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Author: Brookmeyer, Kathryn A.
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Brookmeyer, Kathryn A. |
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Disentangling Pathways of Adolescent Sexual Risk from Problem Behavior Syndrome Ph.D. Dissertation, Georgia State University, 2007. Also: http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/psych_diss/32/ Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Keyword(s): Alcohol Use; Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Delinquency/Gang Activity; Growth Curves; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Peers/Peer influence/Peer relations; Resilience/Developmental Assets; Risk-Taking; Sexual Behavior Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Understanding the development of adolescent sexual risk behavior is complicated by the co-occurrence of sexual risk with substance use and delinquency, conceptualized as "problem behavior syndrome," with common causes and influences underlying all three problem behaviors (Jessor & Jessor, 1977). Explaining the development of sexual risk becomes even more complex given the changing patterns of adaptation and maladaptation over the course of adolescence (Sroufe & Rutter, 1984). Research also suggests that multiple pathways may forecast adolescent engagement in sexual risk behavior, underscoring the ideas of equifinality and multifinality in developmental psychopathology (Cicchetti & Rogosh, 1996). To understand the diverse nature of sexual risk taking, researchers must identify these pathways and disentangle co-occurring problem behaviors from sexual risk. Revealing the course of sexual risk taking and the early risk and protective processes through which problem behavior develops allows researchers to identify the developmental periods that would be most amenable to intervention efforts (Rolf et al., 1990). Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79), this study aimed to disentangle problem behavior syndrome by identifying the unique developmental pathways of adolescent sexual risk, alcohol use and delinquency. This study also investigated how early adolescent processes of risk and protection were associated with the growth of these risk behaviors during adolescence. Using a developmental psychopathology and resilience framework, risk trajectories were measured with adolescents aged 15 to 24, and antecedents were measured with early adolescents ages 10 to 14 ( N = 1778). Using Latent Class Growth Analyses (LCGA), joint trajectory analyses revealed five distinct adolescent risk taking groups: high sex and alcohol, moderate problem behavior, problem behavior, alcohol-only, and alcohol and delinquency experimentation. Early adolescent externalizing problems were particularly important in understanding adolescent risk group membership. The co-occurrence between sexual risk and alcohol use, the diversity of problem behavior syndrome, and potential intervention and prevention efforts are discussed. |
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Brookmeyer, Kathryn A. Disentangling Pathways of Adolescent Sexual Risk from Problem Behavior Syndrome. Ph.D. Dissertation, Georgia State University, 2007.. |
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Brookmeyer, Kathryn A. Henrich, Christopher C. |
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Disentangling Adolescent Pathways of Sexual Risk Taking Journal of Primary Prevention 30,6 (November 2009): 677-696. Also: http://www.springerlink.com/content/ev1v25718183728k/ Cohort(s): NLSY79 Young Adult Publisher: Springer Keyword(s): Alcohol Use; Delinquency/Gang Activity; High School Curriculum; Modeling, Growth Curve/Latent Trajectory Analysis; Risk-Taking; Sexual Behavior Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, the authors aimed to describe the pathways of risk within sexual risk taking, alcohol use, and delinquency, and then identify how the trajectory of sexual risk is linked to alcohol use and delinquency. Risk trajectories were measured with adolescents aged 15-24 years (N = 1,778). Using Latent Class Growth Analyses (LCGA), models indicated that the majority of adolescents engaged in sexual risk and alcohol use. In joint trajectory analyses, LCGA revealed six risk taking classes: sex and alcohol, moderate risk taking, joint risk taking, moderate alcohol, alcohol risk, and alcohol and delinquency experimentation. Editors' Strategic Implications: School administrators and curriculum designers should pay attention to the study's findings with respect to the need for prevention programs to target early adolescents and integrate prevention messages about alcohol use and sexual risk taking. |
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Brookmeyer, Kathryn A. and Christopher C. Henrich. "Disentangling Adolescent Pathways of Sexual Risk Taking." Journal of Primary Prevention 30,6 (November 2009): 677-696.
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