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Direct linkKatz, Brian N.; Esparza, Patricia; Carter, Jocelyn Smith; Grant, Kathryn E.; Meyerson, David A. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2012
The present study tested for mediators of the relation between neighborhood risk characteristics and internalizing and externalizing symptoms in a sample of 1,120 low-income urban adolescents. Results indicate that a composite of census tract variables predicted both internalizing and externalizing symptoms in this sample. Stressful life events…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Neighborhoods, Urban Youth, Intervention
Gaylord-Harden, Noni K.; Taylor, Jeremy J.; Campbell, Cynthya L.; Kesselring, Christine M.; Grant, Kathryn E. – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2009
The current study examined coping strategies as mediators of the relation between maternal attachment and depressive symptoms in a sample of urban youth. Participants included 393 adolescents (M age = 12.03, SD = 0.85) participating in a larger study of the impact of stressful life experiences on low-income urban youth. Participants completed…
Descriptors: Females, Attachment Behavior, Adolescents, Coping
Carlson, Ginger Apling; Grant, Kathryn E. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2008
This study used self-report symptom inventories administered in school classrooms to examine relations among gender, psychological symptoms, stress, and coping in 1,200 low-income African American urban early adolescents. Girls reported more symptoms than boys, accounted for by higher internalizing symptoms. Boys reported more stress than girls,…
Descriptors: Females, Psychopathology, Adolescents, Coping
Peer reviewedGrant, Kathryn E.; Lyons, Aoife L.; Finkelstein, Jo-Ann S.; Conway, Kathryn M.; Reynolds, Linda K.; O'Koon, Jeffrey H.; Waitkoff, Gregory R.; Hicks, Kira J. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2004
The present study tested for gender differences in depressive symptoms in a sample of 622 low-income, urban, African American adolescents. Results indicate that adolescent girls in this sample were significantly more likely to endorse depressive symptoms than were boys. To examine possible explanations for this gender difference, 2 variables were…
Descriptors: Urban Youth, Gender Differences, Depression (Psychology), Coping
Peer reviewedReynolds, Linda K.; O'Koon, Jeffrey H.; Papademetriou, Eros; Szczygiel, Sylvia; Grant, Kathryn E. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2001
Studied rates of somatic complaints and the association between stress and somatic complaints for 1,030 low-income urban adolescents in grades 6 through 8. For both boys and girls, somatization was the most commonly reported internalizing symptom, and heightened rates of urban stress predicted heightened rates of somatic complaints. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Low Income Groups, Sex Differences, Stress Management
Grant, Kathryn E.; Katz, Brian N.; Thomas, Kina J.; O'Koon, Jeffrey H.; Meza, C. Manuel; DiPasquale, Anna-Marie; Rodriguez, Vanessa O.; Bergen, Carrie – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2004
Rates and cooccurrence of internalizing and externalizing syndromes were examined in a sample of 1,520 low-income urban early adolescents. Results indicate higher rates of clinically elevated internalizing and externalizing symptoms in this sample relative to normative data. In particular, both boys and girls were more likely to score in the…
Descriptors: Urban Youth, Minority Group Children, Gender Differences, Delinquency
