A5032058918- Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Intimate Partner and Family Violence
- Youth Development and Social Support
- Education Discipline and Inequality
- Gun Ownership and Violence Research
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Community Health and Development
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Crime Patterns and Interventions
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Injury Epidemiology and Prevention
- Behavioral and Psychological Studies
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Parental Involvement in Education
- Trauma and Emergency Care Studies
- Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Health Policy Implementation Science
- Child Development and Digital Technology
- Youth Substance Use and School Attendance
Virginia Commonwealth University
2016-2025
Youth Development
2011-2024
University of Chicago
2021
Vanderbilt University
2021
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
2021
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
2021
Torrens University Australia
2021
Brookhaven National Laboratory
2009
Emory Healthcare
2009
New York Medical College
1998-2007
This study examined associations between two forms of peer victimization, physical and relational, externalizing behaviors including drug use, aggression, delinquent among a sample 276 predominantly African American eighth graders attending middle school in an urban public system. Regression analyses indicated that victimization was significantly related to cigarette alcohol use but not advanced marijuana use; relational contributed uniquely all categories after controlling for...
Abstract This study examined the relation between witnessing violence and drug use initiation among 6th graders attending middle schools in 5 rural counties investigated extent to which family support parental monitoring moderated this relation. Data were obtained from 1,282 adolescents at 2 time points during grade. Witnessing predicted subsequent of cigarette, beer wine, liquor, advanced alcohol use. Adolescents who reported high levels less likely initiate across all categories except...
This study examined associations between self-reports of sadness and anger regulation coping, reluctance to express emotion, physical relational aggression two cohorts predominantly African-American fifth (N = 191; 93 boys 98 girls) eighth 167; 73 94 graders. Multiple regression analyses indicated unique expressive coping. In contrast, aggression, but not was associated with These relations did differ across gender, the strength association coping varied by grade. Sadness moderated...
Latent growth curve analysis was used to examine the structure and interrelations among aggression, drug use, delinquent behavior during early adolescence. Five waves of data were collected from 667 students at three urban middle schools serving a predominantly African American population, more ethnically diverse sample 950 four rural schools. One set models focused on changes in individual behaviors; other global problem factor. Models with separate trajectories for provided best fit both...
The authors investigated the prevalence of substance abuse in 137 inpatients with DSM-III borderline personality disorder. Ninety-two (67%) these patients were given use disorder diagnosis. most frequently used substances alcohol and sedative-hypnotics. When was not as a diagnostic criterion for disorder, 32 (23%) no longer met criteria. These differed significantly from rest severity course illness. data suggest that there might be subgroup whom plays primary role development psychopathology.
This school-based randomized controlled trial tested the efficacy of 2 expressive writing interventions among youth living in high-violence urban neighborhoods. Seventeen classrooms (n = 258 seventh graders; 55% female; 91% African American/Black) from 3 public schools were to conditions which they wrote 8 times about a nonemotional topic (control condition) or experiencing and witnessing violence following either standard an enhanced protocol. Outcomes assessed 1 month prior 6 months...
This study examined parenting and peer predictors of physical dating violence perpetration during early adolescence tested moderation among these gender. Participants were 2,824 ethnically diverse sixth-grade students with a recent boyfriend/girlfriend who was part multisite, longitudinal investigation the development prevention middle school students. Those reported having significantly more drug use delinquent activity likely to be male. Twenty-nine percent youth perpetrating aggression...
Relatively little is known about the prevalence of physical dating violence behaviors and perceived norms among early adolescents. A sample 5,404 sixth-grade students was recruited from four diverse U.S. sites. Over half respondents reported that girls hitting their boyfriends acceptable under certain circumstances (e.g., if made mad or jealous) more than one in acceptance boys girlfriends. Among those reporting they had a recent boy/ girlfriend, nearly third (31.5%) fourth (26.4%) being...
This study evaluated the Problem Behavior Frequency Scale (PBFS), a self-report measure designed to assess adolescents' frequency of victimization, aggression, and other problem behaviors. Analyses were conducted on sample 5,532 adolescents from 37 schools at 4 sites. About half (49%) participants male; 48% self-identified as Black non-Hispanic; 21% Hispanic, 18% White non-Hispanic. Adolescents completed PBFS measures beliefs values related delinquent peer associations start 6th grade over 2...
This study reports the findings of a multisite randomized trial evaluating separate and combined effects 2 school-based approaches to reduce violence among early adolescents.A total 37 schools at 4 sites were conditions: (1) universal intervention that involved implementing student curriculum teacher training with 6th-grade students teachers, (2) selective in which family was implemented subset exhibiting high levels aggression social influence, (3) condition, (4) no-intervention control...
This study identified classes of adolescents who differed in their patterns reported aggression and victimization, examined the stability these patterns, explored factors associated with changes across time. Participants were 477 students from an urban adjoining county school system. The overall sample was 48% male had average age 11.3 years. predominantly African American (80%); primarily Caucasian (40%) (38%). Self-report victimization measures completed at beginning sixth grade end...
Abstract Two studies used latent growth‐curve analysis to examine the relation between witnessing violence and changes in problem behaviors (drug use, aggression, delinquency) attitudes during early adolescence. In Study 1, six waves of data covering 6th 8th grades were collected from 731 students urban schools serving mostly African‐American students. Strong cross‐sectional relations found other variables. Witnessing also predicted subsequent increases drug use supporting decreases value on...
This qualitative study examined individual-level factors that influence adolescents' responses to problem situations involving peers. Interviews were conducted with 106 middle school students (97% African American) from an urban system. Participants described would make it easier and those more difficult for adolescents specific situations. Responses included effective nonviolent fighting. Qualitative analysis identified 17 themes representing personal resources, beliefs values, perceived...
Violence within peer and dating contexts is prevalent among early adolescents. Youth may be victims and/or aggressors involved in violence across multiple contexts, resulting negative outcomes. This study identified patterns of perpetration victimization for violence, using a latent class analysis (LCA), examined how different engaging or experiencing adolescents were associated with symptoms depression anxiety. Participants included sample 508 racially ethnically diverse youth (51% male)...
This study evaluated the Problem Behavior Frequency Scale–Adolescent Report (PBFS-AR), a measure designed to assess adolescents’ frequency of victimization, aggression, substance use, and delinquent behavior. Participants were 1,263 students (50% female; 78% African American, 18% Latino) from three urban middle schools in United States. Confirmatory factor analyses competing models structure PBFS-AR supported model that differentiated among forms aggression (in-person physical, in-person...