Blar i Faculty of Psychology på emneord "Adolescence"
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Changes in diet through adolescence and early adulthood: longitudinal trajectories and association with key life transitions.
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-09-10)Background: Early adulthood is a period associated with poor diet and rapid weight gain. This is also an age of transition, including environmental, social and lifestyle changes which may be associated with changes in diet. ... -
How to successfully promote health among 13 year old boys and girls
(Master thesis, 2009-04-15)Sedentary lifestyles are an increasing problem in today's society. As health behaviors established in adolescence often are persistent into adulthood it is of crucial importance to gain knowledge about the factors that ... -
The importance of the football coach on Norwegian adolescents' competence: A cross sectional study of the association between coach created climate and adolescent motivation.
(Master thesis, 2012-05-11)Introduction: Organised physical activity has been suggested as specifically conducive for adolescents’ physical and psychological health. This thesis employed a health promotion approach to investigate the associations ... -
Increase in Prevalence of Depression Among Girls in Early Adolescence - the Contribution of Cognitive Factors. A Literature Review
(Master thesis, 2014-04-14)Depression is a serious mental disorder with childhood and adolescent onset and a high degree of life-time recurrence. The purpose of this literature review is to examine the increase in prevalence of depression among girls ... -
Parental monitoring, involvement and school absence
(Master thesis, 2018)Background: School absence represents a serious problem in adolescents’ development, as it may lead to severe consequences. Being absent from school is associated with social, psychological and health problems, and is the ... -
Physical activity and life satisfaction in adolescence: The mediating role of initiative
(Master thesis, 2008-05-28)Background: The ability to take initiative is considered an important developmental task in adolescence. Organised leisure time activities have been suggested as especially conducive contexts for initiative development. ... -
Psychometric Validation of the Revised Family Affluence Scale: a Latent Variable Approach
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)The aim was to develop and test a brief revised version of the family affluence scale. A total of 7120 students from Denmark, Greenland, Italy, Norway, Poland, Romania, Scotland and Slovakia reported on a list of 16 potential ... -
A school based study of time trends in food habits and their relation to socio-economic status among Norwegian adolescents, 2001–2009
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-09-25)Background: In recent years, adolescents’ food habits have become a major source of concern, and substantial policy and intervention efforts have been made to influence adolescents to consume more fruit and vegetables ... -
Sleep and body mass index in adolescence: results from a large population-based study of Norwegian adolescents aged 16 to 19 years
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-08-15)Background: The aim of this study was to examine the association between body mass index (BMI) and sleep duration, insomnia and symptoms of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in adolescents. Methods: Data were taken from a large ...