NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 3 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Ferreira, Vitor Sérgio – Youth & Society, 2014
Why some young people start to tattoo their bodies? And why some of them keep going on with this practice, until having all body tattooed? What doing so means to them? These are some of the questions that underlie a qualitative research project carried out in Portugal on heavily tattooed young people. In this article, the author discusses their…
Descriptors: Human Body, Foreign Countries, Youth, Identification (Psychology)
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Kidd, Sean A.; Evans, Josh D. – Youth & Society, 2011
This qualitative study examined the meanings ascribed to the construct "home" by 208 youths defined by mainstream society as "homeless". Youth narratives on the topic of home ranged across a continuum with home as state at one end (i.e., home is a state of mind, comprised of one's friends) and home as place at the other (i.e.,…
Descriptors: Youth, Family Environment, Homeless People, Youth Problems
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Brenick, Alaina; Henning, Alexandra; Killen, Melanie; O'Connor, Alexander; Collins, Michael – Youth & Society, 2007
The aim of this study is to assess late adolescents' evaluations of and reasoning about gender stereotypes in video games. Female (n = 46) and male (n = 41) students, predominantly European American, with a mean age 19 years, are interviewed about their knowledge of game usage, awareness and evaluation of stereotypes, beliefs about the influences…
Descriptors: Sex Stereotypes, Gender Differences, Video Games, Whites