Search results for: Bettina Pikó

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Gender Differences and Similarities in Adolescents’ Ways of Coping

Bettina Piko

The Psychological Record > 2001 > 51 > 2 > 223-235

Various factors have an influence on which coping strategies are mobilized under specific circumstances, among others, age and gender. The present paper focuses on the interrelationships between the ways of coping and some health-related variables in adolescence. Data were collected among secondary school students (n = 1039) in Szeged, Hungary. Factor analysis of the shortened and adapted version...

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Az élet értelmességével összefüggő egyéni és családi tényezők serdülőkorban

László Brassai, Bettina Pikó

Magyar Pszichologiai Szemle (Hungarian Psychological Review) > 2012 > 67 > 2 > 317-336

Despite the fact that meaning in life has been portrayed as a highlighted developmental goal in psychology, yet little research has examined its influencing factors in adolescence. In the present study we examined potential individual and parental correlates of meaning in life in a sample of 1944 adolescents (aged between 15–19 years; 47.8 percent males) from secondary schools of Transylvania. While...

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Bullying and Depressive Symptomatology Among Low-Income, African–American Youth

Kevin M. Fitzpatrick, Akilah Dulin, Bettina Piko

Journal of Youth and Adolescence > 2010 > 39 > 6 > 634-645

Utilizing a risk and protective factors approach, this research examined the relationship between self-reported depressive symptomatology, group membership (bully, victim, bully–victim) risks, and protection among a sample of African–American youths. Self-report data were collected in spring, 2002. Youth in grades 5–12 were sampled (n = 1,542; 51% female) from an urban school district in the Southeast...

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Egzisztenciális/spirituális attitűdök jelentősége a serdülők egészségpreventív és rizikómagatartásában

László Brassai, Bettina Pikó

Magyar Pszichologiai Szemle (Hungarian Psychological Review) > 2010 > 65 > 4 > 597-611

The role of existential/spiritual domain of personality in adolescent health behavior is an underinvestigated research field in health psychology. The present study is based on the results of a research carried out in a sample of Transylvanian adolescents (N = 406; aged between 15–18 years, mean age = 16.5 year; 42.1% males and 57.9% females) focused on the association between meaning of life and...

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RELIGIOUSNESS AMONG HUNGARIAN SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS (Vallasossag a magyar kozepiskolasok koreben)

Eszter Kovacs, Bettina Piko

Tarsadalomkutatas (Social Science Research) > 2009 > 27 > 1 > 27-48

Spirituality has changed and got a new meaning recently. In every person's life a demand for spirituality and rituals appears. The question is how people treat this phenomenon in everyday life. Because of the effects of secularization the previous dominance of religion declined and new waves of religious movements were established. The authoresses aim is to give an outline of what religion means for...

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Smoke-free world for children's welfare: Perceptions of smoking in preadolescence

Judit Bak, Bettina Piko

Children and Youth Services Review > 2007 > 29 > 3 > 283-293

Lay concepts of health risks influence children's health behavior, their future health status and welfare. This study has been focused on children's smoking perceptions. Although a wide range of factors have been found to influence smoking in adolescence, preadolescent children's perceptions of smoking is a relatively underinvestigated research field. The study was conducted among 3rd, 4th, 5th year...

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ADOLESCENT HEALTH BEHAVIOR IN THE LIGHT OF TWO SOCIAL COPING MECHANISMS

Bettina Piko, Noemi Keresztes

Magyar Pszichologiai Szemle (Hungarian Psychological Review) > 2007 > 62 > 2 > 203-214

Among the factors affecting adolescent health behaviors, coping mechanisms have a significant effect on decisions regarding health behaviors. In the frame of coping mechanisms, rational ways tend to go together with beneficial, whereas emotion-oriented ones tend to go together with unfavorable health behaviors. Social coping strategies, on the other hand, are well known to help develop health conscious...

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Leisure structure, value orientations and health behavior among high school students

Bettina Piko

Szociologiai Szemle (Sociological Review) > 2005 > 15 > 2 > 88-99

The main goal of the present study was to determine the relationship between youths' leisure activities and their health attitudes. The author also aimed at investigating the connections between the youths' leisure activities and their parents' social background. In addition, she also tried to detect possible relationships between young people's pastime and their value orientations, such as materialism,...

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Does class matter? SES and psychosocial health among Hungarian adolescents

Bettina Piko, Kevin M. Fitzpatrick

Social Science & Medicine > 2001 > 53 > 6 > 817-830

Previous research finds a significant relationship between socioeconomic inequalities and health status; individuals with lower income, education, and occupational prestige have and report more health problems. Interestingly, this relationship is not consistent across the life cycle; health differences among adolescents across socioeconomic groups are not as clearly defined. Using data (n=1039) on...

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Smoking in adolescence - Do attitudes matter?

Bettina Piko

Addictive Behaviors > 2001 > 26 > 2 > 201-217

A number of factors have emerged as being associated with adolescent smoking. While theoretical evidence suggests that attitude can be an important factor influencing smoking, empirical findings are somewhat contradictory. The main goal of the present study has been to identify the characteristics/dimensions of attitudes toward smoking in adolescence. Data were collected among primary (Grades 7-8),...

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Health-Related Predictors of Self-Perceived Health in a Student Population: The Importance of Physical Activity

Bettina Piko

Journal of Community Health > 2000 > 25 > 2 > 125-137

The main objective of the present study was to observe and describe the intercorrelations of a number of psychological and health-related variables with special emphasis put on the predictors of self-perception of health using stepwise linear regression analysis. Data were collected in conjunction with a research project of health risk behavior of the student population of Szeged, Hungary. The number...

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Teaching the Mental and Social Aspects of Medicine in Eastern Europe: Role of the WHO Definition of Health

Bettina Piko

Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services... > 1998 > 26 > 6 > 435-438

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