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Author: Cance, Jessica Duncan
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Hendrick, C. Emily Cance, Jessica Duncan Maslowsky, Julie |
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Peer and Individual Risk Factors in Adolescence Explaining the Relationship Between Girls' Pubertal Timing and Teenage Childbearing Journal of Youth and Adolescence 45,5 (May 2016): 916-927. Also: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10964-016-0413-6/fulltext.html Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Springer Keyword(s): Age at Menarche/First Menstruation; Childbearing, Adolescent; Modeling, Structural Equation; Peers/Peer influence/Peer relations; Sexual Experiences/Virginity; Substance Use Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Girls with early pubertal timing are at elevated risk for teenage childbearing; however, the modifiable mechanisms driving this relationship are not well understood. The objective of the current study was to determine whether substance use, perceived peer substance use, and older first sexual partners mediate the relationships among girls' pubertal timing, sexual debut, and teenage childbearing. Data are from Waves 1-15 of the female cohort of the National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth 1997 (NLSY97), a nationwide, ongoing cohort study of U.S. men and women born between 1980 and 1984. The analytic sample (n = 2066) was 12-14 years old in 1997 and ethnically diverse (51% white, 27% black, 22% Latina). Using structural equation modeling, we found substance use in early adolescence and perceived peer substance use each partially mediated the relationships among girls' pubertal timing, sexual debut, and teenage childbearing. Our findings suggest early substance use behavior as one modifiable mechanism to be targeted by interventions aimed at preventing teenage childbearing among early developing girls. |
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Hendrick, C. Emily, Jessica Duncan Cance and Julie Maslowsky. "Peer and Individual Risk Factors in Adolescence Explaining the Relationship Between Girls' Pubertal Timing and Teenage Childbearing." Journal of Youth and Adolescence 45,5 (May 2016): 916-927.
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Hendrick, C. Emily Cohen, Alison K. Deardorff, Julianna Cance, Jessica Duncan |
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Biological and Sociocultural Factors During the School Years Predicting Women's Lifetime Educational Attainment Journal of School Health 86,3 (March 2016): 215-224. Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/josh.12368/abstract Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Blackwell Publishing, Inc. => Wiley Online Keyword(s): Educational Attainment; Family Influences; Menarche/First Menstruation; Well-Being BACKGROUND: Lifetime educational attainment is an important predictor of health and well-being for women in the United States. In this study, we examine the roles of sociocultural factors in youth and an understudied biological life event, pubertal timing, in predicting women's lifetime educational attainment. METHODS: Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 cohort (N = 3889), we conducted sequential multivariate linear regression analyses to investigate the influences of macro-level and family-level sociocultural contextual factors in youth (region of country, urbanicity, race/ethnicity, year of birth, household composition, mother's education, and mother's age at first birth) and early menarche, a marker of early pubertal development, on women's educational attainment after age 24. RESULTS: Pubertal timing and all sociocultural factors in youth, other than year of birth, predicted women's lifetime educational attainment in bivariate models. Family factors had the strongest associations. When family factors were added to multivariate models, geographic region in youth, and pubertal timing were no longer significant. CONCLUSION: Our findings provide additional evidence that family factors should be considered when developing comprehensive and inclusive interventions in childhood and adolescence to promote lifetime educational attainment among girls. |
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Bibliography Citation
Hendrick, C. Emily, Alison K. Cohen, Julianna Deardorff and Jessica Duncan Cance. "Biological and Sociocultural Factors During the School Years Predicting Women's Lifetime Educational Attainment." Journal of School Health 86,3 (March 2016): 215-224.
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