scholarly journals Relationships Between Maternal Factors and Weight Loss Attempts Among Urban Male and Female Adolescents Living in Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa

2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. S17-S24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Cohen ◽  
Linda M. Richter ◽  
Glory Chidumwa ◽  
Safa Abdalla ◽  
Ann M. Weber ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Weight Loss ◽  
Female Adolescents ◽  
Maternal Factors ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Urban Male

Heteronormativity and Developing Masculinities at a Primary School in South Africa

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Luckmore Chimanzi
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Social Bonds ◽  
Male Identity ◽  
Social Unit ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Diary Research

This article explores the development of heteronormativity and the construction of masculinities at a township primary school in South Africa. In this study, boys and girls chastise homosexuality yet maintain their male-to-male and female-to-female social bonds. Homosocial or male-to-male social bonds have a bearing on the construction of male identity. It is argued that homosocial relationships serve as a means through which certain boys negotiate and exhibit their masculinity in a process of identity formation in which heterosexuality is a key component. Qualitative data from focus groups and diary research with Grade 7 students (male and female) in a primary school are used. Boys engage in a number of games and acquire resources for themselves; hence, as a social unit, they portray themselves as heteronormative. Their solidarity plays a role in maintaining their power in relationships even though privately some of them expressed preference for more flexible constructions of masculinity.

EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF ADOLESCENTS WITH REFERENCE TO GENDER

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (24) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nisha Chandel ◽  
Seema Chopra
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Female Adolescents ◽  
Intelligence Scale ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Male Adolescents ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Understanding Emotions ◽  
School Records ◽  
Better Than

The present study was undertaken to find out emotional intelligence and academic achievement of male and female adolescents. The sample consists of 82 students( 41 male and 41 female adolescents) from different schools in Hamirpur district of Himachal Pradesh. Emotional intelligence was assessed with the help of Emotional Intelligence Scale developed by Singh and Narain (2014) and academic achievement score were taken from the school records. The results revealed that there exists a significant difference in emotional intelligence of male and female adolescents. It was found that there existed significant difference in academic achievement of female adolescents and male adolescents. The mean emotional intelligence of female adolescents was better than of male adolescents. On the dimensions of emotional intelligence, it was found that there was no significant difference between male and female adolescents on understanding emotions, empathy and handling relations dimensions of emotional intelligence; while it was reported that there was significant difference between male and female adolescents on understanding motivation dimension of emotional intelligence On the other hand, it was found that there existed significant difference in academic achievement of female adolescents and male adolescents.

scholarly journals Appropriate Age-Related Behavior for Male and Female Adolescents

1985 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
ROBERT J. BURSIK ◽  
DON MERTEN ◽  
GARY SCHWARTZ
Keyword(s):  
Female Adolescents ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Age Related

Youth Assets and Sexual Risk Behavior: Differences Between Male and Female Adolescents

2009 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 343-356 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trisha Mueller ◽  
Lorrie Gavin ◽  
Roy Oman ◽  
Sara Vesely ◽  
Cheryl Aspy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Risk ◽  
Sexual Intercourse ◽  
Sexual Behaviors ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Female Adolescents ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
External Resources ◽  
Use Of Time ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
Youth Assets

Youth internal assets and external resources are protective factors that can help youth avoid potentially harmful behaviors. This study investigates how the relationship between youth assets or resources and two sexual risk behaviors (ever had sex and birth control use) varied by gender. Data were collected through in-home interviews from parent—adolescent dyads, including 1,219 females and 1,116 males. Important differences exist between male and female adolescents. Females with the nonparental role models or the family communication resource were more likely to report never having had sexual intercourse than were females without the resources. Among males, the aspirations for the future and responsible choices assets were associated with never having had sexual intercourse. Males and females had two assets or resources in common that were protective of never having had sex: peer role models and use of time (religion). Considering which youth assets and resources are more likely to positively influence sexual behaviors of males and females may be important when planning prevention programs with youth.

scholarly journals A waist-to-height ratio of 0.54 is a good predictor of metabolic syndrome in 16-year-old male and female adolescents

2018 ◽  
Vol 85 (3) ◽  
pp. 269-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabian Vasquez ◽  
Paulina Correa-Burrows ◽  
Estela Blanco ◽  
Sheila Gahagan ◽  
Raquel Burrows
Keyword(s):  
Metabolic Syndrome ◽  
Good Predictor ◽  
Female Adolescents ◽  
Height Ratio ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Waist To Height Ratio

scholarly journals Sexual Partner Concurrency of Urban Male and Female STD Clinic Patients: A Qualitative Study

2010 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 775-784 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theresa E. Senn ◽  
Lori A. J. Scott-Sheldon ◽  
Derek X. Seward ◽  
Ednita M. Wright ◽  
Michael P. Carey
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Sexual Partner ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Partner Concurrency ◽  
Urban Male ◽  
Sexual Partner Concurrency

scholarly journals Occurrence of Tetracampos ciliotheca and Proteocephalus glanduligerus in Clarias gariepinus (Burchell, 1822) collected from the Vaal Dam, South Africa

2013 ◽  
Vol 80 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Grace Madanire-Moyo ◽  
Annemariè Avenant-Oldewage
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Digestive Tract ◽  
Standard Length ◽  
Feeding Habits ◽  
Clarias Gariepinus ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Mean Intensity ◽  
Gill Nets ◽  
Larval Stages ◽  
Vaal Dam

Cestodes are parasitic flatworms that live in the digestive tract of vertebrates as adults and often in the liver, muscle, haemocoel, mesentery and brain of various animals as larval stages. To identify the cestodes infecting Clarias gariepinus Burchell, 1822 (sharptooth catfish) in the Vaal Dam, a total of 45 host specimens were collected with the aid of gill nets between October 2011, January and April 2012. The fish were sacrificed and examined for cestode parasites. Two adult cestodes, Tetracampos ciliotheca Wedl, 1861 (prevalence 86.7%, mean intensity = 15, n = 45) and Proteocephalus glanduligerus (Janicki, 1928) (prevalence 51.1%, mean intensity = 5, n = 45) were found in the intestines of the catfish. Both T. ciliotheca and P. glanduligerus are new locality records. There were statistically insignificant differences in the infection of the male and female C. gariepinu. Fish with standard length ranging from 40 cm – 54 cm (≥ 3 years) had the highest prevalence and mean intensity while those ranging from 10 cm – 24 cm (< 1 year) had the lowest prevalence and mean intensity for both cestodes. The study highlights the importance of changing feeding habits of C. gariepinus with age on the prevalence and mean intensity of the two gastrointestinal cestode parasites.

scholarly journals Sociocognitive Self-Regulatory Mechanisms Governing Judgments of the Acceptability and Likelihood of Sport Cheating

2010 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
pp. 595-618 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabienne d’Arripe-Longueville ◽  
Karine Corrion ◽  
Stéphanie Scoffier ◽  
Peggy Roussel ◽  
Aïna Chalabaev
Keyword(s):  
Moral Disengagement ◽  
Structural Model ◽  
The Self ◽  
Regulatory Mechanisms ◽  
Female Adolescents ◽  
Direct Effects ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Social Efficacy

This study extends previous psychosocial literature (Bandura et al., 2001, 2003) by examining a structural model of the self-regulatory mechanisms governing the acceptability and likelihood of cheating in a sport context. Male and female adolescents (N = 804), aged 15–20 years, took part in this study. Negative affective self-regulatory efficacy influenced the acceptability and likelihood of cheating through the mediating role of moral disengagement, in females and males. Affective efficacy positively influenced prosocial behavior through moral disengagement or through resistive self-regulatory efficacy and social efficacy, in both groups. The direct effects of affective efficacy on beliefs about cheating were only evident in females. These results extend the findings of Bandura et al. (2001, 2003) to the sport context and suggest that affective and resistive self-regulatory efficacy operate in concert in governing adolescents’ moral disengagement and transgressive behaviors in sport.

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