Teenagers need sufficient sleep to function well daily, yet consolidated evidence advising
which factors protect, or harm, adolescents' sleep is lacking. Forty-one studies, published …

Although different methods are available for the analyses of longitudinal data, analyses
based on generalized linear models (GLM) are criticized as violating the assumption of …

Based on a longitudinal sample of 1,452 African American and European American
adolescents and their parents, parenting practices (ie, monitoring, warmth, and autonomy …

Background Alcohol use among adolescents has become a major public health problem in
the past decade and has large short-and long-term consequences on their health. The aim …

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 …

Among factors predicting adolescent mood problems, certain aspects of the parent–
adolescent relationship play an important role. In previous studies, children whose parents …

Within the adolescent risk behavior literature, questions remain about relationships among
behaviors in early adolescence, gender, context, and negative social and health outcomes …

Background Alcohol and illicit drug use has been recognized as a growing problem among
adolescents in Botswana. Little is known about factors affecting alcohol and drug use among …

While the scholarly literature on pornography use is growing, much of this literature has
examined pornography use as a static feature that does not change. Despite this trend …

Poor family cohesion and elevated adolescent aggression are associated with greater
alcohol use in adolescence and early adulthood. In addition, evocative gene–environment …