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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Latino adolescents"”.
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Predicting Latino adolescents' dental exam occurrence
… health care disparities have been found among Latino adolescents, few studies have examined this group exclusively to discover what may predict the occurrence of dental exams. This study used nationally representative data from Wave I of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health in …
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Hooking the big idea: Working titles in creative problem solving by young Latino adolescents
… creativity is similarly enhanced through young adolescents' use of a working title representation strategy within a curriculum knowledge base, 40 Latino partyicipants at two Southern California middle schools received brief written interactive directions for one of two different types of problem …
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Harnessing Technology: Art Therapy as Early Intervention in School-Based Counseling for Latino Adolescents with Low SES
… storytelling. This will provide children and adolescents an outlet for creative and emotional expression while addressing academic and behavioral issues. These behavioral issues will be treated using Art Therapy from a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy approach, which provides strategies for skill …
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¡Hay que hablar sobre esto! [We need to talk about this]: Exploring the Relationship Between Contraceptive and Consent Knowledge, Sexual Self-efficacy and Psychological Distress Among Latino Adolescents
Latino adolescents are a growing population in the US (U.S. Census Bureau, 2020), and they experience disproportionately high rates of unintended teen pregnancy, STIs and HIV (Guilamo-Ramos et al., 2012; Martin et al., 2021). Also, adolescents struggle with high rates of mental health issues …
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Body Image and Sexuality Among Latino Youth
In the U.S., the Latino youth population is large and growing rapidly and many Latino youth are sexually active. These relatively high rates of sexual activity are concerning because Latino boys and girls, compared to other youth, have the lowest rate of contraceptive use and high rates of sexually …
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Idiom Comprehension In Bilingual And Monolingual Adolescents
A majority of Latino adolescents are reading below a proficient level, according to federal data, and there is a significant gap between overall reading proficiency of Latino and non-Latino, Caucasian adolescents. The purpose of this study was to investigate the linguistic underpinnings of Latino …
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Aspirations and expectations in Latino youth: The role of barriers and support in the transition out of high school
… the future aspirations and expectation of Latino youth in the transition from high school. A mixed-methods design was used to explore the nature of youth's educational and occupational aspirations and expectations, including the gaps between expectations and aspirations and the gaps between …
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Parental Educational Involvement in High School: Practice, Policy, and Implications for Low-Income and Minority Youth
… parental educational involvement strategies with adolescents. Further, extant literature has shown mixed findings regarding the effectiveness of parents’ school choice (i.e. selecting a school regardless of geographic location) for increasing parents’ educational involvement and social capital …
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A Longitudinal Examination of the Influences of Family Processes and Demographic Variables on Adolescent Weight
… studies estimate that almost one in five adolescents in the United States is overweight. This is a major concern for individuals' physical and psychological health and the overall economy in terms of health care costs and loss of productivity. The approach of this study was to understand …
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Maternal Depressive Symptoms and Its Relationship to Outcomes of Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes in a Diverse Sample of Caucasian and Latino Youth
… depression can have deleterious effects on adolescents' psychosocial adjustment and management of type1 diabetes. These associations have been primarily studied among Caucasian middle-income families. Ethnic minority status and economic disadvantage may alter the experience of maternal …
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Acculturation-related stressors and Latino immigrant adolescent depressive symptoms: a multiple mediation analysis of stressors and resources by gender and immigrant generational status
… among first and second generation immigrant Latino adolescents in the United States, and to test a novel theoretical framework based on an integration of acculturative stress and stress process theories among Latino youth. The main research hypotheses and exploratory research question were: …
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Adult Leader Qualities as Predictors of Adolescent Social Competence
… adults can be more effective as they work with adolescents. This study investigated links between the quality of adult leaders of SLA's and adolescent social competence in rural White/Anglo and Hispanic/Latino youth. Social competence was operationalized in terms of Community Involvement and …
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Perspectives of Catholic Latina mothers on female adolescent depression: A qualitative approach
… within racial and ethnic populations, such as Latinos. There is limited research on yoga and Latino youth and little is known regarding the acceptability of yoga among Catholic constituents, thus there is a need to assess the acceptability of yoga within the Latino community prior to designing …
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An Examination of Cognitive and Behavioral Referents of Acculturation and Their Impact on Predictors and Frequency of Sexual Communication Between Mexican-Origin Parents and Their Young Children
… of prevention. This is especially true for Latino adolescents who are disproportionately affected by unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections, and for whom family-based interventions are the most efficacious. Unfortunately, sexual risk prevention research has generally …
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The Effects of Organized Activity Involvement on Latino Adolescent Well-Being
… and consistency of involvement, and 12th grade Latino adolescent well-being, as measured by self-perceptions (i.e. locus of control & self-worth) and academic perceptions (i.e. educational expectations & school belonging). Further, the moderating effects of primary home language, sex, and family …