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Society and the Adolescent Self-Image

D. J. Lee
- 01 May 1969 - 
- Vol. 3, Iss: 2, pp 280-280
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This article is published in Sociology.The article was published on 1969-05-01. It has received 16312 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Child and adolescent psychiatry.

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Positive parenting, family cohesion, and child social competence among immigrant Latino families.

TL;DR: The relation between positive parenting, family cohesion, and child social competence was examined among Latino families who were recent immigrants to the United States, and results indicated that family cohesion predicted improvements in child social problem-solving skills and social self-efficacy, and positive parenting predictedimprovements in childSocialSelfefficacy.
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Belief in U.S. Government Conspiracies Against Blacks among Black and White College Students: Powerlessness or System Blame?

TL;DR: This paper found that belief in these conspiracy theories is related to blaming problems of Black Americans on prejudice and discrimination, and that race was a powerful predictor of belief in conspiracies even when socioeconomic status was controlled, but not by political powerlessness or greater externality of attributional style.
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Gender's Role in Responses to Infertility:

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Cultural body shape ideals and eating disorder symptoms among White, Latina, and Black college women.

TL;DR: Higher levels of acculturative stress, but not acculturation, were associated with EDI-BD scores among Black women andEDI-DFT scores among Latinas, underscoring the importance of considering cultural variables such as accultuative stress when conducting clinical work with ethnic minority women.
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Gender Differences in Depressive Symptoms during Adolescence: Role of Gender-Typed Characteristics, Self-Esteem, Body Image, Stressful Life Events, and Pubertal Status.

TL;DR: In a cross-sectional study of French-speaking adolescents between the ages of I I I years and I 8 years (M = 14.46 years; 279 girls and 268 boys) as mentioned in this paper, the authors found that body image, self-esteem, and negative stressful life events mediate the development of depression in adolescents.