Sentences with phrase «american adolescents»

Using a phone diary interview methodology, Kuo et al. (2015) examined the family context (in addition to school, work, and peer contexts) in a sample of 246 Mexican - American adolescents.

A Developmental Explanatory Model of Maladaptive Aggressive Dispositions in Urban African American Adolescents.

Prospective Relations among Low - Income African American Adolescents» Maternal Attachment Security, Self - Worth, and Risk Behaviors.

Brody et al. (2015), for example, assessed the differential susceptibility of African American adolescents from high - and low - risk families enrolled in a six - week intervention to prevent drug use called Adults in the Making (AIM).

The Role of Self - Construals in the Link Between Anger Regulation and Externalizing Problems in Korean American Adolescents: Testing a Moderated Mediation Model.

Enhancing Parental Motivation to Monitor African American Adolescents» Diabetes Care: Development and Beta Test of a Brief Computer - Delivered Intervention.

One good thing leads to another: Cascades of positive youth development among American adolescents

Middle - class African American adolescents» and parents» conceptions of parental authority and parenting practices: A longitudinal investigation.

That is, the three - factor model fit equally well for both Latino and Asian American adolescents.

The implications of these findings for racial socialization strategies, identity development (racial and global) as it pertains to behavior problems for African American adolescents are discussed.

Social factors of depression among Cuban and Indochinese American adolescents.

Suppressor effects in coping research with African American adolescents from low - income communities

The current study aims to explain these dynamic processes among a sample of 1156 American adolescents in grades 9 — 11 (48.6 % girls, 23.4 % European American, 25.2 % African American) from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health.

Results African - American adolescents had lower risk for sexual risk behavior.

African American adolescents report that support from their mother is the most important source of support during their transition to parenthood (Nitz, Ketterlinus, & Brandt, 1995).

Among African American adolescents, parenting practices and racial socialization have been discussed as two primary familial mechanisms that may influence the development of individual characteristics such as coping styles, self - esteem, self - concept (Harris - Britt et al. 2007; Neblett et al. 2008), which has implications for the development of impostor phenomenon (Clance and Imes 1978; Li et al. 2014).

Ecological correlates of the social and emotional adjustment of African - American adolescents

In a sample of 444 Chinese American adolescents (54 % females), we identified three distinct patterns of adjustment in early adolescence, middle adolescence, and emerging adulthood: the well - adjusted group, which was the largest, exhibited high achievement and low psychological distress; the poorly - adjusted group exhibited poor achievement and moderate distress; and the paradox group exhibited relatively high achievement and high distress.

Therefore, additional work is needed to shed light on the unique developmental processes among African American adolescents to understand the experiences that undergird impostor phenomenon.

The current study explored the independent and interactive roles of parental academic and culturally distinctive socialization on the academic adjustment of African American adolescents.

Furthermore, exposure to messages related to the benefits of assimilating into cultural institutions (e.g., «Black children learn more in White schools»), has been linked to greater depressive symptoms and lower self - esteem among African American adolescents (Davis and Stevenson 2006).

In light of our unique approach, the present model of impostor development among African American adolescents looks different than what has been proposed in previous research.

Associations among neighborhood disadvantage, maternal acculturation, parenting and conduct problems were investigated in a sample of 444 Chinese American adolescents.

Scholars articulate that positive parenting practices may promote positive perceptions of academic and intellectual competence in the lives of African American adolescents.

[jounal] Caldwell, C. H. / 2002 / Racial identity, maternal support, and psychologica distress among African American adolescents / Child Development 73 (4): 1322 ~ 1336

Asian American adolescents are often depicted as academically successful but psychologically distressed, a pattern known as the achievement / adjustment paradox.

For example, negative parent - adolescent interactions (i.e. increased conflict and aggression) and psychological control (i.e., efforts to manipulate a child's thoughts, behaviors, and emotion) has been associated with increased internalized symptoms (Kincaid et al. 2011) and decreased self - esteem (Bean et al. 2003; Gutman et al. 2005) among African American adolescents.

Accordingly, the current study utilized a culturally informed perspective to put forth a model that articulates how impostor phenomenon may come to fruition among African American adolescents.

African - American adolescents in the sample were younger, reported less supportive friendships at both waves of measurement, reported higher levels of parent connectedness at both waves of measurement, and were less likely to engage in sexual risk behavior at Wave 2.

[jounal] Connell, J. P. / 1995 / Hanging in there: Behavioral, Psychological, and contextual factors affecting whether african american adolescents stay in high school / Journal of Adolescent Research 10 (1): 41 ~ 63

The sample was comprised 144 African American adolescents (M = 12.4; SD = 1.14; 56 % female).

Though literature has begun to shed light on the culturally specific factors that may contribute to experiences of impostor phenomenon among African American emerging adults, three overarching limitations limit our understanding of its etiology within African American adolescents.

The primary constructs within the hypothesized framework are: (1) social position variables — characteristics that are used within societies to hierarchically stratify groups (race, gender, socioeconomic status); (2) parenting variables — familial mechanisms that may influence African American adolescents well - being, perceptions of competence, and attitudes towards others in various contexts (e.g., parenting practices and racial socialization messages); (3) racial discrimination — negative racially driven experiences that may influence feelings of competence, belongingness, and self - worth; (4) environmental / contextual factors — settings and surroundings that may impede or promote healthy identity development (e.g., academic settings); and (5) learner characteristics — individual characteristics that may promote or hinder positive psychological adjustment outcomes (e.g., racial identity, coping styles).

Anglicization in the United States: Language environment and language practice of American adolescents

Family processes and problem behaviours in middle - class African American adolescents.

Hierarchical linear model analyses revealed that, at the individual level, Mexican - American adolescents» who reported more chronic peer victimization incidents across the two - weeks also reported heightened distress and academic problems.

African American adolescents living in high - poverty urban settings are at increased risk for early sexual initiation and sexually transmitted diseases.

In order to increase cultural competency, the scripts for both video clips were reviewed and tailored for appropriate language, communication style, and content by a pediatric health behavior researcher with expertise in developing interventions for urban, minority adolescents, specifically African American adolescents.

Although the majority of adolescent births occur among white adolescents, African American adolescents are 2.5 times more likely to give birth than non-Hispanic white adolescents (Ventura et al., 1999).

So, even though African - American adolescents were more likely to report being sexually active, they were also more likely to engage in safe sexual practices.

At the same time, certain types of racial socialization messages may also generate an increased susceptibility to psychological maladjustment among African American adolescents.

Biracial youth withAsian American heritage, especially male biracial part - Asian American adolescents and male biracial adolescents with Black heritage had more social adjustment problems than did other biracial adolescents.

Emily has experience providing reunification support to Central American adolescents and their relatives.

Her earlier work with Belle Liang, Ph.D., at Boston College addressed issues of racism and relational health among Chinese American adolescents.

Close Friendships and Mental Health of Korean American Adolescents: The Moderating Effect of Personality

In general, parenting behaviors affect differently Latin American adolescents in different countries.

Reducing HIV risk - associated sexual behavior among African American adolescents: Testing the generality of intervention effects.

However, few studies have looked at these factors in a narrow enough light to determine how conflict and parental warmth affect African - American adolescents» externalizing behaviors.

Discrimination, Racial Identity, and Cytokine Levels Among African - American Adolescents.

[jounal] Cota - Robles, S / 2006 / Parent - adolescent processes and reduced risk for delinquency: The effect of gender for Mexican American Adolescents / Youth & Society 37 (4): 375 ~ 392