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Lee, Xzania White; Cunningham, Michael – Education and Urban Society, 2019
The variety of experiences of African American adolescents is still misunderstood and neglected. Empirical and lay reports consistently report that drug use is rampant within African American communities despite the fact that national statistics show that African Americans engage in substance use less than their White counterparts. Thus, the…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Urban Youth, Adolescents, African American Students
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Min, Meeyoung O.; Kim, June-Yung; Olgac, Tugba; Francis, Meredith W.; Shon, En-Jung; Yoon, Dalhee – Research on Social Work Practice, 2018
Objective: This study examined the factor structure and psychometric properties of the Urban Hassles Index (UHI). Method: Exploratory factor analyses (EFAs) were conducted via principal axis factoring extraction method. Confirmatory factor analyses were conducted to evaluate the fit of the EFA-derived model using the weighted least squares…
Descriptors: Urban Youth, Adolescents, Factor Structure, Factor Analysis