Self-esteem in adolescents treated in an outpatient mental health setting.
Although self-esteem is an important concept, nursing has only begun to focus on the significance of self-esteem as a mechanism for achieving wellness among adolescents, and as a variable for targeted intervention. Nursing studies identifying self-esteem as the primary focus of their research in an adolescent population seeking treatment in mental health settings are scarce. The Roy Adaptation Model's Theory of a Person as an Adaptive System was used to guide this descriptive, correlational study. Research examined the self-report of self-esteem on age, gender, smoking, exercise, depression, anger, and parental alcohol use in a sample of adolescents ages 12-19 years who were being treated in an outpatient mental health setting.
Modrcin-Talbott
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College of Nursing, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA. mmodrcin@cn.gw.utk.edu
Pullen
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Ehrenberger
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Zandstra
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Muenchen
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D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000523:psychology; D000553:Ambulatory Care; D000786:Anger; D002648:Child; D016241:Child of Impaired Parents / Q000523:psychology; D003863:Depression / Q000523:psychology; D015444:Exercise / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D012649:Self Concept; D012907:Smoking / Q000523:psychology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires