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Esters, Irvin G.; Cooker, Philip G.; Ittenbach, Richard F. – Adolescence, 1998
Investigates the effects of a unit of instruction in mental health on rural adolescents' conceptions of mental illness and their attitudes about seeking professional help for emotional problems. Results indicate that attitudes and conceptions improved and had not deteriorated significantly 12 weeks later. (Author/MKA)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Help Seeking, High Schools, Mental Disorders
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Thomas, Amanda McCombs; And Others – Adolescence, 1995
Investigated the relation of change in maternal depressed mood across time and adolescent functioning. Analyses revealed that increased depressed mood across one year predicted teacher reports of higher levels of externalizing and internalizing problems and lower levels of social competence. A static maternal depressive mood did not forecast…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Change, Depression (Psychology), Mental Health
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DeFries, Zira; Grothe, Lilo – Adolescence, 1969
Descriptors: Activism, Black Students, College Students, Females
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Pederson, Willy – Adolescence, 1994
A shortened version of the Parental Bonding Instrument, used in a sample of Norwegian adolescents, aged 15-19, indicated that adolescents' perceptions of mothers' and fathers' care and control/overprotection were related to measures of both depression/anxiety and delinquency. Scores may indicate risks in a broad range of psychosocial problems.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attachment Behavior, Child Rearing, Childhood Attitudes