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Direct linkYount, Kathryn M.; Durr, Robert L.; Bergenfeld, Irina; Clark, Cari Jo; Khan, Zara; Laterra, Anne; Pokhrel, Pankaj; Sharma, Sudhindra – Youth & Society, 2024
Sustainable Development Goal 5 challenges governments to address child marriage, which may inhibit girls from developing an agentic self. This paper assesses the direct influence of community gender norms on adolescent agency, and the normative contexts in which gender gaps in adolescent agency are larger or smaller in Nepal. Using baseline data…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sex Stereotypes, Adolescents, Gender Differences
Hensums, Maud; Overbeek, Geertjan; Jorgensen, Terrence D. – Youth & Society, 2022
Popular belief holds that sexual behavior is evaluated more liberally for males than females. However, the assessment of this "sexual double standard" is controversial. Therefore, we investigated measurement equivalence of commonly used items to assess sexual double standards in previous research. Based on established measurement…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attitudes, Sexuality, Gender Differences
John, Neetu A.; Kapungu, Chisina; Sebany, Meroji; Tadesse, Seifu – Youth & Society, 2023
Limited emphasis is placed on understanding the gendered pathways that influence mental health, especially long-term cumulative impacts of gender-based inequalities. Exposure to early child marriage (marriage by age 15) may exaggerate exposure to gender-based mental health risk-factors, providing an opportunity to understand the multi-layered…
Descriptors: Marriage, Gender Bias, Mental Health, Risk
Weiyu Zeng; Yi-jun Luo; Hong Chen – Youth & Society, 2024
Eight percent of adolescent girls were found to be engaged in problematic social media use. Problematic social media use is associated with serious physical and mental consequences. This study aimed to explore the effects of thin-ideal internalization on problematic social media use and the role of selfie-related behaviors and friendship quality.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Concept, Social Media, Adolescents
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
Carrera-Fernández, María Victoria; Cid-Fernández, Xosé Manuel; Almeida, Ana; González-Fernández, Antonio; Lameiras-Fernández, María – Youth & Society, 2021
The bullying phenomenon has been simplified and studied primarily from a psychological perspective. In this study, the phenomenon of bullying was examined by analyzing the joint influence of sociocultural factors such as gender stereotypes, sexism, and attitudes toward sexual and cultural diversity on bullying participation as a bully and a bully…
Descriptors: Bullying, Social Influences, Cultural Influences, Sex Stereotypes
