The book is as comprehensive as possible within the confines of one text. The adolescent is
discussed within the context of contemporary society. Material includes both theory and life …

Children who experience interparental conflict have more difficulty with internalizing and
externalizing problems. Children's ability to manage their emotional and physiological …

Objective: Although there has been extensive research examining drinking motives,
relatively little of that research has focused on those factors that might underlie drinking …

After five years in elementary schools with small classes and stimulation of basic thinking
skills, Italian children move to very traditional scuola media. Data obtained from 434 Italian …

En este trabajo estudiamos la conexión que existe entre las relaciones de amistad en los
últimos años adolescentes y otros contextos sociales. En concreto, pretendemos conocer el …

Transition from primary to secondary school occurs during the developmental period of early
adolescence. Mixed findings exist across the literature on the effects of transition on student …

Although theorists have generally moved away from the old psychodynamic view of
adolescence as' Sturm und Drang'(or storm and stress), there is no doubt that adolescence …

Two forms of classroom peer group relationships, group acceptance and friendship, were
examined in terms of differential influences on self-concept and sense of school belonging …

Friends are an important source of social support for adolescents, but there is little research
on how adolescent offenders' friendships provide support due to the emphasis on risk …

Twenty-eight preschool age children were included in this dissertation study designed to
examine individual differences in early peer social competency as a function of attachment …