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Public Service Television and Young Audiences in Germany and Sweden : An Explorative Study About Young Audiences’ Opinion about and Use of Television and Public Service BroadcastingLingnau, Alina January 2012 (has links)
In the Swedish and German media landscapes public service broadcasters are well-established. Young people however prefer private channels which leads to a legitimization problem for the public service broadcasters because they do not reach the whole population. When airing popular programmes on the other hand, they are criticized for not being distinguishable from commercial competitors. This problem is intensifying by current technological developments and the need to redefine public service broadcasting. This study investigates the young audiences’ use of and opinion about public service broadcasters against the social and technological background of their media use. Therefore semi-structured interviews were carrying out with Swedish and German adolescents. The findings suggest that even though differences in the two countries’ public service channels are obvious, the young people’s opinion about them are quite similar; they appreciate the high quality news and information programmes but hardly connect the public service channels to entertainment which is the kind of programming they are most interested in and therefore they do not necessarily belong to the young people’s media repertoires. The study illustrates the public service broadcasters’ need to adjust their content more to the audiences’ desires and to more explicitly take young people into account while at the same time sticking to their core competences of high quality informative programmes.
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Acculturation, Alcohol Expectancies, and Alcohol Use Among Mexican-American AdolescentsFlato, Claudia Graciela 2009 December 1900 (has links)
The current study was designed to examine the influence of cultural orientation on alcohol involvement among Mexican-American adolescents. Also, this study assessed whether cultural orientation predicted positive and negative alcohol expectancies for the effects of drinking one to two drinks or bingeing; and whether alcohol-use expectancies mediated the effects of acculturation on drinking practices. The participants were 300 Mexican-American high school students (M = 16.5, SD = 1.15; 178 female and 122 male) from a city along the Texas/Mexico border who were mostly self-identified as 2nd generation Mexican-Americans. The students completed the questionnaires regarding alcohol involvement, acculturation, and alcohol expectancies. Significant findings in the current study indicated a higher orientation to Mexican culture predicted higher levels of alcohol involvement for boys; whereas, a higher orientation to U.S. culture predicted higher alcohol involvement for girls. Also, identification with Mexican culture for girls predicted negative alcohol expectancies for low and high quantities of alcohol use.
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Difference Between Hispanic Adolescent Males in Alternative and Regular Education PlacementKocian, Brandi R. 2010 May 1900 (has links)
Researchers have identified numerous risk and protective factors that might provide
insight into the academic difficulties and success that Hispanic adolescents experience.
Maladjusted outcomes cannot be attributed to a single risk factor; risk factors do not act
in isolation and often have complex relationships with other risk factors. This study uses
an ecological risk factor model that suggests that there are multiple risk factors related to
adolescent being placed in an alternative education setting and that these risk factors
exist at six levels: community-based factors, school-based factors, peer-based factors,
family-based factors, child's perception factors, and acculturation-based factors.
The purpose of this study is to examine differences in the protective and risk factors
in the area of family, community, school, peers, child?s perception, and acculturation
levels between Hispanic males who have been placed in DAEP (Disciplinary Alternative
Education Placement) and their same aged Hispanic male peers who have not been
previously placed in the DAEP. The sample for this study (N=119) was collected from a
large urban school district in Texas. The participants were seventh and eighth graders
between the ages of 12 and 16 years of age. The non-DAEP group was comprised of a majority of 7th grade students (71.7%), while the DAEP group had a larger number of 8th
grade students (62.7%).
This study addressed four research questions. The first question investigated if there
was a difference between the two groups when the ecological levels where combined to
create a cumulative risk score. The non-DAEP group had significantly lower cumulative
risk scores than the DAEP. The second research question investigated if there was a
difference in each cumulative risk index (i.e., family, school, peers, community, child?s
perception, and acculturation) between the two groups. There was no significant
difference found between the non-DAEP and DAEP group for family-based risk scores
or the child's perception risk scores; however, a significant difference was found
between the two groups on the peer-based, community-based, acculturation-based, and
school-based factors. The third question examined the unique contribution school, peers,
community, family, and acculturation makes in the prediction of the child?s perception
factor for Hispanic males. A hierarchical multiple regression suggested only the
community-based, family-based, and acculturation-based variables made a significant
contribution to the child's perception factor. The fourth question examined if the child's
perception factor mediated the relationship between placement in the DAEP and the
family-based, community-based, peer-based, school-based, and acculturation-based
factors. The effects of the five variables on group placement and child's perception
factors were assessed through the use of structural equation modeling using the program
AMOS. (Analysis of Movement Structures; See Figure 2).
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Social Norms Among Peers and Social Norms Among Friends and Their Influences on Adolescents’ Sexual Risk PerceptionsDiep, Cassandra Somadevi 2009 August 1900 (has links)
The influence of peers and peer norms is a significant health determinant of adolescent sexual activity, yet little is known in health education about differences between peer pressure and friend pressure on adolescents. The objective of this study was to investigate differences between social norms among friends and social norms among peers and determine if differences influence adolescents’ sexual risk perceptions. As a secondary data analysis of the 2006 Adolescent Health Risk Behaviors Survey data, this study included 915 adolescents in grades 8, 10, and 12 who completed questions pertaining to perceived sexual activity rates and perceived risks from having unprotected sex. T-tests, analyses of variance, and linear regression analyses indicated that adolescents perceived a difference between social norms among peers and social norms among friends and that these differences influenced risk perceptions differently. Future research should explore how social norms among friends influence adolescents’ risk behaviors and how to incorporate this focus into effective and efficient sex education efforts.
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Food Group Consumption in a Sample of Children in Houston Area and Its Related Influencing FactorsPeng, Lu 2011 May 1900 (has links)
The objective of this research is to discover if significant relationships exist between age, gender, household income, locations where children/adolescents ate, whom they ate with, whether they considered the food as a meal or a snack, and their consumption of food by food group.
Three hundred and twelve children (9-11 years old)/adolescents (13-15 years old) completed a 24-hour dietary intake recall, and a 2-day dietary record. The subject was asked to indicate the amount of food he/she consumed, where he/she consumed it, who was with him/her when he/she consumed the food, and whether he/she considered the food to be a meal or a snack. The information was coded and all the foods were grouped into 12 groups. Data were analyzed with the Statistical Analysis System (SAS). The results showed that children had higher intakes of breads and cereals, dairy products, fruits and fruit juices, snacks and desserts than adolescents. Girls consumed more snacks and desserts, and condiments than boys. Children/adolescents in families with higher household incomes consumed more snacks and desserts, but fewer meats than those with lower household incomes. Children and adolescents consumed more breads and cereals, dairy products, fruits and fruit juices, vegetables, fats, meats, and snacks and desserts when they ate at home than when they ate away from home. Children/adolescents ate more breads and cereals, dairy products, fruits and fruit juices, vegetables, fats, meats and condiments when they ate with various family members than when they ate alone, with only one family member or with non-family members. Children/adolescents consumed more breads and cereals, dairy products, fruits and fruit juices, burgers and sandwiches, snacks and desserts, condiments, but less fats when they ate with their friends as compared to eating with others. Children/adolescents who ate breakfast had higher intakes of breads and cereals, dairy products, fruits and fruit juices, vegetables, fats, meats, snacks and desserts, and condiments than those who did not eat breakfast. Children/adolescents who ate more fruit and fruit juices had consumed significantly more breads and cereals, dairy products, vegetables, snacks and desserts, but consumed fewer sweetened beverages than those who did not eat fruits and fruit juices.
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青年期の抑うつと対人関係に関する研究の概観丸山, 笑里佳, MARUYAMA, Erika 28 December 2007 (has links)
No description available.
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Role of Insulin Resistance in Non-Obese AdolescentsBaba, Reizo, Koketsu, Masaaki, Nagashima, Masami, Tamakoshi, Akiko, Inasaka, Hiroshi 08 1900 (has links)
No description available.
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EFFECTS OF VARICOCELECTOMY ON TESTIS VOLUME AND SEMEN PARAMETERS IN ADOLESCENTS: A RANDOMIZED PROSPECTIVE STUDYMIYAKE, KOJI, KATSUNO, SATOSHI, HIBI, HATSUKI, YAMAMOTO, MASANORI 25 December 1995 (has links)
No description available.
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La pratique sportive, un support de valorisation pour les adolescents présentant des troubles du comportement ? /Maïano, Christophe, January 1900 (has links)
Texte remanié de: Thèse de doctorat--Sciences et techniques des activités physiques et sportives--Montpellier 1, 2003. / En appendice, choix de documents. Bibliogr. p. 188-230.
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Adolescents at risk of persistent antisocial behaviour and alcohol problems : the role of behaviour, personality and biological factors /Eklund, Jenny M. January 2006 (has links)
Doctoral thesis in psychology--Stockholm university, 2006. / Notes bibliogr.
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