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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"Add Health"”.
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Effects of Family Ses, Multiple Types of Child Abuse, and Parental Attachment On Early Sexual Activity: Analysis of the National Longitudinal Study On Adolescent Health (Add Health)
… on the National Longitudinal study of Adolescent Health data. The study sample consisted of mainly Caucasian adolescents with an average age of 16 years, living mostly with biological parents and in households of about three persons. The majority of adolescents in the study sample reported early …
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Interactionist Labeling: A Structural Equation Model of Formal Labeling, Juvenile Delinquency, and Adult Criminality
… the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health). The labeling perspective is outlined as it was originally presented, and the theoretical elaborations that have taken place since are highlighted. Distinctions are made between formally applied criminal justice labels and the …
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The Social Environment, Genetics, and Obesity: Evaluation of Diathesis-Stress and Differential Susceptibility Frameworks
The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) dataset was used to explore how newly-available genetic information can aid social scientists in conducting studies concerned with social outcomes. A key goal of this study is to evaluate two prominent theoretical frameworks in the …
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SCHOOL SIZE AND YOUTH VIOLENCE: POTENTIAL MEDIATING AND MODERATING ROLE OF SCHOOL CONNECTEDNESS
… violence continues to be considered a public health concern in the United States. Extant research indicates school size is positively associated with youth violence. School connectedness (i.e., the quality of perceived relationships between students and school personnel) has been found to be …
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Individual Resilience, Social Support, and Health Risk Behaviors in Adolescents and Young Adults: Study on Cross-sectional and Longitudinal Samples
… academic achievements. Evidence of resilience on health risk behaviors has not been comprehensively established yet. The purposes of this dissertation were to extend the existing literature about the stability of resilience through time, to examine how the resilience scale concurrently and …
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Adolescent Health, Future Outcomes, and Mechanisms Linking Health and Education
<p>Even though the relationship between the health of infants/children and future outcomes has been established in many studies, little evidence has shown the impact of adolescent health. We extend the literature by exploiting the data from Add Health. We show that poor adolescent health has a …
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Three Essays in Population Economics
… and around the world. Due to improvements in health and life expectancy, today most individuals spend the majority of their adult life with a parent present. Yet, our understanding of extended families is limited. Aside from a few exceptions, the literature in economics has predominantly …
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AN EXAMINATION OF FACTORS PREDICTING PARTICIPATION IN INTERRACIAL RELATIONSHIPS DURING ADOLESCENCE
… the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), I investigated several theories which had previously been researched using data of inferior quality, or only in the context of marriage relationships. I found that macrostructural and contact theories of race relations are …
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Controlling "What You're Supposed to Do in College": An Examination of Social Control and Differential Association on Binge Drinking Behaviors
… group (Sutherland 1947). This study used the Add Health data set to tests these hypotheses.
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Does Social Support Moderate the Effects of Strain on Delinquency More for Females than Males?
… Longitudinal Study of Adolescence to Adult Health (Add Health, 1994-2018) is used in this study. Results provide support for GST but suggest there are no gender differences in types of strain experienced. Furthermore, there is no evidence that social support moderates the effect of strain on …
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The Effects of Family Structure on Juvenile Delinquency
… the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) are used for the purposes of this study (n = 4,389). While there are no significant differences in violent delinquency between cohabitating families and other family types, results indicate that adolescents from cohabitating …
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Losing or choosing faith : mother loss and religious change.
… Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health; Add Health), I find the relationship between maternal religiosity and child religiosity is negative among those whose mother has died. Longitudinal models of child religiosity across more than a decade show that when maternal religiosity is …
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Crime, Media, and The American Dream: The Role of Media Consumption in Institutional Anomie Theory
… of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (ADD Health). A series of logistic regressions were conducted to determine the influence of television consumption on committing multiple forms of serious criminal behavior. As hypothesized, television consumption directly increases the odds …
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Neighborhood Effects as Predictors of Hispanic Young Adult Outcomes
… Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health), the current thesis examined neighborhood effects, such as neighborhood disorganization, violence exposure, and school attachment in relation to specific outcomes in young-adulthood, such as education, career attainment and …
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Adoptive Status, Social Capital, and Academic Achievement
… the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) had 609 adopted and 11, 940 non-adopted adolescents. I used OLS regression models to help explain why adopted adolescents have significantly lower grade point averages (GPA) than non-adopted adolescents. Potential mediators were …
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Child Maltreatment, Problem Alcohol Use And Physical Revictimization: Examining Longitudinal Trajectories In A Nationally Representative Sample
… sexual abuse and sexual revictimization. In addition, there is a paucity of epidemiological studies examining child maltreatment, alcohol use, and physical revictimization. The present study sought to address these limitations by examining relationships between child maltreatment, problem …
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Religion and Academic Achievement Among Adolescents
… the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) (n=8,051), I examine the association between adolescent religiosity, parent religiosity, and academic achievement, in light of the effects of family and community capital. The results indicate that the association between student …
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Essays on the economics of racial segregation
… segregation in social networks using data from Add Health, a survey of US high schools, containing detailed information on school friendship networks. I find that students prefer interactions with individuals of the same race. The simulation of several busing programs shows that perfect …
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The effects of individual attributes, health behaviors, and religion on adolescent obesity: a study of African American and Caucasian adolescents
… socioeconomic status, gender, and race) and health behavior factors (vigorous physical activity, sedentary activity, dietary intake, and sleeping pattern) as well as religion (religious affiliations and religious commitment) on African American and Caucasian adolescents' body weight. The …
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The relationship between early age of first sexual intercourse and vulnerability to depression among adolescents
… and early sexual intercourse. Using the Add Health restricted dataset, I analyzed the depressive symptomatology of adolescents over a seven-year time period. The final sample (n=6,51O) was comprised of 49.35% male (n=3,213) and 50.65% female (n=3,297) participants. Results indicated that …
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