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Watering seeds: the socialization of African American adolescent male masculinity
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"It's Just Gym": Physicality and Identity among African American Adolescent Girls
… findings of a study that explored how a group of African American adolescent girls attending a suburban, middle-class high school in the Midwest experience and enact their physicality in school settings. This study was devised as an attempt to critically examine how local cultural context informs …
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African American adolescent suicidality and prevention from an urban school counselor perspective
<p>African American adolescent suicidality has become more prevalent, and urban school counselors are positioned uniquely to intervene. This research studied the overarching societal factors in the sociocultural, economic, and political spheres that influence increased suicidality behaviors in …
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Sexual Risk Taking Behaviors Among African American Adolescent Mothers: An Ecological Perspective
Young African American women of childbearing age are at high risk for Human Immunodeficency Virus (HIV) exposure and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). Using an ecological perspective, this study examined the influence of several individual, familial, and neighborhood factors on the sexual …
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Pedagogy of Social Justice: An Inquiry into the Experiences of African American Adolescent Males
… I explored stories from five eighth grade African American adolescent males in order to identify how home, community, and school experiences contributed to their academic success and social development. My passion for the inquiry was driven for my desire to foster a sense of agency for …
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Examining Family Structure and Parenting Processes as Predictors of Delinquency in African-American Adolescent Females
This study employed a sample of African-American adolescent females from intact (n=279) and non-intact (n=219) families to examine the relationship between parenting processes (parental monitoring, parent-adolescent communication, parent-adolescent attachment, authoritative parenting) and …
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A Qualitative Exploration of the Influence of Racism on Identity Development for African American Adolescent Males
<p>The life circumstances facing African American adolescent males are reported with a fair amount of frequency by numerous media outlets in our society. Reports generally communicate negative circumstances facing African American adolescent males in the educational, economic, social, and political …
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Correlates and Predictors of Parenting and Problem Behaviors in Young Children of African American Adolescent Mothers
… examined in a sample of fifty-four low-income African American adolescent mothers pregnant with their first child. Mothers participated in a structured interview during the prenatal period and again six years later. Maternal parenting efficacy and mother's reports of child negative affect and …
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More Than Me: The Voices Of African American Adolescent Mothers And Their Pursuit of Post-Secondary Education
<p>Adolescent mothers are not a homogenous group. Like non-parenting adolescents they come from various educational and socio-economic backgrounds. Adolescent mothers are generally labelled to be at high risk of dropping out of school, making poor life choices, and ultimately living poor life …
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Development and evaluation of a breastfeeding intervention and the infant feeding subjective norm scale
… health. However, breastfeeding rates among African American, adolescent mothers are much lower than same-aged mothers of different races. Therefore, the overall goal of my dissertation research was to further our understanding of the factors contributing to lower breastfeeding rates among …
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NOBODY’S PERFECT: A QUALITATIVE EXAMINATION OF AFRICAN AMERICAN CAREGIVERS AND THEIR ADOLESCENT DAUGHTERS’ PERCEPTIONS OF ADOLESCENT GIRLS’ BODY IMAGE
… high rates of body dissatisfaction among adolescent girls are alarming. Research suggests that cultural norms emphasizing thinness and unrealistic standards of beauty may be contributing to this growing problem. This is concerning given the link between negative body image and a host of …
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"Mentor Me To Mister" A Case Study of Mentoring through the Kappa Leadership and Developmental League
… and Developmental League uses to mentor African American males and the impact it has on their academic and social achievement. The researcher used a collective case study design to identify the best practices of the Kappa League. Purposeful sampling was used to identify and invite Kappa …
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Perceived familial socialization and ethnic identity: factors associated with physical activity, eating behavior patterns, and social physique anxiety in african american middle adolescents
<p>Purpose: African American adolescents experience higher rates of obesity and have an increased risk of obesity related diseases than Caucasian American adolescents. Despite culturally sensitive obesity preventive interventions, obesity rates are increasing within the African American adolescent …
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Fatherless homes and delinquency: a study of institutionalized African American male youth
… delinquency, especially as it is perceived by African American adolescent males (N=23) who have been detained in a juvenile detention facility. This study is ethnographic, exploratory, and inductive in its approach. Hypotheses are generated or discovered rather than tested. The methodology that …
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Academic efficacy among adolescent African American males
The academic achievement gap between African American males and their White American counterparts is one of the most researched phenomena in educational and political circles. Current research proposes academic efficacy, sense of school belonging, and racial identity are internal psychological …
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Combating Hair Related Barriers to Physical Activity Among African American Female Adolescents with Yoga
Black and African American adolescent girls have a disproportionate prevalence of obesity, type 2 diabetes, and heart disease when compared to any other ethnic group. Data from previous studies have determined that hair harassment and hair care maintenance are explicit barriers to physical activity …
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What are they Saying: Voices from the Inner City? Lived Experience of Inner City African American Adolescents with Asthma
… study was to investigate the lived experience of African-American adolescents with asthma who reside in an inner city community. The research in this area of interest is sparse, yet the morbidity and mortality rates related to asthma within the African-American population are greater than the …
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Wading in the Water: A White Educator and African American Girls develop Critical Literacy
… spent twelve months working with a group of 8-12 African American adolescent girls at a community center in an urban community. Data collection methods included fieldnotes, interviews, questionnaires, photographs, participant's journals, and other artifacts. The study focused on the use of …
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The Effects of Family, School and Peer Support on the Achievement Outcomes of African American Adolescents
… in a representative sample of male and female African American high school seniors (N=317). Responses to two questionnaires, weighted cumulative grade point averages, and eleventh grade Virginia English Reading Standards of Learning test scores were analyzed. Multiple regression analysis …
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