Self-Regulation and Conduct Problems Among Low-Income African American Youth From Single-Mother Homes: The Roles of Perceived Neighborhood Context and Child Gender

2007 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 239-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alecia A. Zalot ◽  
Deborah J. Jones ◽  
Rex Forehand ◽  
Gene Brody
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Conduct Problems ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Single Mother ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
African American Youth ◽  
Neighborhood Context ◽  
Child Gender

“Broken windows”: Relationship between neighborhood conditions and behavioral health among low-income African American adolescents

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 527-537 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dexter R Voisin ◽  
Dong Ha Kim
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Substance Use ◽  
African American ◽  
Behavioral Health ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
African American Youth ◽  
African American Adolescents ◽  
Broken Windows ◽  
Neighborhood Conditions

This study explored the association between neighborhood conditions and behavioral health among African American youth. Cross-sectional data were collected from 683 African American youth from low-income communities. Measures for demographics, neighborhood conditions (i.e. broken windows index), mental health, delinquency, substance use, and sexual risk behaviors were assessed. Major findings indicated that participants who reported poorer neighborhood conditions compared to those who lived in better living conditions were more likely to report higher rates of mental health problems, delinquency, substance use, and unsafe sexual behaviors. Environmental factors need to be considered when addressing the behavioral health of low-income African American youth.

scholarly journals Trajectories of multiple adolescent health risk behaviors in a low-income African American population

2013 ◽  
Vol 25 (4pt1) ◽  
pp. 1155-1169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Mustanski ◽  
Gayle R. Byck ◽  
Allison Dymnicki ◽  
Emma Sterrett ◽  
David Henry ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Sexually Transmitted Infections ◽  
Sexual Risk ◽  
Conduct Problems ◽  
Risk Behaviors ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Risky Sexual Behavior ◽  
Growth Mixture Modeling ◽  
Sexually Transmitted ◽  
Drug Risk

AbstractThis study examined interdependent trajectories of sexual risk, substance use, and conduct problems among 12- to 18-year-old African American youths who were followed annually as part of the Mobile Youth Study. We used growth mixture modeling to model the development of these three outcomes in the 1,406 participants who met the inclusion criteria. Results indicate that there were four distinct classes: normative, low risk (74.3% of sample); increasing high-risk takers (11.9%); adolescent-limited conduct problems and drug risk with high risky sex (8.0%); and early experimenters (5.8%) The higher risk classes had higher rates of pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections diagnoses than the normative sample at each of the ages we examined. Differing somewhat from our hypothesis, all of the nonnormative classes exhibited high sexual risk behavior. Although prevention efforts should be focused on addressing all three risk behaviors, the high rate of risky sexual behavior in the 25% of the sample that fall into the three nonnormative classes underscores an urgent need for improved sex education, including teen pregnancy and HIV/sexually transmitted infections prevention, in this community.

Neighborhood context and adjustment in African American youths from single mother homes: The intervening role of hopelessness.

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Gonzalez ◽  
Deborah J. Jones ◽  
Carlye Y. Kincaid ◽  
Jessica Cuellar
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Single Mother ◽  
Neighborhood Context
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