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Varga, Colleen M.; Gee, Christina B. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2017
The study of adolescent childbearing is a major public policy concern in the United States, and father involvement is particularly important. The current study examined 94 African American and Latino adolescent mothers and their children's fathers (47 co-parents) to determine whether co-parenting was a better predictor of father involvement than…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Early Parenthood, African Americans, Hispanic Americans
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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
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Rapa, Luke J.; Diemer, Matthew A.; Bañales, Josefina – Developmental Psychology, 2018
Marginalized youth's development occurs in contexts rife with racialized, gendered, and socioeconomic social identity threats and barriers to social mobility. An emergent line of inquiry suggests critical action--a component of critical consciousness, defined as engaging in individual or collective social action to produce social change--may…
Descriptors: Social Mobility, Structural Equation Models, African Americans, Low Income Groups