The term human agency, or agency, recognizes the important fact that juveniles not only are acted upon by social influence and structural constraints, but also make choices and decisions based on the alternatives that they see before them. A longitudinal study on adolescent health (eating disorders, depression, substance abuse) in middle and secondary school boys and girls... A study evaluating prevention programs for adolescent females with body image concerns... school-based study of male adolescent mental health: depression, substance abuse, and eating disorders...

Perhaps it is public language that is responsible for a complex of rather distinctive features of human thought. Reflexive thinking will paradigmatically involve a direct and conscious cognitive access to target thoughts. Public language sentences are the only possible vehicles for thoughts that are to be the objects of reflexive thinking.

Should I help out wid’is’tudy?
Matthias Mehl:
“We are interested in how natural language in everyday conversation -”

“Exactly, but I like this... You couldn’t say that I’m shy... [laughing].”

“I went to a newsgroup last year... She’s a psychic... Judy, in my group, she’s so unhappy... But... You just take these trips...”

“Hmmm...”

“New York... The divorce hadn’t gone through, yet... And then they broke up... One day...”

“So, it could be the last day... I wrote everything... I... I... I... Friends.”
I believe I might be rather good at this task. ha ha ha.
“- conveys psychological information about a person. Using new behaviour/language sampling technology -”
Lord knows we can use more of that. ha ha ha.
“ - for FIELD research, we are going to reconstruct a person’s linguistic fingerprint from his or her daily interactions and relate it to a variety of self-reported personality characteristics, situational variables and physiological markers (e.g. blood pressure, cortisol, testosterone).”
Lying. They’re talking about liars. ha ha ha. Now if only I had the choice regarding whether or not I wanted to work on dis’tudy. ha ahha ha.