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- Aunola, Kaisa, et al.
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Adolescents' achievement strategies, school adjustment, and externalizing and internalizing problem behaviors
- 2000
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Ingår i: Journal of Youth and Adolescence. - Berlin : Springer Berlin/Heidelberg. - 0047-2891 .- 1573-6601. ; 29:3, s. 289-306
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Investigated the relationships between the achievement strategies adolescents deploy in a school context, and their self-esteem, school adjustment, and internalizing and externalizing problem behaviors. A total of 1,185 14-15 yr old adolescents filled in the Strategy and Attribution Questionnaire, Rosenberg's Self-Esteem Scale, and scales measuring school adjustment, depression and externalizing problem behavior. The adolescents' parents were also asked to evaluate their children's achievement strategies, school adjustment, and externalizing problem behavior. Results reveal that low self-esteem was associated with adolescents' use of maladaptive achievement strategies which, in turn, was associated with their maladjustment at school, and internalizing and externalizing problem behaviors. Moreover, the association between adolescents' maladaptive strategies and their externalizing problem behavior was partly mediated via their school adjustment. The results suggest that the achievement strategies adolescents deploy are reflected not only in their school adjustment but also in their overall problem behavior.
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- Kansi, Juliska, 1973-, et al.
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Eating Problems and the Self-Concept: Results Based on a Representative Sample of Norwegian Adolescent Girls
- 2003
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Ingår i: Journal of Youth and Adolescence. - 0047-2891 .- 1573-6601. ; 32:5, s. 325-335
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The joint role of self-esteem and unstable self-perceptions for eating problems was investigated in a representative Norwegian population sample of girls in 3 age groups (N = 5287; aged 12-19 years). Three scales from the 12-item Eating Attitudes Test (EAT-12) measured eating problems: Restriction, Bulimia-food preoccupation, and Diet. Girls low on all EAT scales were most often characterized by high self-esteem combined with stable self-perceptions, whereas girls high on all EAT-scales were characterized by having low self-esteem and unstable self-perceptions. Bulimic tendencies and dieting were more common in older groups, whereas high scores on all EAT-scales simultaneously were equally common in all ages. The findings gave initial support to the continuity hypothesis in indicating that the age trends for eating problems, except for restrictive tendencies, followed those of eating disorders and in that the risk factors found for eating problems parallel those reported for eating disorders.
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