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Society and the Adolescent Self-Image
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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.read more
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Correlates of internalized homophobia in a community sample of lesbians and gay men.
TL;DR: Lesbians and gay men with the highest IHP scores also manifested significantly more depressive symptoms and higher levels of demoralization than others, and high-IHP men manifested lower self-esteem than other men as mentioned in this paper.
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Body Image and Self-Esteem Among Adolescent Girls: Testing the Influence of Sociocultural Factors
TL;DR: In a study of 136 U.K. girls aged 11-16, experimental exposure to either ultra-thin or average-size magazine models lowered body satisfaction and, consequently, self-esteem as discussed by the authors.
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More human than you: Attributing humanness to self and others
TL;DR: People perceive themselves to be more essentially human than others, and propose a corresponding phenomenon in interpersonal comparisons: People attribute greater humanness to themselves than to others, independent of self-enhancement.
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A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Avoidance (Relative to Approach) Personal Goals
TL;DR: Support is found for the primary hypothesis that the adoption of avoidance (relative to approach) personal goals varies as a function of individualism-collectivism and for the secondary hypothesis that avoidance personal goals are a negative predictor of subjective well-being in individualistic, but not collectivistic, countries.
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Adolescent Risk Behaviors and Religion: Findings from a National Study.
TL;DR: It is indicated that youth perceive religion as important, are active in religious worship and activities, and further shows that perceived importance of religion as well as participation in religious activities are associated with decreased risk behaviors.