Skip to main content
Registrieren
Springer Medizin Österreich
SUCHE
MENÜ 1 2 3 4
main-content
nach oben

Tipp

Weitere Artikel dieser Ausgabe durch Wischen aufrufen

Erschienen in: Wiener klinische Wochenschrift 19-20/2021

02.09.2020 | review article

Determinants of health and well-being in adolescents

Review of sex differences with a focus on boys

verfasst von: Gloria Mittmann, Beate Schrank

Erschienen in: Wiener klinische Wochenschrift | Ausgabe 19-20/2021

Einloggen, um Zugang zu erhalten
share
TEILEN

Summary

A wide variety of variables determine health and well-being in adolescence. How these variables may differ in relation to gender or sex is often not clear. In addition, research on sex differences often focuses on females rather than males. This review gives an overview on the literature with respect to possible gender/sex-specific determinants and correlates of health and well-being in adolescent boys. The search strategy used the approach of a narrative review, which led to 17 papers being included. The data synthesis employed a qualitative and descriptive analysis approach. We found sex differences in three categories: clinical symptoms, health and well-being, and risk behavior. The results show a variety of determinants that lead to sex differences in health outcomes, such as peer relations, social economic status, physical activity and coping styles. Strengths and limitations of the literature and implications for future research are discussed.
Vorheriger Artikel Pain management in hemophilia: expert recommendations
Nächster Artikel Individual cognitive changes in subjective cognitive decline, mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease using the reliable change index methodology
Literatur
1.
2.
Taghizadeh Moghaddam H, et al. Adolescence Health: the needs, problems and attention. Int J Pediatr. 2016;4(2):1423–38.
3.
Card NA, et al. Direct and indirect aggression during childhood and adolescence: a meta-analytic review of gender differences, intercorrelations, and relations to maladjustment. Child Dev. 2008;79(5):1185–229. PubMedCrossRef
4.
Byrnes JP, Miller DC, Schafer WD. Gender differences in risk taking: a meta-analysis. Psychol Bull. 1999;125(3):367–83. CrossRef
5.
Kling KC, et al. Gender differences in self-esteem: a meta-analysis. Psychol Bull. 1999;125(4):470–500. PubMedCrossRef
6.
Wilson GS, Pritchard ME, Revalee B. Individual differences in adolescent health symptoms: the effects of gender and coping. J Adolesc. 2005;28(3):369–79. PubMedCrossRef
7.
8.
Löffler-Stastka H, et al. Gender aspects in the planning of psychotherapy for borderline personality disorder. Wien Klin Wochenschr. 2006;118(5–6):160–9. PubMedCrossRef
9.
Currie C, et al. Social determinants of health and well-being among young people. Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study: international report from the 2009/2010 survey, Vol. 2010. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2009. p. 271.
10.
Kuntsche E, et al. Cultural and gender convergence in adolescent drunkenness: evidence from 23 European and North American countries. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2011;165(2):152–8. PubMedCrossRef
11.
Pitel L, et al. Gender differences in adolescent health-related behaviour diminished between 1998 and 2006. Public Health. 2010;124(9):512–8. PubMedCrossRef
12.
Simons-Morton B, et al. Gender specific trends in alcohol use: cross-cultural comparisons from 1998 to 2006 in 24 countries and regions. Int J Public Health. 2009;54(Suppl 2):199–208. PubMedCrossRef
13.
Lips HM. Sex and gender: An introduction. Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press; 2017.
14.
Chandra A, Minkovitz CS. Stigma starts early: Gender differences in teen willingness to use mental health services. J Adolesc Health. 2006;38(6):754.e1–754.e8. CrossRef
15.
Hanson RF, et al. Relations among gender, violence exposure, and mental health: the national survey of adolescents. Am J Orthopsychiatry. 2008;78(3):313–21. PubMedPubMedCentralCrossRef
16.
17.
Piko B. Self-perceived health among adolescents: the role of gender and psychosocial factors. Eur J Pediatr. 2007;166(7):701–8. PubMedCrossRef
18.
Tseng FY, Yang HJ. Internet use and web communication networks, sources of social support, and forms of suicidal and nonsuicidal self-injury among adolescents: Different patterns between genders. Suicide Life Threat Behav. 2015;45(2):178–91. PubMedCrossRef
19.
Rueger SY, Malecki CK, Demaray MK. Relationship between multiple sources of perceived social support and psychological and academic adjustment in early adolescence: comparisons across gender. J Youth Adolescence. 2010;39(1):47. CrossRef
20.
Denton M, Prus S, Walters V. Gender differences in health: a Canadian study of the psychosocial, structural and behavioural determinants of health. Soc Sci Med. 2004;58(12):2585–600. PubMedCrossRef
21.
Lien N, Jacobs DR, Klepp K‑I. Exploring predictors of eating behaviour among adolescents by gender and socio-economic status. Public Health Nutr. 2002;5(5):671–81. PubMedCrossRef
22.
Monge-Rojas R, et al. Barriers to and motivators for healthful eating as perceived by rural and urban Costa Rican adolescents. J Nutr Educ Behav. 2005;37(1):33–40. PubMedCrossRef
23.
Moreno L, et al. Micro-environmental and socio-demographic determinants of childhood obesity. Int J Obes. 2004;28(p):16–20. CrossRef
24.
Piko B. Gender differences and similarities in adolescents’ ways of coping. Psychol Rec. 2001;51(2):223–35. CrossRef
25.
Capaldi DM, et al. Aggression toward female partners by at-risk young men: the contribution of male adolescent friendships. Dev Psychol. 2001;37(1):61–73. PubMedCrossRef
26.
Jacobs W, et al. Gender differences in socio-ecological determinants of alcohol use among hispanic adolescents. J Sch Health. 2020;90(2):99–106. PubMedCrossRef
27.
Kahn JA, et al. Patterns and determinants of physical activity in US adolescents. J Adolesc Health. 2008;42(4):369–77. PubMedCrossRef
28.
Ko C‑H, et al. Gender differences and related factors affecting online gaming addiction among Taiwanese adolescents. J Nerv Ment Dis. 2005;193(4):273–7. PubMedCrossRef
29.
Rhodes N, Pivik K. Age and gender differences in risky driving: the roles of positive affect and risk perception. Accid Anal Prev. 2011;43(3):923–31. PubMedCrossRef
30.
Matud MP. Gender differences in stress and coping styles. Pers Individ Dif. 2004;37(7):1401–15. CrossRef
31.
Eschenbeck H, Kohlmann C‑W, Lohaus A. Gender differences in coping strategies in children and adolescents. J Individ Differ. 2007;28(1):18–26. CrossRef
32.
Schrank B, et al. Gender differences in caregiver burden and its determinants in family members of terminally ill cancer patients. Psychooncology. 2016;25(7):808–14. PubMedCrossRef
33.
Denton M, Walters V. Gender differences in structural and behavioral determinants of health: an analysis of the social production of health. Soc Sci Med. 1999;48(9):1221–35. PubMedCrossRef
34.
Currie C. Inequalities in young people’s health: HBSC international report from the 2005/2006 Survey. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2008.
35.
Afifi M. Gender differences in mental health. smedj. 2007;48(5):385–91.
36.
Sujoldzic A, et al. Social determinants of health—a comparative study of Bosnian adolescents in different cultural contexts. Coll Antropol. 2006;30(4):703–11. PubMed
37.
Piccinelli M, Wilkinson G. Gender differences in depression. Critical review. Br J Psychiatry. 2000;177(6):486–92. PubMedCrossRef
38.
Hetland J, Torsheim T, Aaro LE. Subjective health complaints in adolescence: dimensional structure and variation across gender and age. Scand J Public Health. 2002;30(3):223–30. PubMedCrossRef
39.
Viner R, et al. Adolescence and the social determinants of health. Lancet. 2012;379(9826):1641–52. PubMedCrossRef
40.
Ge X, Conger RD, Elder G. Pubertal transition, stressful life events, and the emergence of gender differences in adolescent depressive symptoms. Dev Psychol. 2001;37(3):404–17. PubMedCrossRef
41.
Poulin C, et al. Gender differences in the association between substance use and elevated depressive symptoms in a general adolescent population. Addiction. 2005;100(4):525–35. PubMedCrossRef
42.
Hankin BL, Abramson LY. Development of gender differences in depression: an elaborated cognitive vulnerability-transactional stress theory. Psychol Bull. 2001;127(6):773–96. PubMedCrossRef
43.
Lakdawalla Z, Hankin BL, Mermelstein R. Cognitive theories of depression in children and adolescents: a conceptual and quantitative review. Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev. 2007;10(1):1–24. PubMedCrossRef
44.
Baiden P, Stewart SL, Fallon B. The role of adverse childhood experiences as determinants of non-suicidal self-injury among children and adolescents referred to community and inpatient mental health settings. Child Abuse Negl. 2017;69:163–76. PubMedCrossRef
45.
Wardle J, et al. Gender differences in food choice: the contribution of health beliefs and dieting. Ann Behav Med. 2004;27(2):107–16. PubMedCrossRef
46.
Potter BK, et al. Does a relationship exist between body weight, concerns about weight, and smoking among adolescents? An integration of the literature with an emphasis on gender. Nicotine Tob Res. 2004;6(3):397–425. PubMedCrossRef
47.
Butt J, et al. Adolescent physical activity participation and motivational determinants across gender, age, and race. J Phys Act Health. 2011;8(8):1074–83. PubMedCrossRef
48.
McCabe MP, Ricciardelli LA, Finemore J. The role of puberty, media and popularity with peers on strategies to increase weight, decrease weight and increase muscle tone among adolescent boys and girls. J Psychosom Res. 2002;52(3):145–53. PubMedCrossRef
49.
Ojala K, et al. Attempts to lose weight among overweight and non-overweight adolescents: a cross-national survey. Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act. 2007;4(1):50. PubMedPubMedCentralCrossRef
50.
McKinley M, et al. It’s good to talk: children’s views on food and nutrition. Eur J Clin Nutr. 2005;59(4):542–51. PubMedCrossRef
51.
Griffin KW, et al. Ethnic and gender differences in psychosocial risk, protection, and adolescent alcohol use. Prev Sci. 2000;1(4):199–212. PubMedCrossRef
52.
Torsheim T, et al. Cross-national variation of gender differences in adolescent subjective health in Europe and North America. Soc Sci Med. 2006;62(4):815–27. PubMedCrossRef
53.
Azevedo MR, et al. Gender differences in leisure-time physical activity. Int J Public Health. 2007;52(1):8. PubMedCrossRef
54.
Krahe B, Berger A, Möller I. GRI-JUG. Instrumentarium zur Erfassung des Geschlechtsrollen-Selbstkonzepts im Jugendalter [Verfahrensdokumentation aus PSYNDEX Tests-Nr. 9005895 und Fragebogen mit Auswertungsanleitung. Trier: Leibniz-Zentrum für Psychologische Information und Dokumentation (ZPID)(Hrsg.), Elektronisches Testarchiv; 2011. p. 383. https://​doi.​org/​10.​23668/​psycharchives. CrossRef
Metadaten
Titel
Determinants of health and well-being in adolescents
Review of sex differences with a focus on boys
verfasst von
Gloria Mittmann
Beate Schrank
Publikationsdatum
02.09.2020
Verlag
Springer Vienna
Erschienen in
Wiener klinische Wochenschrift / Ausgabe 19-20/2021
Print ISSN: 0043-5325
Elektronische ISSN: 1613-7671
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00508-020-01726-6

Weitere Artikel der Ausgabe 19-20/2021

Wiener klinische Wochenschrift 19-20/2021 Zur Ausgabe

mitteilungen der gesellschaft der ärzte in wien

Veranstaltungstipps

original article

Psoriasis and IgE-mediated allergy: correlation or mutual inhibition?

abstracts

45. Jahrestagung der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Pneumologie5. Jahrestagung der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Thoraxchirurgie

original article

Long-term impact of olfactory dysfunction on daily life

review article

Hearing impairment and diverse health outcomes

short report

Individual cognitive changes in subjective cognitive decline, mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease using the reliable change index methodology