Longitudinal height data and physical development were assessed in 29 boys and 12 girls taking long term steroid treatment for steroid sensitive nephrotic syndrome. Growth in both boys and girls, assessed by changes in height standard deviation score (delta Ht SDS), worsened significantly with chronological age. There was a significant negative correlation between delta Ht SDS and duration of t...

Although a growing body of literature addresses the effects of young people's use of sexually explicit Internet material, research on the compulsive use of this type of online content among adolescents and its associated factors is largely lacking. This study investigated whether factors from three distinct psychosocial domains (i.e., psychological well-being, sexual interests/behaviors, and im...

CONTEXT Eye contact is a fundamental component of human social behavior. Individuals with fragile X syndrome (fraX), particularly male subjects, avoid eye contact and display other social deficits. To date (to our knowledge), this behavior in fraX has been studied only in female subjects, who show lesser degrees of gaze aversion. OBJECTIVE To determine the neural correlates of the perception ...

In our article on the sexual orientation, sexual behavior, and sexual risk exposure of adolescents in the U.S. National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study (NLLFS) (Gartrell, Bos, & Goldberg, 2011), we compared the sexual behavior of the 17-year-old adolescents in our sample with same-age adolescents in a national probability sample—the 2002 U.S. National Survey of FamilyGrowth(NSFGCycle6) (U.S.D...

This study focuses on the relationships between post-divorce parental conflict, economic hardship and adolescents’ academic achievement among 800 adolescents (424 girls and 376 boys) aged 15 to 18 years from divorced families. The instruments used for data collection were the Post-divorce Parental Conflict and Economic Hardship scales. In conclusion, the results obtained from the current study ...

This study was undertaken to establish the existence of any gender-specific differences in the perceived antecedents of academic stress. The Academic Pressure Scale for Adolescents was administered to 112 girls and 160 boys attending high school. Significant gender-based differences were obtained on eight of the 35 questions of the scale. In each case girls reported greater stress than boys. Th...

BACKGROUND Studies using traditional SES indicators in strictly adolescent populations have usually failed to find class differences in adolescent mental health. The present study aimed to find out whether there is an association between adolescent perceived financial difficulties of the family and adolescent maladjustment, and to explore the possible sex differences in this association. METH...

Adolescent mental health is key for later well-being. Yet, causal evidence on environmental drivers of adolescent scant. We study how an important classroom feature—the gender composition in compulsory-school—affects health. use Swedish administrative data (N = 576,285) to link variation across classrooms within cohorts find that a higher share female peers increases the incidence diagnoses, pa...

From the Department of Community medicine, M G I M S, Sewagram, Maharashtra Correspondence to : Dr. Surekha Kishore, Professor, Deptt. of Community Medicine, HIMS, Swami Rama Nagar, Dehradun (Uttaranchal) Abstract The present study was conducted in order to find out the use of tobacco amongst adolescents in a village of Wardha district. From the total 2200 population covered, 474 (21.54%) were ...