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Ative a sua escola: Família e amigos

Positive youth development (PYD-SF) : validação para os adolescentes portugueses

The Positive Youth Development (PYD) theory believes that all young people have the potential for healthy and successful development. The aim of this study is to validate the PYD scale for portuguese adolescents. The sample included 384 adolescents (53.4% boys), attending between the 5th and 12th year of schooling levels. The confirmatory factorial analysis allowed to maintain the original structure proposed in...

A família e os efeitos da guarda parental na relação e apoio familiar dos adole...

This study aimed to study social support among family members, and the effects of parental custody in communication with parents and in the family relationship. A total of 8125 Portuguese adolescents participated in the study, with 52,7% being female, attending the 6th, 8th, 10th and 12th grade in Portugal, as part of the Health Behaviour in School aged Children (HBSC) . The young people were asked if their par...

É bom ter, ou não ter, amigos durante a adolescência? Eis a questão, sempre atual!

The main of the present study was to analyse the importance of friends in the development of social skills and in the adolescent’s wellbeing. A total of 5695 Portuguese adolescents with a mean age of 15.46 (SD=1.80), attending the 8th, 10th and 12th years of schooling in mainland Portugal were included in the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study. Comparisons of means (ANOVA) were performed betw...

Trends in portuguese adolescents’ sexual behavior from 2002 to 2014: HBSC Portu...

This study examined trends in adolescent sexual behaviors from 2002 to 2014 in Portugal. Data were collected using self-reported questionnaires from 8th and 10th graders in classrooms during 2002, 2006, 2010, and 2014. Overall, the prevalence of sexual intercourse, age of sexual initiation, pill use, and sexual intercourse under the influence of alcohol or drugs decreased in Portugal between 2002 and 2014, whil...

Trends in Portuguese adolescents’ sexual behavior from 2002 to 2014: HBSC Portu...

ABSTRACT - This study examined trends in adolescent sexual behaviors from 2002 to 2014 in Portugal. Data were collected using self-reported questionnaires from 8th and 10th graders in classrooms during 2002, 2006, 2010, and 2014. Overall, the prevalence of sexual intercourse, age of sexual initiation, pill use, and sexual intercourse under the influence of alcohol or drugs decreased in Portugal between 2002 and...

Alienation and health in adolescents : an original evaluation tool

The present work aims to construct and validate a tool enabling to evaluate alienation in Portuguese adolescents. Participants were a group of adolescents that participated in the Portuguese survey of the European study Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC). For this study, only adolescents from the 8th and 10th grades were included in the sample, comprising 3869 students. The results show a good adeq...

Trends in portuguese adolescents’ sexual behavior from 2002 to 2014 : HBSC port...

This study examined trends in adolescent sexual behaviors from 2002 to 2014 in Portugal. Data were collected using self-reported questionnaires from 8th and 10th graders in classrooms during 2002, 2006, 2010, and 2014. Overall, the prevalence of sexual intercourse, age of sexual initiation, pill use, and sexual intercourse under the influence of alcohol or drugs decreased in Portugal between 2002 and 2014, whil...

Mental health promotion in school context : validation of the ES’COOL scale for...

Introduction: In general, a large proportion of young people report themselves as healthy, happy and satisfied with their circumstances. However, it was estimated that about 20%of youths experience significant stress at times, which raised concerns about the long-term impact of this distress on future adjustment. However, there is evidence that only a small proportion of young people with disorders receive trea...

Does having a pet make a difference? Highlights from the HBSC Portuguese study

Pets are part of many adolescent’s lives. Objectives: To identify in a large national representative sample of Portuguese adolescents (HSBC study), the percentage of adolescents that have pets, what kind of feelings pets provide, differences by gender and age (through school grades) and to verify whether adolescent health, well-being, life satisfaction and psychological symptoms are associated with having a pet...