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Integrating Multi-Informant Reports of Youth Mental Health: A Construct Validation Test of Kraemer and Colleagues' (2003) Satellite Model
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Natalie R. Charamut; Sarah J. Racz; Mo Wang; Andres De Los Reyes – Grantee Submission, 2022
Accurately assessing youth mental health involves obtaining reports from multiple informants who typically display low levels of correspondence. This low correspondence may reflect "situational specificity." That is, youth vary as to where they display mental health concerns and informants vary as to where and from what perspective they…
Descriptors: Youth, Parents, Mental Health, Researchers
Predictors and Mental Health Benefits of Chosen Name Use among Transgender Youth
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Pollitt, Amanda M.; Ioverno, Salvatore; Russell, Stephen T.; Li, Gu; Grossman, Arnold H. – Youth & Society, 2021
Chosen name use among transgender youth (youth whose gender identities are different from their sex assigned at birth) can be part of the complex process of aligning gender presentation with gender identity and can promote mental health. However, little is known about the factors that predict whether or not transgender youth have a chosen name and…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Mental Health, Naming, Nouns
Sources of Social Support and Mental Health among LGB Youth
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Watson, Ryan J.; Grossman, Arnold H.; Russell, Stephen T. – Youth & Society, 2019
Disparities in psychosocial adjustment have been identified for lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) youth, yet research that explores multiple sources of social support among subgroups of LGB youth is sparse. Social support theory is used as a framework to analyze the ways that different sources of support might promote better psychosocial adjustment…
Descriptors: Homosexuality, Sexual Orientation, Sexual Identity, Social Support Groups
Minority Stress and Mechanisms of Risk for Depression and Suicidal Ideation among Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Youth
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Baams, Laura; Grossman, Arnold H.; Russell, Stephen T. – Developmental Psychology, 2015
The experience of minority stress is often named as a cause for mental health disparities among lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) youth, including higher levels of depression and suicidal ideation. The processes or mechanisms through which these disparities occur are understudied. The interpersonal-psychological theory of suicide posits 2 key…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, At Risk Persons, Minority Groups, Depression (Psychology)
Self-Discrepancies as Predictors of Self-Concept in Mathematics and Related Emotional Consequences among LD and Regular Education High School Students
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Mandel, Shawn – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Guided by the Self Discrepancy Theory (Higgins, 1987), the present study examines the nature of self-discrepancies, related emotional consequences, and math self-concept among high school students with and without learning disabilities. A total of 104 students in New York area participated in the present study. Math-Self Discrepancy Measure, Math…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Beliefs, Mathematics Tests, High School Students
Validity of the Beck Depression Inventory, MMPI, and Rorschach in Assessing Adolescent Depression.
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Carter, Cynthia L.; Dacey, Christine M. – Journal of Adolescence, 1996
Assesses validity of the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory Depression scale (MMPI-D), and the Rorschach Depression Index in measuring adolescent depression. Retroactive charts of 118 hospitalized adolescents were divided into depressed (n=66) and nondepressed (n=52) groups. Results indicated…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Depression (Psychology), Emotional Problems, Evaluation