The potential protective effects of youth assets from adolescent sexual risk behaviors

Vesely, Sara K.; WYATT, V; Oman, Roy F.; Aspy, Cheryl B.; Kegler, Michelle C.; RODINE, D; Marshall, LaDonna; McLeroy, Kenneth R.

doi:10.1016/s1054-139x(03)00333-1

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“…Accordingly, adolescents with high self-esteem showed less risky behaviors, a relationship that has been confirmed in previous studies (Bolton, Robinson, & Sareen, 2009;Koivumaa-Honkanen, Kaprio, Honkanen, Viinamaki, & Kosenvuo, 2004;Scourfield, Roen, & McDermott, 2008;Valdez, Kaplan, & Codina, 2000;Vesely et al, 2004;Zimmerman et al, 2008). Well-being has been found to be strongly and negatively related to more dangerous risk behaviors, with the most severe risk in the illicit drug use category (hard drug use, inhalant use, injecting drug use and prescription drug misuse) and driving-related risks, like impaired driving, as well as unsafe sexual behavior (Arnett, 2000).…”

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The Mediating Role of Self-Esteem: The Effects of Social Support and Subjective Well-Being on Adolescents’ Risky Behaviors

Çakar¹,

Tagay²

2017

EDUC SCI-THEOR PRACT

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The Mediating Role of Self-Esteem: The Effects of Social Support and Subjective Well-Being on Adolescents’ Risky Behaviors

Çakar¹,

Tagay²

2017

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“…Greater educational goal endorsement has been associated with lower risk behaviors in male adolescents, although not in girls (Somers & Gizzi, 2001). Similarly, greater future aspirations have been related to delayed initiation of sexual intercourse, although the measure of future aspirations used is not clearly described (Vesely et al, 2004). Related to this, greater realism regarding child-rearing and lower perceived acceptance of adolescent pregnancy has been found to be associated with greater educational goal endorsement (Mirza & Somers, 2004).…”

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Adolescent goal content and pursuit: A review of the literature from the past 16 years

Massey

Gebhardt

Garnefski

2008

Developmental Review

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a b s t r a c tThe aim of this article is to provide an overview and discussion of the literature from various areas of psychology on adolescent goal content and pursuit since the publication of Nurmi's review in 1991. Ninety-four studies were identified which incorporated a measure of adolescent goal content/processes. We explore and discuss the theories employed in these studies, methods of goal measurement, and the findings presented in the studies. Adolescent goal content and pursuit appear to be influenced by various sociodemographic and psychological factors. In turn, goal content, goal pursuit and (un)successful goal attainment are related to adolescent behavior, health and well-being. Limitations and suggestions for further research are discussed.

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“…A weak economy increases stress and anxiety (Catalano et al 2011) and depresses expectations and aspirations about the future (Guiliano and Spilimbergo 2009). These types of changes have been linked to increased teen sexual activity (Buhi and Goodson 2007;Carpenter 2005;Kirby 2001a;Vesely et al 2004). Moreover, Kearney and Levine (2012) argued that U.S. teens exhibit higher fertility when they face greater "despair" about the prospects of advancing economically.…”

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Community-Wide Job Loss and Teenage Fertility: Evidence From North Carolina

2013

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Using North Carolina data for the period 1990-2010, we estimate the effects of economic downturns on the birthrates of 15-to 19-year-olds, using county-level business closings and layoffs as a plausibly exogenous source of variation in the strength of the local economy. We find little effect of job losses on the white teen birthrate. For black teens, however, job losses to 1 % of the working-age population decrease the birthrate by around 2 %. Birth declines start five months after the job loss and then last for more than one year. Linking the timing of job losses and conceptions suggests that black teen births decline because of increased terminations and perhaps also because of changes in prepregnancy behaviors. National data on risk behaviors also provide evidence that black teens reduce sexual activity and increase contraception use in response to job losses. Job losses seven to nine months after conception do not affect teen birthrates, indicating that teens do not anticipate job losses and lending confidence that job losses are "shocks" that can be viewed as quasi-experimental variation. We also find evidence that relatively advantaged black teens disproportionately abort after job losses, implying that the average child born to a black teen in the wake of job loss is relatively more disadvantaged.

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The potential protective effects of youth assets from adolescent sexual risk behaviors

Abstract: Specific youth assets may have a protective effect from certain sexual risk behaviors.

Cited by 102 publications

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The Mediating Role of Self-Esteem: The Effects of Social Support and Subjective Well-Being on Adolescents’ Risky Behaviors

The Mediating Role of Self-Esteem: The Effects of Social Support and Subjective Well-Being on Adolescents’ Risky Behaviors

Adolescent goal content and pursuit: A review of the literature from the past 16 years

Community-Wide Job Loss and Teenage Fertility: Evidence From North Carolina

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