Examining How Neighborhood Disadvantage Influences Trajectories of Adolescent Violence: A Look at Social Bonding and Psychological Distress

Journal of School Health

Volumn 81, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 764-773

  Karriker Jaffe, Katherine J ^a   Foshee, Vangie A ^b   Ennett, Susan T ^b  

^a ALCOHOL RESEARCH GROUP   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Child and adolescent health; Community health; Violence

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD WELFARE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MENTAL STRESS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POVERTY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; AFRICAN AMERICANS; CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POVERTY; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK FACTORS; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE;

EID: 81155144795     PISSN: 00224391     EISSN: 17461561     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1746-1561.2011.00656.x     Document Type: Article

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