Background: Research supports an association between smoking and negative affect.
Loneliness is a negative affective state experienced when a person perceives themselves …

Background For some adolescents feeling lonely can be a protracted and painful
experience. It has been suggested that engaging in health risk behaviours such as …

The aim of this cross-national study was to assess factors associated with loneliness and to
determine the degree to which loneliness affects health status and risk behaviours among …

The growing rate of smoking cigarettes among the youths necessitates examining its
contributing factors. Accordingly, we aimed to compare smoking and nonsmoking university …

Tobacco use among youth in the South-East Asian region is quite prevalent. This study aims
to examine if psychosocial factors (perceived loneliness, peer, and parental relationships) …

Background The hopelessness scales devised by Beck and by Kazdin have been used in
hundreds of studies of both non-clinical and clinical samples. The present study identified …

OBJETIVOS: identificar a prevalência e fatores associados a indicadores negativos de
saúde mental em adolescentes. MÉTODOS: utilizou-se um questionário previamente …

Objective: The aim of the article is to examine trends in tobacco consumption among the
Czech school-age population. Methods: For the analysis, data from the Czech Health …

This study examines the relationship between suicidality and smoking behavior. Specifically,
it examines how and the degree to which suicide ideation and plan are associated with the …

Background: The health of the school children in adolescence period has a lot of
implications for health problems in adults. Adolescents suffer from psychological problems at …