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Contextual Pathways Linking Cumulative Experiences of Racial Discrimination to Black American Men’s COVID Vaccine Hesitancy
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed and widened racialized health disparities, underscoring the impact of structural inequities and racial discrimination on COVID-19 vaccination uptake. A sizable proportion of ...
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Relations Among Gambling Behavior, Associated Problems, Game Type, and Risk Factors in a Rural, African American, Adolescent Sample
Problem gambling is a rising concern among adolescent populations; youth gamble more frequently than adults, and those who gamble are more susceptible than adults to maladaptive outcomes. Research shows that g...
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Predicting Receipt of an Effective Dose of a Family-Centered Preventive Intervention for African American Youth
Research reveals a linear association between prevention program dose and outcomes; that is, families receive the most benefits when they attend a sufficient number of program sessions. Ensuring participants r...
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Translation and Prevention in Family Science
Prevention science is the application of scientific methods “to prevent or moderate major human dysfunctions” (Coie et al., 1993, pg. 1013). Whereas historically prevention has been concerned with physical hea...
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Physiological Stress Response Reactivity Mediates the Link Between Emotional Abuse and Youth Internalizing Problems
Youth who are raised in emotionally abusive families are more likely to have poor mental health outcomes such as depression and anxiety. However, the mechanisms of this association are unclear. The present stu...
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Gezinsgerichte preventie van alcoholgebruik bij Afrikaans-Amerikaanse adolescenten: een gerandomiseerde klinische studie
Doel: in deze studie is de werkzaamheid van het Strong African-American Families (SAAF) preventieprogramma voor alcoholgebruik getest. SAAF is een gezinsgericht programma van zeven sessies, waarin een vaardigheid...
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Child Abuse and Neglect, Callous-Unemotional Traits, and Substance Use Problems: the Moderating Role of Stress Response Reactivity
Young adults who experienced child abuse and neglect (CAN) are at significant risk for callous-unemotional traits and substance use problems. Research shows that compromised self-regulation may increase risk f...
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Child Maltreatment and Resilience: The Promotive and Protective Role of Future Orientation
Maltreatment is associated with risk for a wide range of socio-emotional and behavioral problems in adolescence. Despite this risk, many maltreated youth adjust well through the process of resilience. Extant r...
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Adverse Parenting Is Indirectly Linked to Delayed Reward Discounting via Blunted RSA Reactivity: the Protective Role of a Shift-and-Persist Co** Strategy
Exposure to adverse parenting experiences, either from being reared under conditions of threat or deprivation, is a major source of chronic stress that is linked to youths’ dysregulated stress responses and im...
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Parent-Youth Relationships, Racial Discrimination, and Delinquency among Second-Generation Ethiopian Israeli Adolescents: Translational Implications
Second-generation immigrant youth in general, and Ethiopian Israeli youth in particular, are at risk for poverty and exposure to discrimination, circumstances that increase their vulnerability to delinquent be...
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Using Basic and Applied Research on Risk and Resilience to Inform Preventive Interventions for Immigrant Youth
A unique set of stressors affect adolescents in immigrant families, particularly for youth from low-resource contexts who were born in or spent significant time growing up in the host country. Despite the risk...
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Racial Discrimination, Protective Processes, and Sexual Risk Behaviors Among Black Young Males
Racial discrimination is a documented risk factor for sexual risk behaviors among young Black men. Mechanisms of effect and protective processes remain to be investigated. This study examined the mediating eff...
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Pathways to HIV-Related Behavior Among Heterosexual, Rural Black Men: A Person-Centered Analysis
We investigated the psychosocial mechanisms linking personal and contextual risk factors to HIV-related behavior among 498 rural Black men. We characterized HIV-related behavior in terms of profile groups and ...
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Decreasing Substance use Risk among African American Youth: Parent-based Mechanisms of Change
African American couples (N = 139; 67.7 % married; with children between the ages of 9 and 14) were randomly assigned to (a) a culturally sensitive, couple- and parenting-focused program designed to prevent stres...
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Implementing Family-Centered Prevention in Rural African American Communities: a Randomized Effectiveness Trial of the Strong African American Families Program
Efforts to disseminate evidence-based prevention programs are hampered by a lack of real-world effectiveness trials undertaken with community providers. The Strong African American Families (SAAF) program is a...
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Father Involvement and Young, Rural African American Men’s Engagement in Substance Misuse and Multiple Sexual Partnerships
This study was designed to examine the associations of biological father and social father involvement during childhood with African American young men’s development and engagement in risk behaviors. With a sa...
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Pubertal Timing and Sexual Risk Behaviors Among Rural African American Male Youth: Testing a Model Based on Life History Theory
Life History Theory (LHT), a branch of evolutionary biology, describes how organisms maximize their reproductive success in response to environmental conditions. This theory suggests that challenging environme...
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Racial Microstressors, Racial Self-Concept, and Depressive Symptoms Among Male African Americans During the Transition to Adulthood
Racial discrimination is a pervasive stressor that can undermine mental health among African American youth and young adults. Several studies identify links between racial discrimination and depressive symptom...
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Economic Analysis of a Multi-Site Prevention Program: Assessment of Program Costs and Characterizing Site-level Variability
Programmatic cost analyses of preventive interventions commonly have a number of methodological difficulties. To determine the mean total costs and properly characterize variability, one often has to deal with...
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The Development of Conventional Sexual Partner Trajectories Among African American Male Adolescents
African American male youth disproportionately report involvement with multiple sexual partners, which increases their risk for sexually transmitted infections and initiation of unplanned pregnancies. Little i...
