This meta-analysis explores whether self-regulation in childhood relates to concurrent and
subsequent levels of achievement, interpersonal behaviors, mental health, and healthy …

Individuals with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) experience impairments in a
number of functional domains. Although current evidence-based treatments for ADHD …

The author's goal of presenting a fresh conception of young people's development has
resulted in chapters on topics not as strongly represented in most other textbooks. Most …

Social learning theory has remained one of the core criminological paradigms over the last
four decades. Although a large body of scholarship has emerged testing various …

Despite increasing incidence of HIV/AIDS, there has been no systematic review of correlates
of condom use among heterosexual samples. To rectify this, the present study used meta …

Background Use of illicit drugs, particularly cannabis, by young people is widespread and is
associated with several types of psychological and social harm. These relations might not be …

Peer influence is generally believed to be a major cause of adolescent drug behavior. This
paper reviews research findings on friend selection and projection to suggest that the …

The relative influence of adolescents' closest friends and their friendship group on their
cigarette smoking and alcohol use was investigated in a short-term, longitudinal study of …

This study provided a longitudinal test of parent alcoholism effects on adolescents'
substance use growth and tested psychosocial mediators of these effects. The total sample …

Longitudinal latent growth models were used to examine the relation between changes in
adolescent alcohol use and changes in peer alcohol use over a 3-year period in a …