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Camlin, Carol S.; Snow, Rachel C. – Health Education & Behavior, 2008
This study examines whether parental investment and membership in social clubs are associated with safer sexual behaviors among South African youth. Participants comprised 4,800 randomly selected adolescents age 14 to 22 living in the Cape Town area in 2002. Logistic regression was used to examine associations between measures of parental…
Descriptors: Group Membership, Family Income, Clubs, Sexually Transmitted Diseases
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Bester, Garfield – South African Journal of Education, 2007
The aim was firstly to determine if peers and parents had a different impact on the personality development of the adolescent. A second aim was to determine if gender played a role in this regard. An empirical investigation was carried out involving 98 learners from Grades 8 to 11 (53 boys and 55 girls). The respondents completed instruments…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Peer Influence, Parent Child Relationship, Parent Influence
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van Zyl, Jacob D.; Cronje, Elsje M.; Payze, Catharine – Qualitative Report, 2006
In this article, the story of 11 male psychotherapeutic patients with low self-esteem is told within the context of the research process. The literature suggests that the concept of "self-esteem" has a significant influence on the way an individual experiences his/her world. Therefore, the meaning that the psychotherapeutic patients…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Qualitative Research, Patients, Psychotherapy