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Shin, YoungJu; Hecht, Michael L. – Journal of Adolescence, 2013
Past research on parentification suggests that adopting adult responsibilities to the point at which the child plays a parental role places children at risk for poor mental and behavioral health outcomes. Since family relations are particularly important in Mexican culture, two hypotheses were posed to examine the indirect effects of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Mexican Americans, Problem Solving, Structural Equation Models
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Kulis, Stephen; Brown, Eddie F. – Journal of Drug Education, 2011
This study explored the drug resistance strategies that urban American Indian adolescents consider the best and worst ways to respond to offers of alcohol, cigarettes, and marijuana. Focus group data were collected from 11 female and 9 male American Indian adolescents attending urban middle schools in the southwest. The youth were presented with…
Descriptors: Prevention, Urban American Indians, Focus Groups, Adolescents
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Andreeva, Valentina A.; Reynolds, Kim D.; Buller, David B.; Chou, Chih-Ping; Yaroch, Amy L. – Journal of School Health, 2008
Background: Sun-induced skin damage, which increases skin cancer risk, is initiated in early life and promoted through later sun exposure patterns. If sun safety determinants are well understood and addressed during the school years, skin cancer incidence might be reduced. This study tested psychosocial influences on youth's sun safety and…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Cancer, At Risk Persons, Health Behavior