Based on data from a three-year longitudinal study, we assess the effect, according to gender, of emotional psychopathology in preadolescence on anthropometric and body composition parameters in adolescence (N = 229). Psychopathology was assessed using the "Screen for Childhood Anxiety and Related Emotional Disorders, the Children's…

This study's aim was to search for the appropriate functional form of the effect of proximal cumulative contextual risk (PCCR), measured with number of adverse life events experienced in the last 6 months, on adolescent psychopathology and prosocial behavior, measured with the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire. The study sample was 171 year…

Determined occurrence and subjective importance of list of life events in 1,296 adolescents and compared these with risk of disturbed self-image. Found disturbed self-image related to excess of life events and with specific classes of events. Rarest and subjectively most important events were often associated with higher risk of disturbed…