Adolescent Girls

This study examined the role of three socio-cultural factors (fellows, parents, and media) that affect physical discontent and dietary restrictions of teenage girls. Participants were 577 10th grade girls from 6 schools, answered class questionnaire, measured height and weight. A similar pattern can be obtained by two pass analysis. Current physique strongly predicts ideal physique and physical dissatisfaction, but the perceived impact of multiple socio-cultural factors on slimming are also directly related to physical ideal and dissatisfaction.

The purpose of this study was to analyze the concept of mental health from the viewpoint of adolescent girls and boys and to explain adolescent girls and boys as important determinants of mental health. Sweden made individual or intensive group discussions in 48 interviews with children aged 13 to 16. Puberty people believe that mental health is an emotional experience in which positive and negative health is part of this concept. Families are the most important determinants of psychological health of puberty, and friends pay close attention. Girls and boys do not believe that there is a big difference in mental health between girls and boys. In recognition of children's mental health, age difference seems to be more important than sex difference.

Although little difference is seen in cognitive development of teens boys and girls, teens boys and girls seem to have different confidence in specific cognitive abilities and skills. Compared to boys, adolescent girls tend to be confident in reading and social skills, but young boys tend to be confident in sports and mathematical skills (Eccles, Barber, Jozefowicz et al., 1999 ). Even if they have roughly the same abilities in these areas as a group (of course, there are many personal differences in these groups). It seems that consistency with stereotypes of gender rather than differences in abilities is the cause of the difference in confidence level (Eccles et al., 1999). Adults help to eliminate these myths.