Social Connections, Trajectories of Hopelessness, and Serious Violence in Impoverished Urban Youth

Journal of Youth and Adolescence

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 278-295

  Stoddard, Sarah A ^a   Henly, Susan J ^b   Sieving, Renee E ^b   Bolland, John ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; General growth mixture model; Hopelessness; Violence

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DEPRESSION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HOUSING; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; POVERTY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RISK FACTOR; SELF REPORT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION; VIOLENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; ALABAMA; CHILD; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; NEGATIVISM; POVERTY; PUBLIC HOUSING; RISK FACTORS; SELF REPORT; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION; VIOLENCE;

EID: 79651469361     PISSN: 00472891     EISSN: 15736601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10964-010-9580-z     Document Type: Article

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