Roberta L Paikoff
Biographic Data
| ID | 174019 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roberta L Paikoff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roberta L |
| FAMILY NAME | Paikoff |
| SIGNATURE | PAIKOFF R L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 195 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Beyond the “Birds and the Bees”: Gender Differences in Sex‐Related Communication Among Urban African‐American Adolescents
To read this article's abstract in both Spanish and Mandarin Chinese, please visit the article's full‐text page on Wiley InterScience ( http://interscience.wiley.com/journal/famp ). The current study examined gender differences in communication about sex‐related topics in a community sample of urban, African‐American mothers and adolescents living in impoverished neighborhoods with high HIV rates. One hundred and sixty‐two mother–adolescent dyads…
Adapting and disseminating a community-collaborative, evidence-based HIV/Aids prevention programme: Lessons from the history of CHAMP
In recent years, calls for the scaling-up, or more broad dissemination of evidence-based HIV prevention programmes, have increased. This paper responds to the call for increasing applicable knowledge about programme dissemination by reviewing the history of a major evidence-based human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention and mental health promotion programme that has been adapted successfully and pilot-tested across four settings - including …
Self-Esteem Enhancing Reasons for Having Sex and The Sexual Behaviors of African American Adolescents
Correlates of Participation in a Family-Based HIV Prevention Program: Exploring African-American Women's Motivations and Understanding of the Program
This study examines the relationship between contextual factors and attendance in a family-based HIV prevention program for low-income, urban, African-American women and their children. Participants' motivations to become involved, their concerns about discussing sex-related issues with their children, recruiters' perceptions of respondents' understanding of the program, and environmental stressors were examined. Participants' level of motivation…
Longitudinal Association Between Parenting Practices and Early Sexual Risk Behaviors among Urban African American Adolescents: The Moderating Role of Gender
Teen Mothers Parenting their Own Teen Offspring: The Moderating Role of Parenting Support
This study investigated whether parenting support moderated relations between age of mother at childbirth and parental responsiveness and monitoring. The sample included 212 African American families living in urban public housing; Offspring were entering adolescence when data were collected. Parenting support was measured by assessing the perceived assistance mothers received with parenting tasks. Child, maternal, and observer reports of materna…
The role of personal contact with HIV-infected people in explaining urban, African American preadolescents' attitudes toward peers with HIV/Aids
This article presents the results of a study aimed at describing African American youths' attitudes toward peers with HIV/AIDS and identifying correlates of these attitudes based on the contact theory. Baseline data from a sample of African American, urban mothers and their youth (n = 197) participating in a family-based HIV prevention program were analyzed. In support of contact theory, preadolescents' close relationship to persons infected with…
Measurement of the Role of Families in Prevention and Adaptation to HIV/Aids
Pubertal Development and Parent-Child Conflict in Low-Income, Urban, African American Adolescents
This research examines associations between pubertal development and parent-adolescent conflict in a sample of 302 urban, low-income, African American adolescents and their parents. Findings revealed that pubertal development was associated with parent-child conflict and that the pattern of results was different for boys and girls. Specifically, parents reported using more verbal aggression with sons during midpuberty than early or late puberty a…
Ethnic Identity Assessment among Inner-City African American Children: Evaluating the Applicability of the Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure
Phinney's (1992) Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure (MEIM) was administered to 118 African American children between the ages of 8 and 12 years who lived in an impoverished inner-city neighborhood. This study examined the scale's reliability in measuring feelings of ethnic affirmation and belonging, ethnic behaviors, and ethnic knowledge in a sample of urban children. Results of the reliability analyses were mixed, and indicated that the construc…
A Longitudinal Analysis of Depressed Mood, Self-Esteem and Family Processes during Adolescence
This study tests three alternative causal models of the relations among self-esteem, depressed mood and family processes in a longitudinal sample of adolescent girls (N = 193) from the United States. We find little support for a causal model based on an Early Effects approach, moderate support for a uni-directional Self-Esteem Mediation model, and the strongest support for a model based on Structural Symbolic Interactionism. Contrary to the causa…
Adapting Developmental Research to Intervention Design: Applying Developmental Psychology to an Aids Prevention Model for Urban African American Youth
Roberta L. Paikoff, Adapting Developmental Research to Intervention Design: Applying Developmental Psychology to an AIDS Prevention Model for Urban African American Youth, The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 65, No. 1 (Winter, 1996), pp. 44-59
Early heterosexual debut: Situations of sexual possibility during the transition to adolescence
Preadolescent sexuality among urban, minority youth is considered within a normative developmental context. Fourth- and fifth-grade children living in an urban, primarily African-American, low-income neighborhood were interviewed regarding situations of sexual possibility and contigencies of heterosocial and heterosexual behavior. Findings are discussed in light of factors that may influence early heterosexual debut
Studying Links Between Hormones and Negative Affect: Models and Measures
In this article, we consider eight models for the study of pubertal change as it is associated with adolescent affect and behavior. In keeping with a mental health perspective, our focus is on indices of psychological adjustment—depressive affect, aggressive affect, eating problems. All of the models speak to activational effects on the system, as hormonal and physical changes in late childhood and early adolescence are investigated. The models d…
Prediction of eating problems: An 8-year study of adolescent girls
Little prospective work has charted the onset and predictors of subclinical or clinical eating problems. Eating problems were studied in 116 adolescent girls drawn from a normal population of students enrolled in private schools in a major metropolitan area who have been followed longitudinally over an 8-year period from young adolescence to young adulthood. Over a quarter of the sample scored above the level identifying a serious eating problem …
Mother-daughter dyads view the family: Associations between divergent perceptions and daughter well-being
Research and Programs for Adolescent Mothers: Missing Links and Future Promises
The literature on the effects of teenage parenthood on the adolescent mother herself, her child, and her mother is reviewed from the perspectives of ecological and family systems theories. Life course trajectories of the three family members and how changes due to early motherhood co-occur are described Emphasis is placed on missing links between what is known about the lives of these families and how services are provided. Recommendations are gi…
Preventing Adolescent Pregnancy: Model Programs and Evaluations
Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Programs - Josefina J Card, James L Peterson and Catherine G Greeno Design, Monitoring, and Evaluation Small Group Sex Education at School - B Helen Thomas et al The McMaster Teen Program Enhancing Social and Cognitive Skills - Richard P Barth et al An Information and Skills Approach for Younger Teens - Marion Howard and Judith A McCabe Postponing Sexual Involvement Program A Comprehensive Age-Phased Approach - Hea…
Methodological issues in the study of divergent views of the family
A wealth of methodologies, both qualitative and quantitative, are available for conducting research on divergent views in the family. While the pathways for investigating divergent views of the family are clearer for those who chose more quantitative methods (as current literature reflects this tradition), qualitative methods may serve to clarify the process through which divergent views occur and are maintained within the family, both on an indi…
Effect of Reproductive Status Changes on Family Functioning and Well-Being of Mothers and Daughters
Associations among family relations, mother reproductive status, daughter reproductive timing, and well-being were examined in 144 mothers and their adolescent daughters. First, effects of mother reproductive status and daughter reproductive timing on reports of family functioning were explored. Mothers of early maturing daughters perceived less family conflict than did those with on-time or late daughters. Second, the correlates of mother and da…
Effects of girls' hormonal status on depressive and aggressive symptoms over the course of one year
Do parent^child relationships change during puberty
Do parent-child relationships change during puberty
This article reviews changes in parent-child relationships during puberty, emphasizing the developmental processes that might be implicated in these changes. Evidence suggests increases in conflict and less warm interactions in relationships between parents and children during puberty. Changes are assumed to be short term, although little longitudinal research has directly addressed the issue of long-lasting effects. Other developmental changes o…
Attitudes toward Consequences of Pregnancy in Young Women Attending a Family Planning Clinic
This study was undertaken to examine the role of female adolescents' anticipation and evaluation of consequences of pregnancy in their sexual behavior and experience. Consequences were operationalized as the degree to which a young woman envisioned discrepant future trajectories due to pregnancy and childbirth in adolescence versus in later adult life. Causal knowledge and attitudes toward consequences of pregnancy as well as contraceptive and pr…
Perceptions of Efficacy and Legitimacy of Parental Influence Techniques by Children and Early Adolescents
Age-related differences in behavioral expectations, attributions, and evaluations have long been considered factors in parent-child relationships uring the transition to adolescence, but little is known about such differences. In a two-phase procedure, 217 second, fifth, and eighth grade males and females were first asked to predict parental efficacy in twelve stories depicting one of three different parental strategies for gaining children's com…
Do parent-child relationships change during puberty
This article reviews changes in parent-child relationships during puberty, emphasizing the developmental processes that might be implicated in these changes. Evidence suggests increases in conflict and less warm interactions in relationships between parents and children during puberty. Changes are assumed to be short term, although little longitudinal research has directly addressed the issue of long-lasting effects. Other developmental changes o…
Prediction of eating problems: An 8-year study of adolescent girls
Little prospective work has charted the onset and predictors of subclinical or clinical eating problems. Eating problems were studied in 116 adolescent girls drawn from a normal population of students enrolled in private schools in a major metropolitan area who have been followed longitudinally over an 8-year period from young adolescence to young adulthood. Over a quarter of the sample scored above the level identifying a serious eating problem …
Ethnic Identity Assessment among Inner-City African American Children: Evaluating the Applicability of the Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure
Phinney's (1992) Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure (MEIM) was administered to 118 African American children between the ages of 8 and 12 years who lived in an impoverished inner-city neighborhood. This study examined the scale's reliability in measuring feelings of ethnic affirmation and belonging, ethnic behaviors, and ethnic knowledge in a sample of urban children. Results of the reliability analyses were mixed, and indicated that the construc…
Studying Links Between Hormones and Negative Affect: Models and Measures
In this article, we consider eight models for the study of pubertal change as it is associated with adolescent affect and behavior. In keeping with a mental health perspective, our focus is on indices of psychological adjustment—depressive affect, aggressive affect, eating problems. All of the models speak to activational effects on the system, as hormonal and physical changes in late childhood and early adolescence are investigated. The models d…
Longitudinal Association Between Parenting Practices and Early Sexual Risk Behaviors among Urban African American Adolescents: The Moderating Role of Gender
Mother-daughter dyads view the family: Associations between divergent perceptions and daughter well-being
Effects of girls' hormonal status on depressive and aggressive symptoms over the course of one year
Pubertal Development and Parent-Child Conflict in Low-Income, Urban, African American Adolescents
This research examines associations between pubertal development and parent-adolescent conflict in a sample of 302 urban, low-income, African American adolescents and their parents. Findings revealed that pubertal development was associated with parent-child conflict and that the pattern of results was different for boys and girls. Specifically, parents reported using more verbal aggression with sons during midpuberty than early or late puberty a…
Perceptions of Efficacy and Legitimacy of Parental Influence Techniques by Children and Early Adolescents
Age-related differences in behavioral expectations, attributions, and evaluations have long been considered factors in parent-child relationships uring the transition to adolescence, but little is known about such differences. In a two-phase procedure, 217 second, fifth, and eighth grade males and females were first asked to predict parental efficacy in twelve stories depicting one of three different parental strategies for gaining children's com…
An exploratory study of dominance interactions among adolescent females at a summer camp
Self-Esteem Enhancing Reasons for Having Sex and The Sexual Behaviors of African American Adolescents
Research and Programs for Adolescent Mothers: Missing Links and Future Promises
The literature on the effects of teenage parenthood on the adolescent mother herself, her child, and her mother is reviewed from the perspectives of ecological and family systems theories. Life course trajectories of the three family members and how changes due to early motherhood co-occur are described Emphasis is placed on missing links between what is known about the lives of these families and how services are provided. Recommendations are gi…
Attitudes toward Consequences of Pregnancy in Young Women Attending a Family Planning Clinic
This study was undertaken to examine the role of female adolescents' anticipation and evaluation of consequences of pregnancy in their sexual behavior and experience. Consequences were operationalized as the degree to which a young woman envisioned discrepant future trajectories due to pregnancy and childbirth in adolescence versus in later adult life. Causal knowledge and attitudes toward consequences of pregnancy as well as contraceptive and pr…
A Longitudinal Analysis of Depressed Mood, Self-Esteem and Family Processes during Adolescence
This study tests three alternative causal models of the relations among self-esteem, depressed mood and family processes in a longitudinal sample of adolescent girls (N = 193) from the United States. We find little support for a causal model based on an Early Effects approach, moderate support for a uni-directional Self-Esteem Mediation model, and the strongest support for a model based on Structural Symbolic Interactionism. Contrary to the causa…
Adapting Developmental Research to Intervention Design: Applying Developmental Psychology to an Aids Prevention Model for Urban African American Youth
Roberta L. Paikoff, Adapting Developmental Research to Intervention Design: Applying Developmental Psychology to an AIDS Prevention Model for Urban African American Youth, The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 65, No. 1 (Winter, 1996), pp. 44-59
Effect of Reproductive Status Changes on Family Functioning and Well-Being of Mothers and Daughters
Associations among family relations, mother reproductive status, daughter reproductive timing, and well-being were examined in 144 mothers and their adolescent daughters. First, effects of mother reproductive status and daughter reproductive timing on reports of family functioning were explored. Mothers of early maturing daughters perceived less family conflict than did those with on-time or late daughters. Second, the correlates of mother and da…
An exploratory study of dominance interactions among adolescent females at a summer camp
Perceptions of Efficacy and Legitimacy of Parental Influence Techniques by Children and Early Adolescents
Age-related differences in behavioral expectations, attributions, and evaluations have long been considered factors in parent-child relationships uring the transition to adolescence, but little is known about such differences. In a two-phase procedure, 217 second, fifth, and eighth grade males and females were first asked to predict parental efficacy in twelve stories depicting one of three different parental strategies for gaining children's com…
Attitudes toward Consequences of Pregnancy in Young Women Attending a Family Planning Clinic
This study was undertaken to examine the role of female adolescents' anticipation and evaluation of consequences of pregnancy in their sexual behavior and experience. Consequences were operationalized as the degree to which a young woman envisioned discrepant future trajectories due to pregnancy and childbirth in adolescence versus in later adult life. Causal knowledge and attitudes toward consequences of pregnancy as well as contraceptive and pr…
Methodological issues in the study of divergent views of the family
A wealth of methodologies, both qualitative and quantitative, are available for conducting research on divergent views in the family. While the pathways for investigating divergent views of the family are clearer for those who chose more quantitative methods (as current literature reflects this tradition), qualitative methods may serve to clarify the process through which divergent views occur and are maintained within the family, both on an indi…
Effect of Reproductive Status Changes on Family Functioning and Well-Being of Mothers and Daughters
Associations among family relations, mother reproductive status, daughter reproductive timing, and well-being were examined in 144 mothers and their adolescent daughters. First, effects of mother reproductive status and daughter reproductive timing on reports of family functioning were explored. Mothers of early maturing daughters perceived less family conflict than did those with on-time or late daughters. Second, the correlates of mother and da…
Effects of girls' hormonal status on depressive and aggressive symptoms over the course of one year
Do parent^child relationships change during puberty
Do parent-child relationships change during puberty
This article reviews changes in parent-child relationships during puberty, emphasizing the developmental processes that might be implicated in these changes. Evidence suggests increases in conflict and less warm interactions in relationships between parents and children during puberty. Changes are assumed to be short term, although little longitudinal research has directly addressed the issue of long-lasting effects. Other developmental changes o…
Research and Programs for Adolescent Mothers: Missing Links and Future Promises
The literature on the effects of teenage parenthood on the adolescent mother herself, her child, and her mother is reviewed from the perspectives of ecological and family systems theories. Life course trajectories of the three family members and how changes due to early motherhood co-occur are described Emphasis is placed on missing links between what is known about the lives of these families and how services are provided. Recommendations are gi…
Preventing Adolescent Pregnancy: Model Programs and Evaluations
Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Programs - Josefina J Card, James L Peterson and Catherine G Greeno Design, Monitoring, and Evaluation Small Group Sex Education at School - B Helen Thomas et al The McMaster Teen Program Enhancing Social and Cognitive Skills - Richard P Barth et al An Information and Skills Approach for Younger Teens - Marion Howard and Judith A McCabe Postponing Sexual Involvement Program A Comprehensive Age-Phased Approach - Hea…
Mother-daughter dyads view the family: Associations between divergent perceptions and daughter well-being
Studying Links Between Hormones and Negative Affect: Models and Measures
In this article, we consider eight models for the study of pubertal change as it is associated with adolescent affect and behavior. In keeping with a mental health perspective, our focus is on indices of psychological adjustment—depressive affect, aggressive affect, eating problems. All of the models speak to activational effects on the system, as hormonal and physical changes in late childhood and early adolescence are investigated. The models d…
Prediction of eating problems: An 8-year study of adolescent girls
Little prospective work has charted the onset and predictors of subclinical or clinical eating problems. Eating problems were studied in 116 adolescent girls drawn from a normal population of students enrolled in private schools in a major metropolitan area who have been followed longitudinally over an 8-year period from young adolescence to young adulthood. Over a quarter of the sample scored above the level identifying a serious eating problem …
Early heterosexual debut: Situations of sexual possibility during the transition to adolescence
Preadolescent sexuality among urban, minority youth is considered within a normative developmental context. Fourth- and fifth-grade children living in an urban, primarily African-American, low-income neighborhood were interviewed regarding situations of sexual possibility and contigencies of heterosocial and heterosexual behavior. Findings are discussed in light of factors that may influence early heterosexual debut
A Longitudinal Analysis of Depressed Mood, Self-Esteem and Family Processes during Adolescence
This study tests three alternative causal models of the relations among self-esteem, depressed mood and family processes in a longitudinal sample of adolescent girls (N = 193) from the United States. We find little support for a causal model based on an Early Effects approach, moderate support for a uni-directional Self-Esteem Mediation model, and the strongest support for a model based on Structural Symbolic Interactionism. Contrary to the causa…
Adapting Developmental Research to Intervention Design: Applying Developmental Psychology to an Aids Prevention Model for Urban African American Youth
Roberta L. Paikoff, Adapting Developmental Research to Intervention Design: Applying Developmental Psychology to an AIDS Prevention Model for Urban African American Youth, The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 65, No. 1 (Winter, 1996), pp. 44-59
Ethnic Identity Assessment among Inner-City African American Children: Evaluating the Applicability of the Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure
Phinney's (1992) Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure (MEIM) was administered to 118 African American children between the ages of 8 and 12 years who lived in an impoverished inner-city neighborhood. This study examined the scale's reliability in measuring feelings of ethnic affirmation and belonging, ethnic behaviors, and ethnic knowledge in a sample of urban children. Results of the reliability analyses were mixed, and indicated that the construc…
Pubertal Development and Parent-Child Conflict in Low-Income, Urban, African American Adolescents
This research examines associations between pubertal development and parent-adolescent conflict in a sample of 302 urban, low-income, African American adolescents and their parents. Findings revealed that pubertal development was associated with parent-child conflict and that the pattern of results was different for boys and girls. Specifically, parents reported using more verbal aggression with sons during midpuberty than early or late puberty a…
Measurement of the Role of Families in Prevention and Adaptation to HIV/Aids
The role of personal contact with HIV-infected people in explaining urban, African American preadolescents' attitudes toward peers with HIV/Aids
This article presents the results of a study aimed at describing African American youths' attitudes toward peers with HIV/AIDS and identifying correlates of these attitudes based on the contact theory. Baseline data from a sample of African American, urban mothers and their youth (n = 197) participating in a family-based HIV prevention program were analyzed. In support of contact theory, preadolescents' close relationship to persons infected with…
Teen Mothers Parenting their Own Teen Offspring: The Moderating Role of Parenting Support
This study investigated whether parenting support moderated relations between age of mother at childbirth and parental responsiveness and monitoring. The sample included 212 African American families living in urban public housing; Offspring were entering adolescence when data were collected. Parenting support was measured by assessing the perceived assistance mothers received with parenting tasks. Child, maternal, and observer reports of materna…
Longitudinal Association Between Parenting Practices and Early Sexual Risk Behaviors among Urban African American Adolescents: The Moderating Role of Gender
Self-Esteem Enhancing Reasons for Having Sex and The Sexual Behaviors of African American Adolescents
Correlates of Participation in a Family-Based HIV Prevention Program: Exploring African-American Women's Motivations and Understanding of the Program
This study examines the relationship between contextual factors and attendance in a family-based HIV prevention program for low-income, urban, African-American women and their children. Participants' motivations to become involved, their concerns about discussing sex-related issues with their children, recruiters' perceptions of respondents' understanding of the program, and environmental stressors were examined. Participants' level of motivation…
Adapting and disseminating a community-collaborative, evidence-based HIV/Aids prevention programme: Lessons from the history of CHAMP
In recent years, calls for the scaling-up, or more broad dissemination of evidence-based HIV prevention programmes, have increased. This paper responds to the call for increasing applicable knowledge about programme dissemination by reviewing the history of a major evidence-based human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention and mental health promotion programme that has been adapted successfully and pilot-tested across four settings - including …
Psychology (26 works) · Developmental psychology (23 works) · Medicine (14 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (12 works) · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (11 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Clinical Psychology (8 works) · Clinical Psychology (7 works) · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (6 works)