J M Bolland
Biographic Data
| ID | 10018 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J M Bolland |
| GIVEN NAMES | J M |
| FAMILY NAME | Bolland |
| SIGNATURE | BOLLAND J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alabama |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2960-8899 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 45 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 246 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 45 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
The Longitudinal Effects of Age of Alcohol Initiation on School Outcomes
Previous research has demonstrated initiation of alcohol during adolescence has a negative effect on both school attendance and missed instruction due to behavior. Utilizing longitudinal data comprised of primarily Black American youth between ages 11 and 18 ( N = 931), both the short-term and long-term effects of alcohol initiation were analyzed using a piecewise growth curve model. Results indicated that alcohol initiation negatively impacted s…
Exploring Condom Use Behaviors Among African American Adolescent Boys in the Deep South
Risky sexual behaviors among adolescents can increase adverse outcomes including unplanned pregnancy or contraction or transmission of disease. Adolescents who engage in risky sexual activities are at increased risk for adverse health and social outcomes compared to those who do not engage. Despite declines in adolescent pregnancy and birth rates, the diagnosis of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) is steadily increasing among adolescents. Mo…
Household member arrest and adolescent externalizing behaviors: The roles of family and peer climates
Positive youth development in the context of household member contact with the criminal justice system
A longitudinal study of the impact of school delinquency on self‐worth development among Black American adolescents
Previous research found adolescents with low self‐worth often utilize delinquency as a method of “self‐enhancing” as proposed by Kaplan, which suggests the effects of delinquency can be both enhancing and damaging to adolescents' later reports of self‐worth. We tested Kaplan's self‐enhancing thesis to determine the extent to which different levels of self‐worth in early adolescents foretell long‐term levels of self‐worth associated with delinquen…
Shape-shifting: TheoArtistry Poetry as Theological Action Research
This paper describes a creative partnership between a theologian and a poet arranged by the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts at the University of St Andrews in 2018. The TheoArtistry project seeks to reintroduce artists to traditional religious culture and to foster collaborations between academics and art practitioners (Corbett). In this article we discuss and utilise Theological Action Research methodology (Cameron et al.), to e…
Age of Alcohol Initiation Matters: Examining Gender Differences in the Recency and Frequency of Alcohol Use Across Adolescence Using a Sample of Impoverished Minority Adolescents
While previous research has shown alcohol use to increase developmentally throughout adolescence, the age of alcohol initiation has rarely been incorporated into developmental trajectories. Simultaneous estimation of the effects of early alcohol initiation was made in relation to the recency and frequency of alcohol use utilizing a sample of 1,209 low-income, minority adolescents initiating alcohol between 12 and 18. Significant effects of both a…
Let’s Talk About Sexual Immaturity in Adolescence: Implications for School-Based Sex Education
The Longitudinal Impact of Distal, Non-Familial Relationships on Parental Monitoring: Implications for Delinquent Behavior
An extensive body of work shows that parental monitoring reduces the likelihood of risky behaviors among youth, yet little attention has been given to the factors compelling parents to engage in monitoring behaviors. The current study examines the association between non-familial, adolescent relationships (i.e., school connectedness, community connectedness, and peer relationships) and parental monitoring. The data used come from the Mobile Youth…
The impact of sexuality concerns on teenage pregnancy: A consequence of heteronormativity
In countries such as the USA, a substantial percentage of teenage pregnancies are intentional, and desire for pregnancy increases risk. Black US Americans have been found to be less accepting of homosexuality than their non-Black peers, which may result in minority ethnic teenagers demonstrating heterosexual orientation through attempting pregnancy. Young, socioeconomically disadvantaged African Americans were surveyed longitudinally regarding at…
Does Biology Matter in Parent-Child Relationships? Examining Parental Warmth Among Adolescents From Low-Income Families
Family structure has long been a consideration in research focused on adolescent outcomes. The current study uses data derived from the Mobile Youth Survey to examine how parental warmth differs over time for male and female adolescents reporting biological parents and other parental figures (e.g., grandparents, aunts, and siblings). Using estimation of random and fixed growth effects, significant differences were noted for parental type and for …
Bidirectional Relationships Between Parenting Processes and Deviance in a Sample of Inner‐City African American Youth
The current study assessed for bidirectional relationships among supportive parenting (knowledge), negative parenting (permissiveness), and deviance in a sample ( N = 5,325) of poor, inner-city African American youth from the Mobile Youth Survey (MYS) over 4 years. Cross-lagged path analysis provided evidence of significant bidirectional paths among parenting processes (knowledge and permissiveness) and deviance over time. Follow-up multigroup te…
Trajectories of School and Community Connectedness in Adolescence by Gender and Delinquent Behavior
Previous studies suggest that both school and community connectedness among adolescents are associated with prosocial behaviors and positive outcomes. While delinquency is associated with lack of connectedness to school and community, little research has considered how delinquency affects this relationship for adolescents living in impoverished neighborhoods. This study estimated gendered trajectories of school and community connectedness for ado…
Trajectories of Adolescent Alcohol Use by Gender and Early Initiation Status
Within the adolescent risk behavior literature, questions remain about relationships among behaviors in early adolescence, gender, context, and negative social and health outcomes. Additionally, little attention has focused on trajectories of adolescent risk behavior among impoverished African American youth. Using data from the Mobile Youth Survey, a multiple cohort longitudinal study of adolescents living in impoverished neighborhoods, we have …
Effect of Environmental Risk and Externalizing Comorbidity on Internalizing Problems Among Economically Disadvantaged A frican A merican Youth
This study examined effects of racial discrimination, community violence, and stressful life events on internalizing problems among African American youth from high poverty neighborhoods ( N = 607; 293 boys; M age = 16.0 years, SD = 1.44 years). Mediated effects via externalizing problems on these relations were also examined, given the high comorbidity rate between internalizing and externalizing problems. Externalizing problems partially mediat…
The Effects of Age, Gender, Hopelessness, and Exposure to Violence on Sleep Disorder Symptoms and Daytime Sleepiness Among Adolescents in Impoverished Neighborhoods
Sensation Seeking Predicting Growth in Adolescent Problem Behaviors
Socio‐ecological Predictors of Intercourse Frequency and Number of Sexual Partners Among Male and Female African American Adolescents
The current study examined 14 waves of data derived from a large, community‐based study of the sexual behavior of impoverished youth between 12 and 17 years of age residing in the Deep South. We used multilevel linear modeling to identify ecological predictors of intercourse frequency and number of sexual partners among gender‐specific subsamples. Results indicated that predictors of adolescent sexual behavior differed by both type of sexual beha…
Associations of Adolescent Hopelessness and Self-Worth With Pregnancy Attempts and Pregnancy Desire
Objectives. We examined the associations of pregnancy desire (ambivalence or happiness about a pregnancy in the next year) and recent pregnancy attempts with hopelessness and self-worth among low-income adolescents. Methods. To evaluate independent associations among the study variables, we conducted gender-stratified multivariable logistic regression analyses with data derived from 2285 sexually experienced 9- to 18-year-old participants in the …
Say it Loud: The Obama Effect and Racial/Ethnic Identification of Adolescents
The current study examined how self-reported racial/ethnic identification of adolescents living in poverty may be related to significant societal events and seminal public figures. Data from a multiple cohort longitudinal study, conducted in Mobile, Alabama between 1998 and 2011, were used to examine the impact of Barack Obama's nomination and presidency on racial/ethnic identification. The results show that significantly more adolescents changed…
Predictors of Gang Involvement: A Longitudinal Analysis of Data From the Mobile Youth Survey
Using linear growth modeling and data from the Mobile Youth Survey—a 14-year multiple cohort study of adolescents living in low-income neighborhoods in Mobile, Alabama—we investigate the roles of peer influence, family cohesion, and self-worth on gang involvement. The study finds that peer influence, family cohesion, and self-worth have an effect on initial gang involvement, but only family cohesion and gender have any influence on gang involveme…
A longitudinal examination of predictors of delinquency: An analysis of data from the Mobile Youth Survey
Specifying the Interrelationship Between Exposure to Violence and Parental Monitoring for Younger Versus Older Adolescents: A Five Year Longitudinal Test
Five waves of longitudinal data collected from 349 African American youth living in extreme poverty were used to examine the interrelationship between exposure to violence and parenting during adolescence. Semi‐parametric group based modeling was used to identify trajectories of parental monitoring and exposure to violence from T1 to T5. Results from these analyses revealed: (1) a trajectory of declining parental monitoring for 48% of youth; and …
Sleep Disturbance and Risk Behaviors among Inner-City African-American Adolescents
Social Connections, Trajectories of Hopelessness, and Serious Violence in Impoverished Urban Youth
Race Matters, Even in Marriage: Identifying Factors Linked to Marital Outcomes for African Americans
Although many African Americans share a sociohistorical background, empirical research on family and marital processes has often overlooked a great deal of heterogeneity within the group. In addition, African Americans face different stressors and life circumstances from the general population. Given that a high proportion of African American marriages end in divorce and that African Americans report relatively low levels of marital quality, it i…
The Origins of Hopelessness Among Inner-City African-American Adolescents
Much has been written in recent years about hopelessness among residents of impoverished inner-city neighborhoods, but little research has been conducted on the origins of hopelessness. The literature on social disorganization and the literature on child development independently suggest two possible causes of hopelessness among adolescents: disruptive events and lack of connectedness to people and institutions. We explore these two factors as pr…
Neighboring and Community Mobilization in High-Poverty Inner-City Neighborhoods
This research considers how empowerment, sense of community, and neighboring behavior affect the likelihood that residents living in high-poverty neighborhoods engage in discussion about community issues (i.e., teen pregnancy, STDs, and violence) that directly affect their lives and the lives of their neighbors. The present study is conducted in homogeneous, very high-poverty (i.e., public housing) neighborhoods located in a moderate-size city. D…
Development and Risk Behavior Among African American, Caucasian, and Mixed‐race Adolescents Living in High Poverty Inner‐city Neighborhoods
Youths growing up in low‐income inner‐city neighborhoods are at substantial risk for initiating substance use, violent behavior, and sexual intercourse at early ages; these risk behaviors continue at comparatively high rates through adolescence. Hopelessness has been implicated as a risk factor for these behaviors. In this paper, we consider how race influences this process. African Americans form a demographic minority within the United States, …
Social Connections, Trajectories of Hopelessness, and Serious Violence in Impoverished Urban Youth
The Impact of Timing of Exposure to Violence on Violent Behavior in a High Poverty Sample of Inner City African American Youth
Becoming Violent: Evaluating the Mediating Effect of Hopelessness on the Code of the Street Thesis
This article uses the Mobile Youth Survey (MYS) to quantitatively evaluate Elijah Anderson's seminal theory of African-American youth in Philadelphia, the Code of the Street. Using longitudinal data and Structural Equation Modeling, we identify characteristics that lead underclass youth to adopt or to reject a "street code" mentality. Like other studies of Anderson's Code of the Streets, we examine family and peer relationships, neighborhood cont…
Trajectories of Adolescent Alcohol Use by Gender and Early Initiation Status
Within the adolescent risk behavior literature, questions remain about relationships among behaviors in early adolescence, gender, context, and negative social and health outcomes. Additionally, little attention has focused on trajectories of adolescent risk behavior among impoverished African American youth. Using data from the Mobile Youth Survey, a multiple cohort longitudinal study of adolescents living in impoverished neighborhoods, we have …
A longitudinal examination of predictors of delinquency: An analysis of data from the Mobile Youth Survey
Specifying the Interrelationship Between Exposure to Violence and Parental Monitoring for Younger Versus Older Adolescents: A Five Year Longitudinal Test
Five waves of longitudinal data collected from 349 African American youth living in extreme poverty were used to examine the interrelationship between exposure to violence and parenting during adolescence. Semi‐parametric group based modeling was used to identify trajectories of parental monitoring and exposure to violence from T1 to T5. Results from these analyses revealed: (1) a trajectory of declining parental monitoring for 48% of youth; and …
Associations of Adolescent Hopelessness and Self-Worth With Pregnancy Attempts and Pregnancy Desire
Objectives. We examined the associations of pregnancy desire (ambivalence or happiness about a pregnancy in the next year) and recent pregnancy attempts with hopelessness and self-worth among low-income adolescents. Methods. To evaluate independent associations among the study variables, we conducted gender-stratified multivariable logistic regression analyses with data derived from 2285 sexually experienced 9- to 18-year-old participants in the …
Early Adolescent Pathways of Antisocial Behaviors in Poor, Inner-City Neighborhoods
The change and stability of antisocial behavior during adolescence has triggered interest in a number of social scientific disciplines. This article longitudinally examines pathways of antisocial behavior among predominantly African American adolescents residing in inner-city, poor neighborhoods. Data were collected from 354 youth (ages 12 through 15) in an ongoing longitudinal study designed to identify the life-course trajectories of behaviors …
Trajectories of School and Community Connectedness in Adolescence by Gender and Delinquent Behavior
Previous studies suggest that both school and community connectedness among adolescents are associated with prosocial behaviors and positive outcomes. While delinquency is associated with lack of connectedness to school and community, little research has considered how delinquency affects this relationship for adolescents living in impoverished neighborhoods. This study estimated gendered trajectories of school and community connectedness for ado…
Effect of Environmental Risk and Externalizing Comorbidity on Internalizing Problems Among Economically Disadvantaged A frican A merican Youth
This study examined effects of racial discrimination, community violence, and stressful life events on internalizing problems among African American youth from high poverty neighborhoods ( N = 607; 293 boys; M age = 16.0 years, SD = 1.44 years). Mediated effects via externalizing problems on these relations were also examined, given the high comorbidity rate between internalizing and externalizing problems. Externalizing problems partially mediat…
Predictors of Gang Involvement: A Longitudinal Analysis of Data From the Mobile Youth Survey
Using linear growth modeling and data from the Mobile Youth Survey—a 14-year multiple cohort study of adolescents living in low-income neighborhoods in Mobile, Alabama—we investigate the roles of peer influence, family cohesion, and self-worth on gang involvement. The study finds that peer influence, family cohesion, and self-worth have an effect on initial gang involvement, but only family cohesion and gender have any influence on gang involveme…
Sleep Disturbance and Risk Behaviors among Inner-City African-American Adolescents
Pathways and predictors of antisocial behaviors in African American adolescents from poor neighborhoods
Growing up in a dangerous developmental milieu: The effects of parenting processes on adjustment in inner-city African American adolescents
The current longitudinal study examined the protective effects of parenting processes on measures of adolescent adjustment (health-compromising and violent behaviors) in a sample of high-risk, inner-city, poor African American youth ( N = 2,867). Parenting processes played an important role in this dangerous developmental milieu. For male adolescents, they accounted for 26 to 37% in health-compromising behaviors and 16 to 24% of the total varianc…
Touched by Homelessness: An Examination of Hospitality for the Down and Out
Objectives. This study investigated patterns of “doubled-up” homelessness using an indirect measure based on host households. Methods. In random household telephone surveys conducted in Alabama between 1990 and 2000 and nationally in 1997, respondents indicated whether any individual had stayed with them during the past year because that person was homeless. Results. The percentage of Alabama households providing shelter during the past year decl…
The Effects of Age, Gender, Hopelessness, and Exposure to Violence on Sleep Disorder Symptoms and Daytime Sleepiness Among Adolescents in Impoverished Neighborhoods
Say it Loud: The Obama Effect and Racial/Ethnic Identification of Adolescents
The current study examined how self-reported racial/ethnic identification of adolescents living in poverty may be related to significant societal events and seminal public figures. Data from a multiple cohort longitudinal study, conducted in Mobile, Alabama between 1998 and 2011, were used to examine the impact of Barack Obama's nomination and presidency on racial/ethnic identification. The results show that significantly more adolescents changed…
The structure of political cognition: A new approach to its meaning and measurement
Age of Alcohol Initiation Matters: Examining Gender Differences in the Recency and Frequency of Alcohol Use Across Adolescence Using a Sample of Impoverished Minority Adolescents
While previous research has shown alcohol use to increase developmentally throughout adolescence, the age of alcohol initiation has rarely been incorporated into developmental trajectories. Simultaneous estimation of the effects of early alcohol initiation was made in relation to the recency and frequency of alcohol use utilizing a sample of 1,209 low-income, minority adolescents initiating alcohol between 12 and 18. Significant effects of both a…
Let’s Talk About Sexual Immaturity in Adolescence: Implications for School-Based Sex Education
Does Biology Matter in Parent-Child Relationships? Examining Parental Warmth Among Adolescents From Low-Income Families
Family structure has long been a consideration in research focused on adolescent outcomes. The current study uses data derived from the Mobile Youth Survey to examine how parental warmth differs over time for male and female adolescents reporting biological parents and other parental figures (e.g., grandparents, aunts, and siblings). Using estimation of random and fixed growth effects, significant differences were noted for parental type and for …
The Decision Seminar: A New Approach to Urban Problem Solving
Over the past 30 years, urban policies in such areas as public health, housing, economic development, and education have consistently been undercut by unexpected opposition. This is partially attributable to the ambiguity inherent in politics, but it also derives from the inability of policymakers to examme systematically the political process and its implications for successful policy development. We suggest the decision seminar, a problem-solvi…
Perceived leadership stability and the structure of urban agenda-setting networks
The structure of political cognition: A new approach to its meaning and measurement
Sorting out centrality: An analysis of the performance of four centrality models in real and simulated networks
The Limits to Citizen Participation in Local Education: A Cognitive Interpretation
The ineffectiveness of citizen participation in local education, commonly attributed to an "information gap" between citizens and administrators, may be exacerbated by the inability of citizens to develop a common cognitive model of local education and educational issues. An analysis of the cognitive models of educational administrators, teachers, citizens, and school board members in two communities supports this explanation and suggests the nee…
Power and Pluralism in American Cities: Researching the Urban Laboratory. Robert J. Waste (New York: Greenwood, 1987. xvi, 176p. $32.55)
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Where Is the Schema? Going Beyond the “S” Word in Political Psychology
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Hopelessness and Violence Among Inner-City Youths
Parental Style as a Possible Mediator of the Relationship Between Religiosity and Substance Use in African-American Adolescents
Objectives: In both the general adolescent literature and African-American adolescent substance use literature, several facets of family relationships have been identified as protective factors for adolescent substance use. Two such factors are religiosity and parental style. The relationship of these variables, however, may not be direct in relation to adolescent substance use. There are gaps in the knowledge base for African-American youths liv…
Touched by Homelessness: An Examination of Hospitality for the Down and Out
Objectives. This study investigated patterns of “doubled-up” homelessness using an indirect measure based on host households. Methods. In random household telephone surveys conducted in Alabama between 1990 and 2000 and nationally in 1997, respondents indicated whether any individual had stayed with them during the past year because that person was homeless. Results. The percentage of Alabama households providing shelter during the past year decl…
Neighboring and Community Mobilization in High-Poverty Inner-City Neighborhoods
This research considers how empowerment, sense of community, and neighboring behavior affect the likelihood that residents living in high-poverty neighborhoods engage in discussion about community issues (i.e., teen pregnancy, STDs, and violence) that directly affect their lives and the lives of their neighbors. The present study is conducted in homogeneous, very high-poverty (i.e., public housing) neighborhoods located in a moderate-size city. D…
Hopelessness and risk behaviour among adolescents living in high‐poverty inner‐city neighbourhoods
Ethnographic literature on inner‐city life argues that adolescents react to their uncertain futures by abandoning hope, leading them to engage in high levels of risk behaviour. However, few quantitative studies demonstrate this relationship. This study tests this relationship using a survey of 2468 inner‐city adolescents, asking them questions about hopelessness, violent and aggressive behaviour, substance use, sexual behaviour, and accidental in…
The Origins of Hopelessness Among Inner-City African-American Adolescents
Much has been written in recent years about hopelessness among residents of impoverished inner-city neighborhoods, but little research has been conducted on the origins of hopelessness. The literature on social disorganization and the literature on child development independently suggest two possible causes of hopelessness among adolescents: disruptive events and lack of connectedness to people and institutions. We explore these two factors as pr…
Growing up in a dangerous developmental milieu: The effects of parenting processes on adjustment in inner-city African American adolescents
The current longitudinal study examined the protective effects of parenting processes on measures of adolescent adjustment (health-compromising and violent behaviors) in a sample of high-risk, inner-city, poor African American youth ( N = 2,867). Parenting processes played an important role in this dangerous developmental milieu. For male adolescents, they accounted for 26 to 37% in health-compromising behaviors and 16 to 24% of the total varianc…
The Impact of Timing of Exposure to Violence on Violent Behavior in a High Poverty Sample of Inner City African American Youth
Development and Risk Behavior Among African American, Caucasian, and Mixed‐race Adolescents Living in High Poverty Inner‐city Neighborhoods
Youths growing up in low‐income inner‐city neighborhoods are at substantial risk for initiating substance use, violent behavior, and sexual intercourse at early ages; these risk behaviors continue at comparatively high rates through adolescence. Hopelessness has been implicated as a risk factor for these behaviors. In this paper, we consider how race influences this process. African Americans form a demographic minority within the United States, …
Early Adolescent Pathways of Antisocial Behaviors in Poor, Inner-City Neighborhoods
The change and stability of antisocial behavior during adolescence has triggered interest in a number of social scientific disciplines. This article longitudinally examines pathways of antisocial behavior among predominantly African American adolescents residing in inner-city, poor neighborhoods. Data were collected from 354 youth (ages 12 through 15) in an ongoing longitudinal study designed to identify the life-course trajectories of behaviors …
Race Matters, Even in Marriage: Identifying Factors Linked to Marital Outcomes for African Americans
Although many African Americans share a sociohistorical background, empirical research on family and marital processes has often overlooked a great deal of heterogeneity within the group. In addition, African Americans face different stressors and life circumstances from the general population. Given that a high proportion of African American marriages end in divorce and that African Americans report relatively low levels of marital quality, it i…
Pathways and predictors of antisocial behaviors in African American adolescents from poor neighborhoods
Sleep Disturbance and Risk Behaviors among Inner-City African-American Adolescents
Social Connections, Trajectories of Hopelessness, and Serious Violence in Impoverished Urban Youth
Becoming Violent: Evaluating the Mediating Effect of Hopelessness on the Code of the Street Thesis
This article uses the Mobile Youth Survey (MYS) to quantitatively evaluate Elijah Anderson's seminal theory of African-American youth in Philadelphia, the Code of the Street. Using longitudinal data and Structural Equation Modeling, we identify characteristics that lead underclass youth to adopt or to reject a "street code" mentality. Like other studies of Anderson's Code of the Streets, we examine family and peer relationships, neighborhood cont…
A longitudinal examination of predictors of delinquency: An analysis of data from the Mobile Youth Survey
Specifying the Interrelationship Between Exposure to Violence and Parental Monitoring for Younger Versus Older Adolescents: A Five Year Longitudinal Test
Five waves of longitudinal data collected from 349 African American youth living in extreme poverty were used to examine the interrelationship between exposure to violence and parenting during adolescence. Semi‐parametric group based modeling was used to identify trajectories of parental monitoring and exposure to violence from T1 to T5. Results from these analyses revealed: (1) a trajectory of declining parental monitoring for 48% of youth; and …
Predictors of Gang Involvement: A Longitudinal Analysis of Data From the Mobile Youth Survey
Using linear growth modeling and data from the Mobile Youth Survey—a 14-year multiple cohort study of adolescents living in low-income neighborhoods in Mobile, Alabama—we investigate the roles of peer influence, family cohesion, and self-worth on gang involvement. The study finds that peer influence, family cohesion, and self-worth have an effect on initial gang involvement, but only family cohesion and gender have any influence on gang involveme…
Psychology (40 works) · Developmental psychology (28 works) · Medicine (24 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Political science (16 works) · Demography (15 works) · Social Psychology (15 works) · Psychiatry (14 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (13 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (12 works)