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Mishna, Faye; Schwan, Kaitlin J.; Birze, Arija; Van Wert, Melissa; Lacombe-Duncan, Ashley; McInroy, Lauren; Attar-Schwartz, Shalhevet – Youth & Society, 2020
Drawing on semistructured interviews with Canadian Grade 4 to 12 students, this article uses a feminist lens to explore gendered and sexualized bullying and cyberbullying among children and youth. Our findings indicate that while boys' roles and behaviors were frequently made invisible, girls were typically spotlighted, blamed, and criticized.…
Descriptors: Bullying, Computer Mediated Communication, Elementary Secondary Education, Gender Issues
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Denham, Bryan E. – Youth & Society, 2011
Grounded in symbolic interactionism and drawing on data gathered in the 2007 Monitoring the Future Study (n = 2,201), this research examines how self-esteem and perceived intelligence, as well as attitudes and behaviors related to school environments, associate with perceptions of anabolic-androgenic steroids. With perceived risk and…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Adolescents, Student Attitudes, At Risk Persons
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Nofziger, Stacey; Lee, Hye-Ryeon – Youth & Society, 2006
This article examines whether the importance of parents, siblings, best friends, and romantic interests are sex-specific in predicting daily juvenile smoking. Juveniles who smoke daily are strongly influenced by prosmoking attitudes and behaviors of same-sex family members. However, peers remain the most important associations in predicting daily…
Descriptors: Smoking, Adolescents, Role Models, Parents