Comorbidity of internalizing and externalizing problems and its risk and protective factors have ... more Comorbidity of internalizing and externalizing problems and its risk and protective factors have not been well incorporated into developmental research, especially among racial minority youth from high-poverty neighborhoods. The present study identified a latent comorbid factor as well as specific factors underlying internalizing and externalizing problems among 592 African American adolescents living in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods (291 male; M age = 15.9 years, SD = 1.43 years). Stressful life events and racial discrimination were associated with higher comorbid problems, whereas stressful life events and exposure to violence were associated with higher specific externalizing problems. Collective efficacy was associated with both lower specific externalizing problems and lower comorbid problems. Moreover, high collective efficacy buffered the risk effects of stressful life events and racial discrimination on comorbid problems. Our results demonstrated the advantages of...
Abstract: Following a brief presentation of Harold Lasswell's model of the social process, t... more Abstract: Following a brief presentation of Harold Lasswell's model of the social process, the authors discuss problems of policy formation and meaning determination, describe the" decision seminar" proposed by Lasswell as a technique for facilitating collective problem-...
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We examined the associations of pregnancy desire (ambivalence or happiness about a pregnancy in t... more We examined the associations of pregnancy desire (ambivalence or happiness about a pregnancy in the next year) and recent pregnancy attempts with hopelessness and self-worth among low-income adolescents. To evaluate independent associations among the study variables, we conducted gender-stratified multivariable logistic regression analyses with data derived from 2285 sexually experienced 9- to 18-year-old participants in the Mobile Youth Survey between 2006 and 2009. Fifty-seven percent of youths reported a desire for pregnancy and 9% reported pregnancy attempts. In multivariable analyses, hopelessness was positively associated and self-worth was negatively associated with pregnancy attempts among both female and male youths. Hopelessness was weakly associated (P = .05) with pregnancy desire among female youths. The negative association of self-worth and the positive association of hopelessness with pregnancy attempts among young men as well as young women and the association of hopelessness with pregnancy desire among young women raise questions about why pregnancy is apparently valued by youths who rate their social and cognitive competence as low and who live in an environment with few options for material success.
The Mobile Youth Survey (MYS) is a community-based, multiple cohort longitudinal study with annua... more The Mobile Youth Survey (MYS) is a community-based, multiple cohort longitudinal study with annual data collection. It focuses on 9-19 year old adolescents who live in extremely impoverished neighborhoods in the Mobile, Alabama metropolitan statistical area (MSA), although it also follows those youths as they move to other neighborhoods in the MSA. It was begun in 1998, with 1,774 participants. Since then, over 7,500 different adolescents have participated in the MYS. The purpose of the MYS is to (a) study the etiology of risk behaviors among adolescents living in extreme poverty; (b) study how contextual factors (e.g., family, school, neighborhood) affects both the etiology or risk behaviors as well as the behaviors themselves; and (c) establish a community laboratory where residents will be receptive to both interventions and complementary studies.
Abstract Over the past 30 years, urban policies in such areas as public health, housing, economic... more Abstract Over the past 30 years, urban policies in such areas as public health, housing, economic development, and education have consistently been undercut by unexpected opposition. This is partially attributable to the ambiguity inherent in politics, but it also ...
... JAMES H. KUKLINSKI University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ROBERT C. LUSKIN University of Tex... more ... JAMES H. KUKLINSKI University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ROBERT C. LUSKIN University of Texas Austin JOHN BOLLAND University of ... knowledge representation that emerges from the class of [parallel distributed processing] models" (Rumel-hart and McClelland 1986, 1 ...
We would like to acknowledge those individuals who reviewed new manuscript submissions to the jou... more We would like to acknowledge those individuals who reviewed new manuscript submissions to the journal from January 2010 through February 2011. We are very grateful for their assistance. ... Mark Aber Olga Acosta Price Gregory Adams Phillip Akutsu Jim Allen Nicole Allen Kevin Allison Inna Altschul Mona Amer Beverly Araujo Dawson Leslie Ashburn-Nardo Emma-Louise Aveling Charlene Baker Fabricio Balcazar Jessica Ball Manuel Barrera Marisa Beeble Rhonda BeLue Bill Berkowitz Kimberly Bess Arvin Bhana Dina Birman Brian ...
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... 2004 . “The Code of the Street: A Quantitative Assessment of Elijah Anderson's Subcu... more ... 2004 . “The Code of the Street: A Quantitative Assessment of Elijah Anderson's Subculture of Violence Thesis and Its Contribution to Youth Violence Research . ... 200111. Bolland , John M. , Debra M. McCallum , Bradley E. Lian , Carolyn J. Bailey , and Paul Rowen . 2001 . ...
This study investigates whether certain types of substances are differentially related to certain... more This study investigates whether certain types of substances are differentially related to certain risky sexual behaviors (RSBs) within the same population and determines whether combination substance use (SU) has additive, redundant or antagonistic effects on RSBs. African-American youth aged 9-19 participated in a large, community-based survey assessing substance use and sexual behaviors. Multilevel modeling was used to predict the differential influence of alcohol, marijuana, and cocaine use on condom use measured in the past 90days and at last intercourse, sex while drunk/high, and number of sexual partners. Tests of the within-participant relations showed that participants increasing their SU over time concurrently increased their RSBs, establishing a strong link between the two behaviors (alcohol: condom β=-0.045, sex while drunk/high β=0.138, sex partners β=0.102; marijuana: condom β=-0.081, sex while drunk/high β=0.255, sex partners β=0.166; cocaine: condom β=-0.091, sex whil...
Journal of Health and Human Services Administration, Feb 1, 2002
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the implementation of a Medicaid ma... more The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the implementation of a Medicaid managed maternity care program in a public health department service population, analyzing race-specific models of WIC participation and risk of small-for-gestational age of term. There were 13,095 singleton deliveries during the period 1987-1990 to women with prenatal care in this managed maternity care program. The research design entailed comparison of the intervention group (those receiving regular prenatal care plus comprehensive care coordination in 1989-90) with an historical comparison group of women who received only regular prenatal care in the two years (1987-88). For the intervention groups, black women were 1.7 times and white women 2.1 times more likely to participate in WIC than their comparison groups. The impact of care coordination on term-SGA births indicates a protective odds ratio of 0.851 for black women. Results for white women were not significant. These findings suggest that care coordination is associated with an increase in WIC participation and with lower risk of term-SGA births for black women but not for white women. The overall results add to growing evidence regarding the efficacy of comprehensive care coordination in improving specific pregnancy outcomes and inform our understanding of the evaluation of a comprehensive approach in preventive, community-based intervention.
Journal of Health and Human Services Administration, Feb 1, 2003
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the implementation of a Medicaid ma... more The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the implementation of a Medicaid managed maternity care program in a public health department service population, analyzing race-specific models of WIC participation and risk of small-for-gestational age of term. There were 13,095 singleton deliveries during the period 1987-1990 to women with prenatal care in this managed maternity care program. The research design entailed comparison of the intervention group (those receiving regular prenatal care plus comprehensive care coordination in 1989-90) with an historical comparison group of women who received only regular prenatal care in the two years (1987-88). For the intervention groups, black women were 1.7 times and white women 2.1 times more likely to participate in WIC than their comparison groups. The impact of care coordination on term-SGA births indicates a protective odds ratio of 0.851 for black women. Results for white women were not significant. These findings suggest that care coordination is associated with an increase in WIC participation and with lower risk of term-SGA births for black women but not for white women. The overall results add to growing evidence regarding the efficacy of comprehensive care coordination in improving specific pregnancy outcomes and inform our understanding of the evaluation of a comprehensive approach in preventive, community-based intervention.
Comorbidity of internalizing and externalizing problems and its risk and protective factors have ... more Comorbidity of internalizing and externalizing problems and its risk and protective factors have not been well incorporated into developmental research, especially among racial minority youth from high-poverty neighborhoods. The present study identified a latent comorbid factor as well as specific factors underlying internalizing and externalizing problems among 592 African American adolescents living in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods (291 male; M age = 15.9 years, SD = 1.43 years). Stressful life events and racial discrimination were associated with higher comorbid problems, whereas stressful life events and exposure to violence were associated with higher specific externalizing problems. Collective efficacy was associated with both lower specific externalizing problems and lower comorbid problems. Moreover, high collective efficacy buffered the risk effects of stressful life events and racial discrimination on comorbid problems. Our results demonstrated the advantages of...
Abstract: Following a brief presentation of Harold Lasswell's model of the social process, t... more Abstract: Following a brief presentation of Harold Lasswell's model of the social process, the authors discuss problems of policy formation and meaning determination, describe the" decision seminar" proposed by Lasswell as a technique for facilitating collective problem-...
Http Dx Doi Org 10 2105 Ajph 2014 301914, Jun 12, 2014
We examined the associations of pregnancy desire (ambivalence or happiness about a pregnancy in t... more We examined the associations of pregnancy desire (ambivalence or happiness about a pregnancy in the next year) and recent pregnancy attempts with hopelessness and self-worth among low-income adolescents. To evaluate independent associations among the study variables, we conducted gender-stratified multivariable logistic regression analyses with data derived from 2285 sexually experienced 9- to 18-year-old participants in the Mobile Youth Survey between 2006 and 2009. Fifty-seven percent of youths reported a desire for pregnancy and 9% reported pregnancy attempts. In multivariable analyses, hopelessness was positively associated and self-worth was negatively associated with pregnancy attempts among both female and male youths. Hopelessness was weakly associated (P = .05) with pregnancy desire among female youths. The negative association of self-worth and the positive association of hopelessness with pregnancy attempts among young men as well as young women and the association of hopelessness with pregnancy desire among young women raise questions about why pregnancy is apparently valued by youths who rate their social and cognitive competence as low and who live in an environment with few options for material success.
The Mobile Youth Survey (MYS) is a community-based, multiple cohort longitudinal study with annua... more The Mobile Youth Survey (MYS) is a community-based, multiple cohort longitudinal study with annual data collection. It focuses on 9-19 year old adolescents who live in extremely impoverished neighborhoods in the Mobile, Alabama metropolitan statistical area (MSA), although it also follows those youths as they move to other neighborhoods in the MSA. It was begun in 1998, with 1,774 participants. Since then, over 7,500 different adolescents have participated in the MYS. The purpose of the MYS is to (a) study the etiology of risk behaviors among adolescents living in extreme poverty; (b) study how contextual factors (e.g., family, school, neighborhood) affects both the etiology or risk behaviors as well as the behaviors themselves; and (c) establish a community laboratory where residents will be receptive to both interventions and complementary studies.
Abstract Over the past 30 years, urban policies in such areas as public health, housing, economic... more Abstract Over the past 30 years, urban policies in such areas as public health, housing, economic development, and education have consistently been undercut by unexpected opposition. This is partially attributable to the ambiguity inherent in politics, but it also ...
... JAMES H. KUKLINSKI University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ROBERT C. LUSKIN University of Tex... more ... JAMES H. KUKLINSKI University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ROBERT C. LUSKIN University of Texas Austin JOHN BOLLAND University of ... knowledge representation that emerges from the class of [parallel distributed processing] models" (Rumel-hart and McClelland 1986, 1 ...
We would like to acknowledge those individuals who reviewed new manuscript submissions to the jou... more We would like to acknowledge those individuals who reviewed new manuscript submissions to the journal from January 2010 through February 2011. We are very grateful for their assistance. ... Mark Aber Olga Acosta Price Gregory Adams Phillip Akutsu Jim Allen Nicole Allen Kevin Allison Inna Altschul Mona Amer Beverly Araujo Dawson Leslie Ashburn-Nardo Emma-Louise Aveling Charlene Baker Fabricio Balcazar Jessica Ball Manuel Barrera Marisa Beeble Rhonda BeLue Bill Berkowitz Kimberly Bess Arvin Bhana Dina Birman Brian ...
Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 01639621003748746, Feb 26, 2011
... 2004 . “The Code of the Street: A Quantitative Assessment of Elijah Anderson's Subcu... more ... 2004 . “The Code of the Street: A Quantitative Assessment of Elijah Anderson's Subculture of Violence Thesis and Its Contribution to Youth Violence Research . ... 200111. Bolland , John M. , Debra M. McCallum , Bradley E. Lian , Carolyn J. Bailey , and Paul Rowen . 2001 . ...
This study investigates whether certain types of substances are differentially related to certain... more This study investigates whether certain types of substances are differentially related to certain risky sexual behaviors (RSBs) within the same population and determines whether combination substance use (SU) has additive, redundant or antagonistic effects on RSBs. African-American youth aged 9-19 participated in a large, community-based survey assessing substance use and sexual behaviors. Multilevel modeling was used to predict the differential influence of alcohol, marijuana, and cocaine use on condom use measured in the past 90days and at last intercourse, sex while drunk/high, and number of sexual partners. Tests of the within-participant relations showed that participants increasing their SU over time concurrently increased their RSBs, establishing a strong link between the two behaviors (alcohol: condom β=-0.045, sex while drunk/high β=0.138, sex partners β=0.102; marijuana: condom β=-0.081, sex while drunk/high β=0.255, sex partners β=0.166; cocaine: condom β=-0.091, sex whil...
Journal of Health and Human Services Administration, Feb 1, 2002
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the implementation of a Medicaid ma... more The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the implementation of a Medicaid managed maternity care program in a public health department service population, analyzing race-specific models of WIC participation and risk of small-for-gestational age of term. There were 13,095 singleton deliveries during the period 1987-1990 to women with prenatal care in this managed maternity care program. The research design entailed comparison of the intervention group (those receiving regular prenatal care plus comprehensive care coordination in 1989-90) with an historical comparison group of women who received only regular prenatal care in the two years (1987-88). For the intervention groups, black women were 1.7 times and white women 2.1 times more likely to participate in WIC than their comparison groups. The impact of care coordination on term-SGA births indicates a protective odds ratio of 0.851 for black women. Results for white women were not significant. These findings suggest that care coordination is associated with an increase in WIC participation and with lower risk of term-SGA births for black women but not for white women. The overall results add to growing evidence regarding the efficacy of comprehensive care coordination in improving specific pregnancy outcomes and inform our understanding of the evaluation of a comprehensive approach in preventive, community-based intervention.
Journal of Health and Human Services Administration, Feb 1, 2003
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the implementation of a Medicaid ma... more The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the implementation of a Medicaid managed maternity care program in a public health department service population, analyzing race-specific models of WIC participation and risk of small-for-gestational age of term. There were 13,095 singleton deliveries during the period 1987-1990 to women with prenatal care in this managed maternity care program. The research design entailed comparison of the intervention group (those receiving regular prenatal care plus comprehensive care coordination in 1989-90) with an historical comparison group of women who received only regular prenatal care in the two years (1987-88). For the intervention groups, black women were 1.7 times and white women 2.1 times more likely to participate in WIC than their comparison groups. The impact of care coordination on term-SGA births indicates a protective odds ratio of 0.851 for black women. Results for white women were not significant. These findings suggest that care coordination is associated with an increase in WIC participation and with lower risk of term-SGA births for black women but not for white women. The overall results add to growing evidence regarding the efficacy of comprehensive care coordination in improving specific pregnancy outcomes and inform our understanding of the evaluation of a comprehensive approach in preventive, community-based intervention.
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