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Personality Disorders Associated with Substance Use among American and Greek Adolescents.
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Serman, Nina; Johnson, Jeffrey G.; Gellat, Pamela A.; Kanost, Ruth E.; Zacharapoulou, Helen – Adolescence, 2002
Investigates the association between personality disorder (PD) and substance use among adolescents in the United States and Greece. Results indicated that adolescents with PDs reported more frequent alcohol consumption than did those without PDs. Differences were not observed in the prevalence of alcohol use, cigarette use, or PDs as a function of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cross Cultural Studies, Drinking, Foreign Countries
American Adolescents Touch Each Other Less and Are More Aggressive toward Their Peers as Compared with French Adolescents.
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Field, Tiffany – Adolescence, 1999
Forty adolescents were observed at McDonald's restaurants in Miami and Paris to assess the amount of touching and aggression during their peer interactions. The American adolescents spent less time leaning against, stroking, kissing, and hugging their peers than did the French adolescents. Instead, they showed more self-touching and more…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Aggression, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries
Adolescent and Young Adult Suicide in the United States--A Reflection of Societal Unrest?
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McAnarney, Elizabeth R. – Adolescence, 1979
In an effort to generate hypotheses on the increase in youth suicide in the United States, studies from other countries are reviewed, which relate suicide to factors within the general areas of the family, religion, transition and mobility, achievement motivation, and aggression. American trends in these areas are examined. (SJL)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cross Cultural Studies, Family Mobility, Family Problems