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Snedker, Karen A.; Herting, Jerald R. – Youth & Society, 2016
The purpose of this article is to explore the role of neighborhood characteristics, specifically economic disadvantage/advantage, residential instability, and racial/ethnic heterogeneity on emotional distress (depressed affect, anxiety, hopelessness) among youth. Using a regional sample of adolescents and matching their data to census tracts, we…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Mental Health, Correlation, Community Characteristics
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Roberts, Amy; LoCasale-Crouch, Jennifer; Hamre, Bridget; DeCoster, Jamie – Early Education and Development, 2016
Research Findings: This study explored the role Head Start teachers' (n = 355) depressive symptoms play in their interactions with children and in children's (n = 2,203) social-emotional development, specifically changes in children's problem behaviors and social skills as reported by parents and teachers during the preschool year. Results of the…
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Social Development, Emotional Development, Mental Health
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Ford, Kahlil R.; Hurd, Noelle M.; Jagers, Robert J.; Sellers, Robert M. – Child Development, 2013
The present study examined the effect of caregivers' experiences of racial discrimination on their adolescent children's psychological functioning among a sample of 264 African American dyads. Potential relations between caregiver discrimination experiences and a number of indicators of adolescents' (aged 12-17) psychological functioning over time…
Descriptors: Caregivers, African Americans, Racial Discrimination, Adolescents