The aim of this study was to evaluate the use of the online data collection method to survey adolescents about their psychological characteristics in a follow up-longitudinal study on positive youth development in order ...

Subjective well-being (SWB) is people’s cognitive and emotional evaluation of their lives, which in our everyday vocabulary is called happiness (Diener et al., 2003). The scientific analysis of subjective well-being refers ...

Adolescent emotional and behavioral problems probably eventuate through a variety of developmental pathways and exposure to several risk factors. Several salient influences and concomitants associated with an increased ...

Achenbach's Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL 4/18) is accepted worldwide for assessment of children competencies and behaviour problems. As with any similar instrument, it is liable to cultural influences, hence requires ...

The fact that the time dimension is included in a prospective, longitudinal study gives it its unique value for studying development. However, it also implies some problems for research, such as cohort effects and some ...

Personologists from many countries have consulted the natural language when developing personality taxonomies. Presently, the Big Five factor structure represents the most popular lexically derived personality taxonomy. ...

Theories of parent child interactions suggest that parent- child transactional styles substantially influence children’s acquisition of appropriate social interaction skills, as well as impacting related adjustment outcomes. ...

Current study is a first attempt to examine what patterns of social strategies could be identified among adolescents, and to explore how the use of particular strategies is associated with adolescent’s specific behavioural ...