Patricia L East
Biographic Data
| ID | 112655 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patricia L East |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patricia L |
| FAMILY NAME | East |
| SIGNATURE | EAST P L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California San Diego |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5169-2735 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 240 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Associations between adolescent alcohol use and neurocognitive functioning in young adulthood
This study examined the associations between excessive alcohol intake during adolescence and neurocognitive functioning in young adulthood and whether these relations varied by sex. Participants were working-class Chilean adolescents ( N = 692; M age 16.0 years; 54.5% female) who provided frequency of past 30-day bingeing and past-year intoxication. Neurocognitive measures were completed in young adulthood ( M age 21.2 years). Illicit substance u…
Iron deficiency in infancy and neurocognitive and educational outcomes in young adulthood
This study examines the extent to which iron deficiency in infancy contributes to adverse neurocognitive and educational outcomes in young adulthood directly and indirectly, through its influence on verbal cognition and attention problems in childhood. Young adults (N = 1,000, M age = 21.3 years, 52% female; of Spanish or indigenous descent) from working-class families in Santiago, Chile, completed instruments assessing memory, processing speed, …
Risk taking, sensation seeking and personality as related to changes in substance use from adolescence to young adulthood
INTRODUCTION: This study examined changes in substance use from adolescence to young adulthood as related to adolescents' risk taking, sensation seeking, antisocial activities, and personality traits. METHODS: Chilean youth (N = 890, 52% female) were studied in adolescence (14.5 and 16.2 years) and young adulthood (M age 21.3 years). Risk taking was assessed via a laboratory-based performance task (Balloon Analogue Risk Task), and self-administer…
Adolescent Internalizing, Externalizing, and Social Problems Following Iron Deficiency at 12–18 Months: The Role of Maternal Responsiveness
This study tested whether maternal responsiveness moderated or mediated pathways from iron deficiency (ID) at 12–18 months to adolescent behavior problems. Participants were part of a large Chilean cohort (N = 933). Iron status was assessed at 12 and 18 months. Maternal responsiveness was assessed at 9 months and 5 years. Parents reported their child’s symptomology at 5 years, 10 years, and adolescence (11–17 years; M = 14.4). Structural equation…
Associations Among Household Chaos, School Belonging and Risk Behaviors in Adolescents
Childhood socioeconomic hardship, family conflict, and young adult hypertension: The Santiago Longitudinal Study
Effect of Infant Iron Deficiency on Children’s Verbal Abilities: The Roles of Child Affect and Parent Unresponsiveness
The Impact of Refugee Mothers’ Trauma, Posttraumatic Stress, and Depression on Their Children’s Adjustment
Infant iron deficiency, child affect, and maternal unresponsiveness: Testing the long-term effects of functional isolation
Children who are iron deficient (ID) or iron-deficient anemic (IDA) have been shown to seek and receive less stimulation from their caregivers, contributing to functional isolation . Over time, the reduced interactions between child and caregiver are thought to interfere with the acquisition of normative social competencies and adversely affect the child's development. The current study examined functional isolation in children who were ID or IDA…
Risk and Protective Factors for Sexual and Dating Violence Victimization: A Longitudinal, Prospective Study of Latino and African American Adolescents
High Educational Aspirations Among Pregnant Adolescents Are Related to Pregnancy Unwantedness and Subsequent Parenting Stress and Inadequacy
On the basis of theories of maternal identity development, role conflict, and childbearing motivation, the authors tested whether high educational aspirations among pregnant adolescents are related to the unwantedness of the pregnancy and whether pregnancy unwantedness leads to subsequent parenting stress and inadequacy. Longitudinal data from 100 first-time-pregnant, unmarried Latina adolescents (M age = 17.3 years) were analyzed. Results from s…
Sibling Caretaking Among Mexican American Youth: Conditions That Promote and Hinder Personal and School Success
This study examined how Mexican American youths’ extent of sibling caretaking is related to their personal and school adjustment, and whether mothers’ gender-role attitudes and youths’ familistic beliefs moderate these associations. One hundred and ninety-five Mexican American youth ( M age 14.8 years; 64% girls) and their mothers participated in the study. Youth completed questionnaires about their extent of sibling caretaking, their educational…
The Younger Siblings of Childbearing Adolescents: Parenting Influences on Their Academic and Social-Emotional Adjustment
Adolescents' Pregnancy Intentions, Wantedness, and Regret: Cross-Lagged Relations With Mental Health and Harsh Parenting
The authors used cross-lagged analyses to examine the across-time influences on and consequences of adolescents' pregnancy intentions, wantedness, and regret. One hundred pregnant Latina adolescents were studied during pregnancy and at 6 and 12 months postpartum. The results revealed 4 main findings: (a) similar to what has been found in adult women, adolescents' lower prenatal pregnancy intendedness and wantedness predicted initial difficulties …
Children’s Experiences After the Unintended Birth of a Sibling
This study examines whether children with a younger sibling whose birth was unintended experience larger declines in the quality of their home environment and larger increases in behavioral problems than children whose younger sibling’s birth was intended. We use data from the NLSY79 to estimate cross-lag regression models that assess changes in the home environment and children’s behavioral problems after the birth of a sibling (intended or unin…
Effects of Adolescent Childbearing on Latino Siblings: Changes in Family Dynamics and Feelings Toward the Teen Mother
Latinos have had the highest teenage birthrate of any racial or ethnic group in the United States for the past 15 years, yet little is known about how Latino families are affected by a teenage daughter’s childbearing. In-depth interviews were conducted with 32 Mexican American younger siblings of parenting teens to discern how their sister’s childbearing had affected them and their families. The most commonly reported negative effects were increa…
How an Adolescent's Childbearing Affects Siblings' Pregnancy Risk: A Qualitative Study Of Mexican American Youths
CONTEXT: The siblings of teenage parents are known to be at very high risk of teenage pregnancy, but little is known about how an older sister's childbearing affects a younger sibling's risk. Understanding these influences could help address the very high rates of pregnancy and childbearing among Latino adolescents. METHODS: From 2005 through 2007, a sample of 41 Mexican American 12–18‐year‐olds from southern California completed in‐depth intervi…
Youths' Caretaking of Their Adolescent Sisters' Children: Results From Two Longitudinal Studies
The extent and experiences of youths' caretaking of their adolescent sisters' children have been assessed in two longitudinal studies. The first study examines the caretaking patterns of 132 Latino and African American youth during middle and late adolescence. The second study involves 110 Latino youth whose teenage sister has recently given birth. Youth are studied at 6 weeks and 6 months postpartum. In both studies, girls provide more hours of …
Association Between Adolescent Pregnancy And a Family History of Teenage Births
Pregnancy prevention interventions targeting young women according to maternal and sibling teenage birth histories may be effective
Youths' Caretaking of Their Adolescent Sisters' Children: Its Costs and Benefits for Youths' Development
This study examined how time spent caring for a teenage sister's child and experiences in providing care related to youths' young adult outcomes. Latino and African American youths (N = 108) were studied during middle and late adolescence. Results indicated that youths who provided many hours of child care were more stressed and had lower school grades but also reported a greater life satisfaction, a stronger school orientation, and were less lik…
Risk and Protective Factors Predictive of Adolescent Pregnancy: A Longitudinal, Prospective Study
One hundred twenty-eight Latina and African American girls from high-risk environments (e.g., poverty, family history of teen parenting, etc.) were studied from age 13 through age 19 to prospectively identify the protective factors that might guard against teenage pregnancy. Results indicated that involved and strict parenting during early adolescence buffered against pregnancy under conditions of multiple family risks and peer risks. Low childbe…
Positive adolescent sexuality as evident in consistent and reliable contraceptive use: A study of sexually active latino and non-latino youths’ contraceptive behavior
An Evaluation of California's Adolescent Sibling Pregnancy Prevention Program
This new program, which serves a population known to be at very high risk for early pregnancy, appears to be effective at reducing rates of pregnancy and improving several pregnancy-related risk behaviors
An Evaluation of California's Adolescent Sibling Pregnancy Prevention Program
CONTEXT: The siblings of adolescents who have been pregnant or are parents have disproportionately high rates of teenage pregnancies and births. California's Adolescent Sibling Pregnancy Prevention Program is targeted at these high-risk youths. METHODS: An evaluation of the program was conducted in 1997–1999 with 1,176 predominantly Hispanic 11–17-year-olds who had at least one sibling who was an adolescent parent or had been pregnant–731 youths …
Sexual Assertiveness and Adolescents' Sexual Rights
This article focuses on sexual assertiveness and adolescents sexual rights. It discusses the findings of research by Rickert Sanghvi and Weiman which highlights the substantial vulnerability of young women many of whom believe that they lack the most basic of sexual rights such as the right not to have intercourse if they do not wish to the right to tell a partner that he is being too rough or the right to use any form of birth control during int…
Racial and Ethnic Differences in Girls' Sexual, Marital, and Birth Expectations
This study examines potential racial and ethnic differences in early adolescent girls' desired and perceived normative role timing and the extent to which various socioeconomic and family factors and school and job aspirations might be linked with girls' role-timing expectations. Using a racially and ethnically diverse sample, ( n = 574; 183 Hispanics, 177 Blacks, 93 Whites, and 70 Southeast Asians; M age = 12.9), results indicated that young wom…
Compensatory patterns of support among children's peer relationships: A test using school friends, nonschool friends, and siblings
We examined the extent to which isolated and aggressive 6th graders compensate for unsatisfying school friendships by deriving support from siblings and nonschool friends and whether this support protects such children from poor socioemotional outcomes. Results were as follows: (a) When compared with average and aggressive children, isolated children perceived their school friendships as least supportive and their favorite sibling relationships a…
Temperament, perceived competence, and depression in early and late adolescents
The younger siblings of teenage mothers: A follow-up of their pregnancy risk
This study followed 243 younger brothers and younger sisters of parenting teens and nonparenting teens across a 1.5-year period. The average age of siblings was 13.6 years at Time 1 and 15 years at Time 2. Relative to other youths, the sisters of parenting teens exhibited a sharp increase in drug and alcohol use and partying behavior across time and had the highest pregnancy rate at Time 2 (15%). The siblings of parenting teens spent 10 hr a week…
Children’s Experiences After the Unintended Birth of a Sibling
This study examines whether children with a younger sibling whose birth was unintended experience larger declines in the quality of their home environment and larger increases in behavioral problems than children whose younger sibling’s birth was intended. We use data from the NLSY79 to estimate cross-lag regression models that assess changes in the home environment and children’s behavioral problems after the birth of a sibling (intended or unin…
Sisters' and Girlfriends' Sexual and Childbearing Behavior: Effects on Early Adolescent Girls' Sexual Outcomes
This study examined three key issues related to the effects of sisters' and girlfriends' sexual and childbearing behavior on early adolescent girls' sexual outcomes. Subjects were 455 girls from predominantly minority racial backgrounds. Results indicated that number of sexually active girlfriends, number of sexually active sisters, and presence of an adolescent childbearing sister were positively associated with permissive sexual attitudes, posi…
Association Between Adolescent Pregnancy And a Family History of Teenage Births
Pregnancy prevention interventions targeting young women according to maternal and sibling teenage birth histories may be effective
Risk and Protective Factors for Sexual and Dating Violence Victimization: A Longitudinal, Prospective Study of Latino and African American Adolescents
Peer Social Support and Adjustment of Early Adolescent Peer Groups
This study examined whether early adolescents in four sociometric groups (peer-rejected, -neglected, -popular, and -controversial) vary in their perceptions of peer social support and in their behavioral, psychosocial, and scholastic adjustment. Subjects were 101 sixth-graders who participated in the Pennsylvania Early Adolescent Transitions Study. Sociometric groups were formed using results from a peer nomination questionnaire. Self-ratings wer…
Sibling Caretaking Among Mexican American Youth: Conditions That Promote and Hinder Personal and School Success
This study examined how Mexican American youths’ extent of sibling caretaking is related to their personal and school adjustment, and whether mothers’ gender-role attitudes and youths’ familistic beliefs moderate these associations. One hundred and ninety-five Mexican American youth ( M age 14.8 years; 64% girls) and their mothers participated in the study. Youth completed questionnaires about their extent of sibling caretaking, their educational…
Adolescents' Pregnancy Intentions, Wantedness, and Regret: Cross-Lagged Relations With Mental Health and Harsh Parenting
The authors used cross-lagged analyses to examine the across-time influences on and consequences of adolescents' pregnancy intentions, wantedness, and regret. One hundred pregnant Latina adolescents were studied during pregnancy and at 6 and 12 months postpartum. The results revealed 4 main findings: (a) similar to what has been found in adult women, adolescents' lower prenatal pregnancy intendedness and wantedness predicted initial difficulties …
Youths' Caretaking of Their Adolescent Sisters' Children: Results From Two Longitudinal Studies
The extent and experiences of youths' caretaking of their adolescent sisters' children have been assessed in two longitudinal studies. The first study examines the caretaking patterns of 132 Latino and African American youth during middle and late adolescence. The second study involves 110 Latino youth whose teenage sister has recently given birth. Youth are studied at 6 weeks and 6 months postpartum. In both studies, girls provide more hours of …
Breaking The Cycle of Teenage Pregnancy: Prevention Opportunities Focusing on the Younger Sisters of Teen Mothers
This paper begins with a literature review that analyzes studies that compared younger sisters of adolescent mothers to younger sisters of nonchildbearing adolescents and revealed key attitudinal and behavioral differences in the former group that are consistent with a high risk of adolescent pregnancy. The paper then discusses the following considerations and intervention strategies for the risk group: 1) recognize the school as an identifying c…
How an Adolescent's Childbearing Affects Siblings' Pregnancy Risk: A Qualitative Study Of Mexican American Youths
CONTEXT: The siblings of teenage parents are known to be at very high risk of teenage pregnancy, but little is known about how an older sister's childbearing affects a younger sibling's risk. Understanding these influences could help address the very high rates of pregnancy and childbearing among Latino adolescents. METHODS: From 2005 through 2007, a sample of 41 Mexican American 12–18‐year‐olds from southern California completed in‐depth intervi…
An Evaluation of California's Adolescent Sibling Pregnancy Prevention Program
This new program, which serves a population known to be at very high risk for early pregnancy, appears to be effective at reducing rates of pregnancy and improving several pregnancy-related risk behaviors
The First Teenage Pregnancy in the Family: Does It Affect Mothers' Parenting, Attitudes, or Mother-Adolescent Communication
To understand the consequences of adolescent pregnancy and childbearing for the family, 189 mothers from three types offamilies were studied: families in which all teenage daughters had never been pregnant, families in which only one teenager was currently pregnant, and families in which only one teenager had delivered a baby within the previous 6 months. in the latter two family types, the current pregnancy or childbearing was the first to occur…
Early Adolescent-Peer Group Fit, Peer Relations, and Psychosocial Competence: A Short-Term Longitudinal Study
At three points during the school year, 101 sixth graders were studied to examine the within- and across-time interrelations among (a) the goodness of fit between early adolescents' temperamental characteristics and the temperamental preferences held by the peer group, (b) adolescents' peer relations, and (c) adolescents' psychosocial competence. Results were as follows: (a) All variables (ft peer relations, and competence) were highly stable acr…
Iron deficiency in infancy and neurocognitive and educational outcomes in young adulthood
This study examines the extent to which iron deficiency in infancy contributes to adverse neurocognitive and educational outcomes in young adulthood directly and indirectly, through its influence on verbal cognition and attention problems in childhood. Young adults (N = 1,000, M age = 21.3 years, 52% female; of Spanish or indigenous descent) from working-class families in Santiago, Chile, completed instruments assessing memory, processing speed, …
Childhood socioeconomic hardship, family conflict, and young adult hypertension: The Santiago Longitudinal Study
Positive adolescent sexuality as evident in consistent and reliable contraceptive use: A study of sexually active latino and non-latino youths’ contraceptive behavior
Infant iron deficiency, child affect, and maternal unresponsiveness: Testing the long-term effects of functional isolation
Children who are iron deficient (ID) or iron-deficient anemic (IDA) have been shown to seek and receive less stimulation from their caregivers, contributing to functional isolation . Over time, the reduced interactions between child and caregiver are thought to interfere with the acquisition of normative social competencies and adversely affect the child's development. The current study examined functional isolation in children who were ID or IDA…
High Educational Aspirations Among Pregnant Adolescents Are Related to Pregnancy Unwantedness and Subsequent Parenting Stress and Inadequacy
On the basis of theories of maternal identity development, role conflict, and childbearing motivation, the authors tested whether high educational aspirations among pregnant adolescents are related to the unwantedness of the pregnancy and whether pregnancy unwantedness leads to subsequent parenting stress and inadequacy. Longitudinal data from 100 first-time-pregnant, unmarried Latina adolescents (M age = 17.3 years) were analyzed. Results from s…
Sexual Assertiveness and Adolescents' Sexual Rights
This article focuses on sexual assertiveness and adolescents sexual rights. It discusses the findings of research by Rickert Sanghvi and Weiman which highlights the substantial vulnerability of young women many of whom believe that they lack the most basic of sexual rights such as the right not to have intercourse if they do not wish to the right to tell a partner that he is being too rough or the right to use any form of birth control during int…
Early Adolescents' Perceived Interpersonal Risks and Benefits: Relations to Social Support and Psychological Functioning
The present study examined how early adolescents' network orientation, or their perceptions of the risks and benefits involved in interpersonal relationships, impinge on their social support and their psychological adjustment. Four hundred fifty 6th graders completed extensive questionnaires about their network orientation, social support, and psychological functioning. Subjects `parents and teachers also rated the support they provide to the ado…
The role of temperament in stress, coping and socioemotional functioning in early development
Temperament, perceived competence, and depression in early and late adolescents
Peer Social Support and Adjustment of Early Adolescent Peer Groups
This study examined whether early adolescents in four sociometric groups (peer-rejected, -neglected, -popular, and -controversial) vary in their perceptions of peer social support and in their behavioral, psychosocial, and scholastic adjustment. Subjects were 101 sixth-graders who participated in the Pennsylvania Early Adolescent Transitions Study. Sociometric groups were formed using results from a peer nomination questionnaire. Self-ratings wer…
Early Adolescents' Perceived Interpersonal Risks and Benefits: Relations to Social Support and Psychological Functioning
The present study examined how early adolescents' network orientation, or their perceptions of the risks and benefits involved in interpersonal relationships, impinge on their social support and their psychological adjustment. Four hundred fifty 6th graders completed extensive questionnaires about their network orientation, social support, and psychological functioning. Subjects `parents and teachers also rated the support they provide to the ado…
Early Adolescent-Peer Group Fit, Peer Relations, and Psychosocial Competence: A Short-Term Longitudinal Study
At three points during the school year, 101 sixth graders were studied to examine the within- and across-time interrelations among (a) the goodness of fit between early adolescents' temperamental characteristics and the temperamental preferences held by the peer group, (b) adolescents' peer relations, and (c) adolescents' psychosocial competence. Results were as follows: (a) All variables (ft peer relations, and competence) were highly stable acr…
Compensatory patterns of support among children's peer relationships: A test using school friends, nonschool friends, and siblings
We examined the extent to which isolated and aggressive 6th graders compensate for unsatisfying school friendships by deriving support from siblings and nonschool friends and whether this support protects such children from poor socioemotional outcomes. Results were as follows: (a) When compared with average and aggressive children, isolated children perceived their school friendships as least supportive and their favorite sibling relationships a…
Sisters' and Girlfriends' Sexual and Childbearing Behavior: Effects on Early Adolescent Girls' Sexual Outcomes
This study examined three key issues related to the effects of sisters' and girlfriends' sexual and childbearing behavior on early adolescent girls' sexual outcomes. Subjects were 455 girls from predominantly minority racial backgrounds. Results indicated that number of sexually active girlfriends, number of sexually active sisters, and presence of an adolescent childbearing sister were positively associated with permissive sexual attitudes, posi…
Impact of Adolescent Childbearing on Families and Younger Sibling: Effects that Increase Younger Siblings' Risk for Early Pregnancy
(1998). Impact of Adolescent Childbearing on Families and Younger Sibling: Effects that Increase Younger Siblings' Risk for Early Pregnancy. Applied Developmental Science: Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 62-74
Breaking The Cycle of Teenage Pregnancy: Prevention Opportunities Focusing on the Younger Sisters of Teen Mothers
This paper begins with a literature review that analyzes studies that compared younger sisters of adolescent mothers to younger sisters of nonchildbearing adolescents and revealed key attitudinal and behavioral differences in the former group that are consistent with a high risk of adolescent pregnancy. The paper then discusses the following considerations and intervention strategies for the risk group: 1) recognize the school as an identifying c…
Racial and Ethnic Differences in Girls' Sexual, Marital, and Birth Expectations
This study examines potential racial and ethnic differences in early adolescent girls' desired and perceived normative role timing and the extent to which various socioeconomic and family factors and school and job aspirations might be linked with girls' role-timing expectations. Using a racially and ethnically diverse sample, ( n = 574; 183 Hispanics, 177 Blacks, 93 Whites, and 70 Southeast Asians; M age = 12.9), results indicated that young wom…
The First Teenage Pregnancy in the Family: Does It Affect Mothers' Parenting, Attitudes, or Mother-Adolescent Communication
To understand the consequences of adolescent pregnancy and childbearing for the family, 189 mothers from three types offamilies were studied: families in which all teenage daughters had never been pregnant, families in which only one teenager was currently pregnant, and families in which only one teenager had delivered a baby within the previous 6 months. in the latter two family types, the current pregnancy or childbearing was the first to occur…
The younger siblings of teenage mothers: A follow-up of their pregnancy risk
This study followed 243 younger brothers and younger sisters of parenting teens and nonparenting teens across a 1.5-year period. The average age of siblings was 13.6 years at Time 1 and 15 years at Time 2. Relative to other youths, the sisters of parenting teens exhibited a sharp increase in drug and alcohol use and partying behavior across time and had the highest pregnancy rate at Time 2 (15%). The siblings of parenting teens spent 10 hr a week…
Sexual Assertiveness and Adolescents' Sexual Rights
This article focuses on sexual assertiveness and adolescents sexual rights. It discusses the findings of research by Rickert Sanghvi and Weiman which highlights the substantial vulnerability of young women many of whom believe that they lack the most basic of sexual rights such as the right not to have intercourse if they do not wish to the right to tell a partner that he is being too rough or the right to use any form of birth control during int…
An Evaluation of California's Adolescent Sibling Pregnancy Prevention Program
This new program, which serves a population known to be at very high risk for early pregnancy, appears to be effective at reducing rates of pregnancy and improving several pregnancy-related risk behaviors
An Evaluation of California's Adolescent Sibling Pregnancy Prevention Program
CONTEXT: The siblings of adolescents who have been pregnant or are parents have disproportionately high rates of teenage pregnancies and births. California's Adolescent Sibling Pregnancy Prevention Program is targeted at these high-risk youths. METHODS: An evaluation of the program was conducted in 1997–1999 with 1,176 predominantly Hispanic 11–17-year-olds who had at least one sibling who was an adolescent parent or had been pregnant–731 youths …
Positive adolescent sexuality as evident in consistent and reliable contraceptive use: A study of sexually active latino and non-latino youths’ contraceptive behavior
Youths' Caretaking of Their Adolescent Sisters' Children: Its Costs and Benefits for Youths' Development
This study examined how time spent caring for a teenage sister's child and experiences in providing care related to youths' young adult outcomes. Latino and African American youths (N = 108) were studied during middle and late adolescence. Results indicated that youths who provided many hours of child care were more stressed and had lower school grades but also reported a greater life satisfaction, a stronger school orientation, and were less lik…
Risk and Protective Factors Predictive of Adolescent Pregnancy: A Longitudinal, Prospective Study
One hundred twenty-eight Latina and African American girls from high-risk environments (e.g., poverty, family history of teen parenting, etc.) were studied from age 13 through age 19 to prospectively identify the protective factors that might guard against teenage pregnancy. Results indicated that involved and strict parenting during early adolescence buffered against pregnancy under conditions of multiple family risks and peer risks. Low childbe…
Association Between Adolescent Pregnancy And a Family History of Teenage Births
Pregnancy prevention interventions targeting young women according to maternal and sibling teenage birth histories may be effective
How an Adolescent's Childbearing Affects Siblings' Pregnancy Risk: A Qualitative Study Of Mexican American Youths
CONTEXT: The siblings of teenage parents are known to be at very high risk of teenage pregnancy, but little is known about how an older sister's childbearing affects a younger sibling's risk. Understanding these influences could help address the very high rates of pregnancy and childbearing among Latino adolescents. METHODS: From 2005 through 2007, a sample of 41 Mexican American 12–18‐year‐olds from southern California completed in‐depth intervi…
Youths' Caretaking of Their Adolescent Sisters' Children: Results From Two Longitudinal Studies
The extent and experiences of youths' caretaking of their adolescent sisters' children have been assessed in two longitudinal studies. The first study examines the caretaking patterns of 132 Latino and African American youth during middle and late adolescence. The second study involves 110 Latino youth whose teenage sister has recently given birth. Youth are studied at 6 weeks and 6 months postpartum. In both studies, girls provide more hours of …
Children’s Experiences After the Unintended Birth of a Sibling
This study examines whether children with a younger sibling whose birth was unintended experience larger declines in the quality of their home environment and larger increases in behavioral problems than children whose younger sibling’s birth was intended. We use data from the NLSY79 to estimate cross-lag regression models that assess changes in the home environment and children’s behavioral problems after the birth of a sibling (intended or unin…
Effects of Adolescent Childbearing on Latino Siblings: Changes in Family Dynamics and Feelings Toward the Teen Mother
Latinos have had the highest teenage birthrate of any racial or ethnic group in the United States for the past 15 years, yet little is known about how Latino families are affected by a teenage daughter’s childbearing. In-depth interviews were conducted with 32 Mexican American younger siblings of parenting teens to discern how their sister’s childbearing had affected them and their families. The most commonly reported negative effects were increa…
The Younger Siblings of Childbearing Adolescents: Parenting Influences on Their Academic and Social-Emotional Adjustment
Adolescents' Pregnancy Intentions, Wantedness, and Regret: Cross-Lagged Relations With Mental Health and Harsh Parenting
The authors used cross-lagged analyses to examine the across-time influences on and consequences of adolescents' pregnancy intentions, wantedness, and regret. One hundred pregnant Latina adolescents were studied during pregnancy and at 6 and 12 months postpartum. The results revealed 4 main findings: (a) similar to what has been found in adult women, adolescents' lower prenatal pregnancy intendedness and wantedness predicted initial difficulties …
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