Adolescent alcohol use remains an important public health concern. One of the most salient
and consistent predictors for drinking behaviour among young people is peer influence. A …

El consumo abusivo de alcohol en la adolescencia es, en el momento actual, un importante
problema de salud pública, hasta el punto de que su prevención se ha convertido en una de …

Earlier studies have verified the role of family on children's development. Now, more and
more researchers have come to realize that family, as a dynamic eco-system, is much more …

Purpose It is widely held that being victimized by a dating partner during adolescence has
negative consequences, yet few longitudinal studies have examined those consequences …

Motivated by Gibbons et al.'s (Appl. Psychol. Meas. 31: 4–19, 2007) full-information
maximum marginal likelihood item bifactor analysis for polytomous data, and Rijmen …

Aims This study aimed at evaluating the effect of family factors on the occurrence of Internet
addiction and determining whether Internet addiction could make any difference in the family …

Background One young adult in two has entered university education in Western countries.
Many of these young students will be exposed, during this transitional period, to substantial …

This study aimed to investigate the associations of four dyads (mother-child, father-child,
teacher-student, and student-student) of social relationships with adolescent Internet …

Protective factors may promote successful development by neutralizing the effects of
negative risk factors. This paper is focused on possible protective factors of adolescent …

While peer influences have often found to be a risk factor in terms of adolescent substance
use, parental variables may continue to serve as an adaptive and protective function …