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- The lived experience of being a teenage mother.
- Creator
- Serey, Alice M., Florida Atlantic University, Beck, Cheryl
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One out of every ten women aged 15-19 in the United States becomes pregnant each year, yet few studies have been conducted to determine what is important to the teenage mother. The purpose of this study is to develop a structural description of the lived experience of being a teenage mother. Six teenage mothers who attended a teen parent program in a local high school were interviewed. Using Giorgi's method of interpretation for phenomenological studies, a general description of the lived...
Show moreOne out of every ten women aged 15-19 in the United States becomes pregnant each year, yet few studies have been conducted to determine what is important to the teenage mother. The purpose of this study is to develop a structural description of the lived experience of being a teenage mother. Six teenage mothers who attended a teen parent program in a local high school were interviewed. Using Giorgi's method of interpretation for phenomenological studies, a general description of the lived experience of being a teenage mother was developed. Actual quotations from the interviews are utilized to illustrate the themes which emerged and possible resolutions and implications for further nursing research discussed.
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- 1992
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14836
- Subject Headings
- Teenage pregnancy, Pregnancy--Psychological aspects, Teenage mothers
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- FEAR OF SUCCESS IMAGERY BETWEEN BLACK AND WHITE FEMALE ADOLESCENTS.
- Creator
- MCGEE, LYNNE KALAVSKY., Florida Atlantic University
- Abstract/Description
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The problem investigated in this study was to determine whether significant differences exist between Black and White female adolescents' fear of success imagery. This study sought evidence bearing directly upon five major points: to compare the two groups of students in terms of (1) race, (2) family income, (3) birth order, (4) family size, and (5) age. The Zuckerman and Allison Attitude Inventory, a twenty-seven item Fear of Success Scale was used. The sample consisted of 101 female...
Show moreThe problem investigated in this study was to determine whether significant differences exist between Black and White female adolescents' fear of success imagery. This study sought evidence bearing directly upon five major points: to compare the two groups of students in terms of (1) race, (2) family income, (3) birth order, (4) family size, and (5) age. The Zuckerman and Allison Attitude Inventory, a twenty-seven item Fear of Success Scale was used. The sample consisted of 101 female adolescents. Of these, forty-eight were Black and fifty-three were White. All students were enrolled in grades nine through twelve at Santaluces High School, Lantana, Florida, during the 1985-86 school year. Significant differences were found to exist when socioeconomic status, family size and age were the variables under consideration. The coefficient alpha reliability for the Zuckerman and Allison Attitude Inventory used in this study was only .55. Because this reliability was low, differences between groups on the demographic variable were less likely to have been detected than had a higher reliability measure been used. It is recommended that future research delve into interactions that might result from an analysis of variance using the significant variables of socioeconomic status, family size and age. Since this study found a significant difference contradicting previous research when age was the variable considered, it is also recommended that future research consider the age variable more intensely. Since an instrument that commands a higher reliability score may detect discrepancies that this instrument did not, it is recommended that future research utilize an instrument that yields sufficient reliability.
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- 1986
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/11889
- Subject Headings
- Fear of success, Teenage girls
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- Document (PDF)
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- Selecting, retaining, and socializing friends: substance use similarity among adolescent friends.
- Creator
- DeLay, Dawn, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Psychology
- Abstract/Description
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Friends have been implicated in the acquisition of adolescent substance use, but little attention has been given to how the origins of substance use similarity vary across groups. The first aim of this study is to examine whether friend selection, de-selection, and socialization differ as a function of friendship group's substance use. The second aim of this study is to extend Simulation Investigation for Empirical Network Analyses (SIENA) by demonstrating how group-level interactions can be...
Show moreFriends have been implicated in the acquisition of adolescent substance use, but little attention has been given to how the origins of substance use similarity vary across groups. The first aim of this study is to examine whether friend selection, de-selection, and socialization differ as a function of friendship group's substance use. The second aim of this study is to extend Simulation Investigation for Empirical Network Analyses (SIENA) by demonstrating how group-level interactions can be included in the mode, and to demonstrate a new method to follow-up statistically significant group-level interactions in SIENA. Participants include 1419 Finnish students (729 females, 690 males) from upper secondary schools in Finland. Two waves of data were collected, starting when most participants were between 15 and 17 years of age. Waves of data collection were separated by one year. Results indicate that friends are selected, deselected, and socialized for substance use. Follow-up illustrations indicate that the magnitude of these processes vary as a function of substance use in the friendship group.
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- 2011
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3170601
- Subject Headings
- Teenagers, Substance use, Adolescent psychology, Teenagers, Social networks, Peer pressure in adolescence, Teenagers, Conduct of life
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Adolescent informants about rural teen pregnancy.
- Creator
- Weiss, Josie A.
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3183266
- Subject Headings
- Rural health--U.S., Sexual ethics for teenagers --Decision making, Sexual ethics for youth --United States, Teenage pregnancy, Teenage pregnancy --Prevention, Teenage pregnancy --Prevention & control, Teenage pregnancy --United States, Teenage pregnancy --United States --Prevention, Teenagers --Sexual behavior --Decision making
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- Document (PDF)
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- THE ADMINISTRATION, SUPERVISION, AND EVALUATION OF AN AFFECTIVE VOCATIONAL EDUCATION PROGRAM FOR SCHOOL AGE PARENTS.
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- NELSON, FREDEVA MASSENGILL., Florida Atlantic University
- Abstract/Description
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The purpose of this study was to assess the comparative effects of the Affective Vocational Education Program as a means of increasing the classroom performance, vocational maturity, and self-concept of school age parents. Related literature revealed the sparse amount of time and resources that advocates of school age parent programs devoted to helping pregnant teenagers understand themselves as worthwhile human beings and as future providers for themselves and their children. Yet,...
Show moreThe purpose of this study was to assess the comparative effects of the Affective Vocational Education Program as a means of increasing the classroom performance, vocational maturity, and self-concept of school age parents. Related literature revealed the sparse amount of time and resources that advocates of school age parent programs devoted to helping pregnant teenagers understand themselves as worthwhile human beings and as future providers for themselves and their children. Yet, researchers pointed out the need for students to feel good about themselves and to be able to identify with a particular job. From the data collected and analyzed, it can be concluded that the Affective Vocational Education Program could be successfully used to improve vocational maturity and self- concept . More research is needed to determine what kind of program can be used to best meet the academic needs of school age parents.
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- 1981
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/11784
- Subject Headings
- Teenage parents--Education, Vocational education
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Teenagers' perspectives of caring during labor and delivery.
- Creator
- Sanderson, Sylvia., Florida Atlantic University, Schuster, Eleanor
- Abstract/Description
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The problem of the study was to understand the experience of being cared for by a nurse during labor and delivery. The review of literature for the study examined research focusing on adolescents in labor and delivery, caring and adolescent pregnancy and caring from current nursing literature perspective. Recalled labor and delivery experiences were analyzed phenomenologically in order to extract the meaning of the experience. Five recently delivered primiparous mothers were interviewed....
Show moreThe problem of the study was to understand the experience of being cared for by a nurse during labor and delivery. The review of literature for the study examined research focusing on adolescents in labor and delivery, caring and adolescent pregnancy and caring from current nursing literature perspective. Recalled labor and delivery experiences were analyzed phenomenologically in order to extract the meaning of the experience. Five recently delivered primiparous mothers were interviewed. Interviews followed guidelines designed to elicit descriptions of nurse caring. Interviews were tape recorded and transcribed. Data were reduced through a search for themes, and analyzed using guidelines of Colaizzi (1978). The findings were discussed with four of the participants and they all agreed that their perceptions of the experience had been described. Results of the study produced an exhaustive description and fundamental structure of nurse caring.
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- 1992
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14873
- Subject Headings
- Caring, Nurse and patient, Teenage pregnancy
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Adolescent trauma: Motor vehicle crashes while under the influence.
- Creator
- Davis, Nora Beatrice., Florida Atlantic University, Hayes, Janice S.
- Abstract/Description
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The purpose of this study was to identify and describe the outcome of adolescent trauma victims with positive toxicology screening who were involved in motor vehicle crashes. This was a retrospective study conducted at an urban Level I trauma center. A sample of 134 subjects with positive toxicology screen, ages 15 to 25, for the period January 1993 to December 1996, were included in the study. Outcome, sex, age, injury severity score, length of stay, and hospital cost were analyzed by...
Show moreThe purpose of this study was to identify and describe the outcome of adolescent trauma victims with positive toxicology screening who were involved in motor vehicle crashes. This was a retrospective study conducted at an urban Level I trauma center. A sample of 134 subjects with positive toxicology screen, ages 15 to 25, for the period January 1993 to December 1996, were included in the study. Outcome, sex, age, injury severity score, length of stay, and hospital cost were analyzed by multiple regression. A significant relationship between sex, age, injury severity, length of stay, and hospital cost was established (p $<$.0001). Subsequently, Spearman's correlation analysis revealed a significant relationship between outcome, injury severity, discharge, and hospital cost (p $<$.05).
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- 1997
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15486
- Subject Headings
- Teenagers--Substance use, Drinking and traffic accidents, Trauma centers, Teenagers--Drug testing
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- Document (PDF)
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- Age related changes in relationship closeness, reciprocity, and authority during adolescence.
- Creator
- Wilder, David Andrew, Florida Atlantic University, Laursen, Brett
- Abstract/Description
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One hundred and ninety-four 12 to 20 year old adolescents were administered two self-report questionnaires in order to examine interrelations and age related changes in relationship closeness, reciprocity, and authority with parents, peers, and romantic partners. It was hypothesized that, with age, adolescent's relations with parents would become less close and more mutual, while adolescent relations with peers and romantic partners would become closer with age. It was also hypothesized that...
Show moreOne hundred and ninety-four 12 to 20 year old adolescents were administered two self-report questionnaires in order to examine interrelations and age related changes in relationship closeness, reciprocity, and authority with parents, peers, and romantic partners. It was hypothesized that, with age, adolescent's relations with parents would become less close and more mutual, while adolescent relations with peers and romantic partners would become closer with age. It was also hypothesized that subjects who have closer relationships with romantic partners would also have more mutual relationships with romantic partners. Results indicated that adolescents relations with parents became closer, but not more mutual, with age. Adolescent's relations with peers did not become closer with age, while adolescents relations with romantic partners became closer with age. In the romantic partner relationship, closer relationships were more mutual ones.
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- 1995
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15118
- Subject Headings
- Teenagers--Family relationships, Parent and teenager, Friendship in adolescence, Interpersonal relations in adolescence
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- Document (PDF)
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- Efficancy of a parenting component in a teen parent program in Broward County, Florida.
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- Bessell, Stephanie Joan, Florida Atlantic University, Urich, Ted R.
- Abstract/Description
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This study took place during the 1990-1991 school year and involved 58 pregnant and parenting teenage participants between 14 and 19 years of age living in north Broward County, Florida. It evaluated the effectiveness of a parenting program by comparing performance of two groups on the Adult and Adolescent Parenting Inventory (AAPI). The experimental group consisted of 39 (out of a potential pool of 139) public high school students. The 39 students of the study completed one full semester at...
Show moreThis study took place during the 1990-1991 school year and involved 58 pregnant and parenting teenage participants between 14 and 19 years of age living in north Broward County, Florida. It evaluated the effectiveness of a parenting program by comparing performance of two groups on the Adult and Adolescent Parenting Inventory (AAPI). The experimental group consisted of 39 (out of a potential pool of 139) public high school students. The 39 students of the study completed one full semester at a special center. The study's control group consisted of 19 teen parents who were non-treatment participants with similar demographic and descriptive profiles. The study also determined which of the subject variables of home environment, age, parenting status, reading level, and grades earned in coursework were correlated significantly with experimental group posttest performance in the AAPI's constructs of empathy, expectations, physical punishment, role modeling, and with a composite total score. Using analysis of variance (ANOVAS), there were no differences on three constructs (empathy, physical punishment and role modeling) between the experimental and control groups. Significant differences between groups were found in the parental expectation and total composite construct. Stepwise regression was used with Florida Atlantic University's Vax using SPSSX for correlations of independent variables with experimental group posttest performance. The parental expectations construct was not significantly correlated with any independent variables. Significantly correlated variables at the.05 level included the "Child Development" class grade with the dependent variables of posttest total composite score, physical punishment, and role modeling. At the.01 level, the "Child Development" grade also significantly correlated with the empathy posttest score. The reading level was significantly correlated with the empathy and physical punishment constructs. Treatment/control group long-term performance paralleled research indicating that participation in programs designed to offer support to teenage mothers was related to positive caregiving styles (Dunst, Vance, & Cooper, 1986). Brooks-Gunn (1991) also found that second-generation teen parents who had been participants in parenting programs were likely to have attained higher levels of education and to have had fewer of their children taken from them 17 years later (Brooks-Gunn, 1991).
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- 1993
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12329
- Subject Headings
- Parenting
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Effectiveness of a multidisciplinary program on pregnancy outcomes for an adolescent population: A comparative study.
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- Adam, Barbara J., Florida Atlantic University, Hektor, Lynne M.
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The high rate of adolescent pregnancies and births in the United States has had an extensive impact on individual, family, community, and national issues related to health and economics. Teenagers, many of whom are already of lower socioeconomic status, are at risk for preterm birth and low birth weight, as well as incomplete use of available services. This inquiry used a retrospective comparative research design to evaluate the effectiveness of Project Teen in Palm Beach County, Florida....
Show moreThe high rate of adolescent pregnancies and births in the United States has had an extensive impact on individual, family, community, and national issues related to health and economics. Teenagers, many of whom are already of lower socioeconomic status, are at risk for preterm birth and low birth weight, as well as incomplete use of available services. This inquiry used a retrospective comparative research design to evaluate the effectiveness of Project Teen in Palm Beach County, Florida. Project Teen is a multidisciplinary program offering a continuum of support services to pregnant adolescents and newly parenting adolescents and their infants until the infants are 2 years old. Through frequent contacts, home visitation, resource referral, counseling, and education the health care professionals collaborate with the clients to facilitate clients' choices which will maximize families' health potential. Home visitation by care coordinators and senior community health nurses was positively related to pregnancy, family health, and family socioeconomic outcomes.
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- 1996
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15248
- Subject Headings
- Teenage pregnancy, Maternal health services, Teenage mothers--Family relationships, Nursing models
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Adolescent alcohol consumption: level of consumption in the friendship group impacts friendship choice and friend influence.
- Creator
- DeLay, Dawn, Laursen, Brett, Burk, William Jay, Kiuru, Noona, Salmela-Aro, Katariina, Nurmi, Jarik-Erik, Graduate College
- Date Issued
- 2011-04-08
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3164521
- Subject Headings
- Teenagers --Alcohol use, Peer pressure in adolescence, Group identity
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- AN EXAMINATION OF ADOLESCENT MATERNAL–INFANT ATTACHMENT RELATIONSHIP OUTCOMES FOLLOWING A FIRSTPLAY® THERAPY INFANT STORYTELLING-MASSAGE INTERVENTION: A PILOT STUDY.
- Creator
- Baldwin, Karen M., Thompson, Heather, Florida Atlantic University, School of Social Work, College of Social Work and Criminal Justice
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Adolescent mothers experience many factors that affect their ability to securely attach to their infants and are therefore considered a high-risk population. In addition, infants of adolescent mothers are at an increased risk of developing insecure attachment. FirstPlay® Therapy Infant Storytelling-Massage is an attachment-based, parent–infant adjunctive play therapy model founded on the theoretical underpinning of attachment theory. The current study implemented a one-time intervention with...
Show moreAdolescent mothers experience many factors that affect their ability to securely attach to their infants and are therefore considered a high-risk population. In addition, infants of adolescent mothers are at an increased risk of developing insecure attachment. FirstPlay® Therapy Infant Storytelling-Massage is an attachment-based, parent–infant adjunctive play therapy model founded on the theoretical underpinning of attachment theory. The current study implemented a one-time intervention with an adolescent mother population in a group home setting. A pretest/posttest design was utilized to measure the impact of FirstPlay® Therapy on the variables of an adolescent mother’s levels of maternal attachment and comfort with physical touch. Participants in this study (N = 5) were adolescent mothers ages 18–21 years old, who were recruited from four maternity group homes in two counties in South Florida. Five adolescent mothers completed the FirstPlay® Therapy for pre and posttest data. No significant differences were found in the areas of maternal attachment and predisposition to touch before and 2 weeks after the intervention. There were some significant relationships found among the demographic variables specific to an adolescent mother’s history of employment status and her child welfare history as well as the age of the mother and the age of her infant. In addition, at posttest, a significant relationship was found between the sex of the infant and the total score on the PCAQ. Although no statistically significant findings were presented, recommendations for further research include extending this intervention to a broader population of adolescent mothers across a variety of settings to focus on early infant-attachment relationships.
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- 2020
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013451
- Subject Headings
- Adolescent mothers, Teenage mothers, Mother and infant, Play therapy
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Adolescents’ Equine-Assisted Experiences from a Unitary Caring Perspective.
- Creator
- Mygatt, Marla G., Smith, Marlaine, Florida Atlantic University, Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing, Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing
- Abstract/Description
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Although there appears to be heightened awareness of the alarming rise in adolescent mental health concerns, treatment initiation and adherence to traditional therapies remains low. Nurses are at the forefront of exploring innovative youth-friendly therapeutic options that engage adolescents who otherwise may be reluctant to care. Human-animal interactions (HAIs) are alternative approaches where animals are integrated as therapeutic partners to help break down barriers, build trust, uncover...
Show moreAlthough there appears to be heightened awareness of the alarming rise in adolescent mental health concerns, treatment initiation and adherence to traditional therapies remains low. Nurses are at the forefront of exploring innovative youth-friendly therapeutic options that engage adolescents who otherwise may be reluctant to care. Human-animal interactions (HAIs) are alternative approaches where animals are integrated as therapeutic partners to help break down barriers, build trust, uncover meaning, and foster transformation. Equine-assisted learning (EAL), a type of HAI, was the focus of this research. This study explored the lived experience of adolescents who participated in an equine-assisted learning program guided through the lens of the theory of unitary caring and the hermeneutic-phenomenological unitary-caring research method. Eleven participants between the ages of 11-19 were interviewed. The outcomes of improved self-confidence, better mood, healthier relationships, and an optimistic outlook were supported by the literature. Six essences evolved from the narratives: troubled by turbulent connections; embracing uncertainty and vulnerability; awakening to the shared human-horse condition; attuning as one; engaging harmonically; and cultivating peace and joy. These essences, blended with the theory of unitary caring, led to the discovery of the antecedents of transformational change defined in the conceptual representation of the Unitary Caring Relatedness Model. These findings contribute to nursing and HAI literature and suggest a model that may be implemented in adolescent practice.
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- 2023
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014149
- Subject Headings
- Equine-Assisted Therapy, Teenagers--Mental health, Nursing
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- THE ROLE OF RELATIONSHIP ALTERNATIVES IN SUSCEPTIBILITY TO FRIEND INLUFENCE.
- Creator
- Faur, Sharon, Laursen, Brett, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Psychology, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
- Abstract/Description
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In the social world of adolescents, friends play an integral role in shaping adjustment. Little is known about what differentiates those who influence from those who are influenced. The current study examined the role of relationship alternatives to determine whether a relative lack of friends increases susceptibility to influence over adjustment outcomes in a sample of adolescents (N=794). Findings suggest that partners with relatively fewer friends were susceptible to influence from...
Show moreIn the social world of adolescents, friends play an integral role in shaping adjustment. Little is known about what differentiates those who influence from those who are influenced. The current study examined the role of relationship alternatives to determine whether a relative lack of friends increases susceptibility to influence over adjustment outcomes in a sample of adolescents (N=794). Findings suggest that partners with relatively fewer friends were susceptible to influence from partners with relatively more friends over social anxiety and prosocial behavior. Both partners influenced each other’s academic engagement over time. Multiple group analyses indicated that patterns of susceptibility to influence did not differ between partners with fewer relationship alternatives who had no other friends and those who had one or two other friends. The findings of the current study highlight the role of a relative lack of relationship alternatives in susceptibility to friend influence.
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- 2022
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013877
- Subject Headings
- Teenagers, Friend, Peer pressure in adolescence, Relationship alternatives
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Pubertal timing as a moderator of the associations between parental restrictiveness and adolescent alcohol abuse.
- Creator
- Dickson, Daniel J., Laursen, Brett, Florida Atlantic University, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Psychology
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Adolescent alcohol abuse increases across the adolescent years. If left unchecked, alcohol abuse can give rise to delinquency, poor grades, and risky sexual behavior (Stueve & O’Donnell, 2005; Ellickson, Tucker, & Klein, 2003). Past research suggests that minimal parental oversight increases the risk for adolescent alcohol abuse. There is also evidence, however, that parents withdraw from oversight in the face of adolescent problem behaviors (Barber & Olsen, 1997; Hafen & Laursen, 2009). Each...
Show moreAdolescent alcohol abuse increases across the adolescent years. If left unchecked, alcohol abuse can give rise to delinquency, poor grades, and risky sexual behavior (Stueve & O’Donnell, 2005; Ellickson, Tucker, & Klein, 2003). Past research suggests that minimal parental oversight increases the risk for adolescent alcohol abuse. There is also evidence, however, that parents withdraw from oversight in the face of adolescent problem behaviors (Barber & Olsen, 1997; Hafen & Laursen, 2009). Each may vary according to the child’s physical development. Parents may respond to pubertal maturation with reduced supervision and early maturing girls may be sensitive to parent supervision because of the additional pressures and attention they receive from older, possibly deviant, peers (Stattin, Kerr, & Skoog, 2011).
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- 2014
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004278, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004278
- Subject Headings
- High school students -- Alcohol use, Parent and teenager, Precocious puberty, Substance abuse -- Prevention, Teenagers -- Alcohol use, Vigilance (Psychology)
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Attachment in preadolescence: consequence or cause of children's perceptions of parenting ?.
- Creator
- Menon, Meenakshi, Florida Atlantic University, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Psychology
- Abstract/Description
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This one-year longitudinal study was designed to illuminate the direction of the causal arrow between children's perceptions of their mother's behavior and children's attachment style during a period of development that has been relatively neglected in research on attachment - preadolescence. The possibility that children's behavior problems moderate the influence of perceived parenting on attachment, or of attachment on perceived parenting, was also investigated. Participants were an...
Show moreThis one-year longitudinal study was designed to illuminate the direction of the causal arrow between children's perceptions of their mother's behavior and children's attachment style during a period of development that has been relatively neglected in research on attachment - preadolescence. The possibility that children's behavior problems moderate the influence of perceived parenting on attachment, or of attachment on perceived parenting, was also investigated. Participants were an ethnically diverse sample of 407 children (213 girls, 194 boys) who were in the fourth grade at initial testing (M age = 11 years 1 month). Measures included children's perceptions of five maternal behaviors (harassment, overprotectiveness, monitoring, affectionate contact, and reliable support), peer reports of children's behavior problems (internalizing and externalizing), and children's self-perceived attachment styles (preoccupied and avoidant). Contrary to a traditional attachment perspective, there was limited evidence that perceptions of parenting led to change in children's attachment styles. Though children with internalizing problems who perceived their mother as harassing developed preoccupied attachment over time, and children with externalizing problems who perceived their mother as v overprotective developed avoidant attachment over time. However, there was considerable support for the reverse causal hypothesis that children's attachment style influences how they perceive their mother: Preoccupied attachment predicted increasingly favorable perceptions of maternal behavior over time (reduced harassment and increased monitoring), whereas avoidant attachment predicted increasingly unfavorable perceptions of the mother over time (increased harassment, reduced monitoring, reduced affectionate contact, and reduced reliable support). Children's behavior problems moderated a few of these relations., Overall, results support a "child effects" interpretation of the links between perceived parenting and attachment styles during preadolescence.
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- 2008
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/58007
- Subject Headings
- Parent and teenager, Attachment behavior in adolescence, Child rearing, Parenting, Psychological aspects
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Attachment and adjustment in preadolescence.
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- Corby, Brooke C., Florida Atlantic University, Perry, David G.
- Abstract/Description
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This concurrent correlational study examined the relations among perceived parenting, child coping/attachment style, and adjustment outcomes in middle childhood. Instruments measuring children's perceptions of their parents, their style of coping, and their adjustment were administered to 199 children in the third through eighth grades (mean age 11 years). This study tested newly developed self-report scales measuring aspects of disorganized attachment in middle childhood, identified...
Show moreThis concurrent correlational study examined the relations among perceived parenting, child coping/attachment style, and adjustment outcomes in middle childhood. Instruments measuring children's perceptions of their parents, their style of coping, and their adjustment were administered to 199 children in the third through eighth grades (mean age 11 years). This study tested newly developed self-report scales measuring aspects of disorganized attachment in middle childhood, identified perceived parenting correlates of five child coping styles, investigated how the five coping styles relate to adjustment outcomes, and explored the possibility of indecision interacting with other child coping styles to influence adjustment outcomes. The new measures of indecision, caregiving, and coercive coping styles proved to be reliable and related to perceived parenting and adjustment in meaningful ways. Perceptions of parents as being harassing and low in reliable support were linked with avoidant behaviors in children, whereas perceptions of parents as low in harassment and high in overprotectiveness were linked with preoccupied behaviors. Low reliable support and high levels of fear induction were associated with high levels of indecision, whereas high reliable support was correlated with caregiving behaviors and low reliable support was correlated with coercion. In regards to children's adjustment being affected by their coping style, evidence was found linking externalizing behaviors to coercive coping style and internalizing behaviors to caregiving coping style. When investigating interactions among coping styles predicting adjustment, indecision was found to interact with low levels of preoccupied coping in girls to predict externalizing behaviors, whereas indecision interacted with avoidant coping for both boys and girls to predict greater externalizing behaviors. Caregiving was found to weaken the link between indecision and externalizing and indecision was found to magnify the effects of coercion on externalizing behaviors. Finally, girls who were high in caregiving and low in indecision were found to exhibit increased internalizing behaviors.
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- 2006
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12200
- Subject Headings
- Parent and teenager, Attachment behavior in adolescence, Adolescent psychology, Child development
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Effects of GravitronRTM training on upper body strength in 11--13 year old students.
- Creator
- Howard, Nancy Joanne., Florida Atlantic University, Torok, Don
- Abstract/Description
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This study examined the effects of using one or three sets of assisted pull-ups on the GravitronRTM 2000 AT unit by StairMaster RTM to increase upper body strength in adolescents. Fifty-four students participated in the study consisting of three upper body strength tests: pull-ups, flexed-arm hang, and push-ups. Forty-two subjects engaged in a 12-week training protocol on the GravitronRTM performing either one set (T1, N = 21), or 3 sets (T3, N = 21). Statistical analysis supported a...
Show moreThis study examined the effects of using one or three sets of assisted pull-ups on the GravitronRTM 2000 AT unit by StairMaster RTM to increase upper body strength in adolescents. Fifty-four students participated in the study consisting of three upper body strength tests: pull-ups, flexed-arm hang, and push-ups. Forty-two subjects engaged in a 12-week training protocol on the GravitronRTM performing either one set (T1, N = 21), or 3 sets (T3, N = 21). Statistical analysis supported a significant improvement in strength (p < 0.05) as assessed by the number of pull-ups completed for the T3 group. All other test results revealed nonsignificant changes. This type of training did not significantly increase the passing rate on the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports standards for strength or endurance. In conclusion, upper body strength was improved with 3 sets of assisted pull-up training after 12 weeks of training as shown by an increase in number of pull-ups performed.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2002
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12882
- Subject Headings
- Bodybuilding for children, Teenagers--Exercise, Weight training for children, Muscle strength
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Concurrent and prospective associations between parent-adolescent conflict and adolescent adjustment: Person-oriented and variable-oriented analyses.
- Creator
- Burk, William Jay, Florida Atlantic University, Laursen, Brett
- Abstract/Description
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This study examined early adolescent perceptions of daily disagreements and negative interactions in relationships with mothers and fathers and their association with adolescent reports of self-esteem, self- and mother reports of behavior problems, and school grades. An I-States as Objects Analysis (ISOA: Bergman, 1998) identified seven distinct conflict patterns in parent-adolescent relationships: amiable, squabbling, discordant, hostile, labile, tranquil, and avoidant. These groups...
Show moreThis study examined early adolescent perceptions of daily disagreements and negative interactions in relationships with mothers and fathers and their association with adolescent reports of self-esteem, self- and mother reports of behavior problems, and school grades. An I-States as Objects Analysis (ISOA: Bergman, 1998) identified seven distinct conflict patterns in parent-adolescent relationships: amiable, squabbling, discordant, hostile, labile, tranquil, and avoidant. These groups exhibited structural and interindividual stability, with groups characterized by constructive conflict processes demonstrating more stability than adolescents in groups characterized by non-constructive conflict processes. ISOA procedures failed to identify coherent adolescent adjustment groups. Person-oriented analyses indicated adolescents in the amiable, labile, and tranquil groups tended to have the best adjustment outcomes, followed by adolescents in the discordant and avoidant groups, with the worst adjustment outcomes reserved for adolescents in the squabbling and hostile groups. Variable-oriented analyses indicated that conflict rate and relationship negativity predicted concurrent and subsequent adolescent adjustment; behavior problems predicted concurrent and subsequent characteristics of parent-adolescent conflict. Person-oriented failed to reveal statistically significant associations involving change in parent-adolescent conflict and adolescent adjustment aver time. Variable-oriented analyses indicated adolescent adjustment predicted changes in parent-adolescent conflict variables more consistently than parent-adolescent conflict predicted changes in adolescent adjustment variables.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2005
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12168
- Subject Headings
- Teenagers and adults, Adjustment (Psychology) in adolescence, Parent and child, Interpersonal relations in adolescence
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Does perceived parenting affect children's attachment style in middle childhood?.
- Creator
- Corby, Brooke C., Florida Atlantic University, Perry, David G.
- Abstract/Description
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This longitudinal study examined the likely direction of influence between perceived parenting and attachment style in middle childhood. In each of two successive years, measures of perceived parenting behaviors and of attachment style were administered to 164 children (mean age 10.2 in Year 1). Avoidant (but not preoccupied) attachment predicted change in perceived parenting over time, in that avoidant children perceived their mothers as increasingly overprotective, as less monitoring, as...
Show moreThis longitudinal study examined the likely direction of influence between perceived parenting and attachment style in middle childhood. In each of two successive years, measures of perceived parenting behaviors and of attachment style were administered to 164 children (mean age 10.2 in Year 1). Avoidant (but not preoccupied) attachment predicted change in perceived parenting over time, in that avoidant children perceived their mothers as increasingly overprotective, as less monitoring, as less affectionate, and as providing less reliable support over time. There was little evidence that perceived parenting led to change in attachment style over time, although low perceived maternal support in Year 1 predicted increases in preoccupied attachment. Results provide new insights into the direction of effects between attachment and perceived parenting during middle childhood.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2004
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13121
- Subject Headings
- Parent and teenager, Attachment behavior in adolescence, Child development, Adolescent psychology
- Format
- Document (PDF)
