PREDICTORS OF ADOLESCENT RUNNING AWAY BEHAVIOR

2000 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 261-267 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. F. de Man

Adolescent boys and girls (N = 246) took part in a study of societal, personal, and interpersonal correlates of running away behavior. Correlational analyses showed the behavior to be related to low self-esteem, depression, suicidal ideation, negative stress, alcohol and drug use, truancy, and dissatisfaction with received social support. Multiple regression analysis identified suicidal ideation, alcohol use, dissatisfaction with social support, and truancy as salient predictors.

Dialog ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-80
Author(s):  
Imam Noviantoro ◽  
Gazi Saloom

Psychological well-being adalah keadaan dimana individu mampu menerima keadaan dirinya secara positif, baik keadaan yang sedang dijalaninya saat ini maupun pengalaman hidupnya termasuk pengalaman yang dianggapnya tidak menyenangkan dan menerima semua itu sebagai bagian dari dirinya. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk untuk melihat apakah self esteem, optimisme dan social support secara bersama-sama mempengaruhi psychological well-being guru honorer SDN Kabupaten Serang. Populasi penelitian ini adalah 221 guru honorer SDN Kabupaten Serang. Sampel dalam penelitian ini berjumlah 210 guru honorer. Pengambilan sampel yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini menggunakan tekhnik purposive sampling. Metode penelitian ini menggunakan kuantitatif. Validitas alat ukur dalam penelitian ini diuji dengan Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA). Analisis data menggunakan multiple regression analysis (regresi berganda). Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa self esteem, optimisme dan social support secara bersama-sama mempengaruhi psychological well-being. Variabel self esteem dan optimisme berpengaruh signifikan terhadap psychological well-being. Sedangkan variabel dukungan emosional, dukungan penghargaan, dukungan instrumental, dukungan informasi, dukungan kelompok, tidak terbukti secara statistik berpengaruh terhadap psychological well-being. Penelitian selanjutnya disarankan untuk memilih populasi  di suatu tempat atau beberapa area saja agar lebih terarah.


PEDIATRICS ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 96 (4) ◽  
pp. 659-666 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beth Barnet ◽  
Anne K. Duggan ◽  
Michele D. Wilson ◽  
Alain Joffe

Objective. Substance use by pregnant teenagers is an important public health problem, but published data on alcohol and illicit drug use by parenting teenagers are virtually nonexistent. This study determined the prevalence of alcohol and drug use in adolescent mothers in the first 4 months postpartum and explored associated psychosocial characteristics. Methods. Teenagers attending a comprehensive adolescent pregnancy and parenting program were enrolled consecutively during a routine third trimester prenatal visit. Alcohol use since delivery was determined by self-report at 4 months postpartum using an instrument developed for the 1984 Survey of Drug Abuse Among Maryland Adolescents. Illicit drug use was measured with anonymous quantitative urine drug screens at 2 and 4 months postpartum. Depressive symptoms, stress, and social support were assessed at 2 and 4 months postpartum using validated, self-administered instruments. Differences in demographic characteristics, peer group influences, and psychosocial variables between substance users and nonusers were evaluated. Results. Participants (125/129 eligible) were predominantly African-American, mean age 16.3 years. Completed assessments were obtained from 110 at 2 months and 105 at 4 months postpartum. Forty-two percent screened positive for illicit drugs at a postpartum visit or reported using alcohol since delivering their baby and were classified as substance users. Thirty-one percent of subjects reported alcohol use since delivery. Marijuana was the most prevalent illicit drug (14%), followed by opiates (5%), and cocaine (4%). When substance users were compared with nonusers, 44% versus 24% scored depressed (P = .02), 62% versus 43% had high stress (P = .04), and 62% versus 44% reported a high need for social support (P = .07). Results of logistic regression, after controlling for age, indicated that illicit substance and/or alcohol use was 3.3 times greater for those who were depressed, 2.8 times greater if they reported friends' using illicit drugs, and 6.7 times greater if the adolescent reported smoking cigarettes since delivery. Conclusions. This study indicates that alcohol and drug use are common among this sample of postpartum teenage mothers and that depression, stress, high support need, and peer group drug use are associated factors. Although this study cannot determine whether depression and stress precede or result from use of substances, attention to these factors appears warranted in the care of adolescent mothers.


2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S886-S887
Author(s):  
Hyebeen Sim ◽  
Jinhee Shin

Abstract Purpose: This study is to identify how depression, social support and meaning in life influence to suicidal ideation of home based Korean old adult renal dialysis patients and the relating factors according to their general characteristics. Methods: This descriptive correlative study was conducted through a organized and structured self-administrated questionnaire and 120 sampled home based old adult renal dialysis patients. Collected data was analyzed by t-tests, ANOVA, Pearson’s correlation coefficient and multiple regression analysis using SPSS/WIN 24.0. Results: Findings revealed that; 1) The degrees of suicidal ideation were significantly different among groups according to the marital status, drinking and smoking history. 2) Pearson’s correlation coefficient revealed a significant association among the suicidal ideation, depression, social support and meaning in life. 3) Multiple regression analysis showed depression, social support and meaning in life were related to factors. Conclusion: Based on the findings of this study, health professionals should provide home based Korean old adult renal dialysis patients with proper management of suicidal ideation as well as its relating factors, depression, social support and meaning in life. Especially, it needs to implement suicidal ideation management and self-help group program to home based old adult renal dialysis patients.


Author(s):  
Eka Fitria Ambarini ◽  
Mispiyanti Mispiyanti

This study aimed to examine the causal relationship between budget emphasis, self-esteem and budget participation by using primary data collected by distributing questionnaires to the respondent. The population was the OPD Regency of Kebumen with a purposive sampling as a sampling technique. From 75 questionnaires that have been distributed, 70 questionnaires have been received and only 43 questionnaires that could be processed. This studied used multiple regression analysis methods. The study showed that based on the t-test:  budget emphasis and self-esteem have a positive and significant effect on budgetary slack, while budget participation does not affect budgetary slack. The coefficient of determination (R²) showed 29,5%, that was mean 29,5% variable of budgetary slack influenced by variables budget emphasis, self-esteem, and budget participation but 70,5% explained by other variables which not exist in this research


2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 530-535
Author(s):  
Camillus a ◽  
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O. Udaya ◽  
Janet O. Ajogwu ◽  
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The purpose of the current study was to examine the attitudes of Nigerians towards physically challenged persons. The population of the study constituted civil servants. A total of two hundred and twenty participants comprising males and females were randomly selected from the Enugu and Kogi states civil service as the research participants. Data for the study was generated using three research instruments, including the 24-item Scale of Attitude Toward Disabled Persons (SADP), The Religious commitment inventory (RCI-10), and Rosenbergs self-esteem scale (R-SES). The multiple regression analysis results showed that religious commitment significantly predicted attitude towards physically challenged persons. However, the findings also found no significant influence of self-esteem on attitude towards the physically challenged. It is recommended that more research be conducted to fully understand the determinants of attitudes towards the physically challenged in society.


Author(s):  
Khoruzhyi S.M. ◽  
Piontkivska O.H.

Purpose. The goal of the article is to empirically study the psychological factors of bullying among adolescents in the school environment.Methods. The following diagnostic tools were used in the study: questionnaire method (author’s questionnaire); methods of diagnosis of acceptance of others; express diagnostics of the level of self-esteem; methods of diagnostics of indicators and forms of aggression by A. Bass and A. Darka (adaptation by A.K. Osnytskyi). The following methods were used to process empirical data: descriptive statistics, correlation and multiple regression analyzes.Results. The authors include the level of self-esteem, aggression, hostility, and acceptance of others among the personal psychological factors and characteristics of bullying among adolescents. The study found that most adolescents have low self-esteem, average acceptance of others with a tendency to low or low, their level of aggression and hostility is equal to the average and in some cases found a high rate of aggression and hostility to others. Correlation analysis revealed a link between others’ self-esteem, self-esteem, and level of aggression. That is, low levels of acceptance of others and low self-esteem are associated with increased levels of aggression and hostility towards others, hostility towards peers, difficulties in establishing friendly relations, envy, unwillingness to work in a group, and so on. An empirical study has found that adolescents who have been involved in bullying, either as a passive observer or as bullies themselves, have the highest levels of hostility. That is why the hostility rate was chosen as a dependent variable for multiple regression analysis in the study of bullying. The results of multiple regression analysis show that adolescents’ hostility is due to low levels of acceptance of others, which is manifested in judgmental, contemptuous or critical attitude towards others, aggression, and inadequate self-esteem.Conclusions. The obtained results show that among the factors of bullying can be distinguished inadequate self-esteem, high levels of aggression, and adolescents’ hostility to their environment.Key worlds: bullying, psychological factors, adolescence, self-esteem, hostility, aggression. Мета статті полягає вемпіричному дослідженні психологічних чинників булінгу серед школярів підліткового віку у шкільному середовищі.Методи. У дослідженні використано діагностичний інструментарій: метод анкетування (авторська анкета); методику діагностики прийняття інших (шкала В. Фейя); експрес-діагностику рівня самооцінки, методику діагностики показників і форм агресії А. Басса й А. Дарки (адаптація А.К. Осницького). Для оброблення емпіричних даних було застосовано описову статистику, кореляційний та мно-жинний регресійний аналізи.Результати. До особистісних психологічних чинників та характеристик булінгу серед школярів підліткового віку автори статті відносять рівень самооцінки, агресивності, ворожості та прийняття інших. У процесі дослідження виявлено, що переважно підлітки мають низький рівень самооцінки, середній рівень прийняття інших із тенденцією до низького або ж низький, їхній рівень агресивності та ворожості дорівнює середньому показнику; в окремих випадках виявлено високий показник агресії і ворожого ставлення до оточення. За допомогою кореляційного аналізу виявлено зв’язок між показником прийняття інших, самооцінкою та рівнем агресії. Тобто низький рівень прийняття інших і низька самооцінка пов’язані зі збільшенням рівня агресії та ворожості до оточення, ворожого ставлення до однолітків, труднощів у налагодженні дружніх стосунків, заздрощів, небажання працювати у групі тощо. За результатами емпіричного дослідження визначено, що серед підлітків, які були причетні до булінгу, у ролі пасивного спостерігача або в ролі самих булерів, найвищі показники за рівнем ворожості. Саме тому показник ворожості обрано за залежну змінну для проведеннямножинного регресійного аналізуу вивченні булінгу. Результати множинного регресійного аналізу свідчать, що ворожість дітей підліткового віку зумовлюється низьким рівнем прийняття інших, що проявляється в осудливому, зневажливому або критичному ставленні до оточення, агресивністю та неадекватним рівнем самооцінки.Висновки. Отримані результати демонструють, що серед чинників виникнення булінгу можна виокремити неадекватну самооцінку, високий рівень агресивності та ворожості підлітків до свого оточення.Ключові слова:булінг, психологічні чинники, підлітковий вік, самооцінка, ворожість, агресія


1992 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 687-690 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keiko Nakano

The relations between coping behaviors and personality characteristics (introversion/extroversion) were examined in 176 Japanese female college students. Multiple regression analysis indicated that extrovertive individuals more often used not only seeking social support but also avoidance than did introvertive subjects. An implication for further research would be to analyze the interactions between personality influences and situational factors in coping behaviors.


2013 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 212-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Azam Baheiraei ◽  
Zeinab Hamzehgardeshi ◽  
Mohammad Reza Mohammadi ◽  
Saharnaz Nedjat ◽  
Eesa Mohammadi

Author(s):  
Azam Baheiraei ◽  
Farzaneh Soltani ◽  
Abbas Ebadi ◽  
Abbas Rahimi Foroushani ◽  
Mohammad Ali Cheraghi

Abstract Background: Identification of risk and protective factors is of great importance in designing preventive and interventional programs. The aim of the present study has been to investigate peer/individual, family, school, and community risk and protective factors as predictors of tobacco and alcohol use among Iranian adolescents. Methods: In a cross-sectional population-based study, 870 Iranian adolescents aged 15–18 years old, filled out the adopted form of “Communities That Care Youth Survey”. Thirty-two risk and protective factors were entered in adjusted logistic regression analyses to predict the lifetime cigarette and alcohol use. Results: Sixteen risk and seven protective factors predicted both lifetime cigarette and alcohol use in the bivariate logistic regression analysis. In the multivariate logistic regression analysis 12 risk factors including friends’ use of drugs, interaction with antisocial peers, sensation seeking, intention to use, perceived risks of drug use, family history of drug use, poor family management, parental attitudes favorable toward drug use, family conflict, academic failure, school low commitment, perceived availability of drugs predicted both lifetime cigarette and alcohol use as well as four protective factors including religiosity, self-esteem, family rewards for prosocial involvement, and school rewards for prosocial involvement. The highest OR were related to the risk factor of “Rewards for antisocial involvement” [3.9(1.5–10)], and protective factor of “Religiosity” [0.1(0.1–0.3)]. Conclusion: The present study has produced evidences about risk and protective factors related to adolescents substance use and can help designing and implementing of preventive interventions for maintaining and promoting adolescents health.


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