The increasing obesity trend in adolescence is a public health concern. The initial phase of Feeding Exercise Trial in Adolescents (FETA) aimed in investigating the prevalence of overweight and obesity in adolescents and their parents and in identifying associated factors among parents' and adolescents' demographics, eating habits, and parental style. The sample consisted of 816 adolescents, ag...

This study examined the role of parenting styles and parental warmth in moderating relations between exposure to political life events and mental health symptoms among 277 Israeli adolescents aged 12-14 and their parents, who had been exposed to protracted periods of war, missile bombardments, and terrorism. Adolescents completed the Political Life Events (PLE) scale, Brief Symptom Inventory an...

In recent years, scholars have drawn attention to religious commitments to patriarchy and parental authority to argue that religion—especially conservative Protestantism—fosters an authoritarian approach to parenting. Indeed, using data from the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH), this study does find that religious attendance and theological conservatism are associated with high...

BACKGROUND This longitudinal study aims to examine the relationships between the perception of parental style, hope, self-esteem and Eysenck's psychoticism dimension throughout the span of four years. METHODS The sample was composed of 884 students from the Wollongong Youth Study, which commenced when students entered high school. During the course of the 4 years of the study, each participan...

BACKGROUND The literature emphasizes the role of early interpersonal experiences in the development of cognitive vulnerability; in particular, interruptions in early family relationships, parental unavailability and dysfunctional parenting are potential evolutionary precursors to negative cognitive style and emotional disorders. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study measured the relationship of re...

the aim of the present research was to investigate the relationship between effective relations of spouses, and mother–child relations emphasizing the meditational role of attachment style, personality traits, communication skills and sexual satisfaction. accordingly, 260 individuals including mothers and their children were randomly selected, and assessed by a package of questionnaires, includ...

patients and methods the study sample was selected randomly and consisted of 200 (age group 16-60 y) depressed females (mild to moderate); 100 from tehran (iran) and another 100 from pune (india). the type of the research was causal-comparative. the data collection took place in hospitals and clinics in the targeted cities. descriptive statistic tests and hierarchical multiple regression were e...