Girls Who Research Articles

Increased Incidence of Asthma-Like Symptoms in Girls Who Become Overweight or Obese During the School Years

Purpose of the Study. Recent cross-sectional studies have shown an association between obesity and an increased risk of asthma, especially in females. These authors used data from the Tucson Children’s Respiratory Study to search for an increase in asthma in children who became overweight between 6 and 11 years of age. Study Population. The participating children are a birth cohort enrolled between 1980 and 1984 and followed longitudinally. All are resident in the Tucson, Arizona, area. Methods. Symptom questionnaires were completed by parents when the children were 6, 8, 11, and 13 years of age. Weight and height were …

Relationship between the level of Sexual Contacts and Self-Esteem, Self-Assertiveness of Teenage Girls Who Have or Had Boyfriends

This is a cross-sectional descriptive correlation study that aimed to understand the relationship between the level of sexual contacts during the dates and psycho-social factors in teenage girls who have or had boyfriends. The purpose of this study was to describe the relationship between sexual contacts and self-esteem and self-assertiveness.The subjects of the study were 6,130 teenage girls who have or had boyfriends. They were selected convienently 12,733 teenage girls from 254 secondary schools located in 7 large cities and 9 provinces in Korea.A structured questionaire was used it included items one general characteristics, the levels of sexual contacts, self-esteem and self-assertiveness. Seven levels of sexual contacts were rated they were holding a hand, putting arms around each other's shoulders, kiss, french kiss, touching breast, petting genitalia, and sexual intercourse during the dates. Self-esteem and self-assertiveness were measured by the "Self-esteem scale" of Rogenberg (1971) and the questionaires developed by S. B. Chang et al(2000), respectively.The self-reported questionaires were collected from October 2, to October 28, 2000 and analyzed by using SPSS 10.0 Program. The data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, reliability, One-way ANOVA with Duncan method & Scheffe method.The results of the analysis were as follows.1.An average Percentage of the respondents who have (46.1%) or had (53.9%) boyfriends was 48.1% (n=6,130) and the most common sexual contact during the dates was french kiss (26.7%, n=1,634). While 7.5%(458) of respondents had a sexual intercourse, 13.7%(842) of respondents didn't have any sexual contact during the dates.2.Distribution of starting point of the first sexual contact demonstrates that 1,950 respondents (31.8%) held partner's hand at the first date and 1,367 respondents (22.3%) put arms around each other's shoulders at the 2nd or 3rd date. Sexual contacts such as kiss, french kiss, touching breast, petting genitalia, or sexual intercourse were experienced mostly at the later than the 10th date. However, surprisingly large number(1.7%) of respondents had genital contact and sexual intercourses at the first date.3. The means of self-esteem and self-assertiveness scores of the respondents who have or had boyfriends are 27.43(+/-4.03) and 17.96(+/-2.55), respectively. The range of scores for self esteem was 10-40, 40 with most self esteem. The range of scores for self assertiveness was 7-21, 21 with most self assertiveness.4. As sexual contacts proceeded. the means of self-esteem and self-assertiveness values decreased. In detail, the respondents having no or light sexual contacts (kiss, putting arms around each other's shoulder. holding a hand) had similar self-esteem values(p< or =0.05). However, ones having relatively intensive sexual contacts (french kiss, touching breast) showed significantly lower self-esteem values(p< or =0.05). Same trend has been obtained for self-assertiveness value.5. The higher values of self-esteem and self-assertiveness values the respondents had, the later they started the moderate sexual contact (kiss, french kiss) during the dates. Interestingly, among the respondents having intensive sexual contacts (petting genitalia, sexual intercourse) during the dates. those who experienced the such contacts at the first date or later than 10th date have higher self-esteem and self-assertiveness values than ones experienced the such contacts during the 2nd~9th dates, giving U-shape curve.6. There was a significant relationship between self-esteem and self-assertiveness in girls who have or had boyfriends(P< or =.001).In conclusion, the research shows that self-esteem and self-assertiveness values are significantly related with the sexual contacts of the teenage girls who have or had boyfriends. These results strongly suggest that proper sex education program for teenage girls should contain the program on improving the self-esteem and self-assertiveness. We believe that sex education program is the one of the best ways to prevent the unwanted sexual contacts and pregnancy of teenage girls.

Increased incidence of asthmalike symptoms in girls who become overweight or obese during the school years.

The possibility of a causal relationship is suggested by recent concomitant increases in the prevalence of obesity and asthma. In a general population sample, prevalence and incidence of asthma symptoms, skin tests, and body mass index (BMI) were ascertained at mean ages of 6.3 (n = 688) and 10.9 (n = 600) yr. Lung function, bronchodilator responsiveness, and daily peak flow variability were measured at 11 yr of age. There was no association between BMI at age 6 and wheezing prevalence at any age. Females, but not males, who were overweight or obese at 11 yr of age were more likely to have current wheezing at ages 11 and 13 but not at ages 6 or 8. This effect was strongest among females beginning puberty before the age of 11. Females who became overweight or obese between 6 and 11 yr of age were 7 times more likely to develop new asthma symptoms at age 11 or 13 (p = 0.0002); at age 11 their peak flow variability and bronchodilator responsiveness were significantly more likely to be increased. In females, becoming overweight or obese between 6 and 11 yr of age increases the risk of developing new asthma symptoms and increased bronchial responsiveness during the early adolescent period.

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf (review)

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf (review)

Girls Who Act like Women Who Fly: Jessica Dubroff as Cultural Troublemaker

n April 10, 1996, Jessica Dubroff began a flight across the United States as the primary pilot of a private four-seat airplane. If she had completed her journey, at age seven she would have been the youngest person ever to pilot a transcontinental flight. Instead, her plane crashed just after takeoff on the second day of her flight, killing her, her father (Lloyd Dubroff), and her flight instructor (Joe Reid, who was the pilot legally responsible for the plane, according to Federal Aviation Administration [FAA] rules). Not surprisingly, substantial coverage followed her death, coverage that functioned as what Marjorie Garber, Jann Matlock, and Rebecca L. Walkowitz call a media spectacle of 'real' politics and 'real life' (1993, x-xi), which is made spectacular by the themselves as they report on their own coverage as much as on the event itself. Within this mediated context, as a girl pilot who did not remain within the expected boundaries of feminine childhood, Dubroffcreated trouble for the media. Her materiality as a dead girl pilot challenged the representational systems of culture as the struggled to position her in relation to their own assumptions about girls' gender, race, and sexuality. I argue here that through this process the used Dubroff's death as a site at which to protect and articulate the (violated) boundaries of feminine childhood, the fragility of the white middle-class family, and the gendered body's relationship to technology. The Dubroff story is not the only recent one about the role of girls in contemporary U.S. culture. In fact, a spate of discourses on the subject continues to emerge, including, for example, girls in beauty pageants (e.g., JonBenet Ramsey), girls in the Olympics (e.g., Dominique Moceanu), girl tennis phenoms (e.g., Martina Hingis and Venus Williams),

Dietary Quality in Girls Who Report Dieting

LEARNING OUTCOME: To determine whether dieting and weight concerns influence nutrient intake in females 8–17 years of age. A cross-section of young females (n=230) 8–17 years of age from a rural community in Nebraska were surveyed to determine whether dieting and weight behaviors impacts nutrient intake. Research has indicated that dieting behaviors emerge during these years. A previously validated 13-item questionnaire was used to assess frequency of thoughts and practices which involve weight and dieting concerns. Three day diet diaries were analyzed for nutrients and compared with the Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDA) using Food Processor Plus II software. Using the diet record, a Mean Adequacy Ratio (MAR) score was determined, based on the intake of 9 nutrients divided by the RDA for the nutrient. These values are then totaled and divided by the number of nutrients studied. Results indicated that 78% of all the girls who answered they “sometimes” or “very often” wished they were thinner, had significantly lower MAR scores (P = 0.0001) then those girls who did not wish they were thinner. Dieting “sometimes” or “very often” was reported by 47% of all girls and they were found to have significantly lower MAR scores (P = 0.0002) than those who did not diet. MAR scores for all girls reporting dieting was 76.4 ± 12.9%. Nutrient inadequacies included: calcium, iron, zinc, vitamin A, and vitamin C. When analysis of variance was completed on groups by age (8–10, 11–14, and 15–17 yrs) significantly lower MAR scores were only associated with both the desire to be thinner (P=0.04) and reported dieting (P=0.0001) in the 11–14 yr olds. From this study, we conclude there is an association between dieting and weight concerns, and dietary intake in girls 11–14 yrs. This study also suggests that some girls are not meeting minimal nutritional needs which may have a cumulative negative effect on growth and development.

Girls Who Do Things: The Protagonists of Robin McKinley's Fantasy Fiction

Girls Who Do Things: The Protagonists of Robin McKinley's Fantasy Fiction

Comment: Girls Who Are Like Boys

Comment: Girls Who Are Like Boys

The following is an edited transcript of the talk given by Bonnie Greer

Critical QuarterlyVolume 37, Issue 4 p. 107-109 The following is an edited transcript of the talk given by Bonnie Greer BONNIE GREER, BONNIE GREER BONNIE GREER was born in Chicago, Illinois, and has lived in London since 1986. Her short fiction has been published by Serpent's Tail and Aurora Metro. Her first novel, Hanging By Her Teeth, was published in 1994 by Serpent's Tail. She is currently working on two books commissioned by Serpent's Tail: Rupture - formerly Running to the Bridge, a book of short fiction - and The B Side - formerly The Music In Her Head, her second novel. Bonnie is also an award-winning playwright. Her play Munda Negra is published by Methuen in Black Plays Three. She has just adapted Ntozoke Shage's For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf for BBC Radio, to be broadcast in January 1966.Search for more papers by this author BONNIE GREER, BONNIE GREER BONNIE GREER was born in Chicago, Illinois, and has lived in London since 1986. Her short fiction has been published by Serpent's Tail and Aurora Metro. Her first novel, Hanging By Her Teeth, was published in 1994 by Serpent's Tail. She is currently working on two books commissioned by Serpent's Tail: Rupture - formerly Running to the Bridge, a book of short fiction - and The B Side - formerly The Music In Her Head, her second novel. Bonnie is also an award-winning playwright. Her play Munda Negra is published by Methuen in Black Plays Three. She has just adapted Ntozoke Shage's For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf for BBC Radio, to be broadcast in January 1966.Search for more papers by this author First published: December 1995 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8705.1995.tb01103.xAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Volume37, Issue4December 1995Pages 107-109 RelatedInformation

The Double‐Jointed Black Girl: A sketch

Critical QuarterlyVolume 37, Issue 4 p. 110-112 The Double-Jointed Black Girl: A sketch BONNIE GREER, BONNIE GREER BONNIE GREER was born in Chicago, Illinois, and has lived in London since 1986. Her short fiction has been published by Serpent's Tail and Aurora Metro. Her first novel, Hanging By Her Teeth, was published in 1994 by Serpent's Tail. She is currently working on two books commissioned by Serpent's Tail: Rupture - formerly Running to the Bridge, a book of short fiction - and The B Side - formerly The Music In Her Head, her second novel. Bonnie is also an award-winning playwright. Her play Munda Negra is published by Methuen in Black Plays Three. She has just adapted Ntozoke Shage's For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf for BBC Radio, to be broadcast in January 1966.Search for more papers by this author BONNIE GREER, BONNIE GREER BONNIE GREER was born in Chicago, Illinois, and has lived in London since 1986. Her short fiction has been published by Serpent's Tail and Aurora Metro. Her first novel, Hanging By Her Teeth, was published in 1994 by Serpent's Tail. She is currently working on two books commissioned by Serpent's Tail: Rupture - formerly Running to the Bridge, a book of short fiction - and The B Side - formerly The Music In Her Head, her second novel. Bonnie is also an award-winning playwright. Her play Munda Negra is published by Methuen in Black Plays Three. She has just adapted Ntozoke Shage's For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf for BBC Radio, to be broadcast in January 1966.Search for more papers by this author First published: December 1995 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8705.1995.tb01104.xAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Volume37, Issue4December 1995Pages 110-112 RelatedInformation

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf

Book Reviews

Laura Hapke. Girls Who Went WrongRay B. Browne, Editor. Contemporary Heroes and HeroinesRay Browne. Against Academia: The History of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association and the Popular Culture Movement 1967–1988William R. Nolan, Editor. Max Brand: Western GiantNorman J.G. Pounds. Hearth and Home: A History of Material CultureRichard Maltby. Passing Parade: A History of Popular Culture in the Twentieth CenturyWilliam J. Gilmore. Reading Becomes a Necessity of Life: Material and Cultural Life in Rural New England, 1780–1835Gerald Graff. Professing Literature: An Institutional HistoryRussell Jacoby. The Last Intellectuals: An American Culture in the Age of AcademeJan Cohn. Creating America: George Horace Lorimer and The Saturday Evening PostFrancis J. Puig and Michael Conforti, Editors. The American Craftsman and the European Tradition 1620–1820Robert L. Reid, Editor. Picturing Minnesota 1936–1943: Photographs from the Farm Security AdministrationKathryn Grover, Editor. Fitness in American Culture: Images of Health, Sport, and the Body, 1830–2940Randy Roberts and James Olson. Winning is the Only Thing: Sports in America Since 1945Susan Strasser. Satisfaction Guaranteed: The Making of the American Mass MarketRick Simonson and Scott Walker, Editors. The Graywolf Annual Five: Multi‐Cultural Literacy‐Opening the American MindGrace Sevy. The American Experience in Vietnam

Cooperative Communication Strategies

The images of the black are many and varied. But while the images oscillate, a strong central theme is generated on the works on blacks which leaves the impression that behaviors in the black are not those actions which contribute to a sense of community. Researchers, even those who attempt to write in a manner about the black (Abrahams, 1970; Hannerz, 1969), focus on negative characteristics. The mass media images of blacks have been rather stereotypic and have concentrated on crime and antisocial actions (Graber, 1976); so the positive image of the black is rarely presented (Kerner Commission, 1968). Even popular artists such as Michele Wallace in her book, Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman, and Ntozake Shange in her play, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide! When the Rainbow is Enuf, paint a picture of a where black male-female relationships are at best characterized by serious strain. The total impression left by these works seems to be a black situation based on rather than on cooperation as the term community implies. Whether or not the conflicts are

Is not so gd to be born a girl (I), otherwise i would think it odd to have rape prevention month (2)

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsNtozake ShangeNtozake Shange is the author of the hit play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf.

Book Review: For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf

Book Review: For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf

Girls Who Perceive Themselves as Competent Some Antecedents and Correlates

The self-perceptions of competence of white, middle-class fifth- and tenth-grade girls were examined in relation to (a) certain maternal variables and (b) self-esteem and anticipated role pattern (career aspirations and desired family sizeJ. Subjects were 79 fifth-graders and 51 of their mothers, and 49 tenth-graders and 38 of their mothers. Self-perceptions of competence were measured by an adaptation of the Rosenkrantz Sex-Role Questionnaire. Specific maternal variables were: mothers' self-perceptions of competence, maternal child-rearing values, and maternal employment. In the results, girls who had high self-perceptions of competence had mothers whose own self-perceptions were high; their mothers placed significantly more value on traits related to independence, assertiveness, and achievement. There were no effects of maternal employment. Other findings were: there was a positive relationship of self-esteem and self-perceptions of competence (significant only for tenth-graders); and high-competence girls had higher career aspirations and desired fewer children.

ADOLESCENT GIRLS WHO LACK FUNCTIONING OVARIES

ADOLESCENT GIRLS WHO LACK FUNCTIONING OVARIES

Adolescent Girls Who Attempt Suicide—Comments on Treatment

Back to table of contents Previous article Next article ArticlesNo AccessAdolescent Girls Who Attempt Suicide—Comments on TreatmentAlbert Schrut*, M.D., Toni Michels†, B. A.Albert Schrut*Los Angeles, Calif.*Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of Southern California School of Medicine; Faculty, Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute; Staff member, Los Angeles Suicide Prevention Center, 9735 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, Calif. 90212.Search for more papers by this author, M.D., Toni Michels†Los Angeles, Calif.†Teacher in the Extension Department of the University of California at Los Angeles; Clinical Associate, Los Angeles Suicide Prevention Center.Search for more papers by this author, B. A.Published Online:30 Apr 2018https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1969.23.2.243AboutSectionsPDF/EPUB ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InEmail PDFThis content is only available as a PDF. Access content To read the fulltext, please use one of the options below to sign in or purchase access. Personal login Institutional Login Sign in via OpenAthens Purchase Save for later Item saved, go to cart PPV Articles - APT - American Journal of Psychotherapy $35.00 Add to cart PPV Articles - APT - American Journal of Psychotherapy Checkout Please login/register if you wish to pair your device and check access availability. Not a subscriber? Subscribe Now / Learn More PsychiatryOnline subscription options offer access to the DSM-5 library, books, journals, CME, and patient resources. This all-in-one virtual library provides psychiatrists and mental health professionals with key resources for diagnosis, treatment, research, and professional development. Need more help? PsychiatryOnline Customer Service may be reached by emailing [email protected] or by calling 800-368-5777 (in the U.S.) or 703-907-7322 (outside the U.S.). FiguresReferencesCited byDetailsCited byA Retrospective on "The Suicidal Fit" in Mainland Puerto Ricans: Research Issues25 July 2016 | Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, Vol. 11, No. 1Toward an Understanding of Suicide Risks in Young Hispanic Females14 September 2016 | Journal of Adolescent Research, Vol. 2, No. 1Explaining Suicide Among the Young: An Analytical Review of the LiteratureJournal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services, Vol. 20, No. 8Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, Vol. 11, No. 2Dying in jail: The phenomenon of adolescent suicide in correctional facilitiesChildren and Youth Services Review, Vol. 2, No. 3Journal of School Health, Vol. 50, No. 3British Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. 124, No. 578, Vol. 2 / 1 Volume 23Issue 2 1969, pp. 179–368Pages 243-251 Metrics PDF download History Published online 30 April 2018 Published in print 1 April 1969

Some typical patterns in the behavior and background of adolescent girls who attempt suicide.

Adolescent girls who attempt suicide are often victims of chaotic, disrupted families, condemnation, and isolation. Rejection by a boyfriend, repeating the initial rejection by the family, often precedes the suicide attempt. A treatment outline involving the entire family is presented.