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Copeland-Linder, Nikeea; Lambert, Sharon F.; Chen, Yi-Fu; Ialongo, Nicholas S. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2011
This study examined the longitudinal association between contextual stress and health risk behaviors and the role of protective factors in a community epidemiologically-defined sample of urban African American adolescents (N = 500; 46.4% female). Structural equation modeling was used to create a latent variable measuring contextual stress…
Descriptors: Aggression, Structural Equation Models, Racial Discrimination, Adolescents
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Vierhaus, Marc; Lohaus, Arnold – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2008
This study examines whether health risk behaviour in adolescence can be predicted by self- and by parental reports of psychopathology (externalizing and internalizing symptoms) assessed two and four years earlier. A total sample of 366 fourth graders participated in a longitudinal study with measurements taken in grades 4, 6, and 8. In grades 4…
Descriptors: Psychopathology, Adolescents, Sexuality, Grade 8