South African adolescents - like their peers around the world – struggle to keep their emotional health intact. These problems are revealed by the youths’ involvement in risky activities such as suicidal behaviour. The ...

English: Adolescence is a dynamic life phase in which the formation of an identity is prioritised. The family is one of the primary structures supporting adolescents in reaching various developmental tasks, including forming ...

English: International and national studies indicate that substance use and abuse are considered important psychosocial issues among adolescents. It is therefore critical to investigate the risk and protection factors that ...

English: The purpose of this qualitative, phenomenological study was to explore the dynamics of the parenting experience as it relates to parenting adolescents, with the specific aim of exploring and achieving an understanding ...

English: Both international and national research, indicate that adolescent suicide rates have steadily increased during the past few decades. As a result, the importance of investigations concerning risk and protective ...

English: The recently published National Youth Risk Behaviour Surveys highlighted an alarming increase in adolescent suicidal behaviour in South Africa. The death of a young person has a profound psychological and social ...

English: In this study, the ethnic identity development of Afrikaans adolescents residing in Qatar was explored. Given the fact that the aforementioned adolescents live in a context vastly different from that in which they ...

English: The primary aim of this study was to investigate the relatioship between cognitive flexibility and psychological wellbeing amongst adolescents empirically, as well as to determine the role of sex and culture as ...

English: Loneliness is currently regarded as one of the most common and widespread problems experienced by human beings, and it is also observed as a painful, unpleasant and negative experience. The term loneliness might ...

English: Adolescence is considered a crucial period for the development of an identity. Various factors affect this development. One of these factors is the perceived parenting styles to which adolescents are exposed: ...