...(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Adolescents Dynamic perspective Sexual development The World Health Organization (WHO) convened a meeting...

...Cynthia J. Schellenbach; Thomas L. Whitman; John G. Borkowski Although considerable research has focused on the personal and social characteristics of adolescent mothers, the literature in this area lacks theoretical integration. To organize existing research and to direct future work, a model...

...Judith Torney-Purta The process of cognitive restructuring, derived from research concerned with the Piagetian concept of accommodation, is applied to the study of political learning in children and adolescents. Particular emphasis is placed on how experience can lead to restructuring of both...

... disabling uncertainties is described that, once set in motion, routinely carries such adolescent epistemologists through familiar stations of objectivism, dogmatism, and nascent skeptical doubt. The effect of this effort to reread the common crises of adolescent development as automatic by-products...

... or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Adolescents Cognitive development Cognitive processes Models Piagetian tasks Problem solving Reasoning Theories Hum. Dev. 23: 323 353(1980) Competence and Performance Models...

...Glenn E. Weisfeld; Janet M. Berger This theoretical essay focuses on some of the apparently evolved features of human adolescence and their possible functions. These include the pubertal growth spurt, sexual size dimorphism and bimaturism, the greater aggressiveness of males, heightened concern...

...Robert E. Grinder The fundamental problem of research in adolescence, given its myriad origins and sources of dissemination, is less an inability to produce substantive research than to perceive the research that exists. The problem, which tends to isolate researchers from one another, is reviewed...

...R.C. Williamson; Georgene H. Seward The study reports the findings with 210 Chilean male and female adolescents on a 12-point semantic differential scale. Comparisons were made for 7 concepts (men, my mother, women, my father, myself, the ideal man, the ideal woman). In view of the more highly...

...Kyunghwa Kwak The present review seeks to ascertain how intergenerational relations between adolescents and their parents are experienced through their socialization when cultural values are shared and practised by two generations in a family context. Within the framework of three culture-related...

... is methodologically limited and conceptually inadequate to understand private experiences of its individual members. Placing case studies of three adolescents in the ontological perspective of Heidegger and Paul Tillich, I will show that the two orientations are mutually dependent and dynamically constituting...