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Bay-Cheng, Laina Y.; Livingston, Jennifer A.; Fava, Nicole M. – Youth & Society, 2011
We conducted focus groups with girls ages 14 to 17 (N = 43) to study how the dominant discourse of sexual risk shapes young women's understanding of the sexual domain and their management of these presumably pervasive threats. Through inductive analysis, we developed a coding scheme focused on three themes: (a) "types of sexual risk,"…
Descriptors: Females, Focus Groups, At Risk Persons, Adolescents
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Stevens, Devan L.; Hardy, Sam A. – Youth & Society, 2013
This study explored individual, family, and peer predictors of involvement and psychological investment in fights among Samoan youth. Participants were 310 adolescents ages 13 through 19 living in Samoa. MANCOVAs compared those involved in fights with those not, and those more investing in fighting with those less invested. In terms of individual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Predictor Variables, Family Influence, Individual Characteristics