background: the purpose of this study was to examine whether the frequency of breakfast eating was related with overweight/obesity in korean adolescents. method: we analyzed the data collected in the 5 th kyrbws, in which 72,399 adolescents participated in 2009. we assessed the association between frequency of breakfast eating and body mass index by using multivariate logistic regression analys...

background: this study investigates whether the amount of time that korean adolescents spend on the internet per day is related to their weight status. methods: for this purpose, we analyzed data from the 2009 korea youth risk behavior web-based survey-v (kyrbws-v), in which 72,399 students from the 7 th to the 12 th grade participated. we assessed the relationship between the amount of time sp...

This study aimed to explain why parental knowledge of adolescents' whereabouts declines with age. Such an investigation is important because previous studies have established an association between behavior problems and low levels of parental knowledge. A time-sequential sample comprising 2415 adolescents aged 13-18 years was investigated on five annual occasions. Each year, parental knowledge ...

abstract background: in the past two decades psychoactive drugs especially among adolescents and youth are common, these drugs located in the second row of drug abuse in the world. present study performed with aim of determinant of predictors of psychoactive drugs use among adolescents and youth in kermanshah city based on theory of planned behavior. methods: this cross-sectional study was perf...

objective: to investigate on relationship among family environment, pornography and sexual behavior of adolescents. pornography may start from early youth along with starting of sexual behavior. therefore it is important that the role of family factors in pornography be studied. materials and methods: the sample includes 362 students who were chosen by proportional cluster method from the first...

This investigation evaluated the hypothesis that the development of either effective or disruptive adolescent problem-solving behavior is reciprocally associated with the child-rearing strategies of parents. Longitudinal data collected over 3 time points from a large sample of families were analyzed at 1-year and 2-year measurement intervals by using structural equation modeling. Parent and ado...

Stage-environment fit theory was used to examine the reciprocal lagged relations between family management practices and early adolescent problem behavior during the middle school years. In addition, the potential moderating roles of family structure and of gender were explored. Hierarchical linear modeling was used to describe patterns of growth in family management practices and adolescents' ...

PURPOSE This study was done to identify fundamental data on competency reinforcement programs to prevent adolescent risk behavior by developing and examining a competency model. METHODS In this study, competences on prevention of adolescent risk behavior were identified through competency modeling, and a competency model was developed and tested for validity. RESULTS Competences for prevent...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE To date, most parent-based research has neglected the role of fathers in shaping adolescent sexual behavior and has focused on mothers. The objective of this study was to conduct a structured review to assess the role of paternal influence on adolescent sexual behavior and to assess the methodological quality of the paternal influence literature related to adolescent se...

this article investigates father's role in child and adolescent psychopathology. the role of mother has been studied extensively, but the father's role in child psychopathology has been studied much less and is limited to what has been done in the past few decades. this article reviews some of the studies regarding father's role in child and adolescent psychopathology, namely att...