Linking community variables to parenting behaviours and youth risk behaviours


Autoria(s): Trithardt, Jaselyn Jarvis.
Contribuinte(s)

Department of Child and Youth Studies

Data(s)

14/07/2009

14/07/2009

14/07/2005

Resumo

The puq)ose of this thesis is to test a model Hnking community disadvantage and urbanicity factors to parenting variables (i.e., monitoring, warmth, and knowledge) and to youth risk behavior (i.e., substance use and delinquency), measured both concurrently and one year after the assessment of parenting variables. The model builds on the work of Fletcher, Steinberg, and Williams-Wheeler (2004) but a) includes a more comprehensive measure of SES than that conceptualized by Fletcher et al.; b) considers whether the role of community disadvantage is indirectly as well as directly linked to youth risk behavior, by way of its association with parenting variables; c) considers whether level of community urbanicity plays a direct role in predicting both parenting variables and risk behaviors, or whether its influence on risk behaviours is primarily indirect through parenting variables. Both community disadvantage and urbanicity had virtually no relation to parenting and risk behaviour variables. Results found for relations of parenting variables and risk behaviour were similar to Fletcher et al. Although urban youth are typically perceived as being more at risk for substance use and delinquency, no evidence was found for a distinction between urban and rural youth within this sample. Targeting risk behaviour prevention/reduction programs toward only urban youth, therefore, is not supported by these findings.

Identificador

http://hdl.handle.net/10464/2257

Idioma(s)

eng

Publicador

Brock University

Palavras-Chave #Risk-taking (Psychology) in adolescence. #Urban youth. #Rural youth. #Parent and child. #Child rearing.
Tipo

Electronic Thesis or Dissertation