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Suicidul la adolescenti. Cauze si prevenire [Suicide in adolescents. Causes and prevention]

ACSINTE, Ramona - In: Jurnalul de Studii Juridice 3-4 (2009) December, pp. 273-277

Suicide is the third leading cause of death for adolescents 15 to 19 years old.Recent statistics indicate that the number of adolescent suicides has increased dramatically in the past decade.Suicide affects young people from all races and socioeconomics groups.It is ironically tragic that many...

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Fathers and youths’ delinquent behavior

Cobb-Clark, Deborah; Tekin, Erdal - In: Review of Economics of the Household 12 (2014) 2, pp. 327-358

’ absence. Our results suggest that the presence of a father figure during adolescence is likely to have protective effects …, particularly for males, in both adolescence and young adulthood. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014 …

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Quality of Life and Stressful Life Events in First and Second Generation Immigrant Adolescents

Lemos, Ida; Nunes, Cristina; Nunes, Lara Ayala - In: Journal of Spatial and Organizational Dynamics 1 (2013) 3, pp. 202-214

The aim of this study was to examine differences in quality of life and stressful life events, in first and second generation immigrant adolescents living in Algarve. A total of 172 immigrant adolescents participated in the study, completing the kidscreen-52, the stressful and negative life...

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ADOLESCENT MOTHERHOOD IN INDIA: EVIDENCE OF DIVERGING REGIONAL TREND AND INTENSIFYING GROUP INEQUALITY

Ray, Santanu - In: Journal of Regional Development and Planning 2 (2013) 2, pp. 143-156

In view of shifting attention from an exclusive focus on income/consumption deprivation to multidimensional development discourse, and in view of mounting anxieties over India’s sluggish progress in non-income indicators of human well-being the urgent need in today’s socio-demographic...

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Duration and Timing of Exposure to Neighborhood Poverty and the Risk of Adolescent Parenthood

Wodtke, Geoffrey - In: Demography 50 (2013) 5, pp. 1765-1788

parent and that exposure to neighborhood poverty during adolescence may be more consequential than exposure earlier during …

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Family Instability and Early Initiation of Sexual Activity in Western Kenya

Goldberg, Rachel - In: Demography 50 (2013) 2, pp. 725-750

Epidemiological, economic, and social forces have produced high levels of volatility in family and household structure for young people growing up in sub-Saharan Africa in recent decades. However, scholarship on the family to date has not examined the influence of this family instability on...

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Social Coping and Life Satisfaction in Adolescents

Saha, Runa; Huebner, E.; Hills, Kimberly; Malone, Patrick; … - In: Social Indicators Research 115 (2014) 1, pp. 241-252

This study examined the relationships among early adolescent social coping behavior and measures of subjective well-being, specifically global life satisfaction and friend satisfaction. A total of 1,011 students in grades 7–8 at a southeastern US middle school completed measures of global life...

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The Association Between Adolescent Life Satisfaction, Family Structure, Family Affluence and Gender Differences in Parent–Child Communication

Levin, Kate; Dallago, Lorenza; Currie, Candace - In: Social Indicators Research 106 (2012) 2, pp. 287-305

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Tracing the process of becoming a farm successor on Swiss family farms

Mann, Stefan - In: Agriculture and Human Values 24 (2007) 4, pp. 435-443

A theoretical model for farm succession is developed in which identity-related variables such as preferences for working autonomously or with animals influence occupational choice at the outset of the process, while environmental factors such as farm size and income prospects gain in importance...

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Racial differences in the influence of female adolescents’ body size on dating and sex

Ali, Mir M.; Rizzo, John A.; Amialchuk, Aliaksandr; … - In: Economics & Human Biology 12 (2014) C, pp. 140-152

This paper investigates the effect of body size on dating and sexual experiences of white (non-Hispanic) and African American (non-Hispanic) female adolescents. Using data from Add-Health, we estimate the effects of obesity and BMI z-score on the probability of having been involved in a romantic...

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