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Western appearance culture promotes the importance of the body andappearance. An attractive, slim body ensures success and acceptance in society.Images of perfectly shaped bodies create dissatisfaction with one’s own bodyand encourage the desire to achieve an ideal appearance. Physical appearancehas become an important construct among young people and adolescents.The majority of them regard their appearance …

The paper analyses innovative learning and teaching through mobile learning on a sample of 96 adolescents. A 3-part questionnaire consisted of sociodemographic data, attitudes about mobile learning and media activities and the use of social networks. The research was done in 2019 with vocational school students. 15.1% of them use applications for learning English, while …

The aim of this article is to examine whether there are diffreneces between students prone to social or recreational gambling, i.e. prone to excessive or problematic gambling, and their colleagues who do not gamble, in terms of gender, socio-demographic characteristics of families and type of school, success and their absence from school. The study includes …

During adolescence the parent-child relationship is very complex. Social relations have been changing and adjustments have to be made by both adolescents and people they are close with. The emerging changes in adolescence lead to maturity and independent decision-making. The researches have shown that bad relationships with parents, their rejection and excessive control result in …

Adolescents, who go through a very dynamic period, are exposed to various environmental factors that influence the choice of their life styles, including the addictive ones. This work examines the existence and the variations of the addictive behaviour patterns among adolescents in a part of the Split-Dalmatia County. The results of this research indicate a …