STUDY OBJECTIVES (1) To describe the union and life cycle of family rituals, such as specific habits of sharing daily meals, special events or other family activities, and (2) to analyse the relation between the practice of family rituals and the use by adolescents of mental health related ambulatory care services. DESIGN A cross sectional study. SETTING A public mental health care outpatie...

How successfully children adapt to the routine of schooling in the first grade or two likely has long-term implications for their cognitive and affective development. This study aims to understand how home and school factors either facilitate or impede this process of adaptation by examining longitudinal data on cognitive performance for a large and diverse sample of youngsters over grades 1 an...

Background: The purpose of this research was to determine the rate of deformity in boys and girls youngsters in Lorestan. Materials and methods: The statistical community of the research included all the youngsters in Lorestan Province. The subjects in this study were 400 boys and 450 girls (11-15 years old) that collected randomly. Data collection was done by questionnaires and physical exami...

There is a phenomenon contributing to the current pattern of alcohol consumption among youngsters in Spain known as "botellon". From research financed by the National Plan on Drugs (2004-2007), data of 6009 youngsters (14-25 years old) were collected from three Spanish cities. Only individuals who engage in intensive consumption of alcohol (n = 2807) have been included. The purpose of this work...

Objective: This study explores the influence of pop-up advertisements on youngsters' purchases, focusing how these ads webpages determine purchase intent. The purpose this research is to investigate effectiveness in creating awareness, enhancing recall, and ultimately driving impulsive buying behavior among youngsters, who frequently engage with social media other websites. Theoretical framewor...

Most research on the prevalence, determinants and variations of violence and delinquency among youngsters is conducted in Western societies. This multilevel study is set in the Netherlands Antilles (NA) and aims to build up prognostic multilevel models as a basis for targeted crime prevention in a non-western area. Data were collected from a sample of adolescents in the NA. Non-hierarchical and...

Children and Parents Time Use: Empirical Evidence on Investment in Human Capital in France, Italy and Germany We analyze a mechanism that has been disregarded in the literature on parental investment in children, as little attention has been devoted to the choices made by children themselves. We model directly time use by youngsters into activities related to the acquisition of human capital, c...