{"title":"Rural Community Characteristics, Economic Hardship, and Peer and Parental Influences in Early Adolescent Alcohol Use.","authors":"Laura De Haan, Tina Boljevac, Kurt Schaefer","doi":"10.1177/0272431609341045","DOIUrl":"10.1177/0272431609341045","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The study explores how differences in rural community contexts relate to early adolescent alcohol use. Data were gathered from 1,424 adolescents in the sixth through eighth grades in 22 rural Northern Plains communities, as well as 790 adults, parents, teachers, and community leaders. Multilevel modeling analyses revealed that community supportiveness, as perceived by adolescents, but not adults, was associated with less lifetime and past month alcohol use, and for past month use, this relationship was stronger than perceived peer drinking or parental closeness. Perceived peer drinking and parental closeness were not associated with past month use. Adolescents experiencing family economic strain did not report greater lifetime or past month use, but living in a disadvantaged community was associated with greater past month use. Relatively affluent adolescents reported greater past month use when living in a poor community than did poorer adolescents, highlighting relationship complexity between economic disadvantage and alcohol use.</p>","PeriodicalId":509963,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Early Adolescence","volume":"30 5","pages":"629-650"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2941231/pdf/nihms212239.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40077692","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Seth J Schwartz, Craig A Mason, Hilda Pantin, José Szapocznik
{"title":"Longitudinal Relationships Between Family Functioning and Identity Development in Hispanic Adolescents: Continuity and Change.","authors":"Seth J Schwartz, Craig A Mason, Hilda Pantin, José Szapocznik","doi":"10.1177/0272431608317605","DOIUrl":"10.1177/0272431608317605","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The present study was designed to investigate trajectories of identity development and their relationship to family functioning in a sample of Hispanic adolescents and their primary caregivers. Two hundred fifty adolescents completed measures of identity coherence and confusion and of family functioning, and parents completed measures of family functioning. Significant variability over time and across individuals emerged in identity confusion, but not in identity coherence. As a result, the present analyses focused on identity confusion. Changes in adolescent-reported, but not parent-reported, family functioning were significantly related to changes in identity confusion. Follow-up analyses suggested that family functioning primarily influences identity confusion in early adolescence, but that identity confusion begins to exert a reciprocal effect in middle adolescence. Exploratory latent growth mixture modeling (LGMM) analyses produced three classes of adolescents based on their baseline values and change trajectories in identity confusion. The potential for family-strengthening interventions to affect identity development is discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":509963,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Early Adolescence","volume":"29 2","pages":"177-211"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2743432/pdf/nihms100976.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28402791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tara M Chaplin, Jane E Gillham, Martin E P Seligman
{"title":"Gender, Anxiety, and Depressive Symptoms: A Longitudinal Study of Early Adolescents.","authors":"Tara M Chaplin, Jane E Gillham, Martin E P Seligman","doi":"10.1177/0272431608320125","DOIUrl":"10.1177/0272431608320125","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Does anxiety lead to depression more for girls than for boys? This study prospectively examines gender differences in the relationship between anxiety and depressive symptoms in early adolescence. One hundred thirteen 11- to 14-year-old middle school students complete questionnaires assessing depressive symptoms and three dimensions of anxiety (worry and oversensitivity, social concerns and concentration, and physiological anxiety) as well as total anxiety symptoms at an initial assessment and 1 year later. Total anxiety and worry and oversensitivity symptoms are found to predict later depressive symptoms more strongly for girls than for boys. There is a similar pattern of results for social concerns and concentration symptoms, although this does not reach statistical significance. Physiological anxiety predicts later depressive symptoms for both boys and girls. These findings highlight the importance of anxiety for the development of depression in adolescence, particularly worry and oversensitivity among girls.</p>","PeriodicalId":509963,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Early Adolescence","volume":"29 2","pages":"307-327"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2743326/pdf/nihms-111338.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28403991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Familism Values as a Protective Factor for Mexican-origin Adolescents Exposed to Deviant Peers.","authors":"Miguelina Germán, Nancy A Gonzales, Larry Dumka","doi":"10.1177/0272431608324475","DOIUrl":"10.1177/0272431608324475","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study examined interactive relations between adolescent, maternal and paternal familism values and deviant peer affiliations in predicting adolescent externalizing problems within low-income, Mexican-origin families (N = 598). Adolescent, maternal and paternal familism values interacted protectively with deviant peer affiliations to predict lower levels of externalizing problems according to two independent teacher reports. These relations were not found with parent reports of adolescent externalizing problems although these models showed a direct, protective effect of maternal familism values. Consistent with the view that traditional cultural values are protective for Latino adolescents, these results suggest that supporting familism values among Mexican-origin groups is a useful avenue for improving adolescent conduct problems, particularly in a school context.</p>","PeriodicalId":509963,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Early Adolescence","volume":"29 1","pages":"16-42"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3138713/pdf/nihms114595.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"29876654","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shane A Norris, Robert W Roeser, Linda M Richter, Nina Lewin, Carren Ginsburg, Stella A Fleetwood, Elizabeth Taole, Kees van der Wolf
{"title":"South African-ness Among Adolescents: The Emergence of a Collective Identity within the Birth to Twenty Cohort Study.","authors":"Shane A Norris, Robert W Roeser, Linda M Richter, Nina Lewin, Carren Ginsburg, Stella A Fleetwood, Elizabeth Taole, Kees van der Wolf","doi":"10.1177/0272431607308674","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0272431607308674","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We assessed the emergence of a South African identity among Black, Colored (mixed ancestral origin), White (predominantly English speaking), and Indian adolescents participating in a birth cohort study called \"Birth to Twenty\" in Johannesburg, South Africa. We examined young people's certainty of their self-categorization as South African, the centrality of their personal, racial and linguistic, and South African identities in their self-definition, and their perceptions of South African life and society today. These results reflect a historical opportunity for full citizenship and national enfranchisement that the end of Apartheid heralded for Black and Colored individuals. Black and Colored youth tend to be more certain about their South African-ness, have a more collective identity, and have a more positive perception around South Africa. In contrast, White and Indian youth are less certain about their South African-ness, have a more individualistic identity, and have a less positive perception about South Africa today.</p>","PeriodicalId":509963,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Early Adolescence","volume":"28 1","pages":"51-69"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2008-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0272431607308674","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28191709","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Andrea Dixon Rayle, Stephen Kulis, Scott K Okamoto, Sheila S Tann, Craig Winston Lecroy, Patricia Dustman, Aimee M Burke
{"title":"Who is Offering and How Often?: Gender Differences in Drug Offers Among American Indian Adolescents of the Southwest.","authors":"Andrea Dixon Rayle, Stephen Kulis, Scott K Okamoto, Sheila S Tann, Craig Winston Lecroy, Patricia Dustman, Aimee M Burke","doi":"10.1177/0272431606288551","DOIUrl":"10.1177/0272431606288551","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This exploratory study examines gender differences in the patterns of drug offers among a sample of 71 American Indian middle school students. Participants respond to an inventory of drug-related problem situations specific to the cultural contexts of Southwestern American Indian youth. They are asked to consider the frequency of drug offers from specific groups in their social networks and the difficulty associated with refusing drugs from various offerers. The results indicate that female and male American Indian youth differ in the degree of exposure to drug offers and the degree of perceived difficulty in handling such offers. Even after controlling for differences in age, grade level, socioeconomic status, family structure, and residence on a reservation, girls report significantly more drug offers than boys from friends, cousins, and other peers. Compared to boys, girls also report a significantly higher sense of difficulty in dealing with drug offers from all sources.</p>","PeriodicalId":509963,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Early Adolescence","volume":"26 3","pages":"296-317"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3042715/pdf/nihms-268607.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"29697260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tara M Chaplin, Jane E Gillham, Karen Reivich, Andrea G L Elkon, Barbra Samuels, Derek R Freres, Breanna Winder, Martin E P Seligman
{"title":"Depression Prevention for Early Adolescent Girls: A Pilot Study of All Girls Versus Co-Ed Groups.","authors":"Tara M Chaplin, Jane E Gillham, Karen Reivich, Andrea G L Elkon, Barbra Samuels, Derek R Freres, Breanna Winder, Martin E P Seligman","doi":"10.1177/0272431605282655","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0272431605282655","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Given the dramatic increase in depression that occurs during early adolescence in girls, interventions must address the needs of girls. The authors examined whether a depression prevention program, the Penn Resiliency Program, was more effective for girls in all-girls groups than in co-ed groups. Within co-ed groups, the authors also tested whether there were greater effects for boys than for girls. Participants were 208 11- to 14-year-olds. Girls were randomly assigned to all-girls groups, co-ed groups, or control. Boys were assigned to co-ed groups or control. Students completed questionnaires on depressive symptoms, hopelessness, and explanatory style before and after the intervention. Girls groups were better than co-ed groups in reducing girls'hopelessness and for session attendance rates but were similar to co-ed groups in reducing depressive symptoms. Co-ed groups decreased depressive symptoms, but this did not differ by gender. Findings support prevention programs and suggest additional benefits of girls groups.</p>","PeriodicalId":509963,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Early Adolescence","volume":"26 1","pages":"110-126"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2006-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0272431605282655","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33875947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Penny Marsh, Joseph P Allen, Martin Ho, Maryfrances Porter, F Christy McFarland
{"title":"The Changing Nature of Adolescent Friendships Longitudinal Links With Early Adolescent Ego Development.","authors":"Penny Marsh, Joseph P Allen, Martin Ho, Maryfrances Porter, F Christy McFarland","doi":"10.1177/0272431606291942","DOIUrl":"10.1177/0272431606291942","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Although success in managing evolving peer relationships is linked to critical adolescent outcomes, little is known about the specific factors that lead to success or failure in peer relationship development across adolescence. This longitudinal study examines the role of adolescents' level of ego development as a predictor of the future course of several facets of friendship development in early adolescence. Ego development was assessed in a community sample of adolescents at age 13. Several facets of adolescent friendship were also assessed at 13 and then reassessed 1 year later, including adolescent intimate behavior during a supportive interaction with their best friends, adolescent reports of psychological security in their friendships, and peer-rated popularity. As predicted, ego development not only explained concurrent levels of peer functioning but also predicted markers of change over time in each of the assessed domains of peer functioning. Implications for ego development in increasing our understanding of individual differences in adolescent friendship development are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":509963,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Early Adolescence","volume":"26 4","pages":"414-431"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2424227/pdf/nihms50486.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"27495083","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Family Functioning, Identity, and Problem Behavior in Hispanic Immigrant Early Adolescents.","authors":"Seth J Schwartz, Hilda Pantin, Guillermo Prado, Summer Sullivan, José Szapocznik","doi":"10.1177/0272431605279843","DOIUrl":"10.1177/0272431605279843","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The present study investigated the role of identity in the relationship between family functioning and behavior problems in a sample of Hispanic immigrant early adolescents and their families. The sample consisted of 181 Hispanic immigrant adolescents (92 males, 89 females) and their participating caregivers (who were mostly mothers). Identity was measured using adolescent reports, whereas family functioning and early adolescent behavior problems were measured using both adolescent and parent reports. Correlational analyses indicated that previously obtained relationships among family functioning, identity, and behavior problems were replicated in the present sample. Structural equation models indicated that 20% of the relationship between family functioning and behavior problems operated indirectly through identity, and identity confusion partially mediates the relationship between family functioning and early adolescent behavior problems. Implications for intervention are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":509963,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Early Adolescence","volume":"25 4","pages":"392-420"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1540453/pdf/nihms10155.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"26258659","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Katherine H Hennighausen, Stuart T Hauser, Rebecca L Billings, Lynn Hickey Schultz, Joseph P Allen
{"title":"Adolescent Ego-Development Trajectories and Young Adult Relationship Outcomes.","authors":"Katherine H Hennighausen, Stuart T Hauser, Rebecca L Billings, Lynn Hickey Schultz, Joseph P Allen","doi":"10.1177/0272431603260920","DOIUrl":"10.1177/0272431603260920","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Adolescent ego-development trajectories were related to close-relationship outcomes in young adulthood. An adolescent sample completed annual measures of ego development from ages 14 through 17. The authors theoretically determined and empirically traced five ego-development trajectories reflecting stability or change. At age 25, the sample completed a close-relationship interview and consented for two peers to rate the participants'ego resiliency and hostility. Participants who followed the profound-arrest trajectory in adolescence reported more mundane sharing of experiences, more impulsive or egocentric conflict-resolution tactics, and less mature interpersonal understanding in their young adult relationships, and their young adult peers described these participants as more hostile. Participants who attained or maintained higher levels of ego development in adolescence reported more complex sharing of experiences, more collaborative conflict-resolution strategies, and greater interpersonal understanding, and their young adult peers rated them as less hostile and as more flexible.</p>","PeriodicalId":509963,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Early Adolescence","volume":"24 1","pages":"29-44"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1847419/pdf/nihms11556.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"26640970","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}