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Working, Sex Partner Age Differences, and Sexual Behavior Among African American Youth
(Springer, 2008)
Participation in the workplace has been proposed as a potential structural-level HIV/STI prevention strategy for youth. Only a few cross-sectional studies have explored the effect of work during adolescence and young ...
Latino Gay Men's Drug Functionality: The Role of Social Networks and Social Support
(Haworth Press, 2008)
This study describes the consequences of drug use and abuse across Latino gay men's (LGM) lives. We also explore the role social networks play in LGM's access to drug use, as well as identifying the role of social support ...
Neighborhood Variation in Adolescent Alcohol Use: Examination of Socioecological and Social Disorganizations Theories
(Rutgers, 2011)
OBJECTIVE: Risk factors for adolescent alcohol use are typically conceptualized as individual and interpersonal level factors; however, these factors do not fully explain adolescent drinking behavior. We used a socioecological ...
Romantic Ideation, Partner-Seeking, and HIV Risk Among Young Gay and Bisexual Men
(Springer, 2012)
Structural changes in the acceptability of same-sex relationships may provide young gay and bisexual men (YGBM) with opportunities to develop expectations about their ideal future relationships. Expectations about the ...
Do Parents and Peers Matter? A prospective socio-ecological examination of substance use and sexual risk among African American youth.
(Elsevier, 2010)
We examined the direct contribution of parent and peer risk and promotive factors on youth condom use trajectories, in addition to the indirect influence of these factors via youth’s substance use over four years in a ...