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Author: Weden, Margaret M.
Resulting in 14 citations.
1. Frisco, Michelle
Weden, Margaret M.
Early Adult Obesity and U.S. Women's Lifetime Childbearing Experiences
Journal of Marriage and Family 75,4 (August 2013): 920-932.
Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jomf.12049/abstract
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing, Inc. => Wiley Online
Keyword(s): Body Mass Index (BMI); Childbearing; Fertility; Obesity; Weight

Literature from multiple disciplines suggests that women who are obese during early adulthood may accumulate social and physiological impediments to childbearing across their reproductive lives. This led the authors to investigate whether obese young women have different lifetime childbearing experiences than leaner peers by analyzing data from 1,658 female participants in the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Study sample members were nulliparous women ages 20–25 in 1982. The authors examined their childbearing experiences between 1982 and 2006 and found that young women who were obese at baseline had higher odds of remaining childless and increased odds of underachieving fertility intentions than young women who were normal weight at baseline. These results suggest that obesity has long-term ramifications for women's childbearing experiences with respect to whether and how many children women have in general and relative to the number of children they want.
Bibliography Citation
Frisco, Michelle and Margaret M. Weden. "Early Adult Obesity and U.S. Women's Lifetime Childbearing Experiences." Journal of Marriage and Family 75,4 (August 2013): 920-932.
2. Frisco, Michelle
Weden, Margaret M.
Lippert, Adam M.
Burnett, Kristin
The Multidimensional Relationship Between Early Adult Body Weight and Women’s Childbearing Experiences
Social Science and Medicine 74,11 (June 2012): 1703-1711.
Also: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21944717
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Elsevier
Keyword(s): Body Mass Index (BMI); Childbearing; Marital Status; Obesity; Weight; Women

This study has three primary goals that make an important contribution to the literature on body weight and childbearing experiences among United States’ women. It sheds light on the physiological and social nature of this relationship by examining whether the consequences of early adult weight for lifetime childbearing are shaped by historical social context, women’s social characteristics, and their ability to marry. We analyze data from two female cohorts who participated in the National Longitudinal Study of Youth (NLSY79). Cohort 1 entered early adulthood before the U.S. obesity prevalence increased. Cohort 2 entered early adulthood after the obesity prevalence increased. We find that early adult weight is negatively related to the childbearing trajectories and marital status of Cohort 1 but not Cohort 2. Failing to account for race/ethnicity and women’s educational background as confounders masks some of these associations, which are evident for both White and Black women. Our results suggest that the health consequences of body weight do not fully drive its impact on childbearing. Rather, the lifetime fertility consequences of early adult weight are malleable, involve social processes, and are dependent on social context.

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Frisco, Michelle, Margaret M. Weden, Adam M. Lippert and Kristin Burnett. "The Multidimensional Relationship Between Early Adult Body Weight and Women’s Childbearing Experiences." Social Science and Medicine 74,11 (June 2012): 1703-1711.
3. Frisco, Michelle
Weden, Margaret M.
Lippert, Adam M.
Burnett, Kristin
The Shifting Burden of Body Weight for Women's Childbearing Experiences
Presented: Washington, DC, Population Association of America Annual Meetings, March 31-April 2, 2011
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Population Association of America
Keyword(s): Body Mass Index (BMI); Childbearing; Fertility; Obesity; Weight; Women

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Clinical research indicates that obesity impedes conception. Less is understood about population-level links between weight and women's childbearing trajectories, the social component of this association, or whether it is malleable over time. This study examines these issues. Analysis of data from the NLSY79 female sample shows how weight and childbearing trajectories are linked among two cohorts of women who experienced similar historical fertility contexts but different normative weight contexts. We find that BMI is negatively related to Cohort 1's childbearing trajectories but not Cohort 2's. These cohort differences suggest that biological factors alone do not drive the overall impact of obesity on fertility. Rather, the fertility consequences of obesity among U.S. women of childbearing age has been, and may continue to be, malleable over time and due in part to social processes.
Bibliography Citation
Frisco, Michelle, Margaret M. Weden, Adam M. Lippert and Kristin Burnett. "The Shifting Burden of Body Weight for Women's Childbearing Experiences." Presented: Washington, DC, Population Association of America Annual Meetings, March 31-April 2, 2011.
4. Miles, Jeremy N. V.
Weden, Margaret M.
Is the Intergenerational Transmission of Smoking From Mother to Child Mediated by Children’s Behavior Problems?
Nicotine and Tobacco Research 14,9 (September 2012): 1012-1018.
Also: http://ntr.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2012/02/07/ntr.ntr328.abstract
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Cigarette Use (see Smoking); Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Modeling, Latent Class Analysis/Latent Transition Analysis; Modeling, Logit; Mothers, Behavior; Pre/post Natal Behavior; Smoking (see Cigarette Use)

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Introduction: A previous paper used latent class analysis to assign individuals to 1 of 4 adolescent/young adult smoking trajectory classes and then established an association between maternal smoking before, during, and after pregnancy and these classes. In this paper, we examine one possible pathway for this relationship: that maternal smoking during pregnancy may set off a behavioral trajectory which increases the likelihood of problem behaviors generally, of which smoking is one manifestation.

Methods: We used the Behavior Problems Index measure from age 8 through age 12 as a potential mediator. We used a path analysis modeling approach within a multinomial logistic regression (using Mplus) to estimate direct and indirect effects (via behavioral problems) between maternal smoking pattern and child trajectory class.

Results: We found small but statistically significant indirect effects via behavioral problems from maternal smoking to child smoking trajectory for membership in all 3 smoking classes, relative to the nonsmoking trajectory, indicating partial mediation. Mediated effects were associated with maternal smoking after pregnancy, no statistically significant mediated effects were found for smoking before or during pregnancy.

Conclusions: The results provided no evidence that the effects of maternal smoking during pregnancy on child smoking trajectory are mediated by problem behavior. Effects from smoking after birth to child smoking trajectory appear to be partially mediated by problem behavior, supporting a behavioral rather than physiological effect of smoking during pregnancy but not ruling out more complex physiological pathways.

Bibliography Citation
Miles, Jeremy N. V. and Margaret M. Weden. "Is the Intergenerational Transmission of Smoking From Mother to Child Mediated by Children’s Behavior Problems?" Nicotine and Tobacco Research 14,9 (September 2012): 1012-1018.
5. Rendall, Michael S.
Ghosh-Dastidar, Bonnie
Weden, Margaret M.
Nazarov, Zafar
Socio-Demographic Differentials in Experiencing a Major Occupational Injury in the Prime Working Ages: Estimation Using Within-Survey and Cross-Survey Multiple Imputation of Injury Histories
Presented: Washington, DC, Population Association of America Annual Meetings, March 31-April 2, 2011
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Population Association of America
Keyword(s): Accidents; Injuries, Workplace; Modeling, Hazard/Event History/Survival/Duration; Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP)

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Sociodemographic differentials in ever experiencing a major workplace injury in the prime working ages (25 to 44) are estimated from left- and right-censored injury histories in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79), and the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP). Because the injury hazard is higher for individuals with previous injuries, the age-specific hazard for those with no previous injury since age 25 must first be estimated. Injury histories from age 25, however, are available for a fraction of the NLSY sample and for none in the SIPP sample (only the most recent injury is recorded). For unbiased incorporation of all NLSY and SIPP observations, injury histories are first multiply imputed within the NLSY from non-left-censored histories. Injury histories are then multiply imputed from this “completed” NLSY dataset to every SIPP individual. Efficiency and bias of NLSY-only and NLSY-SIPP estimation are compared to estimation that ignores injury history.
Bibliography Citation
Rendall, Michael S., Bonnie Ghosh-Dastidar, Margaret M. Weden and Zafar Nazarov. "Socio-Demographic Differentials in Experiencing a Major Occupational Injury in the Prime Working Ages: Estimation Using Within-Survey and Cross-Survey Multiple Imputation of Injury Histories." Presented: Washington, DC, Population Association of America Annual Meetings, March 31-April 2, 2011.
6. Rendall, Michael S.
Weden, Margaret M.
Lau, Christopher
Brownell, Peter B.
Nazarov, Zafar
Fernandes, Meenakshi
Evaluation of Bias in Estimates of Early Childhood Obesity From Parent-Reported Heights and Weights
American Journal of Public Health 104,7 (July 2014): 1255-1262.
Also: http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2014.302001
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79
Publisher: American Public Health Association
Keyword(s): Body Mass Index (BMI); Child Health; Data Quality/Consistency; Height; Obesity; Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID); Weight

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Objectives: We evaluated bias in estimated obesity prevalence owing to error in parental reporting. We also evaluated bias mitigation through application of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s biologically implausible value (BIV) cutoffs.

Methods: We simulated obesity prevalence of children aged 2 to 5 years in 2 panel surveys after counterfactually substituting parameters estimated from 1999-2008 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data for prevalence of extreme height and weight and for proportions obese in extreme height or weight categories.

Results: Heights reported below the first and fifth height-for-age percentiles explained between one half and two thirds, respectively, of total bias in obesity prevalence. Bias was reduced by one tenth when excluding cases with height-for-age and weight-for-age BIVs and by one fifth when excluding cases with body mass–index-for-age BIVs. Applying BIVs, however, resulted in incorrect exclusion of nonnegligible proportions of obese children.

Conclusions: Correcting the reporting of children's heights in the first percentile alone may reduce overestimation of early childhood obesity prevalence in surveys with parental reporting by one half to two thirds. Excluding BIVs has limited effectiveness in mitigating this bias.

Bibliography Citation
Rendall, Michael S., Margaret M. Weden, Christopher Lau, Peter B. Brownell, Zafar Nazarov and Meenakshi Fernandes. "Evaluation of Bias in Estimates of Early Childhood Obesity From Parent-Reported Heights and Weights." American Journal of Public Health 104,7 (July 2014): 1255-1262.
7. Weden, Margaret M.
Health Behaviors and the Role of Job Conditions: Smoking Cessation and Work Transitions through Young Adulthood and Midlife
Presented: Boston, MA, Population Association of America Meetings, April 2004
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Population Association of America
Keyword(s): Behavior; Cigarette Use (see Smoking); Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Life Course; Modeling; Mortality; Working Conditions

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Work conditions offer one mechanism linking structural inequality to poor health and mortality. Both psychosocial and cultural factors are important components of the differences in work environments. Health behaviors, such as smoking, can reflect the strain and/or the social norms associated with these work environments. This paper explores the relationship between job conditions and smoking cessation. Trajectories of cessation and workplace transitions are estimated for men and women among the three most prevalent US ethnic groups, using event history models and data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1979-1998. This paper extends existing cross-sectional and urban-based literature on the relationship between work and health behaviors, with a unique approach that addresses the health implications of the work environment over the life course.
Bibliography Citation
Weden, Margaret M. "Health Behaviors and the Role of Job Conditions: Smoking Cessation and Work Transitions through Young Adulthood and Midlife." Presented: Boston, MA, Population Association of America Meetings, April 2004.
8. Weden, Margaret M.
Social Stratification and Health: Resources and Exposures Related to the Racial, Ethnic and Gender Differences in Smoking
Ph.D. Dissertation, Johns Hopkins University, June 2005. DAI-A 65/12 (2005): 4735
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT)
Keyword(s): Cigarette Use (see Smoking); Employment, History; Ethnic Differences; Event History; Gender Differences; Hispanics; Job Characteristics; Life Course; Occupations; Smoking (see Cigarette Use); Socioeconomic Status (SES); Unemployment; Work Histories

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During early adulthood, differences in health behaviors emerge that are precursors to inequalities in health and mortality experienced in later life. The role of employment, as a fundamental determinant of resources, is considered for young adults aging into midlife (ages 15-40 years over 1979-1998). Discrete-time hazards models show that there are effects of joblessness on cessation among women, but not among men. The lower likelihood of cessation among African American and Hispanic women who are out of the labor force is explained by social and economic resources. European American women who are unemployed or out of the labor force remain less likely to quit even after controlling for these resources. The effects of psychosocial exposures at work are modeled using discrete-time hazards models. 'High strain' jobs with high demands and low latitude, and 'passive' jobs with low demands and low latitude, are associated with the lowest cessation. 'Active' jobs with high demands and high latitude is associated with the highest cessation. These differences in cessation by workplace conditions are instructive for understanding racial, ethnic and gender differences in smoking since men are more likely to age into 'active' than 'high strain' jobs, and African Americans are the most likely to remain in 'passive' jobs. The analyses underscore the relevance of policy that increases human capital leading to employment and occupational attainment. They also highlight the need for workplace health programs that extend beyond individual interventions to address workplace conditions.
Bibliography Citation
Weden, Margaret M. Social Stratification and Health: Resources and Exposures Related to the Racial, Ethnic and Gender Differences in Smoking. Ph.D. Dissertation, Johns Hopkins University, June 2005. DAI-A 65/12 (2005): 4735.
9. Weden, Margaret M.
Astone, Nan Marie
Bishai, David M.
Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Differences in Smoking Cessation Associated with Employment and Joblessness Through Young Adulthood in the US
Social Science and Medicine 62,2 (January 2006): 303-316.
Also: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953605002911
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Elsevier
Keyword(s): Cigarette Use (see Smoking); Ethnic Differences; Gender Differences; Labor Force Participation; Labor Supply; Modeling, Hazard/Event History/Survival/Duration; Racial Differences; Smoking (see Cigarette Use); Women

The dynamics of labor force participation and joblessness during young adulthood influence access to social and material resources and shape exposure to different sources of psychosocial strain. Differences in these dynamics by race, ethnicity, and gender are related to changes in a behavioral determinant of poor health (tobacco use) for young adults aging into midlife. Using discrete-time hazards models, we estimate the relationship between labor force participation in the past year and smoking cessation for US adults (ages 14?21 years in 1979) followed in a population-representative sample until 1998 (i.e. the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth). We assess the unique role of racial, ethnic and gender differences in exposure, vulnerability, and reactivity to employment and joblessness by controlling for social and economic resources obtained through working and by controlling for early life factors that select individuals into certain labor force and smoking trajectories. There are three main findings: (1) joblessness is more strongly associated with persistent daily smoking among women than among men; (2) fewer social and economic resources for women out of the labor force compared to employed women explains their lower cessation rates; and (3) lower cessation among unemployed women compared to employed women can only partially be explained by these resources. These findings illustrate how differential access to work-related social and economic resources is an important mediator of poor health trajectories. Contextual factors such as social norms and psychosocial strains at work and at home may play a unique role among European American men and women in explaining gender differences in smoking. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR; Copyright 2006 Elsevier]
Bibliography Citation
Weden, Margaret M., Nan Marie Astone and David M. Bishai. "Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Differences in Smoking Cessation Associated with Employment and Joblessness Through Young Adulthood in the US." Social Science and Medicine 62,2 (January 2006): 303-316.
10. Weden, Margaret M.
Brownell, Peter B.
Rendall, Michael S.
Prenatal, Perinatal, Early Life, and Sociodemographic Factors Underlying Racial Differences in the Likelihood of High Body Mass Index in Early Childhood
American Journal of Public Health 102,11 (November 2012): 2057-2067.
Also: http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2012.300686
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79
Publisher: American Public Health Association
Keyword(s): Body Mass Index (BMI); Breastfeeding; Child Care; Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (ECLS-B, ECLS-K); Obesity; Pre-natal Care/Exposure; Pre/post Natal Behavior; Racial Differences; Weight

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Objectives. We investigated early childhood disparities in high body mass index (BMI) between Black and White US children.

Methods. We compared differences in Black and White children’s prevalence of sociodemographic, prenatal, perinatal, and early life risk and protective factors; fit logistic regression models predicting high BMI (≥ 95th percentile) at age 4 to 5 years to 2 nationally representative samples followed from birth; and performed separate and pooled-survey estimations of these models.

Results. After adjustment for sample design–related variables, models predicting high BMI in the 2 samples were statistically indistinguishable. In the pooled-survey models, Black children's odds of high BMI were 59% higher than White children's (odds ratio [OR] = 1.59; 95% confidence interval [CI]= 1.32, 1.92). Sociodemographic predictors reduced the racial disparity to 46% (OR = 1.46; 95% CI = 1.17, 1.81). Prenatal, perinatal, and early life predictors reduced the disparity to nonsignificance (OR = 1.18; 95% CI = 0.93, 1.49). Maternal prepregnancy obesity and short-duration or no breastfeeding were among predictors for which racial differences in children’s exposures most disadvantaged Black children.

Conclusions. Racial disparities in early childhood high BMI were largely explained by potentially modifiable risk and protective factors.

Bibliography Citation
Weden, Margaret M., Peter B. Brownell and Michael S. Rendall. "Prenatal, Perinatal, Early Life, and Sociodemographic Factors Underlying Racial Differences in the Likelihood of High Body Mass Index in Early Childhood." American Journal of Public Health 102,11 (November 2012): 2057-2067.
11. Weden, Margaret M.
Brownell, Peter B.
Rendall, Michael S.
Lau, Christopher
Fernandes, Meenakshi
Nazarov, Zafar
Parent-Reported Height and Weight as Sources of Bias in Survey Estimates of Childhood Obesity
American Journal of Epidemiology 178,3 (1 August 2013): 461-473.
Also: http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/178/3/461.abstract
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Keyword(s): Body Mass Index (BMI); Child Health; Data Quality/Consistency; Height; Obesity; Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID); Weight

Parental reporting of height and weight was evaluated for US children aged 2–13 years. The prevalence of obesity (defined as a body mass index value (calculated as weight (kg)/height (m)2) in the 95th percentile or higher) and its height and weight components were compared in child supplements of 2 nationally representative surveys: the 1996–2008 Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 Cohort (NLSY79-Child) and the 1997 Child Development Supplement of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID-CDS). Sociodemographic differences in parent reporting error were analyzed. Error was largest for children aged 2–5 years. Underreporting of height, not overreporting of weight, generated a strong upward bias in obesity prevalence at those ages. Frequencies of parent-reported heights below the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (Atlanta, Georgia) first percentile were implausibly high at 16.5% (95% confidence interval (CI): 14.3, 19.0) in the NLSY79-Child and 20.6% (95% CI: 16.0, 26.3) in the PSID-CDS. They were highest among low-income children at 33.2% (95% CI: 22.4, 46.1) in the PSID-CDS and 26.2% (95% CI: 20.2, 33.2) in the NLSY79-Child. Bias in the reporting of obesity decreased with children's age and reversed direction at ages 12–13 years. Underreporting of weight increased with age, and underreporting of height decreased with age. We recommend caution to researchers who use parent-reported heights, especially for very young children, and offer practical solutions for survey data collection and research on child obesity.
Bibliography Citation
Weden, Margaret M., Peter B. Brownell, Michael S. Rendall, Christopher Lau, Meenakshi Fernandes and Zafar Nazarov. "Parent-Reported Height and Weight as Sources of Bias in Survey Estimates of Childhood Obesity." American Journal of Epidemiology 178,3 (1 August 2013): 461-473.
12. Weden, Margaret M.
Kimbro, Rachel Tolbert
Racial and Ethnic Differences in the Timing of First Marriage and Smoking Cessation
Journal of Marriage and Family 69,3 (August 2007): 878-887.
Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1741-3737.2007.00411.x/abstract
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: National Council on Family Relations
Keyword(s): Age at First Marriage; Cigarette Use (see Smoking); Demography; Ethnic Differences; Family Formation; Health Factors; Hispanics; Maternal Employment; Racial Differences; Smoking (see Cigarette Use)

Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (N = 4,050), we consider the relationship between the timing of family formation and positive changes in health behavior. Theories that predict both positive and negative associations are tested. The findings suggest that both mechanisms operate and that the direction of the association depends on the respondent's race or ethnicity. Whites who marry early are less likely to quit smoking, whereas Whites who marry on time and Blacks and Hispanics who marry at all ages are more likely to quit. The analysis refines the understanding of how family formation shapes changes in health behaviors differentially across the life course, and it underscores the difference in this process for individuals from different racial and ethnic backgrounds. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Bibliography Citation
Weden, Margaret M. and Rachel Tolbert Kimbro. "Racial and Ethnic Differences in the Timing of First Marriage and Smoking Cessation." Journal of Marriage and Family 69,3 (August 2007): 878-887.
13. Weden, Margaret M.
Miles, Jeremy N. V.
Intergenerational Relationships between the Smoking Patterns of a Population-Representative Sample of US Mothers and the Smoking Trajectories of their Children
American Journal of Public Health 102,4 (April 2012): 723-731.
Also: http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2011.300214
Cohort(s): NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult
Publisher: American Public Health Association
Keyword(s): Cigarette Use (see Smoking); Delinquency/Gang Activity; Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Modeling, Growth Curve/Latent Trajectory Analysis; Pre/post Natal Behavior; Smoking (see Cigarette Use)

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OBJECTIVES: We assessed intergenerational transmission of smoking in mother-child dyads.

METHODS: We identified classes of youth smoking trajectories using mixture latent trajectory analyses with data from the Children and Young Adults of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (n = 6349). We regressed class membership on prenatal and postnatal exposure to maternal smoking, including social and behavioral variables, to control for selection.

RESULTS: Youth smoking trajectories entailed early-onset persistent smoking, early-onset experimental discontinued smoking, late-onset persistent smoking, and nonsmoking. The likelihood of early onset versus late onset and early onset versus nonsmoking were significantly higher among youths exposed prenatally and postnatally versus either postnatally alone or unexposed. Controlling for selection, the increased likelihood of early onset versus nonsmoking remained significant for each exposure group versus unexposed, as did early onset versus late onset and late onset versus nonsmoking for youths exposed prenatally and postnatally versus unexposed. Experimental smoking was notable among youths whose mothers smoked but quit before the child's birth.

CONCLUSIONS: Both physiological and social role-modeling mechanisms of intergenerational transmission are evident. Prioritization of tobacco control for pregnant women, mothers, and youths remains a critical, interrelated objective.

Bibliography Citation
Weden, Margaret M. and Jeremy N. V. Miles. "Intergenerational Relationships between the Smoking Patterns of a Population-Representative Sample of US Mothers and the Smoking Trajectories of their Children." American Journal of Public Health 102,4 (April 2012): 723-731.
14. Weden, Margaret M.
Zabin, Laurie S.
Gender and Ethnic Differences in the Co-occurrence of Adolescent Risk Behaviors
Ethnicity and Health 10,3 (August 2005): 213-225.
Also: http://search.epnet.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&an=17395181
Cohort(s): NLSY97
Publisher: Routledge ==> Taylor & Francis (1998)
Keyword(s): Behavioral Problems; Ethnic Groups/Ethnicity; Gender; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Modeling; Risk-Taking; Substance Use; Teenagers; Truancy; Well-Being

We consider gender and ethnic differences in the co-occurrence of adolescent behaviors related to health and well-being. Using a nationally representative sample of adolescents in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1997–2000), we examine behavior among students as well as school drop-outs. We use latent class models (LCMs) to identify subpopulations of adolescents with similar patterns of co-occurring behaviors. The generalizability of the findings for African American adolescents in the 1970s is considered using a sample of inner-city youth from the Pathways to Adulthood Survey. For all ethnic groups, we find a subpopulation with 'problem behavior' characteristics (in which early sexual initiation, alcohol use, smoking, marijuana use, and truancy are all highly prevalent). This cluster is most common among European American adolescents and among young men. A subpopulation characterized by behaviors often leading to poor social outcomes (e.g. truancy, early sexual initiation and fighting) is most common for African American adolescents, especially young African American men. Our findings suggest that multi-factorial interventions which address the interrelationships between all of the behaviors are relevant regardless of gender or ethnicity. However, the ethnic and gender differences in the likelihood of specific patterns of interrelationships highlight the importance of considering the ethnic and gender composition of a population when developing future research and interventions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Bibliography Citation
Weden, Margaret M. and Laurie S. Zabin. "Gender and Ethnic Differences in the Co-occurrence of Adolescent Risk Behaviors." Ethnicity and Health 10,3 (August 2005): 213-225.