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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Some psychometrically determined sequelae of sexual abuse in adolescent male victims

Gray, Stephen A. 01 January 1985 (has links)
No description available.
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Gender as a Context for Bullying: A Sociological Approach to Bullying at the Country, Classroom, and Individual Levels

Wang, Encan January 2025 (has links)
Patriarchy and Bullying: A Cross-National Analysis of 23 Education Systems Adolescent bullying is increasingly understood as behaviors that reflect and reinforce prevailing norms, cultures, and power structures within broader social contexts, yet the role of patriarchy in shaping bullying dynamics remains underexplored. Drawing on data from the 2016 International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (N=89,345 adolescents, across 23 education systems), I examine how the frequency and targets of peer victimization are structured by group adherence to patriarchy at multiple levels. I specifically consider two manifestations of patriarchy: societal-level gender inequality and classroom-aggregated patriarchal beliefs. Results show that adolescents in societies with higher levels of gender inequality experience increased rates of bullying, and bullying is more prevalent in classrooms where students collectively hold stronger patriarchal beliefs. Adherence to patriarchy is especially salient in predicting the frequency of bullying against girls and overt forms of bullying like physical violence. Despite being structurally favored in patriarchy, the victimization risk of boys is also elevated in more patriarchal peer groups, in line with theories that enforcement of hegemonic masculinity provokes aggression and often involves attacking femininity in boys. Taken together, these findings suggest that gender inequality and patriarchal beliefs effectively explain variation in bullying victimization rates across contexts. Challenging unequal gender power relations and norms at both the societal and peer group level can have significant benefits in reducing adolescent bullying. Vulnerability or Agency? The Link Between Gender Nonconformity and Self-Efficacy Do adolescents who deviate from traditional gender roles exhibit higher or lower self-efficacy—the confidence in one’s ability to achieve personal goals? Existing studies suggest that gender nonconformity often elicits peer denigration, which may undermine one’s self-efficacy. However, it may also signify high self-efficacy as it reflects the agency to assert one’s identity despite societal pressures. Drawing on survey data collected from an inland province of China (N = 2,008), this study finds that gender nonconformity is associated with lower self-efficacy overall; yet, the effect size is weak, and the relationship exhibits strong non-linearity. Adolescents identifying as “equally feminine and masculine” report notably high self-efficacy. Exploratory analyses reveal two key mechanisms that might link gender nonconformity to self-efficacy. First, gender nonconforming students experience increased covert bullying and reduced peer validation, which significantly predict lower self-efficacy. Second, these students often reject traditional gender role beliefs and feel less pressure to conform—reflecting agency rooted in personal conviction and self-acceptance, though not directly tied to higher self-efficacy. Educators and policymakers should develop interventions to address covert bullying and strengthen social support for gender nonconforming students. At the same time, it is crucial to move beyond viewing gender nonconformity solely as a source of vulnerability and recognize that adolescents may actively engage in nonconformity as an expression of agency and resistance to social gender expectations. Explaining Gender Policing among Adolescents: The Role of Peers, Teachers, and Personal Gender Role Beliefs The enforcement of gender norms among adolescents, or gender policing, frequently involves aggression and denigration toward norm violators. Despite decades of research documenting how adolescents experience social sanctions for being gender nonconforming, why certain individuals are more inclined to police gender norms against their peers remains unclear. Do people police gender norms because they believe their teachers or peers endorse the norms? Or do they act based on internalized beliefs that view gender conformity as a moral imperative? Drawing on survey data from 2,008 students in China, this study shows that personal gender role beliefs are the strongest predictor of adolescent engagement in gender policing, while perceived teacher gender expectations have minimal influence. Critically, regardless of their own gender role beliefs, adolescents are more likely to police gender norms when they perceive their peers to hold rigid gender role expectations. Additionally, this study reveals that boys engage more intensely in gender policing than girls, particularly against gender nonconforming boys, suggesting that the enforcement of gender norms is more rigid among adolescent boys. Efforts to reduce gender policing must address both individual-level gender role beliefs and collective normative expectations, while recognizing the different ways boys and girls experience and enforce gender norms.
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Relationship Between Personality Characteristics of Incarcerated Juvenile Delinquents as Measured by the MMPQ and Specific Behavior Criteria

McCurley, Roger W. 12 1900 (has links)
The purpose of the present study was to determine whether or not significant correlations could be obtained between raw scores on fifty-three scales of the Mini-Mult Prison Questionnaire (MMPQ), a personality test, and nine selected behavior variables for a group of thirty-two institutionalized male delinquents. A correlation matrix using Pearson's r revealed that seven MMPQ scales correlated at the p = .05 level of significance with the behavior criteria. Thus, four of the five hypotheses formulated were supported. However, caution was emphasized in interpreting the results due to sample size, sample homogeneity, and the dissimilarity of the adolescent sample from the adult prison population on which the MMPQ was developed.
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The Relationship of the Self Concept, Ideal Self Concept, Values, and Parental Self-Concept to the Vocational Aspiration of Adolescent Negro Males

George, Flavil Hall 08 1900 (has links)
The problem of this study was to determine the relationship of the self concept, ideal self concept, values, and parental self concept to the vocational aspiration of adolescent Negro males.
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Adolescent Psychopathy in an Adjudicated Male Population: The Role of Sensation Seeking, Impulsivity, and Externalizing Disorders

Vitacco, Michael J. 08 1900 (has links)
Psychopathy, as conceptualized by Cleckley (1941), describes a constellation of psychological and behavioral correlates including superficial charm, untruthfulness, lack of remorse or shame, poor judgment, and failure to learn from experience. Based on Cleckley's initial work, Hare (1991) developed a two-factor model of psychopathy. The purpose of this study was to investigate the roles that sensation seeking, impulsivity, ADHD, conduct disorder, and oppositional defiant disorder have on adolescents classified as psychopaths. The participants consisted of 79 adjudicated male adolescents in a maximum-security facility. As hypothesized, adolescent male psychopaths had higher levels of sensation seeking, impulsivity, conduct disorder and oppositional defiant disorder. A discriminant function analysis found that sensation seeking, impulsivity, ADHD, Conduct Disorder, and Oppositional Defiant Disorder was moderately useful in classifying adolescent psychopathy. The results suggest that behavioral dysregulation is an important aspect of adolescent psychopathy. The relationship of these data to theories of adolescent psychopathy is discussed.
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Social integration and gender differences in adolescent depression: school context, friendship groups, and romantic relations

Gore, Kurt Alan, 1973- 28 August 2008 (has links)
This dissertation investigates the social nature of the gender difference in teen depression by studying its association with social integration at the institutional, group, and personal levels. Taking a developmentally appropriate approach to social integration, I focus on fit within the normative high school context, friendship group position, and involvement in romantic relationships. Based on a conceptual model derived from the strong theoretical assumptions of past literature, the starting point of this research is that the depression of girls, compared to boys, will be more reactive to social integration in positive and negative ways (social integration is conceptualized as a moderator). However, competing viewpoints are also considered to determine whether this traditional assumption masks greater reactivity for boys at these three distinct levels. The quantitative analyses utilize Waves I and II of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health). Results indicate that boys are actually more reactive to a lack of social integration into the normative context of the school. Boys and girls' depression is equally sensitive to integration within the friendship group. Additionally, girls' depression is more reactive to aspects of romantic relationship break-ups. To better explain the gender differences in teen depression, in-depth interviews of students from an Austin Independent School District high school are analyzed to identify the social and psychological mechanisms through which the elements of social integration are associated with depression. Qualitative results support key elements of the proposed conceptual model indicating social comparison and social feedback as the main mechanisms through which social integration is associated with psychological well-being for girls and boys, respectively. / text
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The Effects of Parental Substance Abuse on the Behavior of School Children

Prelow, Hazel (Hazel M.) 05 1900 (has links)
The purpose of the present archival study was to investigate the relationship between parental substance abuse and the risk for maladjustment and psychopathology in children in a clinic sample. Children of alcoholic parents and children of drug-dependent parents were compared to children of non-substance abusing parents. The subjects were 83 boys age 6 to 12. Children of substance abuse parents had lower levels of adaptive functioning and higher levels of school behavioral problems. Although previous studies have reported a strong association between an adverse family environment and the risk of child maladjustment, the present study did not find that the addition of an adverse family environment increased the risk for maladjustment or school behavioral problems in children of substance abusers.
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Adolescent Males' Similarity, Emotional Safety, and Change in Strengths-Based Programming

Viola, Wendy Elaine 01 January 2012 (has links)
In recent decades, the use of strengths-based approaches has become increasingly popular in youth intervention and prevention programs (Maton et al., 2004), which emphasize creating emotionally safe environments through the process of relational community building (Maton, 2000). However, relatively little is known about the relationship between group composition, specifically similarity between group members, and emotional safety and program efficacy. This thesis examines the relationship between adolescent males' similarity to their peers in terms of their demographic profiles and behaviors and belief systems, experiences of emotional safety, and changing behaviors and belief systems in a strengths-based intervention program within Ohio juvenile correctional facilities. Results indicate that in the cases of education-related self-efficacy and the benefits associated with criminal activity, participants significantly changed in the direction opposite of the program's intentions. However, these negative changes were attenuated by differences between participants and their peers in the program. Theoretical implications and potential explanations are discussed.
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Comparisons of Self-Perceptions in Boys With Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Learning Disabilities, and Non-Referred Boys

Walters, Jill Anne, 1965- 12 1900 (has links)
A limited amount of research exists that addresses low self-esteem, poor self-concept, and distorted self-image in children with Attention-deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). The most urgent task is to test assumptions regarding self-perception and to assess the dimensions of self-concept influenced by this disorder. The Self-Perception Profile for Children (Harter, 1985) was used in the present study to assess those dimensions. Participants included 34 boys with ADHD, 27 boys with LD, and 33 boys without any diagnosed psychological or learning problems. Results were analyzed using Pearson's product-moment correlation, analyses of variance (ANOVA), and analyses of covariance (ANCOVA) and did not support the hypotheses.
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A Biopsychosocial Model of Dietary Restraint in Early Adolescent Boys

Mitchell, Sara H. 08 1900 (has links)
The current study replicated and extended previous research by examining empirically the direct and indirect influence of social pressure (to lose weight and diet), social body comparisons, internalization of the thin ideal, body dissatisfaction, self-esteem, and cardiorespiratory fitness on self-reported dietary restraint in a diverse sample of middle school boys (n = 663); Mage was 12.49 years (SD = .99). With IRB approval, parental consent, and child assent, during annual FITNESSGRAM testing, participants completed questionnaires that measured the study’s constructs. Cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) was determined by the boys’ performance on the PACER running test. The proposed model was examined using structural equation modeling (SEM). Because measures demonstrated univariate and multivariate normality, the maximum likelihood procedure within EQS to examine the measurement and structural models was used. Fit was determined using a two-index procedure. Participants were randomly split into exploratory (Sample A - 331) and confirmatory (Sample B - 332) samples. For Sample A, the measurement and structural models fit the data well. The structural model was confirmed in Sample B, with the same paths being significant and nonsignficant. For both Sample A and Sample B, 35% of the Dietary Restraint variance was explained. These findings support a multifactorial approach to understanding boys’ self-reported dietary restraint, and illuminate the negative influence of sociocultural weight pressures and salutary effects of CRF on early adolescents’ psychosocial well-being and dietary behaviors.

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