scholarly journals Gender Difference in the Effect of Short Sleep Time on Suicide among Korean Adolescents

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (18) ◽  
pp. 3285
Author(s):  
Woong-Sub Park ◽  
SangA Kim ◽  
Hyeyun Kim
Keyword(s):  
Online Survey ◽  
Close Association ◽  
Sleep Time ◽  
Depressive Mood ◽  
Female Adolescents ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Male Adolescents ◽  
Korean Adolescents ◽  
Short Sleep ◽  
The Republic

A close association between the duration of sleep and suicide has been reported in previous studies. This study was designed to investigate whether there is a difference in the effects of sleep duration on suicide by gender. This study was conducted based on the results of a volunteer online survey for adolescents in middle and high school in the Republic of Korea. The results showed that the effect of a depressive mood on short sleep time and on suicide was not different between male and female adolescents. It has been reported that the direct effect of short sleep time on increasing suicidal ideation is 2.50 times higher in female than in male adolescents. Differences in the metabolism of sex hormones and sleep-associated neurotransmitters might have affected this result, but further studies are needed to clarify more obvious mechanisms. In addition, this result should be considered when establishing sleep education for adolescents.

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.

Effect of Mother’s Employment on Aggression of Board Students

2021 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-71
Author(s):  
Prachi Bhatt Deolal ◽  
Madhu Lata Nayal
Keyword(s):  
Personal Data ◽  
Total Sample ◽  
Female Adolescents ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Male Adolescents ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Employed Mothers ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Level Of Significance ◽  
Aggression Level

The present study aimed to find out the difference in the aggression level of Board Students of employed and non-employed mothers. Total sample of 200 students was taken from five CBSE affiliated schools of Pithoragarh district (Uttarakhand). Personal data schedule along with the Aggression Scale was used to calculate the result. Aggression Scale used in the study was developed by Pal and Naqvi (2000) which comprised of 60 questions. Stratified Random Sampling was used to select the data and t-test was applied to calculate the level of significance. While compiling the results, significant difference was found between the male and female adolescents of 10th standard of employed mothers and even between the male and female adolescents of 12th standard of employed mothers. Male and female adolescents of 12th standard of non-employed mother have also shown significant difference on the level of aggression. In all the three cases Male adolescents have shown greater aggression than female adolescents.

Traditional School Bullying and Cyberbullying Perpetration: Examining the Psychosocial Characteristics of Hong Kong Male and Female Adolescents

2016 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heng Choon (Oliver) Chan ◽  
Dennis S. W. Wong
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Relational Aggression ◽  
School Bullying ◽  
Female Adolescents ◽  
Psychosocial Characteristics ◽  
Traditional School ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Male Adolescents ◽  
Bullying Perpetration ◽  
Bullying Behaviors

Traditional school bullying and cyberbullying are growing concerns worldwide. Research has been devoted to understanding the etiology of bullying behaviors. Using a large sample of secondary school adolescents in Hong Kong ( N = 1,893), this study explores gender differences in mean levels of traditional school bullying (i.e., physical and verbal forms of bullying, and extortion and exclusion) and cyberbullying (i.e., overt and relational aggression) behaviors, and psychosocial characteristics (i.e., self-efficacy, empathy, prosocial behavior, family bonding, perception of a harmonious school, sense of belonging in school, and positive school experiences and involvement). The differential role of psychosocial characteristics in types of bullying perpetration is also examined. Findings indicate that the perpetration of traditional school bullying and cyberbullying behaviors are positively correlated, and male adolescents reported higher levels of bullying perpetration than female adolescents. Multivariate findings reveal that, to some extent, male and female adolescents shared a similar set of psychosocial risk factors of bullying perpetration, especially in the perpetration of traditional school bullying. The findings of this study may have important implications for practice in regard to minimizing, if not entirely preventing, through the joint efforts of the family, school, and social service systems, the propensity of adolescents to engage in the perpetration of bullying behaviors.

Aggression as risk factor of delinquent behaviour (gender aspect)

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (S1) ◽  
pp. S114-S114
Author(s):  
N. Bokhan ◽  
A. Abolonin ◽  
I. Nazarova
Keyword(s):  
Substance Use ◽  
Juvenile Offenders ◽  
Aggressive Behaviour ◽  
Substance Dependence ◽  
Female Adolescents ◽  
Common People ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Male Adolescents ◽  
Study Characteristics ◽  
High Level

In many studies it is noted that common traits of aggressive adolescents are frustration, dissatisfaction with social environment; emotional coarseness, hostility against people around. Substance abuse leads to restructuring the motifs and gender roles. Heightened aggression of offenders as compared with common people is noted.ObjectiveTo study characteristics of aggression of male and female offenders with substance dependence.Materials and methodsOne hundred and fifty-five male and 110 female adolescents abusing psychoactive substances and serving their sentence were examined. “Hand-test” and Buss-Durkee questionnaire were used in this study.ResultsDuring comparison of number of offences committed by male and female adolescents, it was revealed that male adolescents commit significantly more crimes against life and female adolescents more crimes against property. Conducted analysis showed high level of aggressive and hostile reactions in this sample, indices of female adolescents (13.7 ± 2.95 and 27.6 ± 5.5) are significantly higher (P < 0.05), than in male adolescents (8.6 ± 2.8 and 23.6 ± 5.3). Significant correlations between level of aggression in female adolescents and beginning of substance use were revealed (r = 0.46, P < 0.05). In male adolescents, long-term substance use correlated with increase in level of physical aggression and tendency to manipulative behaviour (r = 0.37, P < 0.05). In male adolescents, high potential of adjustability, use of communication for self-assertion and achievement of goals, low level of attachment were revealed. Female adolescents are more aggressive in contacts, build relationships according to type of control-submission.DiscussionConducted study allowed revealing gender traits of juvenile offenders influencing the structure of aggressive behaviour, allowing the broadening the understanding of mechanisms of aggressive behaviour.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

scholarly journals Adolescents’ Reproductive Health Status In Urban Slums In The Khon Kaen Municipality, Thailand

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 269-276
Author(s):  
Soiy Anusornteerakul ◽  
Pakvilai Srisaeng ◽  
Nilubon Rujiraprasert ◽  
Somjit Maungpin
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Health ◽  
Sexual Intercourse ◽  
Sexual Experience ◽  
Simple Random Sampling ◽  
Urban Slum ◽  
Female Adolescents ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Male Adolescents ◽  
Contraceptive Pills ◽  
Khon Kaen

This descriptive study aimed to explain the reproductive health of urban slum adolescents in the Khon Kaen Municipality area of Khon Kaen, Thailand. A self-reported questionnaire that took about 20 minutes to complete was used for data collection. Multi-stage simple random sampling was adopted in the selection of five target communities to recruit 277 male and female adolescents aged 10–19 years in accordance with the proportion of male and female adolescents in the area. Frequencies, percentages, standard deviations, and means were used for the data analysis. The female and male participants had an average age of 14.62 ± 2.66 years and 14.58 ± 2.84 years, respectively. The average menarcheal age was 12.96 ± 1.58 years, while the age at which the first wet dream was experienced for boys was 14.12 ± 1.44 years. Most of the participants were in elementary school, while 5.7% of female and 2.4% of male adolescents did not attend school. Most girls and boys knew about contraceptive pills and condoms, but not other birth control methods. Contraceptive pills were used by 26.4% of female adolescents and condoms were used by 39.8% of male adolescents. However, it was reported that less than 10% of males and females regularly used condoms. The lowest age of the 36.5% of girls who had had a sexual experience was 10 years, whereas the lowest age of the 40.7% of sexually experienced boys was 11 years. The average age of the group of females who had started to have sexual intercourse was 14.81 ± 1.71 years, and the average age of the group of males who had had sexual intercourse was 15.23 ± 1.32 years. Most of the sample had had intercourse with their girlfriends or boyfriends. It was found that 1.3% of the girls and 1.8% of the boys were prostitutes and that 10.9% of the boys had visited brothels. Twenty-two percent of the girls admitted that they had masturbated, while 41.0% of the males did. About 17.8% of the female adolescents had been pregnant; 50% of those pregnancies ended in abortion and 50% of the females had been pregnant more than once. 

Sport and Social Status for Adolescent Males and Females

1985 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 164-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel Thirer ◽  
Stephen D. Wright
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Athletic Performance ◽  
Title Ix ◽  
Adolescent Males ◽  
Female Adolescents ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Male Adolescents ◽  
The Social ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
The Impact

The purpose of this study was to examine the social status criteria for male and female adolescents in the mid-1980s and to compare these results with those of Eitzen (1976) and Coleman (1961a, 1961b). It was further intended to transcend these previous studies by examining the criteria by which male and female adolescents ascribed social status for females relative to being an athlete. The results indicated that the trend toward deemphasizing the importance of athletics as a status symbol for male adolescents, which appeared in Eitzen’s research, was not supported. Being an athlete was still the foremost criteria for male popularity when judged by both male and female adolescents. This is similar to the pattern reported by Coleman (1961a, 1961b) in his research of males judging males. For females, being an athlete was ascribed fairly low social status when judged by both male and female adolescents. This indicates that at the time of the present study, even with the impact of Title IX legislation, athletic performance is still not a valued attribute for female adolescents in the eyes of male and female peers.

scholarly journals A Study of Anxiety among Male and Female Adolescents

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. K. Chaudhary ◽  
Deepika Jain
Keyword(s):  
Test Anxiety ◽  
T Test ◽  
Anxiety Scale ◽  
Female Adolescents ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Male Adolescents ◽  
Data Result

The purpose of the present study was to find out the level of Anxiety among male and female adolescents. The local of the study was confined of Udaipur city of Rajasthan. The sample consisted of 60 subjects divided into two groups, 30 Male and 30 Female adolescents. Test anxiety scale by Dr. V. P Sharma (1971) was used to collect data. Mean, S.D and ‘t’ test was calculated to analyze the data. Result showed that male adolescents have higher anxiety in comparison to female adolescents.

scholarly journals Empathy and sympathy as mediators between parental inductive discipline and prosocial behavior in Colombian families

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 34-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivon Paola Guevara ◽  
Victoria Eugenia Cabrera ◽  
Martha Rocío Gonzalez ◽  
Jose Vicente Devis
Keyword(s):  
Prosocial Behavior ◽  
Moral Emotions ◽  
Female Adolescents ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Educational Levels ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Male Adolescents ◽  
Adolescent Child ◽  
Inductive Discipline

The objective of this study was to evaluate the mediation of adolescent empathy and sympathy between parental inductive discipline and adolescent prosocial behavior, as well as to understand whether there are differences between male and female adolescents regarding moral emotions and prosocial behavior and differences between fathers and mothers regarding inductive discipline. The study enrolled 717 participants: 239 fathers, 239 mothers, and one adolescent child of each paired mother and father. Two models of mediation were undertaken, one for empathy and another for sympathy, both resulted statistically significant. Significant differences were also found between male and female adolescents in empathy but not in sympathy or prosocial behavior; specifically, female adolescents tended to be more empathetic than male adolescents. We suggest future studies focus on prosocial behavior associated with parental socioeconomic and educational levels.

Weight and Dieting Concerns in Adolescents, Fashion or Symptom?

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 86 (3) ◽  
pp. 384-390
Author(s):  
Regina C. Casper ◽  
Daniel Offer
Keyword(s):  
Female Adolescents ◽  
White Female ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Senior Year ◽  
Aesthetic Value ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Male Adolescents ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Black Female Adolescents ◽  
Symptomatic Distress

Attitudes toward body weight and dieting and the relations of these attitudes to psychological adjustment were investigated in 497 randomly selected adolescents who were in their senior year in one urban and two suburban midwestern high schools. Most students reported feeling physically healthy. Two thirds of female adolescents were preoccupied with weight and dieting compared with only a small number (approximately 15%) of male adolescents. Black female adolescents were found to be less weight- and diet-conscious than white female adolescents. Increased weight and dieting concerns were associated with greater body and self-image dissatisfaction, with a depressed mood, and greater overall symptomatic distress in both male and female adolescents. The fairly common fear of being overweight and thoughts about dieting experienced by contemporary female adolescents, in part, seem to reflect the greater aesthetic value that contemporary society places on thinness for women. Overall, the findings suggest that preoccupation with weight and/or dieting concerns in either male or female adolescents are likely to indicate psychological problems.

Analysis of Korean adolescents' sexual experience and substance use

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (5) ◽  
pp. 809-817
Author(s):  
Gyu-Young Lee ◽  
Yun-Jung Choi
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Sex Education ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Illicit Drugs ◽  
Sexual Experience ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Unprotected Sex ◽  
Sexual Experiences ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Korean Adolescents

We investigated the relationship between Korean adolescents' sexual experience—including, kissing, petting, and sexual intercourse—and their alcohol consumption and use of illegal drugs and tobacco. We analyzed data taken from the responses of 74,186 adolescents who had participated in the 2012 Korean Youth Health Behavior Online Survey. Variables regarding sexual experiences, experience of contraception, and substance and alcohol use were extracted and analyzed using descriptive statistics, chi-square tests, and logistic regression. The results showed that fewer than 30% of the respondents reported always using contraception, and almost half reported rarely using contraception. The number of boys and girls reporting having had sexual experiences increased from 2 to 4 times when they also reported use of illicit drugs, smoking tobacco, or alcohol consumption. The results highlight a need for school-based sex education supported by a national policy and the provision of basic resources to reduce the incidence of unprotected sex and to improve healthy behavior of adolescents.

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