Adolescent gender differences in social support: Structure, function, and provider type

Colarossi, Lisa G.

doi:10.1093/swr/25.4.233

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“…For example, Mahaffy (2004) found that the self-esteem of the male adolescent is higher than female adolescent. A study conducted by Colarossi (2001) to examine the gender differences in adolescents' support structure, frequency as well as satisfaction from parents, peers and other adults found similar evidences as per Mahaffy (2004). Colarossi (2001) suggested that female adolescents as compared to male adolescents are more oriented toward peers for social support and they are also more satisfied with the support gained from their peers.…”

Section: Gender Differences In Social Supportsupporting

confidence: 61%

“…Besides, the study of Brage and Meredith (1994) cited in Colarossi and Eccles (2000) reported that family support provide the strongest impacts on self-esteem. In a similar vein, Demo, Small and Savin-Williams (cited in Colarossi, 2001) found that self-esteem of an adolescent's is positively influenced by the perceptions of parental support, participation, and communication. Lakey and Cassidy (1990) cited in Moradi and Funderbunk (2006) added that people with low self-esteem often perceive lower social support.…”

Section: Definition Of Self-esteemmentioning

confidence: 75%

“…This support can be further classified into information, emotion and instrument. Another definition by Colarossi (2001) showed that social support is a multifaceted construct. Colarassi explained that such construct includes disaggregation and specification across structural and functional dimensions.…”

Section: Definition Of Social Supportmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In addition, studies (e.g. Chubb, Fertman & Ross, 1997;Dumont & Provost, 1999;Colarossi, 2001) found that gender is an important area of study in perceived of support from various constructs because gender differences may affect outcomes which may also serve as a protective factor for the problems of adolescence.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Perceived Social Support and Self-Esteem towards Gender Roles: Contributing Factors in Adolescents

Tam

Lee

Har³

et al. 2011

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The study aims to examine the relationship between self-esteem and perceived social support among the Malaysian adolescents. Gender differences of perceived social support and self-esteem among the respondents were also investigated. To achieve the objectives of the study, a survey was conducted with a relatively large (n=460) random samples of adolescents, aged 16-20, drawn from schools, colleges and universities in Malaysia. The Self-esteem Rating Scale (SERS) and the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS) were used in the study. The results indicated that there were no gender differences in perceived social support and self-esteem among adolescents. However, a positive correlation was found between perceived social support and self-esteem. The study also found peer support was the highest form of perceived social support.

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Section: Gender Differences In Social Supportsupporting

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Section: Definition Of Self-esteemmentioning

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Section: Definition Of Social Supportmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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“…31 However, it is also found that young men were as satisfied with support received from friends as was young women. 32 Another study from India, however, did not find any significant difference between women and men on the variable support. 33 The study also found that young female participants report less on the asset of empowerment compared to young males, indicating that the feeling of safety, being valued and respected by others.…”

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Gender differences in developmental assets profile of college going youth: a report from India

Satheesan¹,

Hameed²

2018

Int J Community Med Public Health

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Background: Recent years have seen a paradigm shift in the way development during young age is considered where the focus of attention has moved from the deficit based approaches to one that of strength based. Among the various strength based approaches in youth development, developmental assets profile has achieved a prominent place. The present study is aimed at providing a preliminary evaluation of developmental assets on a group of young people from Kerala State, India. Methods: One hundred and forty (63 females, 77 males) participants were assessed on developmental assets profile survey. Results: Of the sample, 6.4%, 58.6%, 33.6%, and 1.4% of youth fell in the thriving, adequate, vulnerable, and challenged categories, respectively. Analysis of composite internal assets showed that 15.7%, 47.9%, 33.5%, and 2.9%, fell in the thriving, adequate, vulnerable, and challenged categories respectively. In the external assets scores, this was 22.1%, 49.3%, 27.9%, and 0.7%. Significant gender differences were found in the number of total internal, external, and total assets reported. Conclusions: The present study is one of the first studies attempting to assess the developmental assets profile of the college going youth in India and to analyse the gender differences on the same. This way, the study provides a preliminary, nonetheless important understanding about the developmental assets profile of a sample of college going youth.

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The Effects of Simultaneous Developmental Processes: Factors Relating to the Career Development of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Youth

Schmidt

Nilsson

2006

The Career Development Quart

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C. Hetherington (1991) hypothesized that lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) adolescents may experience a “bottleneck effect” in career development because of internal psychological energy focusing on issues surrounding sexual identity. This assertion has not yet been tested, however, in the career development literature. The authors examined the relationship between variables indicative of psychological resources being devoted to managing an LGB identity, social support, and career development. Survey data from 102 LGB youth demonstrated that inner sexual identity conflict and social support predicted unique and shared variance in career maturity and vocational indecision, lending empirical support to the bottleneck hypothesis.

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Adolescent gender differences in social support: Structure, function, and provider type

Cited by 69 publications

References 3 publications

Perceived Social Support and Self-Esteem towards Gender Roles: Contributing Factors in Adolescents

Perceived Social Support and Self-Esteem towards Gender Roles: Contributing Factors in Adolescents

Gender differences in developmental assets profile of college going youth: a report from India

The Effects of Simultaneous Developmental Processes: Factors Relating to the Career Development of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Youth

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