Essays about: "female adolescence"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 essays containing the words female adolescence.

1. 1. Imprisoning People and Opportunities : Estimating the Impact of State-Level Jail Population on Social Mobility

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Maja Melander; Ebba Berg Gorgén; [2021]
   Keywords : jail; incarceration; social mobility; social opportunities; intergenerational mobility; United States; fängelse; socialmobilitet; intergenerationell rörlighet;

   Abstract : This paper investigates the consequences of children's exposure to state-level incarceration rates on social mobility in the United States. The study uses social mobility data from the Opportunity Atlas for children born between 1978 and 1983. Jail population data is gathered from the 1985 and the 1995 Annual Survey of Jails. READ MORE

3. 2. Athletic Dropouts in Swedish Adolescence Female Handball Players

   University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för hälsa och välfärd

   Author : Adam Bogren; Kevin Rodenburg Lindholm; [2020]
   Keywords : Athletic experiences; Elite sporting schools; Former student-athletes; Holistic Athletic Career model; Push; pull; anti-push; anti-pull framework.; Atletiska erfarenheter; Elit idrottsgymnasium; Före detta student-atleter; Holistiska karriärsutvecklingsmodellen; Push; pull; anti-push; anti-pull ramverket.;

   Abstract : According to Baron-Thiene and Alfermann (2015), there is a potentially high dropout number within female student-athletes, but they also implicate that only a few studies have focused on adolescent or young adults’ dropout from elite sports. The present study has chosen to explore factors influencing athletic dropout in former female handball players that has studied at an elite sporting school and to explore how the former student-athletes experience their chosen career paths post athletic dropout, using a qualitative post-positivistic and realistic approach. READ MORE

4. 3. Male nostalgia is a dead teenage girl : The romantic nostalgia of idealized traumatic female adolescence in Sofia Coppola’s The Virgin Suicides

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Filmvetenskap

   Author : Tova Hirsch; [2020]
   Keywords : Teenage girls; female adolescence; nostalgia; perfect femininity; Sofia Coppola; girlhood; female trauma;

   Abstract : The historic portrayal of the teenage girl in cinema as a mythical, sexual, hyper feminine and contemporary creature makes way for a specific but fairly common trope. Namely a trope where the teenage girl is used to elicit nostalgia and romance for the male protagonist, specifically because of her trauma and pain. READ MORE

5. 4. Sex Differences in Adolescent Depression

   University essay from Högskolan i Skövde/Institutionen för biovetenskap

   Author : Emma Hammarsten Yder; [2018]
   Keywords : sex differences; adolescent depression; female adolescent depression; neurodevelopmental changes; sex differences in brain maturation; 2:1 ratio;

   Abstract : At the age of 13, the 2:1 ratio becomes evident. It entails the fact that after puberty, twice as many females as compared to males suffer from depressive episodes. Much research has been conducted to highlight key contributing factors that aid in the onset and the timing of the 2:1 ratio. READ MORE

6. 5. The relation between retrospective bullying, life satisfaction and risk behaviors

   University essay from Örebro universitet/Institutionen för juridik, psykologi och socialt arbete

   Author : Sabina Olofsson; Denis Pasic; [2017]
   Keywords : Bullying; childhood; adolescence; risk behaviors; gender differences; life satisfaction.; Mobbning; barndom; tonåren; riskbeteenden; könsskillnader; livstillfredsställelse.;

   Abstract : The purpose of this study was to examine the relation between previously experienced bullying with students’ current risk behaviors. The participants were 341 university students in Sweden and the data were collected with a web-based survey. READ MORE