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Showing papers in "Journal of Adolescent Health in 2000"


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TL;DR: Analyses of the additive effects of risk factors revealed that youths exposed to multiple risks were notably more likely than others to engage in later violence and have important implications for preventive intervention programs.

641 citations


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TL;DR: While many protective factors are not subject to intervention, the present analyses indicate that teen pregnancy prevention may be enhanced by addressing family and educational factors.

420 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the vulnerability to sexual assault among undergraduate women and found that childhood victimization increased the risk of adolescent victimization, which in turn significantly affected the likelihood of revictimization among college women.

410 citations


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TL;DR: These data provide evidence for an inverse relationship between perceived parental monitoring and risk involvement cross-sectionally and longitudinally and support the long-term effect of perceived parents monitoring on risk behaviors among urban, low-income African-American children and adolescents.

370 citations


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TL;DR: The strong inverse correlation between perceived parental monitoring and adolescent risk behavior suggests that parental monitoring initiatives may be an effective intervention tool.

348 citations


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TL;DR: While overweight female adolescents seem to suffer from low self-esteem, it may be explained by body image and efforts should be directed toward encouraging and supporting healthy eating patterns and physical activity while encouraging students to recognize personal strengths not related to physique.

309 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relationship between adolescents' perceptions of maternal abstinence attitudes, adolescent-maternal relationship satisfaction, and the occurrence in the ensuing 12 months of: (a) sexual intercourse, (b) the use of birth control at intercourse and (c) the occurrence of pregnancy.

295 citations



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TL;DR: American youth devote more time to media than to any other waking activity, as much as one-third of each day, and this demands increased parental attention and research into the effects of such extensive exposure.

251 citations


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TL;DR: Individual and school factors appear to be more important than family composition or socioeconomic status in the decision to have sexual intercourse before age 16 years.

227 citations


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TL;DR: Parental monitoring interventions such as ImPACT should be given to parents in conjunction with more traditional youth-centered risk-reduction interventions, as well as an instrument to assess parental monitoring, the Parent-Adolescent Risk Behavior Concordance Scale.

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TL;DR: Higher intelligence operates as a protective factor against early sexual activity during adolescence, and lower intelligence, to a point, is a risk factor.

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TL;DR: Having an older boyfriend or girlfriend, although rare, is associated with early sexual onset and unwanted sexual activity in this population of sixth graders.

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TL;DR: Support for models of peer influence, which postulates that young adolescents whose friends use alcohol will also engage in that behavior, and of peer selection, whereby young adolescents seek out friends whose drinking behavior is similar to their own are examined, indicate that higher levels of friends' drug use led to increased participant alcohol use.

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TL;DR: Connectedness to parents and school was identified as most strongly associated with diminished emotional distress, suicide attempts, and violence involvement among adolescents with learning disabilities.

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TL;DR: Regardless of supplement use, breakfast consumption makes an important nutritional contribution to total daily intake of ninth-grade students, and encouraging breakfast consumption and healthful breakfast choices is an important step toward improving the nutritional quality of diets of this age group.

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TL;DR: A program of research is outlined that would help provide an understanding of erotica's effects on adolescents' sexual callousness, an understanding that is sorely needed for the construction of effective educational efforts aiming at the removal ofcallousness and coercion from sexual relations.

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TL;DR: Higher levels of stress and greater use of negative coping methods were found in current smokers than in experimenters and never-smokers, and negative life events, perceived stress, and less use of the positive coping methods of parental support and cognitive coping were significantly and independently related to smoking status.

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TL;DR: The Media Practice Model suggests that adolescents select and react to sexual media diets that speak to an emerging sense of themselves as sexual human beings.

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TL;DR: The ranges of perceptions and influences that minority adolescent mothers have identified as affecting their infant feeding choices, illustrated and explained in the teens' own words, are helpful to health care providers as they counsel teen mothers about infant feeding options.

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TL;DR: The behavioral-specific determinants of smoking appear to be important predictors of smoking status outcomes in all demographic subgroups and may help facilitate the targeting of comprehensive interventions aimed at reducing adolescent smoking in multiethnic and ethnic group-specific populations.

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TL;DR: Investigating the association between dimensions of spirituality and voluntary sexual activity (VSA) in adolescents found that younger age and higher spiritual interconnectedness, particularly interconnectedness among spiritual friends, are independently associated with a lower likelihood of VSA.

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TL;DR: Adolescents who used more marijuana in general as well as specifically in sexual episodes in the 30 days preceding detention reported higher levels of unprotected sex and intentions to use marijuana in future sexual episodes was associated with intentions to have unprotected intercourse in the future.

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TL;DR: AAPI students were significantly less likely than white, black, or Hispanic students to have carried a weapon or fought but were as likely as any of the other groups to have attempted suicide.

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TL;DR: Research on the development of citizenship has been reinvigorated by considering adolescents as participants actively engaged in, and interacting with, family, peers, teachers, and the media.

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TL;DR: Frequent music video use may be a risk factor for increased perceived importance of appearance and increased weight concerns among adolescent girls.

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TL;DR: It is indicated that students in rural school districts are at greater risk for participating in dating violence than suburban and urban students, with rural female students at greatest risk.

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TL;DR: Sociodemographic factors and constructs of the IMB model are associated with adolescents' risk and acquisition of STDs and teens with such risk profiles should be targeted for risk-reduction intervention.

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TL;DR: The most important ideas to have emerged from the past 25 years of research on adolescent development in the family context and suggest some directions for the future are discussed in this paper, where the authors present an overview of some of the most important findings.

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TL;DR: Integration of health services with other agencies serving youth in shelters or on the street may improve access to care for those without a routine source of care and provide better continuity for these high-risk youth.