Self-esteem and Risk Behaviors of Dominican Adolescents

The Effects of Resilience and Social Influences on Preventing Repeat Adolescent Pregnancies in Parenting Adolescent Mothers

“…Additionally, the "father of the baby" was an added item to the Social Influences Scale, with the alpha being equally adequate. The Cronbach's alpha for the Social Influence Scale (.72) was close to the alpha used in previous studies (.78) (Babington et al, 2007).…”

“…Overall, school had the least influence on this sample of adolescent mothers. Similarly, in the original study, parents were the more influential than friends in keeping with these findings (Babington et al, 2007). The mean social influence scores varied for Black and Hispanic mothers; therefore each item of the ASIS was examined for degree of influence for each racial/ethnic group (Table 6).…”

“…The scale ranged from 0 (no influence) to 10 (very strong influence) with a score rage of 0 to 60. The scale was developed for a broader study that explored self-esteem and a wide range of risk behaviors in adolescents (Babington et al, 2007). The reliability estimate was .78 with initial use of this instrument.…”

“…The Adolescent Social Influence Scale is an 11 point Likert-type item questionnaire in both English and Spanish developed by Babington, et al (2007) …”

The Effects of Age, Ethnicity, Sexual Dysfunction, Urinary Incontinence, Masculinity, and Relationship with the Partner on the Quality of Life of Men with Prostate Cancer

“…The perceptions of men's expected behavior are strong indicators of their responses to health issues and behaviors (Addis & Mahalik, 2003;Mahalik, Burns, & Syzdeck, 2007). The majority of studies on the social influences on health behaviors were conducted among young adults and investigated risky behaviors such as smoking (Weiss & Garbanati, 2006), alcohol consumption and driving (Babington, Kelley, & Patsdaughter, 2007;Linkenbach & Perkins, 2006), and risky sexual behaviors (Babington, Kelley, & Patsdaughter, 2009;Patsdaughter, Kelley, Babington, & Dyer, 2005;Peterson & Bakeman, 2006).…”