Research has indicated that empathy and prosocial responding are associated with
numerous emotional, psychological and social benefits. However, although adolescence is …

A landmark publication in the social sciences, Linda Lindsey's Gender is the most
comprehensive textbook to explore gender sociologically, as a critical and fundamental …

Based on a social-cognitive model, we examined the multiple mediating roles of self-esteem
and loneliness in linking family dysfunction to anxiety and depression in adolescents …

Background: Mental health during a person's adolescence plays a key role in setting the
stage for their mental health over the rest of their life. Hence, initiatives that promote …

Peer groups are critical socialization agents for the development of social behavior in
adolescence, but studies examining peer-group effects on individuals' prosocial behavior …

Walters provides a detailed description of how criminal thinking serves as a vital link
between criminality and crime. Criminality, the propensity to become involved in criminal …

The current study used a multidimensional approach to prosocial behavior by (a) exploring
various types of adolescent prosocial behavior toward friends (physical helping, sharing …

Hate speech is often discussed and investigated as an online phenomenon, while hate
speech among adolescents in the real world (eg, in schools) has rarely been researched …

Risk, protective, and promotive factors are instrumental in predicting and, in some cases,
explaining human behavior. In the current study, an attempt was made to determine which of …

Carrying a handgun is an established risk factor for firearm violence, with detrimental and
too often irreversible consequences for adolescents including injury and mortality. Although …