A Longitudinal Study of Household Change on African American Adolescents1

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• Alternative Title:
  J Community Psychol
• Personal Author:
  Barnett, Tracey E. ; Rowley, Stephanie ; Zimmerman, Marc A. ; Vansadia, Preeti ; Caldwell, Cleopatra Howard
• Description:
  Few studies have examined the effects of household change on adolescent development. We study household composition change and its effect on development, as measured by both internalizing symptoms and externalizing behaviors, in a sample of urban African American adolescents. Household change was defined based on the movement in or out of the household of one of the two most important adults adolescents named. We found 25% of adolescents reported changes in their household composition over the four years of high school. Youth who experienced change reported more internalizing symptoms and externalizing behavior than youth who did not experience change. Those reporting important people leaving their household had the greatest negative outcomes.
• Subjects:
  Article
• Source:
  J Community Psychol. 39(3):303-315.
• Pubmed ID:
  23761941
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC3677689
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  R01 DA007484/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/United States ; U48 DP001901/DP/NCCDPHP CDC HHS/United States
• Volume:
  39
• Issue:
  3
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:908842ed4e568ebee41d2b27d9fe7c9db09189fa82c75b9b09b75a638aaeb310
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/41894/cdc_41894_DS1.pdf
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