Brent B Benda
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 102451 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Brent B Benda |
| NOMBRES | Brent B |
| APELLIDO | Benda |
| FIRMA | BENDA B B |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Arkansas at Little Rock |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 45 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 286 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 45 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1987 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2006 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Distinguishing graduates from dropouts and dismissals
Survival analyses of social support and trauma among homeless male and female veterans who abuse substances
This appears to be the 1st study of gender differences in how well various forms of trauma and social support predict homeless substance abusers' tenure in the community without rehospitalization. Sexual and physical abuses at different stages of the life span, combat exposure, and recent traumatic events were analyzed with social support factors via Cox's proportional hazard model of survival in a 2-year follow-up. The survival models showed sim…
Gender Differences in Life-Course Theory of Recidivism
This study of 300 women and 300 men graduates of a boot camp finds that there are noteworthy gender differences in predictors of tenure in the community without criminal recidivism in a 5-year follow-up. The Cox proportional hazards models show that urban residence, childhood and recent abuses, living with a criminal partner, selling drugs, stress, depression, fearfulness, and suicidal thoughts are stronger positive predictors of recidivism for w…
Issues of Divine Healing in Psychotherapy
Despite Biblical and empirical support for divine healing, there are several barriers to accepting it as an aspect of psychotherapy for many professionals and religious people. Two of the major barriers to the acceptance of divine healing are professional ideologies and theories. These professional stances likely play a critical role in the disinterest in religion and spiritual experiences reported by the majority of professionals that conduct ps…
Special Reviewers
A Study of Substance Abuse, Traumata, and Social Support Systems Among Homeless Veterans
This study of 310 women and 315 men, homeless veterans, who abuse substances is designed to examine predictors of readmission to inpatient drug treatment in a two-year follow-up. It appears to be the first study of gender differences in predictors of readmission among homeless veterans, and it examines the possibilities that various social support systems mediate or moderate the relationships between different traumatic experience over the life s…
The Robustness of Self-Control in Relation to Form of Delinquency
This study of a statewide, stratified random sample of 3,335 public high school students is designed to examine the robustness of self-control in predicting alcohol consumption, other drug use, crimes against persons, and property offenses. Comparisons in prediction of these forms of delinquency are made between two measures of self-control, social characteristics, and elements of other theories. An examination also is made of whether self-contro…
Discriminators of types of recidivism among boot camp graduates in a five-year follow-up study
Test of a Structural Equation Model of Comorbidity Among Homeless and Domiciled Military Veterans
This exploratory study of 600 Vietnam era military veterans was designed to test a hypothesized theoretical model of comorbidity (substance abuse and depression) among domiciled and homeless persons. The model tested represented an integration of stress process and social support models found in the literatures on substance abuse and on depression. Caregiver attachment and early abuse also were used to elaborate on the integrated stress-social su…
A Test of Three Competing Theoretical Models of Delinquency Using Structural Equation Modeling
This study of 837 adolescents from five public high schools is designed to examine three competing theoretical models of crime using structural equation modeling. The models are based on general theory, social relations theories, and an age-graded integration of these theories. These theoretical models are the preeminent explanations of youthful crime. Gender differences in theoretical models are examined. Clearly, the best-fit model for males an…
Two preeminent theoretical models
The Effect of Abuse in Childhood and in Adolescence on Violence among Adolescents
This study of 1,031 persons from five public high schools examined the relative effects of elements of control, strain, and social learning theories on violence among younger (< 16 years of age) and older (≥16 years of age) adolescents. Of special interest were the differential effects of adult abuse during childhood and during adolescence on violence of these two age groups. Findings show that the effects of abuse by adults during childhood on v…
Violent Youths in Southern Public Schools in America
The purpose of the present study of 600 adolescents from three Southern public schools in the United States was to examine the differential effects of elements of social control and social learning theories on violence according to age groups (13 to 15 and 16 to 18 years of age). As hypothesized, developmental (differences were found that have implications for theory and intervention. Attachments to caregivers and self-esteem were significantly r…
Predictors of rehospitalization of military veterans who abuse substances
Journal Article Predictors of rehospitalization of military veterans who abuse substances Get access Brent B. Benda, PhD, ACSW Brent B. Benda, PhD, ACSW professor School of Social Work, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, Arkansas 72204; e-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Work Research, Volume 25, Issue 4, December 2001, Pages 199–212, https://doi.org/10.1093/sw…
Religiosity and Church Attendance
Our study, of 532 adolescents from three urban public high schools in a large metropolitan area on the East Coast of the United States, was designed to examine whether church attendance and personal religiosity (e.g., private prayer, evangelism) were significant predictors of "hard drug" use (e.g., cocaine, heroin) when analyzed together with well-documented sociodemographic factors and elements of social control and social learning theories. The…
A theoretical model of religiosity and drug use with reciprocal relationships
This study of 1093 adolescents from 6 public high schools was designed to test a hypothesized model formulated by theoretical elaboration of control theory with elements from social learning theory using structural equation modeling procedures. The primary purpose was to establish that religion is relevant to illicit drug use when its direct, indirect and reciprocal effects are tested within a more complete system of relationships than found in e…
A Theoretical Model of Religiosity and Drug Use with Reciprocal Relationships
Boot Camp
Religiosity and violence
Examination of an Integrated Theoretical Model of Exercise Behavior
Testing the problem syndrome among young males in boot camp
Journal Article Testing the problem syndrome among young males in boot camp: Use of theoretical elaboration with reciprocal relationships Get access Brent B. Benda, PhD, ACSW Brent B. Benda, PhD, ACSW professor School of Social Work, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, Little Rock, AR 72204; e-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Work Research, Volume 23, Issue 1, March 1999, Page…
Theoretical Model with Reciprocal Effects of Youthful Crime and Drug Use
The purpose of this study of 1,093 adolescents from six public high schools was to see if a social control model with several reciprocal relationships between social learning elements and delinquency was useful. The same hypothesized model was applied to criminal behavior, alcohol use, and other drug use.Whereas the hypothesized theoretical model does explain considerable variation in frequency of alcohol use and of criminal behavior (22% and 24%…
Testing Theoretical Models with Reciprocal Effects of Drug Use Among Boot Camp Participants Using a Developmental Perspective
This was a study of 601 participants in the only boot camp in Arkansas, the purpose of which was to test two theoretical models composed of elements from control and social learning theories based on developmental perspectives. The hypothesized differences in the two theoretical models were: (a) it was hypothesized that religiosity and beliefs were the significant influences on peer associations and that both factors have reciprocal relationships…
A study of recidivism of serious and persistent offenders among adolescents
Developmental differences in theories of sexual behavior among rural adolescents residing in AFDC families
This was a study of 414 adolescents who resided with rural families on Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) in 10 counties located in Arkansas. The purpose of the study was to determine what demographic and theoretical factors from control, strain, and social learning theories predicted sexual intercourse in the past year and lifetime sexual partners among young and older adolescents (aged 13 to 15 years, and 16 and 17 years, respective…
Religion and Delinquency
Brent B. Benda, Robert Flynn Corwyn, Religion and Delinquency: The Relationship after Considering Family and Peer Influences, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 36, No. 1 (Mar., 1997), pp. 81-92
Adolescent Sexual Behavior
Despite numerous studies on adolescent sexuality, few use coherent theoretical models and multivariate analyses on data from high school students. This study tested a social-learning model for its ability to explain adolescent sexual intercourse from a multivariate approach. Data weregathered from 1,610 high school studentsfrom private schools. Findings indicated that all eight of the theoretical variables were significantly correlated with sexua…
The Robustness of Self-Control in Relation to Form of Delinquency
This study of a statewide, stratified random sample of 3,335 public high school students is designed to examine the robustness of self-control in predicting alcohol consumption, other drug use, crimes against persons, and property offenses. Comparisons in prediction of these forms of delinquency are made between two measures of self-control, social characteristics, and elements of other theories. An examination also is made of whether self-contro…
A Test of a Model with Reciprocal Effects Between Religiosity and Various Forms of Delinquency Using 2-Stage Least Squares Regression
This was a study of 1,093 adolescents from six different public high schools, where the same integrated theoretical model of control and social learning theories fit the data on alcohol use, heavy alcohol consumption, use of marijuana, criminal behavior, sexual exploration, and suicidal thoughts. It was observed that the model explained significantly more variance in some of these forms of delinquency than in others, indicating only equivocal sup…
Testing competing theoretical concepts
A study was made of alcohol consumption among 1,093 adolescents who attended high schools in Baltimore, Maryland, Little Rock, Arkansas, or rural high schools in Arkansas and Oklahoma. Hierarchical regression procedures were used to test competing factors from social control and social learning theories. The significant predictors, in order of importance, were: (1) interaction between age and neutralizing definitions, (2) interaction between age …
Comparison of four theories of adolescent sexual exploration
This study tested competing theoretical concepts derived from social learning, differential association, social control, and containment theories, using hierarchial regression statistical procedures to examine their use in explaining whether or not adolescents had experienced sexual intercourse. It consisted of cross‐sectional data solicited from 1496 private high‐school students. Bivariate and multivariate analyses supported the assumption that …
An integration of theory
Testing an Integrated Model of Delinquency Using Lisrel
This study of 1,093 public high school students was designed to test an integrated theoretical model of delinquency, consisting of elements of social control and differential association theories, with LISREL procedures. The model confirmed wilh LISREL was very similar to the hypothesized model. The hypothesized model was fitted to data in one random sample taken from the original sample, and then confirmed in a separate random sample of responde…
A study of recidivism of serious and persistent offenders among adolescents
Gender differences in theories of adolescent sexual activity
The Effect of Abuse in Childhood and in Adolescence on Violence among Adolescents
This study of 1,031 persons from five public high schools examined the relative effects of elements of control, strain, and social learning theories on violence among younger (< 16 years of age) and older (≥16 years of age) adolescents. Of special interest were the differential effects of adult abuse during childhood and during adolescence on violence of these two age groups. Findings show that the effects of abuse by adults during childhood on v…
Religiosity and Church Attendance
Our study, of 532 adolescents from three urban public high schools in a large metropolitan area on the East Coast of the United States, was designed to examine whether church attendance and personal religiosity (e.g., private prayer, evangelism) were significant predictors of "hard drug" use (e.g., cocaine, heroin) when analyzed together with well-documented sociodemographic factors and elements of social control and social learning theories. The…
Theoretical Model with Reciprocal Effects of Youthful Crime and Drug Use
The purpose of this study of 1,093 adolescents from six public high schools was to see if a social control model with several reciprocal relationships between social learning elements and delinquency was useful. The same hypothesized model was applied to criminal behavior, alcohol use, and other drug use.Whereas the hypothesized theoretical model does explain considerable variation in frequency of alcohol use and of criminal behavior (22% and 24%…
A theoretical model of religiosity and drug use with reciprocal relationships
This study of 1093 adolescents from 6 public high schools was designed to test a hypothesized model formulated by theoretical elaboration of control theory with elements from social learning theory using structural equation modeling procedures. The primary purpose was to establish that religion is relevant to illicit drug use when its direct, indirect and reciprocal effects are tested within a more complete system of relationships than found in e…
Religiosity and violence
Testing the problem syndrome among young males in boot camp
Journal Article Testing the problem syndrome among young males in boot camp: Use of theoretical elaboration with reciprocal relationships Get access Brent B. Benda, PhD, ACSW Brent B. Benda, PhD, ACSW professor School of Social Work, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, Little Rock, AR 72204; e-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Work Research, Volume 23, Issue 1, March 1999, Page…
A Conceptual Model of Sexuality Active Peer Association
This study of 1,478 adolescents who attended 10 private schools was designed to test an integrative theoretical model of sexually active peer association. The model consisted of social control elements, family/peer linkage factors, peer bonding, coercive relationship variables, and acceptance seeking. Results supported the hypothesized model that social control elements are relevant to peer association but were less clear about the nature of thes…
A Test of Three Competing Theoretical Models of Delinquency Using Structural Equation Modeling
This study of 837 adolescents from five public high schools is designed to examine three competing theoretical models of crime using structural equation modeling. The models are based on general theory, social relations theories, and an age-graded integration of these theories. These theoretical models are the preeminent explanations of youthful crime. Gender differences in theoretical models are examined. Clearly, the best-fit model for males an…
Two preeminent theoretical models
Adolescent Deviant Behavior
This was a study of 1,093 adolescents from six public high schools designed to test a deviance syndrome perspective by examining how much overlap there is between certain deviant behaviors, and by investigating whether the same theoretical elements account for variance in those behaviors. A log-linear analysis of suicide attempts, alcohol use, use of marijuana, and number of sexual partners indicated a significant interaction (or overlap) between…
Adolescent Sexual Behavior
This study tested a path model, composed of concepts from social control, social learning and differential association theories, to determine its use in explaining frequency of adolescent sexual intercourse. The model was tested using two-stage least squares regression procedures, and it was based on assumptions underlying recent refinements in theoretical models presented in the literature. The model derived from statistical procedures did not d…
Crime, drug abuse, mental illness, and homelessness
In this project, 345 homeless persons were interviewed during the period from May, 1985 to May, 1986 in Richmond, Virginia. Data reveal that current afflictions (e.g., hallucinations) are related to major life events in the past (i.e., psychiatric hospitalizations). Further, certain experiences prior to adulthood (e.g., drug use) predict these major life events (e.g., crime). Thus, the data support a general “drift down” hypothesis as a useful ex…
Recidivism among boot camp graduates
Discriminators of types of recidivism among boot camp graduates in a five-year follow-up study
Predictors of rehospitalization of military veterans who abuse substances
Journal Article Predictors of rehospitalization of military veterans who abuse substances Get access Brent B. Benda, PhD, ACSW Brent B. Benda, PhD, ACSW professor School of Social Work, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, Arkansas 72204; e-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Work Research, Volume 25, Issue 4, December 2001, Pages 199–212, https://doi.org/10.1093/sw…
Crime, drug abuse, mental illness, and homelessness
In this project, 345 homeless persons were interviewed during the period from May, 1985 to May, 1986 in Richmond, Virginia. Data reveal that current afflictions (e.g., hallucinations) are related to major life events in the past (i.e., psychiatric hospitalizations). Further, certain experiences prior to adulthood (e.g., drug use) predict these major life events (e.g., crime). Thus, the data support a general “drift down” hypothesis as a useful ex…
Predicting return to prison among adolescent males
Homeless Women and Men
This article reports on a study of 444 homeless persons in Richmond, Virginia, that examined the relationships among homelessness and gender; current and past problems; and various demographic characteristics. The findings support the general theory that a significant proportion of homeless men and women drift down into their current situation after a history of crime, substance abuse, or mental illness. However, the path that leads to homelessne…
Adolescent Sexual Behavior
Despite numerous studies on adolescent sexuality, few use coherent theoretical models and multivariate analyses on data from high school students. This study tested a social-learning model for its ability to explain adolescent sexual intercourse from a multivariate approach. Data weregathered from 1,610 high school studentsfrom private schools. Findings indicated that all eight of the theoretical variables were significantly correlated with sexua…
Crime, Drug Abuse and Mental Illness
This is an exploratory study in which 444 homeless persons are interviewed in Richmond, Virginia over a 19-month period. Along with a description of characteristics of homeless men and women, sex differences are examined with variables that outline a "drift down" hypothesis. The major findings are that men are more involved in crime and alcohol abuse, while there are no sex differences in various mental health measures. When Sex is held constant,…
Comparison of four theories of adolescent sexual exploration
This study tested competing theoretical concepts derived from social learning, differential association, social control, and containment theories, using hierarchial regression statistical procedures to examine their use in explaining whether or not adolescents had experienced sexual intercourse. It consisted of cross‐sectional data solicited from 1496 private high‐school students. Bivariate and multivariate analyses supported the assumption that …
Clergy Marriages
This was a study of marital adjustment among clergy who had attended a Presbyterian seminary and their spouses (N= 247). The proposed explanatory model that was tested was composed of earner status (dual or single earner families), role orientation, perceived stress related to work, perceived stress from family, perceived stress from the combination of work and family, and gender. Hierarchical regression procedures revealed that the model explain…
Gender differences in theories of adolescent sexual activity
Adolescent Sexual Behavior
This study tested a path model, composed of concepts from social control, social learning and differential association theories, to determine its use in explaining frequency of adolescent sexual intercourse. The model was tested using two-stage least squares regression procedures, and it was based on assumptions underlying recent refinements in theoretical models presented in the literature. The model derived from statistical procedures did not d…
An integration of theory
A Conceptual Model of Sexuality Active Peer Association
This study of 1,478 adolescents who attended 10 private schools was designed to test an integrative theoretical model of sexually active peer association. The model consisted of social control elements, family/peer linkage factors, peer bonding, coercive relationship variables, and acceptance seeking. Results supported the hypothesized model that social control elements are relevant to peer association but were less clear about the nature of thes…
Testing competing theoretical concepts
A study was made of alcohol consumption among 1,093 adolescents who attended high schools in Baltimore, Maryland, Little Rock, Arkansas, or rural high schools in Arkansas and Oklahoma. Hierarchical regression procedures were used to test competing factors from social control and social learning theories. The significant predictors, in order of importance, were: (1) interaction between age and neutralizing definitions, (2) interaction between age …
Testing an Integrated Model of Delinquency Using Lisrel
This study of 1,093 public high school students was designed to test an integrated theoretical model of delinquency, consisting of elements of social control and differential association theories, with LISREL procedures. The model confirmed wilh LISREL was very similar to the hypothesized model. The hypothesized model was fitted to data in one random sample taken from the original sample, and then confirmed in a separate random sample of responde…
Recidivism among boot camp graduates
A Test of a Model with Reciprocal Effects Between Religiosity and Various Forms of Delinquency Using 2-Stage Least Squares Regression
This was a study of 1,093 adolescents from six different public high schools, where the same integrated theoretical model of control and social learning theories fit the data on alcohol use, heavy alcohol consumption, use of marijuana, criminal behavior, sexual exploration, and suicidal thoughts. It was observed that the model explained significantly more variance in some of these forms of delinquency than in others, indicating only equivocal sup…
Testing the deviance syndrome perspective among boot camp participants
Religion and Delinquency
Brent B. Benda, Robert Flynn Corwyn, Religion and Delinquency: The Relationship after Considering Family and Peer Influences, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 36, No. 1 (Mar., 1997), pp. 81-92
Testing theoretical elements as predictors of sexual behavior by race among rural adolescents residing in AFDC families
Journal Article Testing theoretical elements as predictors of sexual behavior by race among rural adolescents residing in AFDC families Get access Brent B. Benda, PhD, Brent B. Benda, PhD professor School of Social Work, College of Education, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, AR 72204; e-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Robert Flynn Corwyn, MA Robert Flynn Corwyn, MA…
Adolescent Deviant Behavior
This was a study of 1,093 adolescents from six public high schools designed to test a deviance syndrome perspective by examining how much overlap there is between certain deviant behaviors, and by investigating whether the same theoretical elements account for variance in those behaviors. A log-linear analysis of suicide attempts, alcohol use, use of marijuana, and number of sexual partners indicated a significant interaction (or overlap) between…
Race and Gender Differences in Theories of Sexual Behavior among Rural Adolescents Residing in AFDC Families
This study of 414 adolescents who resided with rural Aid to Families With Dependent Children (AFDC) families in 10 counties of Arkansas was designed to determine what demographic and theoretical factors from control, strain, and social learning theories predicted sexual intercourse in the past year and lifetime sexual partners among African American and Caucasian females and males. Only among Caucasian females was support found for the hypothesis…
Examination of an Integrated Theoretical Model of Exercise Behavior
Testing the problem syndrome among young males in boot camp
Journal Article Testing the problem syndrome among young males in boot camp: Use of theoretical elaboration with reciprocal relationships Get access Brent B. Benda, PhD, ACSW Brent B. Benda, PhD, ACSW professor School of Social Work, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, Little Rock, AR 72204; e-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Work Research, Volume 23, Issue 1, March 1999, Page…
Theoretical Model with Reciprocal Effects of Youthful Crime and Drug Use
The purpose of this study of 1,093 adolescents from six public high schools was to see if a social control model with several reciprocal relationships between social learning elements and delinquency was useful. The same hypothesized model was applied to criminal behavior, alcohol use, and other drug use.Whereas the hypothesized theoretical model does explain considerable variation in frequency of alcohol use and of criminal behavior (22% and 24%…
Testing Theoretical Models with Reciprocal Effects of Drug Use Among Boot Camp Participants Using a Developmental Perspective
This was a study of 601 participants in the only boot camp in Arkansas, the purpose of which was to test two theoretical models composed of elements from control and social learning theories based on developmental perspectives. The hypothesized differences in the two theoretical models were: (a) it was hypothesized that religiosity and beliefs were the significant influences on peer associations and that both factors have reciprocal relationships…
A study of recidivism of serious and persistent offenders among adolescents
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