Search results for "ADOLESCENCE"

A socio-ecological perspective on alcohol use in adolescence

2012

Alcohol use among adolescents has become a public health problem(Morawska & Oei,2005). Although the frequency and the amount of alcoholic beverages consumed vary greatly from different countries and cultures, in two thirds of the ESPAD countries the vast majority of the students (15-16 years) have drank alcohol at least once in their lifetime. Moreover, in half of the participating countries, 47% of the students had consumed at least one glass of alcohol at the age of 13 or younger, and 14% had been drunk at that age. These changing patterns of consumption are associated with a variety of negative outcomes (Coleman & Cater, 2003). In a socio-ecological perspective, many studies (Nation & He…

Alcohol and Nicotine Use among Adolescents: An Observational Study in a Sicilian Cohort of High School Students

2022

In recent years, the mode of alcoholic intake known as binge drinking (BD) has become a common practice, especially among adolescents who, due to socio-environmental motives, tend to reach a rapid state of drunkenness. This drunkeness leads to alterations in brain areas responsible for executive functions and cognitive processes, as well as to the genesis of factors that predispose to lasting addiction. Likewise, nicotine leads to a comparable degree of addiction. On this basis, the aim of this research was to evaluate, on a cohort of 349 high school students (15–17 years old) in the province of Palermo, the following: (I) the drinking model of alcoholic beverages; (II) the use of nic…

L'utilizzo di alcool in adolescenza tra aspettative e compiti evolutivi

2011

In letteratura (Maggiolini A.,et al.,2004) è presente un accordo nel considerare la fase dell’adolescenza come un momento di transizione caratterizzato da profondi cambiamenti interni e nel rapporto con lo spazio sociale. I compiti evolutivi, che caratterizzano questa fase, sono fortemente influenzati dal periodo storico e socio-culturale in cui l’adolescente si trova a vivere. Nel contesto odierno, il processo di risimbolizzazione del Sé e di soggettivazione della propria identità pone gli adolescenti di fronte ad una complessità e molteplicità di prospettive che se da un lato offrono la possibilità di avere di fronte originali e molteplici strade di costruzione del proprio sé, dall’altro …

Ego resiliency assessment in a group of teenagers

2010

Restoring Harmony in the Lifeworld? : Identity, Learning, and Leaving Preelite Sport

2020

Sport provides many youth participants with a central life project, and yet very few eventually fulfill their athletic dreams, which may lead them to disengage from sport entirely. Many studies have explored the processes of athletic retirement, but little is known about how youth athletes actually reconstruct their relationship with sport and embodiment postretirement. The authors explored these issues in the story of “Pilvi,” a Finnish alpine skier who disengaged from sport in her late adolescence. Employing an existential-phenomenological approach, they conducted six low-structured interviews with Pilvi, combined with visual methods, and identified key themes relating to the body, space,…

Sexism and Aggression in Adolescence.¿How Do They Relate to Perceived Academic Achievement?

2018

Sexist attitudes are rooted in patriarchal structures, which uphold traditional gender stereotypes, and which are still found in society today. Scholars have found gender differences in perceived academic achievement, with girls performing better than boys, and negative relationships between sexism and perceived academic achievement. Moreover, perceived academic achievement and sexist attitudes have been associated with aggression and different kinds of violence. This study examined the associations between sexist attitudes and perceived academic achievement (using self-report data). The study also assessed the mediating role of physical and verbal aggression in the relationship between sex…

Social stress under binge-like alcohol withdrawal in adolescence: evidence of cannabidiol effect on maladaptive plasticity in rats.

2022

Abstract Background Alcohol binge drinking may compromise the functioning of the nucleus accumbens (NAc), i.e. the neural hub for processing reward and aversive responses. Methods As socially stressful events pose particular challenges at developmental stages, this research applied the resident–intruder paradigm as a model of social stress, to highlight behavioural neuroendocrine and molecular maladaptive plasticity in rats at withdrawal from binge-like alcohol exposure in adolescence. In search of a rescue agent, cannabidiol (CBD) was selected due to its favourable effects on alcohol- and stress-related harms. Results Binge-like alcohol exposed intruder rats displayed a compromised defensi…

Consumo di cannabis, gruppo dei pari e strutturazione del Sè in adolescenza

2011

La conquista di un nuovo senso di identità e la rappresentazione di essa come frutto dell’integrazione delle trasformazioni psico-fisiche che travolgono il proprio corpo, è un percorso lento e di certo non privo di tensioni, che si snoda nel corso di tutta l’adolescenza. La costruzione identitaria adolescenziale non è però solo un processo intrapsichico, essa si articola anche attraverso il confronto che il giovane ha all’interno dello spazio sociale che lo circonda, mediante il rapporto con i pari ed i nuovi ruoli sociali progressivamente ricoperti. In questa fase di vita, il gruppo dei pari assume nuove valenze e funzioni specifiche, fornendo un modello di confronto e identificazione con …

Sex Differences in the Behavioral and Synaptic Consequences of a Single in vivo Exposure to the Synthetic Cannabimimetic WIN55,212-2 at Puberty and A…

2019

Heavy cannabis consumption among adolescents is associated with significant and lasting neurobiological, psychological and health consequences that depend on the age of first use. Chronic exposure to cannabinoid agonists during the perinatal period or adolescence alters social behavior and prefrontal cortex (PFC) activity in adult rats. However, sex differences on social behavior as well as PFC synaptic plasticity after acute cannabinoid activation remain poorly explored. Here, we determined that the consequences of a single in vivo exposure to the synthetic cannabimimetic WIN55,212-2 differently affected PFC neuronal and synaptic functions after 24 h in male and female rats during the pube…

Age, gender, and puberty influence the development of facial emotion recognition

2015

Our ability to differentiate between simple facial expressions of emotion develops between infancy and early adulthood, yet few studies have explored the developmental trajectory of emotion recognition using a single methodology across a wide age-range. We investigated the development of emotion recognition abilities through childhood and adolescence, testing the hypothesis that children’s ability to recognise simple emotions is modulated by chronological age, pubertal stage and gender. In order to establish norms, we assessed 478 children aged 6-16 years, using the Ekman-Friesen Pictures of Facial Affect. We then modelled these cross-sectional data in terms of competence in accurate recogn…