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Adolescents' Religiousness and Substance Use Are Linked via Afterlife Beliefs and Future Orientation
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Direct linkHolmes, Christopher; Kim-Spoon, Jungmeen – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2017
Although religiousness has been identified as a protective factor against adolescent substance use, processes through which these effects may operate are unclear. The current longitudinal study examined sequential mediation of afterlife beliefs and future orientation in the relation between adolescent religiousness and cigarette, alcohol, and…
Descriptors: Religion, Beliefs, Role, Correlation
Schachner, Maja K.; Van de Vijver, Fons J. R.; Noack, Peter – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2018
Navigating between cultures in addition to developmental changes and challenges in early adolescence can be difficult. We investigated school, family, and ethnic group as conditions for acculturation and school adjustment among early-adolescent boys and girls. Analyses were based on 860 mostly second- and third-generation immigrant students from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Acculturation, Student Adjustment, Early Adolescents
Olvera, Norma; McCarley, Kendall; Matthews-Ewald, Molly R.; Fisher, Felicia; Jones, Martinque; Flynn, Erika G. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2017
This study investigated the direct and indirect effects of biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors in predicting disordered eating behaviors in girls with overweight/obesity. A total of 135 Hispanic and African American girls ([x-bar][subscript age] = 11.13 ± 1.54 years) completed surveys assessing the desire to be thinner, peer…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, African Americans, Females, Eating Disorders
The Relationship between Acculturation, Ecodevelopment, and Substance Use among Hispanic Adolescents
Martinez, Marcos J.; Huang, Shi; Estrada, Yannine; Sutton, Madeline Y.; Prado, Guillermo – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2017
Using structural equation modeling, we examined the relationship of Hispanicism on recent substance use and whether Americanism moderated the effect in a sample of 1,141 Hispanic adolescents. The Bicultural Involvement Questionnaire (BIQ) was used to determine the degree of individual comfort in both Hispanic (Hispanicism) and American…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Acculturation, Substance Abuse, Hispanic Americans
de Kemp, Raymond A. T.; Vermulst, Ad A.; Finkenauer, Catrin; Scholte, Ron H. J.; Overbeek, Geertjan; Rommes, Els W. M.; Engels, Rutger C. M. E. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2009
The article discusses a three-wave longitudinal study that investigates the relationship between self-control and aggressive and delinquent behavior of early adolescent boys and girls. The sample consists of 1,012 Dutch adolescents (mean age = 12.3) in their first year of secondary education. Structural equation modeling analyses reveal that high…
Descriptors: Delinquency, Antisocial Behavior, Structural Equation Models, Early Adolescents
Houlihan, Amy E.; Gibbons, Frederick X.; Gerrard, Meg; Yeh, Hsiu-Chen; Reimer, Rachel A.; Murry, Velma M. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2008
A 5-year longitudinal study of African American adolescents, aged 10 to 12 at Time 1, used the prototype/willingness (prototype) model to examine the (social) cognitive effects of the onset of sexual behavior on self-concept. Structural equation modeling (SEM) showed that becoming sexually active was related to favorable changes in adolescents'…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Early Adolescents, Sexuality, Self Concept
