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Stoddard, Sarah A.; Zimmerman, Marc A.; Bauermeister, Jose A. – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2012
This study examined the effects of cumulative risk and promotive factors on violent behavior across the high school years of adolescence in a sample of predominately African American urban adolescents (N = 750). Cumulative risk and promotive factor indices represented individual characteristics, and peer, parental, and familial influences. Using…
Descriptors: Individual Characteristics, Violence, Risk, Adolescents
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Choe, Daniel Ewon; Stoddard, Sarah A.; Zimmerman, Marc A. – Developmental Psychology, 2014
Family conflict is a salient risk factor for African American adolescents' mental health problems. No study we are aware of has estimated trajectories of their family conflict and whether groups differ in internalizing and externalizing problems during the transition to young adulthood, a critical antecedent in adult mental health and…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Family Relationship, Conflict, Mental Disorders
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Stoddard, Sarah A.; Henly, Susan J.; Sieving, Renee E.; Bolland, John – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2011
Youth living in impoverished urban neighborhoods are at risk for becoming hopeless about their future and engaging in violent behaviors. The current study seeks to examine the longitudinal relationship between social connections, hopelessness trajectories, and subsequent violent behavior across adolescence. Our sample included 723 (49% female)…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Violence, Females, Early Adolescents