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Author: Shen, Yuh-Ling
Resulting in 3 citations.
1. Crockett, Lisa J.
Raffaelli, Marcela
Shen, Yuh-Ling
Linking Self-Regulation and Risk Proneness to Risky Sexual Behavior: Pathways through Peer Pressure and Early Substance Use
Journal of Research on Adolescence 16,4 (December 2006): 503-525.
Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1532-7795.2006.00505.x/abstract
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing, Inc. => Wiley Online
Keyword(s): Adolescent Behavior; Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Child Self-Administered Supplement (CSAS); Gender Differences; Peers/Peer influence/Peer relations; Risk-Taking; Self-Regulation/Self-Control; Sexual Behavior; Substance Use

The linkages between self-regulation in childhood, risk proneness in early adolescence, and risky sexual behavior in mid-adolescence were examined in a cohort of children ( N=518) from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. The possible mediating role of two early adolescent variables (substance use and negative peer pressure) was also examined. Self-regulation was assessed by maternal report at ages 8–9, and risk proneness, comprising aspects of sensation seeking and decision making, was assessed by adolescent self-report at ages 12–13. Structural equation models predicting risky sexual behavior at ages 16–17 indicated that self-regulation operated partly through early adolescent substance use, whereas risk proneness operated through early adolescent substance use and negative peer pressure. The overall model did not differ significantly for boys and girls, although there were gender differences in the strength of particular paths. These long-term longitudinal results support the importance of early self-regulation and risk proneness in setting the stage for adolescent sexual risk taking and implicate substance use and negative peer pressure as processes through which risk proneness and poor self-regulation lead to risky sexual behavior.
Bibliography Citation
Crockett, Lisa J., Marcela Raffaelli and Yuh-Ling Shen. "Linking Self-Regulation and Risk Proneness to Risky Sexual Behavior: Pathways through Peer Pressure and Early Substance Use." Journal of Research on Adolescence 16,4 (December 2006): 503-525.
2. Moilanen, Kristin L.
Shen, Yuh-Ling
Mastery in Middle Adolescence: The Contributions of Socioeconomic Status, Maternal Mastery and Supportive-Involved Mothering
Journal of Youth and Adolescence 43, 2 (February 2014): 298-310.
Also: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10964-013-9951-3
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult
Publisher: Springer
Keyword(s): Chores (see Housework); Discipline; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Parent Supervision/Monitoring; Parent-Child Interaction; Parent-Child Relationship/Closeness; Parental Influences; Parenting Skills/Styles; Parents, Behavior; Pearlin Mastery Scale; Self-Perception; Socioeconomic Status (SES); Well-Being

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

Mastery, or the feeling of power or control over one’s life, is a vital yet understudied covariate of wellbeing in adolescence and adulthood. The goal of the current study was to explore the effects of demographic characteristics (i.e., sex, age, race/ethnicity, and socioeconomic status (SES)), maternal mastery, and supportive-involved mothering on children’s mastery at ages 16–17 years. 855 teens (47.6% female) and their mothers provided study data as part of the 1992 and 1998 waves of National Longitudinal Survey of Youth-1979 (NLSY-79; 24.1% Hispanic, 36.6% Black). Hybrid path models indicated that only maternal parenting during middle childhood was linked directly to levels of children’s mastery in middle adolescence; a small portion of the association between parenting and adolescent mastery was attributable to SES. The discussion centers on significance of these findings for future research and theory development.
Bibliography Citation
Moilanen, Kristin L. and Yuh-Ling Shen. "Mastery in Middle Adolescence: The Contributions of Socioeconomic Status, Maternal Mastery and Supportive-Involved Mothering." Journal of Youth and Adolescence 43, 2 (February 2014): 298-310.
3. Raffaelli, Marcela
Crockett, Lisa J.
Shen, Yuh-Ling
Developmental Stability and Change in Self-Regulation from Childhood to Adolescence
Journal of Genetic Psychology 166,1 (March 2005): 54-75
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79
Publisher: Heldref Publications
Keyword(s): Behavior; Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Behavioral Differences; Child Health; Children, Behavioral Development; Gender Differences; Genetics; Holland's Typology; Modeling; Self-Regulation/Self-Control

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

The authors examined the developmental course of self-regulation in a cohort of children from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. The longitudinal sample included 646 children (48% girls; 52% boys; 36.2% Black, 23.4% Hispanic, 40.4% White) who were 4 to 5 years old in 1986 and who were followed up at ages 8 to 9 and ages 12 to 13. Levels of self-regulation (assessed with 12 maternal-report items that measured regulation of affect, behavior, attention) increased from early childhood (when sample children were 4 or 5 years old) to middle childhood (ages 8 or 9), but not from middle childhood to early adolescence (ages 12 or 13). Girls exhibited significantly higher levels of self-regulation than did boys at all 3 time points. Individual differences in self-regulation were fairly stable across the 8-year span (rs = .47 to .50). Comparisons of 1-, 2-, and 3-factor models suggested that the different aspects of self-regulation are highly interrelated, and support adoption of a single-factor model for both genders. The authors discuss implications of these findings for theory and intervention. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Bibliography Citation
Raffaelli, Marcela, Lisa J. Crockett and Yuh-Ling Shen. "Developmental Stability and Change in Self-Regulation from Childhood to Adolescence ." Journal of Genetic Psychology 166,1 (March 2005): 54-75 .