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Nkansah-Amankra, Stephen; Walker, Ashley Dawn – Health Education Journal, 2012
Objective: Self-rated health (SRH) has become a key organizing construct for assessing multiple dimensions of populations' physical and psychosocial health functioning. However, it is unclear how adolescents' subjective self assessment of health reflects health risk exposures, co-occurring health risks (problem behaviours) and other pre-existing…
Descriptors: Mentors, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Health Behavior, Parent Role
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Marmorstein, Naomi R.; von Ranson, Kristin M.; Iacono, William G.; Succop, Paul A. – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2007
This study investigated longitudinal associations between externalizing behavior and dysfunctional eating attitudes and behaviors. Participants were girls drawn from the community-based Minnesota Twin Family Study and assessed at ages 11, 14, and 17. Cross-sectional correlations indicated that the strength of the associations between externalizing…
Descriptors: Organizations (Groups), Eating Disorders, Behavior Problems, Attitudes
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Strober, Michael; Goldenberg, Irene – Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1981
Anorexics were compared to female depressed controls to measure boundary impairment. Anorexics scored higher on inner-outer and conceptual boundary disturbance and produced significantly more responses that emphasized the solidity of object boundaries. Boundary scores were unrelated to degree of weight loss and global symptom severity. (Author)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Problems, Body Image, Body Weight