OBJECTIVES To test the hypothesis that family intervention to promote effective parenting in early childhood affects obesity in preadolescence. METHODS Participants were 186 minority youth at risk for behavior problems who enrolled in long-term follow-up studies after random assignment to family intervention or control condition at age 4. Follow-up Study 1 included 40 girls at familial risk f...

Suicidal behaviors increase dramatically during adolescence. In order to effectively intervene and ultimately prevent suicide in youth, the field needs to be able to identify and predict which adolescents are at greatest suicide risk. However, present knowledge of risk factors for suicide and techniques for identifying at-risk youth are insufficient. The purpose of the current manuscript is to ...

We examined the risk of unwanted online sexual solicitations and characteristics associated with four online interaction styles among youth Internet users. The interaction styles took into account the people with whom youth interacted online (people known in person only, unknown people met through face-to-face friends, unknown people met in chatroom, and other places online) and high- and low-r...

HTML5 is the next generation of web standards, and needs to be used to improve Web accessibility. To do this, Korea has taken various activities, such as laying down laws and standards related to web accessibility and investigating the realities of web accessibility. Recently, the market for web accessibility has been growing. This study compared the rates of building up HTML5, focusing on the ...

Objectives: The aim of this study is to assess the association between early menarche and risk-taking behavior in a representative sample of Korean adolescent students. Methods: Data were drawn from cross-sectional, national and representative sample of 33,829 female adolescents (grades 7–12) based on the 2014 Korean Youth Risk Behavior Web-based Survey. Logistic regression analysis was conduct...

This study explored relations between religiosity, both parent and student, and maternal parenting style and student academic self-regulation, academic achievement, and risk behavior among African-American youth attending a parochial college. Eighty-five students completed self-report survey measures of religiosity, self-regulation, academic achievement, and risk behavior. Participants also com...

Objectives: The aim of this study is to assess the association between early menarche and risk-taking behavior in a representative sample of Korean adolescent students. Methods: Data were drawn from cross-sectional, national and representative sample of 33,829 female adolescents (grades 7–12) based on the 2014 Korean Youth Risk Behavior Web-based Survey. Logistic regression analysis was conduct...

PURPOSE This study was done to construct and test a structural model to explain health risk behavior of late adolescents. METHODS Data for this study were secondary data from the 2010 Korea Adolescent Health Survey based and 3,675 high school students who participated. Data were analyzed using SPSS 18.0 and AMOS 19.0 programs. RESULTS After 7 lines were removed, fitness statistics for the h...

PURPOSE Although distortion of weight perceptions has been known as a risk factor for adolescent depression, little has been known about the relationship between weight misperception patterns and depressive symptoms. This study explored the relationship between distortion of weight misperception patterns and depressive symptoms in Korean adolescents. METHODS The subjects of this study were 10...

Objectives: The aim of this study is to assess the association between early menarche and risk-taking behavior in a representative sample of Korean adolescent students. Methods: Data were drawn from cross-sectional, national and representative sample of 33,829 female adolescents (grades 7–12) based on the 2014 Korean Youth Risk Behavior Web-based Survey. Logistic regression analysis was conduct...