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Contextual Stress and Health Risk Behaviors among African American Adolescents
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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
Social Competence and Substance Use among Rural Youth: Mediating Role of Social Benefit Expectancies of Use.
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Griffin, Kenneth W.; Epstein, Jennifer A.; Botvin, Gilbert J.; Spoth, Richard L. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2001
Studied the mechanisms by which social competence may be associated with substance use during early adolescence in a sample of 1,568 rural junior high school students. Structural equation modeling indicated that social competence had a direct protective association with substance use. Discusses mediating factors. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Interpersonal Competence, Junior High School Students, Junior High Schools
Competence, Self-Esteem, and Coping Efficacy as Mediators of Ecological Risk and Depressive Symptoms in Urban African American and European American Youth
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Prelow, Hazel M.; Weaver, Scott R.; Swenson, Rebecca R. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2006
Structural equation modeling was used to test [Sandler, "American Journal of Community Psychology" 29: 19-61.] a theoretical model of risk and resilience in an urban sample of African American and European American adolescents. The aims of the present study were to examine whether self-system processes (i.e., competence, self-esteem, and coping…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Self Esteem, Coping, Risk