Adolescent definition: growing to manhood or womanhood; youthful. . See examples of ADOLESCENT used in a sentence.
The present investigation examined the sexual dimorphic patterns of cardiorespiratory fitness to working memory in preadolescent children (age range: 7.7-10.9). Data were collected in three separate studies (Study 1: n = 97, 42 females; Study 2: n = 95, 45 females; Study 3: n = 84,...
Children are found to exhibit high degrees of delay discounting compared with adults in many delay discounting studies, which might be due to the asynchronous development of “bottom-up” and “top-down” neural systems. However, the temporal dynamics as
PURPOSE: To elicit perceptions of oral health in children and adolescents as an initial step in the development of oral health item banks for the Patient-Reported Oral Health Outcomes Measurement Information System project. METHODS: We conducted focus groups with ethnically, socioeconomically, and geog...
More television viewing between the ages of 5 and 15 years old was significantly associated with increased odds of having a criminal conviction and a diagnosis of antisocial personality disorder by age 26, and higher Negative Emotionality scores, after a range of potential confounders was controlled ...
The objective of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of psychological treatments for depression in pre-adolescent children, a disorder affecting 1–2 % of children in this age range. A systematic review of studies of psychological interventions to treat depressive disorder in pre-adolescent child...
Thus, researchers have explored deficits of a general ability to empathise with others, deficits of victim-group empathy (i.e., empathy deficits for a specific class of potential victim, such as children or women), or deficits of victim-specific empathy (i.e., empathy deficits for the ...
The standard deviation of the age at the occurrence of the various growth events is about one year in both sexes. The duration of the spurt did not differ between the sexes but the postpubertal period was significantly longer in girls. To include the total range of adolescent growth ...
of Youth and their children aged 14 or older indicates that, after accounting for a wide range of demographic and socioeconomic antecedents, children are significantly more likely to become sexually active before age 14 if their mother had sex at an early age and if she has worked extensively....
RESULTS: Forty-two cases of illness falsification by children were identified, with a mean age of 13.9, and a range from 8 to 18 years. The majority of patients were female (71%), and the gender imbalance was greater for the older children. The most commonly reported falsified or induced...