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Last Update:  November 17, 2008.
General Reports
 

          Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

 
The Relationship of Character Strengths to Sexual Behaviors and Related Risks among African
American Adolescents.
Ma M, Kibler JL, Dollar KM, et al 
Int J Behav Med. 2008;15(4):319-27.
 Abstract

Understanding sex partner selection from the perspective of inner-city black adolescents.
Andrinopoulos K, Kerrigan D, Ellen JM.  
Perspect Sex Reprod Health. 2006 Sep;38(3):132-8.
Abstract
Drug Use
 

          Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

  Patterns of initiation of sex and drug-related activities among urban low-income African-American adolescents.
Li X, Stanton B, Cottrell L, et al.
J Adolesc Health 2001 Jan;28(1):46-54
 Abstract

Self-report stability of adolescent substance use: are there differences for gender,
ethnicity and age?
Shillington AM, Clapp JD.
Drug Alcohol Depend 2000 Jul 1;60(1):19-27
 Abstract

The role of acculturation in the substance abuse behavior of African-American and
Latino adolescents: advances, issues, and recommendations.
De La Rosa M, Vega R, Radisch MA.
J Psychoactive Drugs 2000 Jan-Mar;32(1):33-42
 Abstract

  
Sexual Activity
 

Initiation

          Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

  Patterns of initiation of sex and drug-related activities among urban low-income African-American adolescents.
Li X, Stanton B, Cottrell L, Burns J, et al.
J Adolesc Health 2001 Jan;28(1):46-54
 Abstract		  

Condom Use

           Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

     

Sexual Partners

           Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

  Older Partners and STD Prevalence Among Pregnant African American
Teens.
Begley E, Crosby RA, DiClemente RJ,  et al.
Sex Transm Dis 2003 Mar;30(3):211-213
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Avoiding Pregnancy

           Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

  Low-income African American adolescents who avoid pregnancy:tough girls
who rewrite negative scripts.
Martyn KK, Hutchinson SA.
Qual Health Res 2001 Mar;11(2):238-56
 Abstract		  
STIs
HIV/AIDS

           Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

 
Co-occurrence of intoxication during sex and sexually transmissible infections among young
African American women: does partner intoxication matter?
Crosby RA, Diclemente RJ, Wingood GM, et al 
Sex Health. 2008 Sep;5(3):285-9.
Abstract

Are adolescents being screened for sexually transmitted diseases? A study of low
income African American adolescents in San Francisco.
Ellen JM, Lane MA, McCright J.
Sex Transm Infect 2000 Apr;76(2):94-7
 Abstract

  
Mental Health
 

Anxiety/Stress

           Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

  Anxiety sensitivity and panic attack symptomatology among low-income African-
American adolescents.
Ginsbur GS, Drake KL.
J Anxiety Disord 2002;16(1):83-96
 Abstract		  

Suicide

      Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

  Assessing African American adolescents’ risk for suicide attempts: attachment theory.
Lyon ME, Benoit M, O’Donnell RM
Adolescence 2000 Spring;35(137):121-34
 Abstract		  
Reproductive Health
 

     Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

  Low-income African American adolescents who avoid pregnancy: tough girls who rewrite negative scripts.
Martyn KK, Hutchinson SA.
Qual Health Res 2001 Mar;11(2):238-56
 Abstract		  
Self-Esteem
 

          Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

  Effects of parental marital status, income, and family functioning on African American
adolescent self-esteem.
Mandara J, Murray CB.
J Fam Psychol 2000 Sep;14(3):475-90
 Abstract		  

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