Download or read book Hostile coercive Parenting Adolescent Deviant Behavior Affiliation with Peers who Drink and Adolescent Alcohol Use written by George V. Estonactoc and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study was to examine the interrelationships of parent-adolescent relational quality, adolescent behavior, and peer affiliation, and their relative contributions to adolescent alcohol use. It was hypothesized that adolescents with hostile-coercive relationships with their parents are more likely to use alcohol, associate with peers who drink, and engage in deviant behaviors. In addition, adolescents who associate with peer who drink are more likely to use alcohol. Adolescents who report deviant behavior are more likely to associate with peers who drink and use alcohol. Several mediational relationships were investigated. Specifically, it was hypothesized that the relationship between parent-adolescent relational quality and alcohol use is mediated by adolescent deviant behavior. Peer association also was expected to mediate the relationship between parent-adolescent relational quality and alcohol use. Finally, it was predicted that the relationship between parent-adolescent relational quality and peer association is mediated by adolescent deviant behavior. Participants were 206 early adolescent boys ranging in age from 12 to 15 and recruited from two public schools within the greater Los Angeles area. Eighty-nine fathers and 105 mothers also participated in the study. Participants completed several questionnaires regarding parent-adolescent relational quality and adolescent deviant behavior. Analyses revealed significant correlations between relational quality, adolescent deviant behavior, peer affiliation and adolescent alcohol use. Through multiple regression analyses, evidence was found to support the prediction that peer affiliation and adolescent deviant behavior mediates the relationship between parent-adolescent relational quality and adolescent alcohol use. Supplemental analyses suggested that parent monitoring mediates the relationship between parent-adolescent relational quality and peer affiliation, as well as parent-adolescent relational quality and adolescent alcohol use. Findings were discussed with respect to clinical implications, limitations, and implications for future research.

Download or read book Parenting and Teen Drug Use written by Lawrence M. Scheier and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parenting and Teen Drug Use provides comprehensive coverage of the most current research on youth drug use and prevention, carefully and meticulously presenting empirical evidence and theoretical arguments that underlie the mechanisms linking parental socialization and adolescent drug use.

Download or read book Aggression and Antisocial Behavior in Children and Adolescents written by Daniel F. Connor and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2012-04-19 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive volume reviews and synthesizes a vast body of knowledge on maladaptive aggression and antisocial behavior in youth. Written from a clinical-developmental perspective, and integrating theory and research from diverse fields, the book examines the origins, development, outcomes, and treatment of this serious problem in contemporary society. Major topics addressed include the types and prevalence of aggressive and antisocial behavior; the interplay among neuropsychiatric, psychosocial, and neurobiological processes in etiology; known risk and protective factors; gender variables; and why and how some children "grow out of" conduct disturbances. Chapters also discuss current approaches to clinical assessment and diagnosis and review the evidence for widely used psychosocial and pharmacological interventions.

Download or read book Coercion and Punishment in Long Term Perspectives written by Joan McCord and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-09-28 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children must learn to act appropriately, in ways that differ from society to society and from context to context. The question of how best to socialize children so that they can function successfully has fascinated educators and psychologists for centuries. In a world in which children exhibit levels of violence that are strikingly un-childlike, the question of how to bring children up takes on an immediacy for parents and psychologists. Does physical punishment prevent further outbreaks of violent behaviour? Are there ways of influencing children so that punishment will not be necessary? Drawing upon rich, longitudinal data, the contributors to this volume examine the benefits and costs of coercion and punishment, considering such issues as mental health, antisocial and criminal behaviour, substance abuse, and issues related to measurement and prediction. They look at coercion among peers, aggressive behavior in boys and girls, different parenting styles and effects of home context. The volume draws together evidence about coercion and punishment that have appeared in disparate literatures, and it raises questions about easy assumptions regarding them. It will be a useful tool for psychologists, criminologists, social workers, child-care workers, and educators.

Download or read book Child to Parent Violence Challenges and Perspectives in the Current Society written by Lourdes Contreras and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2021-08-25 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Parents Guide written by National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-04-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide is geared to parents and guardians of young people ages 10 to 14. Keep in mind that the suggestions on the following pages are just that-suggestions. Trust your instincts. Choose ideas you are comfortable with, and use your own style in carrying out the approaches you find useful. Your child looks to you for guidance and support in making life decisions-including the decision not to use alcohol."But my child isn't drinking yet," you may think. "Isn't it a little early to be concerned about drinking?" Not at all. This is the age when some children begin experimenting with alcohol. Even if your child is not yet drinking alcohol, he or she may be receiving pressure to drink.Act now. Keeping quiet about how you feel about your child's alcohol use may give him or her the impression that alcohol use is OK for kids.It's not easy. As children approach adolescence, friends exert a lot of influence. Fitting in is a chief priority for teens, and parents often feel shoved aside. Kids will listen, however. Study after study shows that even during the teen years, parents have enormous influence on their children's behavior.

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Adolescence written by Roger J.R. Levesque and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 3161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Adolescence breaks new ground as an important central resource for the study of adolescence. Comprehensive in breath and textbook in depth, the Encyclopedia of Adolescence – with entries presented in easy-to-access A to Z format – serves as a reference repository of knowledge in the field as well as a frequently updated conduit of new knowledge long before such information trickles down from research to standard textbooks. By making full use of Springer’s print and online flexibility, the Encyclopedia is at the forefront of efforts to advance the field by pushing and creating new boundaries and areas of study that further our understanding of adolescents and their place in society. Substantively, the Encyclopedia draws from four major areas of research relating to adolescence. The first broad area includes research relating to "Self, Identity and Development in Adolescence". This area covers research relating to identity, from early adolescence through emerging adulthood; basic aspects of development (e.g., biological, cognitive, social); and foundational developmental theories. In addition, this area focuses on various types of identity: gender, sexual, civic, moral, political, racial, spiritual, religious, and so forth. The second broad area centers on "Adolescents’ Social and Personal Relationships". This area of research examines the nature and influence of a variety of important relationships, including family, peer, friends, sexual and romantic as well as significant nonparental adults. The third area examines "Adolescents in Social Institutions". This area of research centers on the influence and nature of important institutions that serve as the socializing contexts for adolescents. These major institutions include schools, religious groups, justice systems, medical fields, cultural contexts, media, legal systems, economic structures, and youth organizations. "Adolescent Mental Health" constitutes the last major area of research. This broad area of research focuses on the wide variety of human thoughts, actions, and behaviors relating to mental health, from psychopathology to thriving. Major topic examples include deviance, violence, crime, pathology (DSM), normalcy, risk, victimization, disabilities, flow, and positive youth development.

Download or read book Gene Environment Interplay in Interpersonal Relationships across the Lifespan written by Briana N. Horwitz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-07-03 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intriguing new findings on how genes and environments work together through different stages of life take the spotlight in this significant collection. Studies from infancy to late adulthood show both forces as shaping individuals' relationships within family and non-family contexts, and examine how these relationships, in turn, continue to shape the individual. Transitional periods, in which individuals become more autonomous and relationships and personal identities become more complicated, receive special emphasis. In addition, chapters shed light on the extent to which the quantity and quality of genetic and environmental influence may shift across and even within life stages. Included in the coverage: Gene-environment interplay in parenting young children. The sibling relationship as a source of shared environment. Gene-environment transactions in childhood and adolescent problematic peer relationships. Toward a developmentally sensitive and genetically informed perspective on popularity. Spouse, parent, and co-worker: roles and relationships in adulthood. The family system as a unit of clinical care: the role of genetic systems. Behavioral geneticists, clinical psychologists, and family therapists will find in Gene-Environment Interplay in Interpersonal Relationships across the Lifespan a window into current thinking on the subject, new perspectives for understanding clients and cases, and ideas for further study.

Download or read book Peers Parents and Alcohol Consumption in Adolescence written by Caitlin Emily Lance and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adolescents are consuming alcohol at risky levels at younger ages and more frequently than preceding generations. As a result they are being exposed to increased risk of long-term health problems, possible neurological damage, violence and even death. Research currently indicates that peers have significant influence on consumption patterns, particularly through perceived norms of alcohol related behaviour. Considerable resources have been invested in developing interventions based on these findings. Evaluations have yielded mixed results. However little research has been conducted on the impact of such normative influence across the adolescent period; the majority of studies have been conducted with university students. Research with younger adolescents tends to focus on parental influence while studies with older adolescents has mostly been focused on the influence of peers. Given the clear need for both prevention and intervention throughout adolescence, the main objective of the current studies is to develop a greater understanding of the role of beliefs about peers, parents and self on alcohol related beliefs and behaviours across the adolescent period. Accordingly, Study One surveyed adolescents ranging from ages 12-19 (n = 610) regarding their alcohol consumption, their beliefs about themselves, and their perceptions of the alcohol related beliefs and behaviours of their peers and parents. Consistent with previous research, evidence was found for the existence of a discrepancy between self-reported consumption and perceived peer consumption, with best friends being perceived to consume more alcohol more frequently than the self, and typical students being perceived to consume more again. Both peers and parents were found to influence adolescent alcohol consumption with different patterns of influence emerging in mid-adolescence compared to late adolescence. Perceived alcohol related behaviour of the typical student only emerged as a predictor in the mid-adolescence sample. Study Two was designed as a result of finding that participants' perceptions of their parents' beliefs about appropriate adolescent alcohol consumption were a consistent predictor of their consumption patterns in Study One. The study (n = 132) investigated the relationship between parental beliefs and the use of three alcohol specific parenting strategies: the availability of alcohol in the home, setting alcohol specific rules, and the use of consequences in implementing those rules. Stricter beliefs about appropriate consumption were related to higher likelihood of rules and consequences, and lower levels of alcohol availability in the home. Of the three parenting strategies, setting alcohol specific rules was the strongest predictor of alcohol use, binging, and alcohol related problems. Overall, these findings extend previous research, suggesting the impact of perceived normative consumption on alcohol related beliefs and behaviours differ across phases of adolescence, with perceptions of the typical student's behaviour being most influential in the mid-adolescent period. Perceived behaviours of close friends consistently showed the strongest influence. It is also clear that while peers, especially close peers, exert considerable influence; parental attitudes and the parenting strategies employed also have a significant impact on adolescent consumption. Implications for the development of age appropriate interventions, particularly those conducted in educational contexts, and for future research are discussed.

Download or read book Adolescent Deviance and Alcohol Consumption written by Gertie Witte and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The present research examined the impact of two dimensions of friends' and parents' influence (relationship quality and deviance) on adolescent deviance. Friends' deviance is a consistent correlate of adolescent deviance, yet the quality of the friendship within which deviance occurs has not been assumed to have any bearing on its incidence. The development of egalitarian relationships at adolescence is theorized to promote social and emotional maturity, qualities that could inhibit deviance. This research examined whether the quality of friendships inhibits adolescent deviance and also whether it modifies the expected association between adolescents' and friends' deviance. The quality of parent-adolescent relations is consistently linked to adolescent deviance, but is considerably less influential if contrasted to friends' deviance. This research sought to determine whether the quality of parent-adolescent relationships modifies the expected correlation between adolescents' and friends' deviance and whether the effect holds if parents themselves are deviant. Subjects were assessed in Grade 7 (N = 173) for general deviance and again in Grade 10 (N = 167) for alcohol use. A subsample of 131 were analyzed for long-term effects. In all analyses, friends' deviance, as expected, emerged as the most significant correlate of adolescent deviance, particularly for males. The quality of friendship was not found to be related to deviance at Grade 7, but was associated with lower drinking at Grade 10 for adolescents who had drinking friends. Additionally, longitudinal analyses showed that adolescents who had deviant friends at Grade 7 and whose friendships were of poor quality were at risk for later drinking. The quality of parent-adolescent relations modified the effect of deviant friends for females at Grade 7, but did not predict drinking at Grade 10. High quality parent-adolescent relations at Grade 10, however, increased the likelihood that adolescents would imitate par" --

Download or read book Reforming Juvenile Justice written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2013-05-22 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adolescence is a distinct, yet transient, period of development between childhood and adulthood characterized by increased experimentation and risk-taking, a tendency to discount long-term consequences, and heightened sensitivity to peers and other social influences. A key function of adolescence is developing an integrated sense of self, including individualization, separation from parents, and personal identity. Experimentation and novelty-seeking behavior, such as alcohol and drug use, unsafe sex, and reckless driving, are thought to serve a number of adaptive functions despite their risks. Research indicates that for most youth, the period of risky experimentation does not extend beyond adolescence, ceasing as identity becomes settled with maturity. Much adolescent involvement in criminal activity is part of the normal developmental process of identity formation and most adolescents will mature out of these tendencies. Evidence of significant changes in brain structure and function during adolescence strongly suggests that these cognitive tendencies characteristic of adolescents are associated with biological immaturity of the brain and with an imbalance among developing brain systems. This imbalance model implies dual systems: one involved in cognitive and behavioral control and one involved in socio-emotional processes. Accordingly adolescents lack mature capacity for self-regulations because the brain system that influences pleasure-seeking and emotional reactivity develops more rapidly than the brain system that supports self-control. This knowledge of adolescent development has underscored important differences between adults and adolescents with direct bearing on the design and operation of the justice system, raising doubts about the core assumptions driving the criminalization of juvenile justice policy in the late decades of the 20th century. It was in this context that the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) asked the National Research Council to convene a committee to conduct a study of juvenile justice reform. The goal of Reforming Juvenile Justice: A Developmental Approach was to review recent advances in behavioral and neuroscience research and draw out the implications of this knowledge for juvenile justice reform, to assess the new generation of reform activities occurring in the United States, and to assess the performance of OJJDP in carrying out its statutory mission as well as its potential role in supporting scientifically based reform efforts.

Download or read book Peer Rejection in Childhood written by Steven R. Asher and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1990-04-27 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important collection examines peer rejections among children.

Download or read book Pubertal Timing as a Moderator of the Associations Between Parental Restrictiveness and Adolescent Alcohol Abuse written by Daniel J. Dickson and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adolescent alcohol abuse increases across the adolescent years. If left unchecked, alcohol abuse can give rise to delinquency, poor grades, and risky sexual behavior (Stueve & O' Donnell, 2005 ; Ellickson, Tucker, & Klein, 2003). Past research suggests that minimal parental oversight increases the risk for adolescent alcohol abuse. There is also evidence, however, that parents withdraw from oversight in the face of adolescent problem behaviors (Barber & Olsen, 1997; Hafen & Laursen, 2009). Each may vary according to the child's physical development. Parents may respond to pubertal maturation with reduced supervision and early maturing girls may be sensitive to parent supervision because of the additional pressures and attention they receive from older, possibly deviant, peers (Stattin, Kerr, & Skoog, 2011). The present investigation will test parent-driven and child-driven models of associations between parental restrictiveness and adolescent alcohol abuse. The parent-driven model assumes that parental restrictiveness predicts changes in adolescent alcohol abuse. The child-driven model assumes that adolescent alcohol abuse predicts changes in parental restrictiveness. Moderated models will be considered, whereby parent-driven and child-driven effects are moderated by pubertal timing. Trajectories of parental restrictiveness and adolescent alcohol abuse were explored in a community sample of Swedish adolescent girls across grades 7 to 10. Parallel process growth curves were used to determine if the initial level of parental restrictiveness predicted the rate of change in adolescent alcohol abuse and if the initial level of adolescent alcohol abuse predicted the rate of change in parental restrictiveness. Multiple group analyses determined if patterns of associations were stronger among early maturing girls than among on-time and late maturing girls. Results revealed that from grade 7 to grade 10, parental restrictiveness linearly decreased and adolescent alcohol abuse linearly increased. For all girls, higher initial alcohol abuse predicted greater declines in parental restrictiveness over time. For early maturing girls (only), lower initial parental restrictiveness predicted greater increases in alcohol abuse over time. Implications of this study are framed in terms their potential contributions to theories of female pubertal maturation. Low parental restrictiveness early in adolescence appears to be a risk factor for the development of alcohol abuse throughout adolescence among early maturing girls. Non-restrictive parents may fail to prevent early maturing girls from socializing with deviant peers - a mechanism that may drive the growth of alcohol abuse.

Download or read book The Decline of Substance Use in Young Adulthood written by Jerald G. Bachman and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended as a thoughtful extension to Bachman et al.'s well-received monograph Smoking, Drinking, and Drug Use in Young Adulthood. That volume showed that the new freedoms of young adulthood lead to increases in substance use, while the responsibilities of adulthood--marriage, pregnancy, parenthood--contribute to declines in substance use. The Decline of Substance Use in Young Adulthood examines how the changes in social and religious experiences and in attitudes toward substance use observed among young adults are related to changes in substance use, family transitions, living arrangements, college experience, and employment. The research uses a variety of analysis techniques and is based on the nationwide Monitoring the Future surveys of more than 38,000 young people followed from high school into adulthood. The research covers the last quarter of the 20th century, a period when drug use and views about drugs underwent many important changes. In spite of these shifts, the overall patterns of relationships reported in this book are impressive in their consistency across time and in their general similarity for men and women. Specific questions addressed include the following: *As young adults experience new freedoms and responsibilities, do their attitudes about drugs change? *Do their religious views and behaviors shift? *Do their new freedoms and responsibilities affect the amount of time they spend in social activities, including going to parties and bars? *And how are any of these changes linked to changes in cigarette use, alcohol use, marijuana use, and cocaine use?

Download or read book Handbook on Crime and Deviance written by Marvin D. Krohn and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-08-28 with total page 639 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2nd edition of the Handbook provides an interdisciplinary coverage of new understandings of the most important developments in the sociology of crime and deviance that is current and emerging for research, methodology, practice, and theory in criminology. It fosters research to take the fields of criminology and criminal justice in new directions. Unlike any other handbook, it includes chapters on cutting-edge quantitative data and analytical techniques that are shaping the future of empirical research and expanding theoretical explanations of crime and deviance. It further devotes a section to the most current and innovative methodological issues. Chapters are updated providing an inclusive discussion of the current research and the theoretical and empirical future of crime and deviance. This handbook is of great interest for advanced undergraduates, graduates students, researchers and scholars in criminology, criminal justice, sociology and related fields, such as social welfare, economics, and psychology.

Download or read book Adolescence written by Laurence D. Steinberg and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Adolescent Substance Abuse written by Robert A. Zucker and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adolescent substance abuse is the nation's #1 public health problem. It originates out of a developmental era where experimentation with the world is increasingly taking place, and where major changes in physical self and social relationships are taking place. These changes cannot be understood by any one discipline nor can they be described by focusing only on the behavioral and social problems of this age period, the characteristics of normal development, or the pharmacology and addictive potential of specific drugs. They require knowledge of the brain's systems of reward and control, genetics, psychopharmacology, personality, child development, psychopathology, family dynamics, peer group relationships, culture, social policy, and more. Drawing on the expertise of the leading researchers in this field, this Handbook provides the most comprehensive summarization of current knowledge about adolescent substance abuse. The Handbook is organized into eight sections covering the literature on the developmental context of this life period, the epidemiology of adolescent use and abuse, similarities and differences in use, addictive potential, and consequences of use for different drugs; etiology and course as characterized at different levels of mechanistic analysis ranging from the genetic and neural to the behavioural and social. Two sections cover the clinical ramifications of abuse, and prevention and intervention strategies to most effectively deal with these problems. The Handbook's last section addresses the role of social policy in framing the problem, in addressing it, and explores its potential role in alleviating it.