Bettina Franciska Piko

..Overall, findings show that psychosocial health variables are important influences on adolescents' self-perceived health...

..The primary purpose of this study was to examine the prevalence of bullying among a sample of African American adolescents and the risk factors associated with odds that a student engages in bullying behavior...

..In relation to adolescent health, less investigation has been available thus far...

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..Teaching positive parenting seems to be a part of these prevention programs that may include facilitating intimate yet autonomous relationships...

..Although parental control tends to decrease among high school students, it even serves as a greater protection for those whose parents continue providing parental monitoring...

..Smoking among medical students in particular should receive a special attention since smoking-related attitudes among health care professionals may act as role models among the patients...

..The authors examined self-perceived health and psychosocial health in 10-15 year old children and the relationship between children's self-perceived health and a set of psychosocial health status measurements...

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..For boys, positive individual competence prototype also seems to be important. Health promotion programs should focus on fostering negative social images in prevention...

..Despite this equalization, however, there still are differences in psychosocial variables or health-related behaviours, often very subtle and sometimes difficult to measure...

..The main goal of the present study is to detect the relationship between youth's leisure time physical activity and a set of sociodemographic (age, gender, family stucture) and socioeconomic variables (SES and parental schooling)...

..The main goal of the present study was to assess adolescents' risk perception, namely, their estimates of the likelihood of smoking and alcohol-related illnesses and accidents...

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..Future research is needed to clarify the altered role of parent-child relationship in adolescents' substance use...

..This study examines the role of perceived parental social support and optimism in understanding the relationship between adolescent depression and SES...

..The aim of the present study has been to analyze interrelationships between adolescent depressive symptomatology, authoritative parenting style, negative and positive parental links...

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..Por ello se necesita una mayor focalización respecto de la influencia de las diferencias de género sobre las conductas asociadas con la salud en adolescentes...

..g. diet control and smoking). SES self-assessment and materialistic success were positively, while materialistic happiness was negatively related to youth's life satisfaction...

..The study suggests that the relationships between leisure activities and problem behaviours are highly similar as found among Western youth...

..Burnout and the other negative aspects of the job of health care staff have major behavioural and health implications...

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..The main goal of the study was to analyze youth's externalizing problem behaviors based on a risk and protective factors framework in two different cultural settings...

..In community health programs, a health-related physical education approach should be addressed to improve the psychosocial benefits of physical activity...

..There is a need for an increasing emphasis on smoking-related attitude formation among medical and nursing students...

..Children's past experiences (e.g. trivial infections) may play an important role in their concepts of disease causation. Ideas about health promotion were especially varied, with a few children describing complex guidelines...

..The main goal of the present study has been to detect the occurrence of psychosomatic symptoms among early adolescents, and to see the impact of psychosocial and psychological variables on the symptom formation...

..Our findings confirmed the importance of the protective role of religious involvement, particularly among females...

..In our study, we investigated the frequency of smoking, alcohol consumption and substance abuse and their association with psychiatric disorders in a child population affected by depression...

..In our study, we investigated the frequency of smoking, alcohol consumption and substance use and their association to psychiatric diagnoses in a child population suffering from depression...

..The draw-and-write method, which is based on projective technique, enables us to map children's lay concepts of health in their 8-10 years of age...

..For girls, communal mastery did not play such a role. The role of social motives, friends' and best friend's substance use and parental approval also were justified...

..The primary message of this approach is that modern physicians should see beyond molecular substances and perceive humans from a total biopsychosocial perspective...

..These findings are discussed in the context of their clinical and practical implications for understanding depressive symptomatology in this understudied population of Eastern European youth...

..Gender differences in smoking and alcohol use were partially mediated through motives for use, with the specific mediators depending on the cultural context...

..A more careful examination of the protective role of religion in postsocialist Hungary could be extremely important in a country where both adult and adolescent smoking and alcohol use is among the highest in Europe...

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..The purpose of this study was to determine the role of social influences in early adolescents' leisure time sports activity and to examine gender differences...

..There is a need for converting learned helplessness, often found in people because of the nature and collapse of the old regime, into learned optimism...

..These findings suggest the importance of interrelationships among violence exposure, capital, and well-being for adolescents...