The goal of the present study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a school-based peer support group designed to improve body esteem and global self-esteem and to reduce negative eating attitudes and behaviors. A total of 214 girls in grades 7 and 8, 115 of whom were in the control group, completed self-report questionnaires immediately before and following the intervention, and three months la...

adolescence is an important stage of human life span, which crucial developmental processes occur. since peers play a critical role in the psychosocial development of most adolescents, peer education is currently considered as a health promotion strategy in adolescents. peer education is defined as a system of delivering knowledge that improves social learning and provides psychosocial support....

Based on the data of peer-to-peer (P2P) platforms, employing ARIMAX model and analyzing risk outbreak process P2P we find that is a spreading from weak to strong along “qualification chain” platforms. This qualification chain dubbed “fuze effect” in this paper as similar fuze detonating explosives. finding implies real comes uneven quality which different dominant opinion their “credit enhancem...

This research defines, through an extensive literature review, the roles played by victim, bully, peer group, school, family and society in dynamics of bullying. Finally, we conclude that complexity diversity actors should lead us to rethink traditional definitions school bullying, stake out focus projects reconstruct prevention action policies.