Aim . To assess the possibility of combined application screening methods for early detection risks bipolar disorder in adolescents. Materials and methods. The study included 139 adolescents aged 13–16 years. A clinical psychopathology assessment as well were used. Bipolar Spectrum Diagnostic Scale ((BSDS), R. Pies, 2005) Mood Disorder Questionnaire ((MDQ), R.M. Hirschfeld, 2000). Results was p...

Growth curve analyses were used to investigate parents' and peers' influence on adolescents' choice to abstain from antisocial behavior in a community-based sample of 416 early adolescents living in the Southeastern United States. Participants were primarily European American (91%) and 51% were girls. Both parents and peers were important influences on the choice to abstain from antisocial beha...

OBJECTIVE Childhood deprivation is inimical to health throughout the life course. Early experiences of stress could play a role in health inequalities. An important aspect of childhood poverty that has not received much attention is cardiovascular reactivity to and recovery from acute stressors. METHODS Piecewise, multilevel growth curve regression was used to examine blood pressure reactivit...

In a longitudinal study with 125 early adopted adolescents, we examined continuity of attachment from infancy to adolescence and the role of parental sensitive support in explaining continuity or discontinuity of attachment. Assessments of maternal sensitive support and infant attachment (Strange Situation Procedure) were completed when infants were 12 months old. When the children were 14 year...

This study examined the relationships between adolescents' physiological sensations of smoking during initiation and early experience. For a national sample of a birth cohort of 2,043 adolescents, ages 15 to 22 years at the follow-up, variables of interest included measures of smoking behavior and physiological sensations reported from the initial smoking experience. Analysis showed that adoles...

This study developed a Pupils' Nature of Science Scale, including the subscales of the invented and changing nature of science, the role of social negotiation on science, and cultural context on science, to assess early adolescents' views about the nature of science. More than 6,000 fifth and sixth graders in Taiwan responded to the Scale. The study revealed that the adolescents had quite diffe...

The authors examined the associations of the Big Five personality factors with religiousness in adulthood for a 19-year longitudinal sample of 492 adolescents age 12 to 18. Among the Big Five, Conscientiousness in adolescence was uniquely related to higher religiousness in early adulthood. For adolescents high in Emotional Stability, the link between strength of religious upbringing and religio...

Early adolescence is a critical time for health behavior development because agency increases during the transition from childhood to adolescence. This qualitative study sought identify how early adolescent participants described food-related agency. One-on-one interviews were conducted with 30 adolescents (10–13 years). Data analysis was guided by Bandura's three modes of agency: personal, pro...

Abstract Introduction Research on identity development has primarily studied over-time trends in status change and exploration commitment processes among late adolescents emerging adults. Identity early mid-adolescents generally been overlooked. Hence, little is known about how a sense of synthesis confusion evolves from to adolescence for boys girls. Methods The present cross-sectional study e...