Motor vehicle accidents and adolescents: An empirical study on their emotional and behavioral profiles, defense strategies and parental support

Cerniglia, Luca; Cimino, Silvia; Ballarotto, Giulia; Casini, Elisa; Ferrari, Anna; Carbone, Paola; Cersosimo, Mariangela

doi:10.1016/j.trf.2015.09.002

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“…It therefore appears that in healthy adolescents, high alexithymia scores involve more emotional and behavioral problems. In line with these results, Di Trani and colleagues (2013) found that difficulties identifying feelings factor predicted significantly internalizing and externalizing problems in healthy adolescents (see also Cerniglia et al, 2015). On the other hand, analyses on adolescents with BED showed different results.…”

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Binge Eating Disorder In Adolescence: The Role Of Alexithymia And Impulsivity

Ballarotto¹

2017

European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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Binge Eating Disorder (BED) is a disorder, recently included in DSM-5, often present in adolescence. Several studies highlight that adolescents with BED had high levels of impulsivity and alexithymia. Even though studies have underlined the importance of these variables, no studies have investigated their role on adolescents' emotional-behavioral functioning. This study proposes to verify if adolescents affected by BED show higher levels of alexithymia and impulsivity than adolescents without diagnosis, and what is their role on adolescents' emotional-behavioral functioning. Thanks to the collaboration with clinical centers for eating disorders, a group composed by 60 adolescents diagnosed with BED was paired to a 60 healthy controls. Participants completed validated self-report questionnaires investigating levels of alexithymia, impulsivity and emotional-behavioral functioning. Adolescents diagnosed with BED showed higher scores on alexithymia, impulsivity and maladaptive emotionalbehavioral functioning than healthy controls. Moreover, alexithymia had a mediating effect on the relationship between impulsivity and emotional-behavioral functioning. These results show that alexithymia is a key variable influencing the emotional-behavioral functioning of adolescents affected by BED. Further studies are needed to also check other variables that might lead to the onset of BED. On the other hand, our findings can help clinicians suggesting the importance of promoting prevention and treatment polices focused on alexithymia.

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Binge Eating Disorder In Adolescence: The Role Of Alexithymia And Impulsivity

Ballarotto¹

2017

European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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“…In line with the previous research (Iversen, Rundmo, 2012;Glendon et al, 2014;Lucidi et al, http://dx.doi.org/10.15405/epsbs.2017.09. (Cerniglia et al, 2015;Cestac, Paran, Delhomme, 2011;Feldman, Greeson, Renna, Robbins-Monteith, 2011). In most countries including Lithuania male role is related to risk taking, showing off and disobeying the rules (Motiejūnaitė-Timinskienė, Bulotaitė, 2012;Gulliver, Begg, 2007;Özkan, Lajunen, 2006;Akaateba, Amoh-Gyimah, 2013;Yilmaz, Çelik, 2004).…”

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“…In most countries including Lithuania male role is related to risk taking, showing off and disobeying the rules (Motiejūnaitė-Timinskienė, Bulotaitė, 2012;Gulliver, Begg, 2007;Özkan, Lajunen, 2006;Akaateba, Amoh-Gyimah, 2013;Yilmaz, Çelik, 2004). Similarly, disregard of the rules, importance of peer pressure and limitations in emotion regulation which are related to the young age (Brown et al, 2016;Cerniglia et al, 2015;Chan, Sinhal, 2013;Rhodes, Pivik, Sutton, 2015) might also be important for the positive attitudes towards risky driving.…”

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Predicting Future Traffic Offenders By Pre-Drivers’ Attitudes Towards Risky Driving

Slavinskienė¹,

Žardeckaitė-Matulaitienė²,

Endriulaitienė³

et al. 2017

European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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Worldwide statistics indicate that novice drivers are still one of the riskiest drivers' groups as they highly contribute to road accidents and traffic rules violations. Thus, the psychological variables that allow predicting whether novice drivers will violate traffic rules are important in risky driving research. The aim of this study is to find out if pre-drivers' attitudes towards risky driving measured before obtaining driving license could predict future traffic offences during the first year of independent driving. The research method was a longitudinal study, based on self-reported web-based questionnaire and later records by police. The Scale of Risk-Taking Attitudes to Driving (Ulleberg, Rundmo, 2002) was used to measure six different attitudes towards risky driving. Demographic data and information about committed traffic rules violations during the first year of independent driving were obtained from police records. 598 pre-drivers (262 males, 336 females), averagely aged at 23.63, participated in the study. Results showed that all types of pre-drivers' attitudes towards risky driving were distributed differently, with the attitude towards showing off driving skills as the highest scores and attitudes towards drunk driving and traffic rules violations as the lowest scores. It was found that male and younger pre-drivers possess some riskier attitudes towards driving than female and older pre-drivers. None of six different attitudes towards risky driving measured before obtaining driving license were significant in predicting traffic offences during the first independent driving year.

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“…This issue is in line with other studies that have suggested that psychopathological risk in the surviving parent may hinder the possibility for the son of a supportive social environment and hamper the development of satisfying relationships and personal growth. (Angell, Dennis, & Dumain, 1998;Klass, Silverman, & Nickman, 1996;Cerniglia et al, 2015).…”

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Psychopathological Risk in Parentally Bereaved Adolescents

Cimino¹,

Cerniglia²,

Ballarotto³

et al. 2016

European Proceedings of Social &Amp; Behavioural Sciences

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For a child, the death of a parent is a traumatic experience and can give rise to several difficulties during the child's development. International literature in this field has focused on clinical populations; evaluations of the psychological difficulties in adulthood have rarely been aimed at non-referred samples. The present study assessed the psychological functioning of a non-referred sample of adolescents, with consideration given to the impact of the loss of a caregiver during childhood on their psychological profiles. It also evaluated the association between the adolescents' psychological profiles and possible psychopathological risk in the surviving parents. Three groups of subjects (N=96) were considered: adolescents who had suffered the loss before 3 years of age (Group A);

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Motor vehicle accidents and adolescents: An empirical study on their emotional and behavioral profiles, defense strategies and parental support

Cited by 42 publications

References 47 publications

Binge Eating Disorder In Adolescence: The Role Of Alexithymia And Impulsivity

Binge Eating Disorder In Adolescence: The Role Of Alexithymia And Impulsivity

Predicting Future Traffic Offenders By Pre-Drivers’ Attitudes Towards Risky Driving

Psychopathological Risk in Parentally Bereaved Adolescents

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