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The Academic Achievement of African American Students During Early Adolescence: An Examination of Multiple Risk, Promotive, and Protective Factors
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2002-06)
This study examined the effects of multiple risk, promotive, and protective factors on three achievement-related measures (i.e., grade point average, number of absences, and math achievement test scores) for African American ...
Working Pasteur's Quadrant: Harnessing Science and Action for Community Change
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2003-06)
Community psychology in general and the field of prevention in particular has unquestioningly accepted the assumption that the research process should proceed in a linear fashion from a search for basic knowledge to ...
Racial Identity, Parental Support, and Alcohol Use in a Sample of Academically At-Risk African American High School Students
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2004-09)
This study examined racial identity and parental support as predictors of alcohol use in a sample of 488 African American adolescents. Two dimensions of racial identity were investigated: (1) racial centrality (i.e., the ...
Cultural constructions of happiness: theory and emprical evidence
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2004-09)
In a review of recent cross-cultural evidence on happiness and well-being, the authors identified substantial cultural variations in (1) cultural meanings of happiness, (2) motivations underlying happiness, and (3) predictors ...
Forgiveness and Health: Age Differences in a U.S. Probability Sample
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2001-10)
Forgiveness is a variable closely related to religiousness and spirituality that has been hypothesized to be protective of mental and physical health. However, we do not clearly understand which aspects of forgiveness are ...
Leaving Home, Attending College, Partnership and Parenthood: The Role of Life Transition Events in Leisure Pattern Stability From Adolescence to Young Adulthood
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2001-04)
Few researchers have examined the role that life transition events play in the maintenance of or change in leisure behaviors across the transition from adolescence to young adulthood. This study examines the role that ...
An Intergroup Contact-Theory Framework for Evaluating Racial Climate on Predominantly White College Campuses
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Springer Science + Business Media, Inc., 2005-12)
This study examined the association of racial climate to social integration outcomes among 215 African American students and 144 White students from a predominantly White university. Presented is preliminary evidence ...
Is It Bad to Be Good? An Exploration of Aggressive and Prosocial Behavior Subtypes in Adolescence
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2004-04)
Research in aggressive behavior development has distinguished between proactive (i.e., intended to achieve an instrumental goal) and reactive (i.e., emitted as an emotional response to provocation) subtypes of aggression. ...
Normative Influences on Aggression in Urban Elementary School Classrooms
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2000-02)
We report a study aimed at understanding the effects of classroom normative influences on individual aggressive behavior, using samples of 614 and 427 urban elementary school children. Participants were assessed with ...
Relationship between Maternal Clinical Factors and Mother-Reported Child Problems
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Human Sciences Press; Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2005-12)
Maternal depression has been associated with mothers’ elevated reports of child problems. However, it is unclear the extent to which elevations in mother ratings reflect having a depression diagnosis, having any mental ...