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THE IMPACT OF ANXIETY ON SPEAKING IN ADOLESCENT AND ADULT GROUPS OF ENGLISH LEARNERS
2018
Aim: The aim of this article is to investigate the interdependence between adolescent and adult students’ anxiety and their foreign language speaking achievements. It has been proved that there is no correlation between adolescent learners’ anxiety and their speaking attainments in a foreign language as well as that there is a weak correlation between adult students’ anxiety and their speaking achievements.
 Method: The author of the study employed quantitative research. Data was collected from anxiety questionnaires completed by the students and from achievement sheets filled in by the English teacher based on five-minute speeches performed by adolescent and adult students.
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Psicothema
2010
Resumen tomado de la publicación El objetivo del presente estudio fue analizar la prevalencia de la victimización a través del teléfono móvil y de Internet. También se examinaron las diferencias de género y de curso sobre el tipo de agresiones electrónicas sufridas. La muestra estuvo formada por 2.101 adolescentes de edades comprendidas entre los 11 y los 17 años. Los resultados indicaron que un 24,6 por ciento de los adolescentes han sido acosados por el móvil en el último año, y un 29 por ciento por Internet. En la mayoría de las agresiones electrónicas, las chicas y los alumnos de los primeros cursos de Enseñanza Secundaria Obligatoria fueron más acosados que sus compañeros. Asturias Col…
Leisure activity patterns and their associations with overweight: A prospective study among adolescents
2009
We examined longitudinal associations between individual leisure activities (television viewing, video viewing, computer games, listening to music, board games, musical instrument playing, reading, arts, crafts, socializing, clubs or scouts, sports, outdoor activities) and being overweight using logistic regression and latent class analysis in a cohort of Finnish twins responding to self-report questionnaires at 11–12 (N = 5184), 14, and 17 years. We also studied activity patterns (“Active and sociable”, “Active but less sociable”, “Passive but sociable”, “Passive and solitary”) thought to represent different lifestyles. Among boys, activity patterns did not predict becoming overweight, but…
Asociacionismo Juvenil y ajuste en la adolescencia. Un análisis en la Comarca de la Safor.
2015
Esta tesis pretende comprobar si la pertenencia continuada a grupos asociativos durante la infancia-adolescencia, se relaciona con un mayor ajuste en la adolescencia, pudiendo convertirse en un factor de protección de conductas de riesgo como son las conductas adictivas y las conductas violentas. El marco teórico está basado en el estudio de la literatura científica que avalan la relación entre asociacionismo y participación juvenil y sus efectos en el ajuste psicosocial adolescentes y los beneficios para el bienestar y la calidad de vida. El asociacionismo es contemplando como una de las nuevas formas de participación y movilización social (Agudo, Martín y Tovar, 2011). Desde el modelo del…
Acculturation preferences towards immigrants: Age and gender differences among Finnish adolescents
2018
Abstract Discussions concerning if and how immigrants should acculturate into Finnish society have become popular especially in the aftermath of the refugee crisis. Despite the abundance of research on acculturation preferences of majority members towards immigrant groups, research on the stability of majority acculturation preferences in adolescence does not exist. In a sample of early (11–13 years, n = 157), middle (14–16 years, n = 362) and late (17–19 years, n = 279) adolescents, this study investigated the stability of acculturation preferences as adolescents age, and the extent to which men and women differed. Contrary to expectations, results indicated support for integration increas…
The Roles of Adherence and Usage Activity in Adolescents' Intervention Gains During Brief Guided Online Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.
2022
OBJECTIVEThis study investigated the roles of adherence and usage activity in adolescents’ (n = 161) gains during a 5-week web intervention program based on acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT).METHODProgram adherence was calculated as adherence percentage in relation to intended usage, whereas completion percentage, usage time, and usage weeks were used as indicators for usage activity. Subjective well-being was measured by self-reported life satisfaction and stress before and after the intervention.RESULTSFirst, regression analysis results showed that higher adherence predicted an increase in life satisfaction during intervention. Second, three subgroups of adolescents were identified …
Modificación de la respuesta de estrés y desregulación del eje hipotalámico pituitario adrenal por un patrón de consumo binge drinking en adolescentes
2022
El consumo de alcohol se ha convertido en un problema de salud pública a nivel mundial. Un grupo especialmente afectado por dicho consumo es el de los adolescentes y los jóvenes adultos. En esta población predomina un patrón de consumo denominado Binge Drinking (BD). Su mantenimiento durante la adolescencia predice una respuesta de cortisol atípica al estrés en la edad adulta joven. Además, este tipo de consumo suele hacerse junto con otras sustancias psicoactivas, especialmente el tetrahidrocannabinol (THC). El estudio de las interacciones entre el consumo de alcohol y los sistemas biológicos de estrés se ha centrado en el eje hipotalámico-pituitario-adrenal (HPA) y en la principal hormona…
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…
Does health literacy explain regional health disparities among adolescents in Finland?
2021
Health literacy (HL)—as a broad range of health-related competencies—has been proposed to be a promising construct in understanding health disparities better, also among adolescents. Several factors have been found to explain differences in adolescents’ HL levels; however, not much is known about how different regions of a country or majority/minority status is associated with HL, or whether HL is associated with regional health disparities. The aim of this study was to examine and compare HL and health levels among majority- and minority-language-speaking adolescents living in different regions of Finland, and to explore if HL explains regional health disparities, taking into account other…
Reading changes in children and adolescents with dyslexia after transcranial direct current stimulation.
2016
Noninvasive brain stimulation offers the possibility to induce changes in cortical excitability and it is an interesting option as a remediation tool for the treatment of developmental disorders. This study aimed to investigate the effect of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on reading and reading-related skills of children and adolescents with dyslexia. Nineteen children and adolescents with dyslexia performed different reading and reading-related tasks (word, nonword, and text reading; lexical decision; phonemic blending; verbal working memory; rapid automatized naming) in a baseline condition without tDCS and after 20 min of exposure to three different tDCS conditions: left …