OBJECTIVES To better understand youth and adult community members' perceived causes and possible preventative steps to address the high Inupiat youth suicide rates in Northwest Alaska. STUDY DESIGN A five-item, open-ended survey focusing on community members' perceptions of suicide causes, warning signs, and protective factors was administered in the twelve Native villages served by the Manii...

background: empirical inculcation is vital for producing quality research professionals and upon realizing the increasing demand of emerging scientific research professionals, national academy of young scientist (nays) launched its science for youth (s4y) program in pakistan with its emphasis on empiricism. methods: s4y team was galvanized to undertake this task and different scientific activit...

American youth are more prone to storm and stress during adolescence than are Chinese youth (e.g., American youth's engagement in school declines more). However, it is unclear why. This research examined differences in conceptions of adolescence in the United States and China. Using both open- and closed-ended measures, youth (N = 397; 50 % female; mean age = 13.19 years) reported on their view...

Low-income urban youth of color frequently confront a wide variety of challenges and hardships that other young people never experience. The offering of prevention programs represents one strategy to help urban youth avoid the risks associated with substance abuse. In this chapter, an alternative program strategy is posited-one that places diversity with respect to culture, class, and environme...

Both anthropologists and historians have devoted a great deal of attention to the concept of adolescence, but they have done so in markedly different ways. Drawing in large measure on assumptions about adolescence taken from developmental psychology, anthropologists have implicitly assumed that adolescence is a universally identifiable stage of life. The single most famous study of adolescence ...

Adaptation to a new culture can be highly stressful, especially during challenging developmental stages such as adolescence. The ways in which adolescents adapt to a culture and their resulting well-being may be influenced substantially by their personality traits as well as the degree to which they are aligned with the values of the new culture. Korean Americans are one of the fastest growing ...

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Beginning with a case vignette, a discussion follows of the reformulation of theories of gender development taking into consideration the recent upsurge of gender nonconforming and transgender youth presenting for gender services and also in the culture at large. The three predominant models of pediatric gender care are reviewed and critiqued, along with a presentation of the recently developed...

The relevance of the topic “media culture youth” is due to insufficiency special studies problem from point view library activities. article presents results a sociological study media young people, conducted on basis Chelyabinsk Regional Library for Youth. It shown that it characterized by certain number features consumption, where “getting information about what happening in world” indicated ...