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Author: Sambamoorthi, Usha
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Agre, Lynn A. Sambamoorthi, Usha |
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Effects of Social Environmental Factors on Health Risk Decision-Making Among Adolescents in the NLSY Presented: Indianapolis, IN, American Public Health Association Meeting, November 1997 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: American Public Health Association Keyword(s): Child Self-Administered Supplement (CSAS); Fathers, Absence; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Parent-Child Relationship/Closeness; Parenting Skills/Styles; Peers/Peer influence/Peer relations; Sexual Activity; Substance Use Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. OBJECTIVES: Examine the role of parenting, family interaction, peer relationships, youth self-reported sexual and substance use behavior, other social and economic stressors like poverty and quality of home environment in influencing adolescent health risk behavior. Investigate if peer-involvement experience encourages certain adolescent health-risk decisions; if parental interaction together with the home environment act as a mediator, offsetting outside influences. |
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Agre, Lynn A. and Usha Sambamoorthi. "Effects of Social Environmental Factors on Health Risk Decision-Making Among Adolescents in the NLSY." Presented: Indianapolis, IN, American Public Health Association Meeting, November 1997. |
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Agre, Lynn A. Sambamoorthi, Usha Crystal, Stephen |
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Child's Health Status and Home Environment: Evidence from the 1988 NLSY Presented: New York, NY, American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, November 1996 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: American Public Health Association Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Child Health; Children, Health Care; Children, Home Environment; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Overview, Child Assessment Data; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading) Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Panel presentation. This study uses cross-sectional data from the 1988 wave of mothers (n=1,280) matched with their school-age children from 5 through 9 years (n=2,414). The mothers 21-29, and their children 0-18+, who have been interview every two years since 1986 through 1992 resulting in a total of 4 waves to date. |
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Bibliography Citation
Agre, Lynn A., Usha Sambamoorthi and Stephen Crystal. "Child's Health Status and Home Environment: Evidence from the 1988 NLSY." Presented: New York, NY, American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, November 1996. |