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Spoth, Richard; Redmond, Cleve; Shin, Chungyeol; Trudeau, Linda; Greenberg, Mark T.; Feinberg, Mark E.; Welsh, Janet – Child Development, 2022
This study evaluated emerging adult effects of the PROmoting School-Community-University Partnerships to Enhance Resilience (PROSPER) universal prevention delivery system implemented in middle schools. Twenty-eight rural school districts were randomized to intervention and control conditions, with 1985 nineteen-year-old participants (90.6% White,…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Prevention, Middle School Students, Rural Schools
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Hurd, Noelle M.; Stoddard, Sarah A.; Zimmerman, Marc A. – Child Development, 2013
This study explored how neighborhood characteristics may relate to African American adolescents' internalizing symptoms via adolescents' social support and perceptions of neighborhood cohesion. Participants included 571 urban, African American adolescents (52% female; "M" age = 17.8). A multilevel path analysis testing both direct and…
Descriptors: Path Analysis, Adolescent Development, Mental Health, African American Students
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Miller, Brent C.; Fan, Xitao; Christensen, Mathew; Grotevant, Harold D.; van Dulmen, Manfred – Child Development, 2000
Compared adopted and nonadopted adolescents across variety of measures. Found that adopted adolescents were at higher risk in all domains examined, including school achievement and problems, psychological well-being, and physical health. Effect sizes for group differences were larger for males, younger or older adolescents, Hispanics or Asians,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescent Behavior, Adolescent Development