Adolescent Psychology

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "Being faithful" in a sexual relationship: perceptions of Tanzanian adolescents in the context of HIV and pregnancy prevention. 
  • A 12-year prospective study of the long-term effects of early child physical maltreatment on psychological, behavioral, and academic problems in adolescence. 
  • A Review of Teen Dating Violence Prevention Research: What About Hispanic Youth? 
  • Accuracy of perceptions of overweight and relation to self-care behaviors among adolescents with type 2 diabetes and their parents. 
  • Adolescent binge/purge and weight loss behaviors: associations with developmental assets. 
  • Adolescents' perception of living with end stage renal disease. 
  • African American grandparents' and adolescent grandchildren's sexuality communication. 
  • Assessing psychologic symptoms in adolescents. 
  • Binge and purge behavior among adolescents: associations with sexual and physical abuse in a nationally representative sample: the Commonwealth Fund survey. 
  • Blunted Ventral Striatum Development in Adolescence Reflects Emotional Neglect and Predicts Depressive Symptoms. 
  • Body dissatisfaction and unhealthy weight-control practices among adolescents with and without chronic illness: a population-based study. 
  • Characteristics of vegetarian adolescents in a multiethnic urban population. 
  • Cultural considerations in adolescent suicide prevention and psychosocial treatment. 
  • Development of internalizing problems from adolescence to emerging adulthood: Accounting for heterotypic continuity with vertical scaling. 
  • Developmental traumatology: the psychobiological development of maltreated children and its implications for research, treatment, and policy. 
  • Dieting and binge eating among adolescents: what do they really mean? 
  • Disordered eating among adolescents with chronic illness and disability: the role of family and other social factors. 
  • Drug compliance in adolescents: assessing and managing modifiable risk factors. 
  • Evidence Base Update for Psychosocial Treatments for Children and Adolescents Exposed to Traumatic Events. 
  • Explaining the relation between IQ and delinquency: class, race, test motivation, school failure, or self-control? 
  • Focus groups with African American adolescents: enhancing recruitment and retention in intervention studies. 
  • Food and beverage brands that market to children and adolescents on the internet: a content analysis of branded web sites. 
  • Frequent dieting among adolescents: psychosocial and health behavior correlates. 
  • Hippocampal volume in adolescent-onset alcohol use disorders. 
  • Internet food marketing strategies aimed at children and adolescents: a content analysis of food and beverage brand web sites. 
  • Involving children in research. 
  • Life experiences among urban adolescents: examining the role of context. 
  • Loneliness as a partial mediator of the relation between low social preference in childhood and anxious/depressed symptoms in adolescence. 
  • Mothers' and fathers' autonomy-relevant parenting: longitudinal links with adolescents' externalizing and internalizing behavior. 
  • Normative Irritability in Youth: Developmental Findings From the Great Smoky Mountains Study. 
  • Parent-child connectedness and behavioral and emotional health among adolescents. 
  • Perceptions of adolescents involved in promoting lower-fat foods in schools: associations with level of involvement. 
  • Relationship between adolescents' and their friends' eating behaviors: breakfast, fruit, vegetable, whole-grain, and dairy intake. 
  • Resilient, overcontrolled, and undercontrolled boys: three replicable personality types. 
  • Screening for trauma history on an inpatient affective-disorders unit: a pilot study. 
  • Should we discuss weight and calories in adolescent obesity prevention and weight-management programs? Perspectives of adolescent girls. 
  • Social, educational, and psychological correlates of weight status in adolescents. 
  • Sociodemographic and personal characteristics of adolescents engaged in weight loss and weight/muscle gain behaviors: who is doing what? 
  • Specific psychotherapies for childhood and adolescent depression. 
  • Suicidal behaviors and childhood-onset depressive disorders: a longitudinal investigation. 
  • Systematic review of positive youth development programs for adolescents with chronic illness. 
  • Targeting adolescent mothers with depressive symptoms for early intervention. 
  • Teasing, disordered eating behaviors, and psychological morbidities among overweight adolescents. 
  • Television campaigns and adolescent marijuana use: tests of sensation seeking targeting. 
  • The "little five": exploring the nomological network of the five-factor model of personality in adolescent boys. 
  • The Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Assessment (CAPA). 
  • The Loneliness Questionnaire: Establishing Measurement Invariance Across Ethnic Groups. 
  • The Role of Self-Control and Early Adolescents' Friendships in the Development of Externalizing Behavior: The SNARE Study. 
  • The effect of pregnancy on adolescent growth and development. 
  • The influence of relationships on children's and adolescents' participation in research. 
  • The stability of psychopathy across adolescence. 
  • Weight perceptions and weight control practices in American Indian and Alaska Native adolescents. A national survey. 
  • What do childhood anxiety disorders predict? 
  • Youths' involvement with guns: motivation vs availability. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Dodge, Kenneth A., Pritzker Professor of Early Learning Policy Studies, Duke Science & Society