Parenting styles have crucial impacts on the psychological development of the adolescents and their future, such as health, mental well-being, academic achievement, self-esteem, and risk-taking behavior. The purpose of this study was to assess the relationship between perceived parenting style and depressive symptoms among college students. The Design of this study was a descriptive co-relational design. This study was conducted at two faculties in Menoufia University (faculty of art and faculty of nursing). A systematic random sample consisted of 527students who were selected from the above mentioned setting. Two instruments were used for data gathering. Parental Authority Questionnaire and Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) depression scale. The results of this study indicated that the most common parenting styles used among the studied sample was moderate authoritative style. Also more than half of the students had mild depressive symptoms. Conclusion: this study concluded that there was a positive correlation between authoritarian parenting style and depressive symptoms. Therefore, it is recommended that, an educational program should be given for the parents' of adolescents to increase their awareness about their adolescences' needs, problems and how to satisfy their needs and adapt with their problems.

Social websites are excessively used today among university students. Many students use it for different reasons which put them at risk for social websites addiction. The purpose of the study was to assess the potential social websites addiction motives among university students. Design: A descriptive correlational research design was utilized. The setting was first-year students at the faculty of art and faculty of nursing. Sample: A purposive sample of 140 students was selected from the above mention setting who have scores of 50 to 79 on social networking sites addiction scale (high-risk groups).Two instruments were used for data collection: instrument one contained an interview questionnaire composed of two parts about sociodemographic characteristics and social websites use data. Instrument two included two parts; part one was Internet use motives scale and part two included social networking addiction scale. The results revealed that the most common motives level were escaped from stress, social integration, and lack of assertiveness (77.14%, 72.86%, 64.28%, respectively).There was an increase in the mean score of sexual behavior as a motive for social websites use among males students than females students while there was an increase in the mean score of control as a motive for social websites use among females students than males students. There was a highly statistically significant positive correlation between potential social websites addiction and both of a lack of assertiveness, escape from stress and total motive for social websites use. It was concluded that the highest motives level for social websites use were escape from stress, social integration and a lack of assertiveness respectively. Thus, it was recommended that counseling program are needed to help the university students to control use social web sites and prevent falling into addiction

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Background: Substance abuse is one of the major health and social problems that seriously impairs people's selfcontrol and social adjustment. The study's goal was to assess the impact of an expressed emotion management programme on self-control and social adjustment in substance abusers. To achieve the study's goal, a quasi experimental design (pre and posttest) was used. The study was carried out at the Addiction Treatment Center and Addiction Clinic at the Psychiatric Mental Health Hospital in Benha City, Qalubia Governorate, which is affiliated with the general secretariat. Subjects: For this study, a convenience sample of 40 substance abusers was used. For data collection, three tools were used. To collect data, tool 1 was a structured interview questionnaire. was used to collect information about the studied sample's sociodemographic and clinical characteristics. To assess self-control, the Tool 2-Self Control Scale was used. To assess social adjustment, use Tool 3: Social Adjustment Scale. The study found that there was a significant improvement in self-control and social adjustment among substance abusers after the programme compared to before it, and there was a high significant statistical positive correlation between total self-control and total social adjustment among the studied subjects after programme implementation. Conclusion: The expressed emotion management programme had a positive effect on substance abusers' self-control and social adjustment. Recommendations: A selfcontrol and social adjustment expressed emotion management programme should be implemented in addiction clinics and treatment centres For those who are addicted to drugs or alcohol. for substance abusers to cover a broader spectrum.

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