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Mark S. Turbin
Researcher at University of Colorado Boulder
Publications - 27
Citations - 2225
Mark S. Turbin is an academic researcher from University of Colorado Boulder. The author has contributed to research in topics: Psychosocial & Prosocial behavior. The author has an hindex of 14, co-authored 27 publications receiving 2117 citations.
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Adolescent Problem Behavior in China and the United States: A Cross‐National Study of Psychosocial Protective Factors
TL;DR: An explanatory model of adolescent problem behavior (problem drinking, cigarette smoking, and general delinquency) based on protective and risk factors in the individual and in 4 social contexts (family, peer group, school, and neighborhood) is employed in school-based samples from the People's Republic of China (N 51,739) and the United States (n 51,596) as discussed by the authors.
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Protective factors in adolescent health behavior.
TL;DR: Strengthening both proximal and distal protective factors may help to promote healthful behaviors in adolescence, and the importance of individual differences on a dimension of conventionality-unconventionality is suggested.
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The influence of social involvement, neighborhood aesthetics, and community garden participation on fruit and vegetable consumption.
TL;DR: The qualities intrinsic to community gardens make them a unique intervention that can narrow the divide between people and the places where food is grown and increase local opportunities to eat better.
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Risk and Protection in Successful Outcomes Among Disadvantaged Adolescents
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Transition into adolescent problem drinking: the role of psychosocial risk and protective factors.
TL;DR: Protective factors play an independent role in accounting for adolescent involvement in problem drinking and in the transition into problem drinking in adolescence and intervention efforts to enhance protection, especially for adolescents who are exposed to risk, should supplement efforts to reduce risk.