Abstract

The current proposal requests funding for two additional waves of data collection for the Family and Community Health Study, a longitudinal study of the role that families and communities play in the inhibition and promotion of African American adolescents' risk behavior (e.g. substance use and risky sexual behavior). Each of the 897 families in the study has a target child who was age 10 at Wave 1 and a primary caregiver, and one-third have an older sibling who was between the ages of 12 and 14 at Wave 1. The proposed extension of this study will follow the families until the target children are 17, the developmental period of the greatest increase in risk behavior, and the siblings to age 19, a period during which problematic habits of substance use are likely to have emerged. Our general approach in this research is social-psychological and is based on our model of adolescent health risk. The specific focus of the model is on the cognitive factors that mediate the links between parenting, neighborhood context, and the child's disposition on the one hand, and child's decisions to avoid or engage in risk behavior on the other hand.

  Funding Agency

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Type
Research Project (R01)
Project #
5R01MH062668-05
Application #
6929733
Study Section
Special Emphasis Panel (ZRG1-RPHB-3 (02))
Program Officer
Brouwers, Pim
Project Start
2001-08-10
Project End
2007-07-31
Budget Start
2005-08-01
Budget End
2007-07-31
Support Year
5
Fiscal Year
2005
Total Cost
$571,778
Indirect Cost

  Institution

Name
Iowa State University
Department
Psychology
Type
Schools of Arts and Sciences
DUNS #
005309844
City
Ames
State
IA
Country
United States
Zip Code
50011

  Publications

Gerrard, Meg; Gibbons, Frederick X; Fleischli, Mary E et al. (2018) Moderation of the effects of discrimination-induced affective responses on health outcomes. Psychol Health 33:193-212
Walker, Rheeda; Francis, David; Brody, Gene et al. (2017) A Longitudinal Study of Racial Discrimination and Risk for Death Ideation in African American Youth. Suicide Life Threat Behav 47:86-102
Saleem, Farzana T; English, Devin; Busby, Danielle R et al. (2016) The Impact of African American Parents' Racial Discrimination Experiences and Perceived Neighborhood Cohesion on their Racial Socialization Practices. J Youth Adolesc 45:1338-49
Gibbons, Frederick X; Kingsbury, John H; Weng, Chih-Yuan et al. (2014) Effects of perceived racial discrimination on health status and health behavior: a differential mediation hypothesis. Health Psychol 33:11-9
Stock, Michelle L; Gibbons, Frederick X; Gerrard, Meg et al. (2013) Racial identification, racial composition, and substance use vulnerability among African American adolescents and young adults. Health Psychol 32:237-47
Stock, Michelle L; Peterson, Laurel M; Gibbons, Frederick X et al. (2013) The effects of racial discrimination on the HIV-risk cognitions and behaviors of Black adolescents and young adults. Health Psychol 32:543-50
Gibbons, Frederick X; Roberts, Megan E; Gerrard, Meg et al. (2012) The impact of stress on the life history strategies of African American adolescents: cognitions, genetic moderation, and the role of discrimination. Dev Psychol 48:722-39
Roberts, Megan E; Gibbons, Frederick X; Gerrard, Meg et al. (2012) From racial discrimination to risky sex: prospective relations involving peers and parents. Dev Psychol 48:89-102
Gerrard, Meg; Stock, Michelle L; Roberts, Megan E et al. (2012) Coping with racial discrimination: the role of substance use. Psychol Addict Behav 26:550-60
Taylor, Zoe E; Larsen-Rife, Dannelle; Conger, Rand D et al. (2010) Life stress, maternal optimism, and adolescent competence in single mother, African American families. J Fam Psychol 24:468-77

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