Adolescent Health

Contents:

Research conducted by: RAND Health; RAND Labor and Population

Featured at RAND

Adolescents With Jobs Are More Likely to Begin Smoking

young woman smoking

Evidence is mounting that something happens when youth start working that compels them to smoke. With this trend in mind, it's worth exploring potential strategies to prevent smoking among youth who enter the workforce.

How Do Movie Characters' Motives for Smoking Affect Adolescents?

Research has uncovered links between the motives movie characters convey for smoking on the silver screen and real-world smoking risk among middle school students.

Journal Articles (191)

Gender Differences in Adolescents' Responses to Themes of Relaxation in Cigarette Advertising: Relationship to Intentions to Smoke — Feb 1, 2007

Studies have shown that increased exposure to cigarette advertising increases adolescents' risk of smoking.

A Discrete Time Hazards Model of Smoking Initiation Among West Coast Youth from Age 5 to 23 — Jan 1, 2007

The impact of demographic and family influence factors on smoking initiation varies over time. However, the maximum risk for initiation is during the early teen years, and the range of considerable vulnerability is during middle school and high school.

Are Adolescent Substance Users Less Satisfied with Life as Young Adults and If So, Why? — Jan 1, 2007

The present study investigated whether adolescent cigarette, alcohol, marijuana, and hard drug use predicts life satisfaction in young adulthood.

But Others Do It! Do Misperceptions of Schoolmate Alcohol and Marijuana Use Predict Subsequent Drug Use Among Young Adolescents? — Jan 1, 2007

The authors examined the effects of perceived prevalence of drug use among same-age peers on adolescents' subsequent drug use.

Impact of the State Children's Health Insurance Program on Adolescents in New York — Jan 1, 2007

Adolescents face financial and nonfinancial barriers to health care.

Comparing Perceived and Objectively Measured Access to Recreational Facilities as Predictors of Physical Activity in Adolescent Girls — Jan 1, 2007

Raising the profile of existing facilities may help increase physical activity among adolescent girls.

Early Adolescent Exposure to Alcohol Advertising and Its Relationship to Underage Drinking — Jan 1, 2007

Policy makers should consider limiting a variety of marketing practices that could contribute to drinking in early adolescence.

Acculturation and Parent-Adolescent Communication About Sex in Filipino-American Families: A Community-Based Participatory Research Study — Jan 1, 2007

Acculturation may influence Filipino-American parent-adolescent communication about sex and, consequently, Filipino-American adolescent sexual health.

Treatment Process in the Therapeutic Community: Associations with Retention and Outcomes Among Adolescent Residential Clients — Jan 1, 2007

Study highlights components of the treatment process that may be particularly important for practitioners to consider and monitor in their clients

Can Adolescents Predict Significant Life Events? — Jan 1, 2007

The authors examine whether adolescents' probability judgments for significant life events are predictive and accurate.

School-based Drug Prevention Among At-Risk Adolescents: Effects of ALERT Plus — Jan 1, 2007

Project ALERT drug prevention curriculum curbed alcohol misuse and tobacco and marijuana use among eighth-grade adolescents.

Association of Sexual Abstinence in Adolescence with Mental Health in Adulthood — Jan 1, 2007

The authors examined whether adolescent sexual abstinence predicts better adult mental health.

Impact of a Positive Youth Development Program in Urban After-School Settings on the Prevention of Adolescent Substance Use — Jan 1, 2007

Positive youth development (PYD) emphasizes a strengths-based approach to the promotion of positive outcomes for adolescents.

The Effect of Working for Pay on Adolescent Tobacco Use — Jan 1, 2007

There is a strong link between working for pay and adolescent tobacco use.

The Teen Photovoice Project: A Pilot Study to Promote Health Through Advocacy — Jan 1, 2007

How youth perceive health issues and how they can become advocates for health promotion in their communities.

Smoking Rates Among Adolescents in Substance Abuse Treatment Programs — Jan 1, 2007

Substance abuse treatment programs often do not target smoking, despite its long-term health risks

Adolescent Asian Immigrants Improve Their Good Health Habits Over Time; Latinos' Nutrition Grows Worse — Dec 5, 2006

The good health habits of adolescent Asian immigrants improve with each generation born in the United States, but health habits among adolescent Latino immigrants generally remain poor or become worse in succeeding generations.

Understanding the Sex Difference in Vulnerability to Adolescent Depression: An Examination of Child and Parent Characteristics — Aug 1, 2006

This study examined sex differences in risk factors associated with adolescent depression in a large sample of boys and girls.

Interpersonal Predictors of Onset of Depression During the Transition to Adulthood — Jun 1, 2006

There is evidence that depression during adolescence and early adulthood is marked by deficits in interpersonal functioning.

Differential Exposure and Reactivity to Interpersonal Stress Predict Sex Differences in Adolescent Depression — Jan 1, 2006

This study tested the hypothesis that higher rates of depression in adolescent girls are explained by their greater exposure and reactivity to stress in the interpersonal domain in a large sample of 15-year-olds.

My RAND ?

Saved Items

Recommended

View My Profile

Explore

Broader Topics

Similar Topics

Explore All Topics »

Researcher Spotlight

Maria Orlando Edelen

Senior Behavioral Scientist

Maria Orlando Edelen is a quantitative psychologist and senior behavioral scientist specializing in health research at the RAND Corporation. She has extensive knowledge of test theory including item response theory and of advanced multivariate analysis methods such as structural equation…

Regina A. Shih

Behavioral and Social Scientist

Regina A. Shih

Regina Shih is a behavioral and social scientist at the RAND Corporation. Her research examines the social and environmental determinants of mental disorders, cognitive dysfunction, and cardiovascular disease. Her recent research projects include (1) examining environmental risk factors for poor…

Explore Our People »