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Krishnamurthy, K. B.; Osborne, Patricia – Exceptional Parent, 2007
Adolescence is a time of transition, marking a period in which a teen's sexuality is developing physically and emotionally. A parent's job is to help children understand these feelings and how to respond safely and appropriately. While sexuality is important for both boys and girls, many issues are unique to females. Young girls with seizures need…
Descriptors: Females, Sexuality, Seizures, Gender Differences
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Mosher, Catherine E.; Danoff-Burg, Sharon – Death Studies, 2007
In a study designed to examine correlates of cancer-related stigma, 405 college students were assigned randomly to listen to an audiotaped interview in which the target's cancer type and smoking status were manipulated. In the lung cancer conditions, target gender also was manipulated. Social distance and emotional responses differed according to…
Descriptors: Death, Cancer, Anxiety, Smoking
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Webb, Louisa A.; Macdonald, Doune – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2007
In a research project investigating the underrepresentation of women in leadership in physical education within the context of workplace cultures and teachers' lives and careers, subtle effects of power were found to be influential. This article outlines the analytical framework that was used for the discourse analysis of interviews from this…
Descriptors: Leadership, Females, Disproportionate Representation, Physical Education
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McGinty, Kristen; Knox, David; Zusman, Marty E. – College Student Journal, 2007
One-hundred-and-seventy undergraduates at a large southeastern university completed a confidential anonymous 23 item questionnaire designed to assess the prevalence, attitudes, and sex differences of involvement in a "friends with benefits" (FWB) relationship (non romantic friends who also have a sexual relationship). Almost sixty percent of both…
Descriptors: Females, Males, Gender Differences, Undergraduate Students
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Rodriguez, Nancy – Crime & Delinquency, 2007
Programs with restorative justice ideals attempt to incorporate victims and community members into the administration of justice. Although these programs have become increasingly popular, only a few programs in the United States have been the focus of prior studies. Using official juvenile court data from an urban, metropolitan area, this study…
Descriptors: Recidivism, Juvenile Courts, Metropolitan Areas, Juvenile Justice
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Deutsch, Francine M.; Kokot, Amy P.; Binder, Katherine S. – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2007
This study examined college women's plans for egalitarian marriages. One hundred and forty-four heterosexual undergraduate women completed surveys about their preferences for different life scenarios and their attitudes about work and family life. The pattern of their preferences showed a distinction between home-centered, balanced, and…
Descriptors: Family Life, Career Planning, Females, Marriage
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Tavani, Robert – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2007
The questions in this survey were designed to solicit concrete data as well as more speculative information from men who work in an art therapy capacity. The results presented in this brief report provide a picture of how these men perceive the field of art therapy as a minority group within it. A variety of factors addressed included, but were…
Descriptors: Semantics, Stereotypes, Social Attitudes, Feminism
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Crane, Catherine; Williams, J. Mark. G.; Hawton, Keith; Arensman, Ella; Hjelmeland, Heidi; Bille-Brahe, Unni; Corcoran, Paul; De Leo, Diego; Fekete, Sandor; Grad, Onja; Haring, Christian; Kerkhof, Ad J. F. M.; Lonnqvist, Jouko; Michel, Konrad; Renberg, Ellinor Salander; Schmidtke, Armin; van Heeringen, Cornelius; Wasserman, Danuta – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2007
The associations between life events in the 12 months preceding an episode of self-poisoning resulting in hospital attendance (the index episode), and the suicide intent of this episode were compared in individuals for whom the index episode was their first, episode and in individuals in whom it was a recurrence of DSH. Results indicated a…
Descriptors: Females, Suicide, Correlation, Self Destructive Behavior
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Lamarche, Veronique; Brendgen, Mara; Boivin, Michel; Vitaro, Frank; Dionne, Ginette; Perusse, Daniel – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2007
This study examined (a) the predictive link between peer victimization and children's reactive and proactive aggression, and (b) the potential moderating effect of reciprocal friends' reactive and proactive aggression in this context. The study also examined whether these potential moderating effects of friends' characteristics were stronger with…
Descriptors: Friendship, Aggression, Children, Comparative Analysis
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Winstok, Zeev; Enosh, Guy – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2007
The aim of the current study was to explore male and female adolescents' intentions to react to verbal and physical aggression issued by other males and females of the same age. The study is based on a sample of 292 male and female adolescents from 12 classes in four schools in northern Israel, two junior-high and two high-schools, 46.7% were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Aggression, Intention
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Deary, Ian J.; Strand, Steve; Smith, Pauline; Fernandes, Cres – Intelligence, 2007
This 5-year prospective longitudinal study of 70,000+ English children examined the association between psychometric intelligence at age 11 years and educational achievement in national examinations in 25 academic subjects at age 16. The correlation between a latent intelligence trait (Spearman's "g"from CAT2E) and a latent trait of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Intelligence, Longitudinal Studies, Children
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Duman, Sarah; Margolin, Gayla – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2007
This study examined children's aggressive and assertive solutions to hypothetical peer scenarios in relation to parents' responses to similar hypothetical social scenarios and parents' actual marital aggression. The study included 118 children ages 9 to 10 years old and their mothers and fathers. Children's aggressive solutions correlated with…
Descriptors: Parent Influence, Aggression, Parent Child Relationship, Problem Solving
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Brown, Sharice Angel; Arnold, David H.; Dobbs, Jennifer; Doctoroff, Greta L. – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2007
The relationship between parenting and physical aggression is well established. However, less consideration has been given to parenting and relational aggression. The present study investigated four aspects of maternal parenting--overreactivity, laxness, positive affect and negative affect--and their relationships to relational aggression, in a…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Aggression, Parenting Styles, Mothers
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Gwadz, Marya Viorst; Nish, David; Leonard, Noelle R.; Strauss, Shiela M. – Journal of Adolescence, 2007
In the present report we describe patterns of traumatic events and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), both partial and full, among homeless youth and those at risk for homelessness, with an emphasis on gender differences. Participants were 85 homeless and at-risk youth (49% female) recruited from a drop-in center in New York City in 2000.…
Descriptors: Homeless People, At Risk Persons, Youth, Gender Differences
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Reeves, Carol; OLeary-Kelly, Anne M. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2007
This study examines the productivity-related effects and costs of intimate partner violence (IPV) on the workplace. Specifically, it explores whether IPV victims and nonvictims differ in the number of work hours missed due to absenteeism, tardiness, and work distraction and the costs for employers from these missed work hours. The research…
Descriptors: Victims of Crime, Employees, Costs, Working Hours
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