A Multilevel Analysis of Hispanic Youth, Exposure to the United States, and Retail Theft

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Stansfield
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Multilevel Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Hispanic Youth ◽  
Retail Theft

Polarization and partisanship: Key drivers of distrust in media old and new?

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (5) ◽  
pp. 484-501
Author(s):  
Jane Suiter ◽  
Richard Fletcher
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Multilevel Analysis ◽  
News Media ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
The United States ◽  
Media System ◽  
Political Environments ◽  
Key Drivers ◽  
The Relationship

Some worry that increased partisanship is lowering trust in the news media, as people increasingly come into contact with cross-cutting news coverage. We use multilevel analysis of online survey data from 35 countries and find that left-right partisans (1) have slightly less trust in the news media in general, (2) slightly higher levels of trust in the news they consume and (3) perceive a larger ‘trust gap’ between the news they use and the rest of the news available within their country. However, we do not find evidence to support the idea that people in more politically polarized countries have less trust in the news, or that the association between partisanship and trust is strengthened in polarized political environments. Although in most cases the relationship between partisanship and trust is weak, it is noticeably stronger in the United States. However, the United States is home to a unique media system, and our analysis highlights the problems of assuming that the processes at work in one relatively well-understood country are playing out in the same way globally.

Adolescent Pregnancy—A Multifaceted Problem

1979 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 123-126
Author(s):  
Elizabeth R. McAnarney ◽  
Donald E. Greydanus
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Young People ◽  
Adolescent Pregnancy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Sexually Active ◽  
Hispanic Youth ◽  
Minimum Age ◽  
Blacks And Whites ◽  
Adolescent Pregnancies ◽  
Age Of Menarche

Adolescent pregnancy is a major child health problem in the United States. Nearly one million adolescents became pregnant in 1977. Adolescent pregnancies result from earlier biologic maturity and sexual activity. The average age of menarche in the United States is approximately 12.6 years and has declined four months during each decade in the last century. Boys also mature earlier than their peers of previous generations. As a result of better nutrition, the minimum age of biologic maturity has probably been attained. More young people are sexually active now than they were 25 years ago. In the late 1940s, 20% of unmarried women between 16 and 20 years of age reported having had intercourse. In 1971, 46% of unmarried women aged 19 years reported having had intercourse at least once and in 1976, 55%.1 In 1975, 69% of a sample of adolescent males were sexually experienced with black and Hispanic youth having had their first coital experience at the earliest ages.2 Of the approximately one million adolescents who became pregnant, 570,622 delivered children and approximately 370,000 had abortions. Birth rates to adolescents decreased between 1965 and 1975 for all ages, except for blacks and whites under 15 years and whites 15 to 17 years of age.

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