This may affect adolescents' chance of being identified as having mental health problems by their GP.
Likewise, comments and attitudes towards health by elderly people living in the community may affect adolescents' weight norms.
Adolescence is a critical period characterized by psychological and behavioral changes that may affect adolescents' smoking behavior [ 7].
This finding indicates that the intervention may affect adolescents' alcohol expectancies in the short term, whereas the effect does not last in the long term.
Prolonged pressure from their social and cultural environment may affect adolescents' weight norms, and may play an important role in adolescents setting their own weight standards, no matter whether these standards are healthy or unrealistic [ 25, 26].
Furthermore, factors such as social desirability and comparisons to others [ 39], as well as health concerns [ 40] may affect adolescents' self-perception and their responses on the KIDSCREEN questionnaire.
– Contrary to the current evidence for physical activity and mental health, voluntary and competitive sport-for-development leagues in post-conflict contexts may negatively affect adolescent depression- and anxiety-like syndromes.
Developmental shifts in the homeostatic sleep drive [ 17] may also affect adolescents' response to chronic sleep restriction.
However, little is known about the socio-behavioral and environmental experiences that may affect the adolescent woman's oral health and quality of life.
For example, early cannabis use may affect the adolescent neuromaturation and cognitive functioning [ 69] and thus predispose the users to subsequent development of anxiety and other mental health problems [ 23].
