This paper details findings from an evaluation of a gender-transformative sexual and reproductive health and rights group education programme facilitated with young men aged 15-24 years in South Africa. A total of 475 young men participated in the group education programme. A self-administered pre- and post-questionnaire survey was conducted with…

The narrative around skateboarding is changing. Educational and cultural institutions are beginning to engage with skateboarding in new ways. At the same time, skaters still thrive -- and sometimes prefer to function -- on the margins of mainstream society. Despite growing visibility and popularity, negative misconceptions regarding skateboarding…

Throughout history, marriage and parenthood have been linked milestones on the journey to adulthood. But for the young adults of the Millennial Generation, these social institutions are becoming delinked and differently valued. Today's 18- to 29-year-olds value parenthood far more than marriage, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of…

The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of background characteristics, initial interaction with the environment, and first-year experiences at a public, research extensive University on the racial identity and racial attitudes of African American/Black first-time, first-year University students. This study is concerned with the changes…

Sexual abuse has been considered a public health issue because of the various health implications resulting from it. The school nurse has a responsibility in assisting the high school girl to prevent victimization. This study adopted a quasi-experimental design in which a sexual abuse prevention education package was developed and used to educate…

The aim of this research was to investigate the approaches being taken by local authorities (LAs) and partner organisations to improve how young people are perceived, especially in relation to crime and antisocial behaviour. The study also looked at the challenges for and benefits of activities aiming to improve public perceptions of young people,…

Allsorts Youth Project works with lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) young people in Brighton and Hove. It provides a safe drop-in space and one-to-one support. It also enables LGBT young people to learn new skills and participate in a wide range of volunteering opportunities including delivering homophobia awareness workshops to their peers.

Experimentation with new sexual roles or the confusion about sexual roles among the young is a symptom of the general confusion caused by a sudden transition from one era to another. It is necessary until man works out ways of living successfully in this new age. (Author/CG)

Using General Social Survey and National Election Study, shows that from 1974 to 1986 percentage of young people willing to apply a conservative label to themselves increased, holding constant attitudes typically indicative of conservatism. Suggests that perceived increases in conservatism reflect not only a shift in attitudes but also a change in…

This review briefly covers the study of attitudes toward aging in general. Research on attitudes of young people toward the old, their contact with the old, efforts to change their attitudes toward the aged, and implications for counseling young people with a view toward their own aging are presented. (Author)

Available evidence does not support the notion that aging is associated with increasingly conservative social and political attitudes, or the idea that attitudinal rigidity is the norm among older cohorts. To examine whether aging is associated with attitudinal rigidity, nine surveys from the National Opinion Research Center were analyzed to…

Current literature on sex-role attitudes has several shortcomings, including a paucity of longitudinal and developmental data. Cross-sectional data collected in the mid-1970's indicate that college students express more liberal attitudes toward women with increasing years of college attendance. This shift could be due to intraindividual changes or…

The presentation examines the challenge of advocacy for developmentally disabled people and their family members, and stresses the importance of a grass-roots basis for advocacy; it also describes the author's experiences as executive director of the Young Adult Institute, which operates community-based programs for mentally retarded and…

The extent to which college-related changes in personality functioning persisted between college graduation and 10 years later was studied, and developmental patterns common to 18- and 32-year-old college-educated persons were identified. The relationship between various demographic characteristics linked either empirically or theoretically to…

This study reports on attitudes and opinions about matters of concern to young Puerto Rican men in a small city in New England. There is considerable variability of expressed attitudes within the population, and the goal of this study is to discover situational correlates of this variability. Through participant observation and by review of…