results indicate that greater intrinsic and extrinsic religiosity were associated with less sexual activity and condom use, and religious identification may protect against initiating sexual activity among late adolescents, but may fail to protect against practicing unsafe sex among students who are already sexually active.

TL;DR: Canonical correlation analyses revealed younger age and less maternal and paternal communication were related to less sexual behavior and less sexual knowledge, and being younger and female and receiving less maternal communication was related to more sexual knowledge and more conservative attitudes.

TL;DR: It was found that adolescent girls perceived high social cost attached to protest and dissent, therefore, they accept prevalent conditions and expect to change social situation gradually, and some adolescents undergo stress resulting in behavioral problems.

TL;DR: It is suggested that the girls' meta-awareness and sophisticated understanding of the media and other pressures, may serve to moderate against these forces which would otherwise seem overwhelming.

TL;DR: It will be argued that these discourses about youth-at-risk provoke dangerous possibilities for the increased surveillance of, and intervention into, young people's lives by regulatory authorities and the forms of expertise recruited by these agencies.

TL;DR: The recent increase in DSH in adolescents has important implications for general hospital and adolescent psychiatric services and the greater frequency of repetition of DSH may herald increased future suicide rates.

TL;DR: The concept of "barriers" provides a means by which to describe external influences associated with adolescent and young adult ego identity exploration and commitment processes which affect and possibly limit individual developmental options.

TL;DR: Differences were more pronounced for severe problems and referrals to psychologists, school counsellors and teachers and girls were more willing than boys to seek help from their parents and friends.

TL;DR: Students' competence to solve bully/victim problems in relation to their general pro-social development is discussed and significant differences were found at post-test 2, showing a smaller decline in seeking teacher's help and in heightening students' support for victims.

TL;DR: The study combined quantitative and qualitative methods to investigate the "symmetry of violence" theory, concluding that when the meaning and context of aggression are considered, male physical and sexual aggression is a significant problem in adolescent heterosexual relationships.

TL;DR: This study examined one possible mechanism involved in the identity exploration process, and the pattern of responses exhibited by the Diffusion group appears to reflect a lack of thought and confidence regarding positive prospects for the future.

TL;DR: Results indicated that adolescents who were integrated had higher self-esteem than their peers who were separated or marginalized p<0.001, which suggests that integration has important implications on the psychological well-being of these adolescent immigrants.

TL;DR: It was shown that social support from family and problem-focused, avoidance, and wishful-thinking forms of coping significantly predicted resiliency in a sample of rural, low-income Appalachian adolescents of African-American and White races.

TL;DR: Assessment of subscales of the adolescent egocentrism, self-consciousness and interpersonal reactivity scales suggests that personal fable and imaginary audience ideations extend into adulthood, and results suggest that personal Fables and imaginary audiences are not confined to adolescence.

TL;DR: This study examined prospectively the characteristics contributing to adolescent pregnancy in a pregnant and comparison group of adolescents, which included race, self-esteem, age-related risks, delinquency history, aspirations and expectations.

TL;DR: Questions on age-differences, early sexual development, the relation between behaviour and psychiatric diagnosis, the role of the risk behaviours in the development of the girls, intelligence and the reasons for placing girls in a detention centre should throw light on the development process of female juvenile delinquents.

TL;DR: The literature on parent-adolescent relationships is reviewed, with a particular focus on strategies to offer support to this group of parents, including group-based parenting courses, projects focusing on adolescents involved in offending or drug abuse, and the use of newsletters and advice lines.

TL;DR: 11 of 15 young people with serious mental illnesses and all 13 who had suffered sexual abuse in the sample were not receiving appropriate treatment and the effectiveness of treatment for the problems of these young people is discussed and a possible structure for a service is explored.

TL;DR: A replication of a model of student self-rated health initially proposed by Vingilis, Wade and Adlaf (1998) using data from 1993 Ontario Student Drug Use Survey is presented.

TL;DR: The clinical and psychosocial characteristics of 16 Chinese adolescents from Hong Kong with anorexia nervosa are reported in this article, where over 80 percent of these younger patients reported a fear of fatness.