Examined sexual activity of Nigerian high school youth. Students (N=240) responded to a questionnaire. Results indicated that boys and girls differed significantly in their sexual behavior. Found considerable differences in sexual behavior due to age. (RC)

Examines the role of individual differences (gender and race) on the stress-illness relationship among adolescents. Results based on 119 participants reveal that stress and anxiety were positively correlated with reported illness. Race and gender differences did emerge, although no gender differences were found with regard to the experience of…

Investigated the relationship of several demographic variables, family structure and family environment among 68 official chronic delinquents and 130 official nondelinquents. Results indicated that 10 variables explained 49 percent of the variance between the chronic delinquent and nondelinquent groups. Personal growth had most discriminating…

Compared perceptions of adolescents (N=35) and their parents (N=45) on 20 personality characteristics. Differences between parent and adolescent views were much less extreme than the differences found by Hess and Goldblatt in their 1957 study. Multivariate analysis of variance revealed no significant differences on any of the variables examined:…

Compares self-concept scores of 199 pregnant African American adolescents from urban and rural areas. Results showed that self-concept scores of both groups were not as high as scores of a nonpregnant norm group of adolescents. Pregnant adolescents' scores were similar regardless of age or geographic location. (RJM)

Surveyed high school students (N=268) comparing those who had and had not taken sex education classes. Results indicated that gender identity exerts a significant impact on sexual attitudes and knowledge. Age and grade achievement influence sexual behavior. (RC)

Studied the extent of loneliness of late adolescents in a midwestern university in relation to selected variables and in comparison to other groups. Found that women were lonelier than men, and that there was a relationship between loneliness an ease of making friends and loneliness and happiness during the past year. (Author/ABB)

Compared personal and social problems and ambitions of Italian, Spanish, and Greek adolescents living in Germany with those of German adolescents. Found that family and religion played more important role for foreign adolescents than for Germans. While parents appeared to have same importance for all adolescents, emotional relations with siblings…

Investigated factors influencing truancy from a juvenile court treatment facility. Youth placed in the facility were compared for number of truancies, background, and personality variables. Males with prior adjudication for truancy had a 65% probability of eloping from the court facility. Females showed a 62% probability of truancy. Personality…

Male and female college students in several countries assessed various forms of social behavior in this study of cross-cultural agreement in moral judgments. (MP)

Rotter's locus of control scale was administered as part of a longitudinal survey of high school boys. Personal control and world control attitudes significantly related to school and social functioning, self-attitudes, and parental relationships. (Author/DB)

Examines the emotional and relational components of body image in French (N=80) and American (N=60) adolescents. Results indicate that major cultural differences arose from the belief that the real body and the ideal body coincide. Gender differences centered more on the level of control of body changes and on self-assessment modes. (RJM)

Compared the sociocultural characteristics of pregnant adolescents (N=129) of low socioeconomic status with a nonpregnant adolescent group (N=100) from the same area of Santiago, Chile. Found several differences between the groups including less schooling, lower level of aspirations, and a tendency to live in "the present" among the…

This study tested Piaget's claims that the transition from objective to subjective responsibility occurs by age 12 and that peer interaction facilitates the transition. Results indicated that the development of moral judgment continues into late adolescence. (Author/DB)

Path model illustrating relationships between church attendance, delinquent peer association, tendency to neutralize delinquency, and self-reported delinquent behavior was compared between males and females and between Mexican-American and Anglo college students (N=694). In all four subsamples, strongest paths were between neutralization and…