Adolescence has often been described as a period filled with stress and tension. Changes in the social environment as well as physiological ones provide wide opportunity to face potentially threatening events.However, there ...

The objectives of this article are to analyse: 1) the relation between dimensions of the adolescent perception of parental relationship with them to adolescent functional / dysfunctional coping; 2) the relation between ...

The way adolescents project themselves in the future is crucial to their positive development. Possible selves (PSs) are the self-knowledge of our potential and our future. These self-perceptions are associated to many ...

Adolescents may be more sensitive to stress-induced alcohol drinking than adults, which would explain the higher prevalence of alcohol abuse and dependence in late adolescence than in adulthood. The present study analyzed ...

The aim of this work was to obtain an abridged form of the Adolescent Coping Scale (Spanish version) that included items representative of the various factorial dimensions identified as stable. The scale (80 items) was ...

Adolescents are more sensitive than adults to the neural and behavioral effects of psychostimulants, and exhibit greater vulnerability to drug abuse, dependence or relapse into these conditions. We have reported that cocaine ...

This work describes the distribution of psychopathological indicators and their clinical levels in Uruguayan high school adolescents by gender, age, and socioeconomic level of the participants. The proportion of cases with ...