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Opara, Ijeoma; Santos, Noemy – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 2019
The purpose of this review is to propose a conceptual framework using objectification theory and intersectionality theory to examine social media's influence on body image and its effect on eating disorder predictors among Latina adolescents. To examine and explore how these effects from social media usage can result in mental health disparities…
Descriptors: Social Media, Hispanic Americans, Adolescents, Eating Habits
Seok, Soonhwa; DaCosta, Boaventura – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2017
Gender differences between the reading of digital and printed text were explored in this study. Predictors of digital propensity were investigated along with gender differences in the context of digital propensity and perceptions and preferences toward the reading of digital and printed text. Findings strengthened results reported in existing…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Adolescents, Adolescent Attitudes, Reader Text Relationship
Dowd, A. Justine; Chen, Michelle Y.; Schmader, Toni; Jung, Mary E.; Zumbo, Bruno D.; Beauchamp, Mark R. – Health Education Research, 2016
Changes in social cognitions targeted within a group-based mentoring program for adolescent girls were examined as predictors of changes in physical activity (PA) and dietary behavior (in two separate models) over the course of the 7-week program. Data were collected from 310 participants who participated in the program. Multilevel path models…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Females, Attitude Change, Social Cognition
Gordon, Maya K. – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2008
The media are dominated by images of women as sex objects whose value is based on their appearance. These portrayals can potentially limit girls' self-perceptions and influence their attitudes regarding the importance of appearance. However, relatively little is known about how African American adolescent girls are affected by these images. Using…
Descriptors: Females, Artists, Identification (Psychology), Mass Media Effects

Flores, Elena; Tschann, Jeanne M.; Marin, Barbara VanOss – Adolescence, 2002
Examines how Latina adolescents' intentions to have sex were influenced by their general attitude toward having sex and their perceptions of general social norms. Results reveal that perceptions of general social norms, but not general attitude, predicted intentions to have sex; and whether adolescents were sexually active directly predicted…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescents, Females, Intention

Grant, Kathryn; Grace, Pamela; Trujillo, Jaime; Halpert, Jane; Kessler-Cordeiro, Anna; Razzino, Brian; Davis, Trina – Journal of Primary Prevention, 2002
Interpersonal influences on the desire to have a child were examined in a sample of pregnant low-income urban adolescents. It was hypothesized that adolescent girls who report poorer relationships with their parents would report greater emotional reliance on their boyfriends and greater reliance on boyfriends would predict greater desire for a…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Early Parenthood, Females, Low Income
Soenens, Bart; Vansteenkiste, Maarten; Lens, Willy; Luyckx, Koen; Goossens, Luc; Beyers, Wim; Ryan, Richard M. – Developmental Psychology, 2007
In current research on parenting, 2 ways of conceptualizing perceived parental autonomy support can be distinguished. Parental autonomy support can be defined in terms of promotion of independence (PI) or in terms of promotion of volitional functioning (PVF). This study aimed to establish the empirical distinctiveness of both conceptualizations…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Structural Equation Models, Personal Autonomy, Parent Child Relationship

East, Patricia L. – Child Development, 1996
Compared attitudes, expectations, and behaviors of early adolescent girls with an adolescent childbearing sister to those of girls with nonchildbearing adolescent sisters. Found that the younger sisters of childbearing adolescents were consistently different from those of nonchildbearing adolescents on key characteristics known to be correlated…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescents, Comparative Analysis, Early Adolescents
Steinberg, Sara J.; Davila, Joanne; Fincham, Frank – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2006
This study tested associations between adolescent perceptions of interparental conflict, adolescent attachment security with parents, and adolescent marital expectations and romantic experiences. Participants were 96 early adolescent females from 2 parent families. Insecurity was examined as a mediator of the association between negative…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Adolescent Attitudes, Attachment Behavior, Conflict

Archibald, Andrea Bastiani; Graber, Julia A.; Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 1999
Early adolescent girls, predominantly of normal weight, were seen for 2 consecutive years and completed measures assessing their dieting, body image, and relationships with parents; weights and heights were also measured. Mothers rated daughters' pubertal growth. Findings indicated that negative parent-adolescent relationships are linked to higher…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Body Image, Body Weight, Dietetics

Stice, Eric; Whitenton, Kathryn – Developmental Psychology, 2002
This longitudinal study tested whether a set of sociocultural, biological, interpersonal, and affective factors predicted increases in body dissatisfaction in adolescent girls. Findings indicated that elevated adiposity, perceived pressure to be thin, thin-ideal internalization, and social support deficits predicted body dissatisfaction increases,…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescents, Body Composition, Body Image

Herzberg, David S.; Hammen, Constance; Burge, Dorli; Daley, Shannon E.; Davial, Joanne; Lindberg, Nangel – Journal of Adolescent Research, 1999
Examined the relationship between attachment cognitions and social support in a community sample of 129 late-adolescent women. Found that attachment cognitions representing greater security in close relationships were associated with higher levels of perceived and enacted social support. Differences between subjects reporting secure and insecure…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Attachment Behavior, Females

Underwood, Marion K.; And Others – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 1996
A longitudinal study examined predictive relations among sociometric status, aggression, and adolescent childbearing; the relation among peer status, aggression, and multiple births; and whether these variables are related to the timing of adolescent childbearing. Results suggest that controversial peer status and aggression predict adolescent…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescents, Aggression, Birth

Ahrens, Julia A.; O'Brien, Karen M. – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 1996
Investigated the contribution of ability, agency, and parental factors to the prediction of gender-role attitudes of 409 adolescent females in a private, college-preparatory high school. Findings indicate that ability and agency were predictive of gender-role attitudes, whereas parental factors were not significant contributors. Recommendations…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescents, Ethnic Groups

Adam, Emma K.; Chase-Lansdale, P. Lindsay – Developmental Psychology, 2002
Examined associations between family disruption and adolescent adjustment among African American girls from impoverished urban neighborhoods. Found that more residential moves and parental separations significantly predicted greater adjustment problems. Adolescents' perceptions of current relationships and neighborhoods related to adjustment but…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescents
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