Positive youth development is a competence based developmental concept (Lerner, 2005), focused on the main assumption that the youth possesses particular strengths and has potential for healthy successful development ...

Psychopathy is the most important construct of personality disorder in forensic psychology. Psychopathic criminals begin their criminal careers earlier than non-psychopaths, have more varied victims, show “criminal ...

A convenience sample of Lithuanian adolescents, aged 16 to 18, (N = 1298, 785 girls and 513 boys) was used in the study. The participants filled-in a questionnaire, which consisted of three dimensions of gender identity, ...

The present study aims to verify how attachment to school and open classroom climate for discussion is related to adolescent’ pro-social engagement. Participants were adolescents from Lithuania (N = 1741, 727 boys and 1014 ...

Recent decades have drawn the attention of researchers from various fields towards the indebtedness problem. Numerous research attempts have tried to determine demographic, economic, psychological characteristics that are ...

The purpose of this paper is to reveal how participation in school activities of adolescents is changing through the period of four years. The data used in this paper is from a larger four year longitudinal project on ...

Scientists from various countries are interested in the research into criminal activity. Much of the research is focused on the analysis of the link between criminal activity and personality traits. The present article ...

This study investigates the relationship between youth prosocial orientation, and personality traits and personal values in a sample of Lithuanian adolescents, in order to assess differences in personality and personal ...

Cyberbullying is a new form of bullying. Scientists agree that this new type of bullying is a very relevant problem among adolescents. The main purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of cyberbullying among ...

In this article predictive validity of judgments concerning risk for repeated spouse assault using the Brief Spousal Assault Form for the Evaluation of Risk B-SAFER (Kropp, Hart, Belfrage, 2005) is analysed. A total of 146 ...