Robert F Valois
Biographic Data
| ID | 4262824 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert F Valois |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert F |
| FAMILY NAME | Valois |
| SIGNATURE | VALOIS R F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Carolina |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5935-6472 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 319 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 49 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1951 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
HIV-Related Stigma Among African-American Youth in the Northeast and Southeast US
Perceived Difficulty of Performing Selected HIV/Aids Preventive Behaviors and Life Satisfaction: Is there a Relationship for African American Adolescents
Neighborhood Condition and Geographic Locale in Assessing HIV/STI Risk Among African American Adolescents
Social Coping and Life Satisfaction in Adolescents
Safer Sex Media Messages and Adolescent Sexual Behavior: 3-Year Follow-Up Results From Project iMPPACS
Objectives. We estimated the long-term (36-month) effects of Project iMPPACS, a multisite randomized controlled trial of mass media and small-group intervention for African American adolescents. Methods. We collected 6 waves of longitudinal data on program participants aged 14 to 17 years (n = 1139) in Providence, Rhode Island; Syracuse, New York; Columbia, South Carolina; and Macon, Georgia, 36 months (December 2009–December 2010) after the inte…
Predicting Discordance Between Self-reports of Sexual Behavior and Incident Sexually Transmitted Infections with African American Female Adolescents: Results from a 4-city Study
African American Adolescents Meeting Sex Partners Online: Closing the Digital Research Divide in STI/HIV Prevention
Long Term Effects of Community-Based STI Screening and Mass Media HIV Prevention Messages on Sexual Risk Behaviors of African American Adolescents
Blocking the Benefit of Group-Based HIV-Prevention Efforts during Adolescence: The Problem of HIV-Related Stigma
Evaluating a Brief Measure of Social Self-Efficacy among U.S. Adolescents
Preliminary data were collected to evaluate the performance of a social self-efficacy measure among 4,061 public high school adolescents. Principal-axis factor analysis was followed by a 4-way between-groups analysis of variance (ANOVA) to test for differences in the Total score means on selected demographic estimates and their interactions. Relations between the Total score and selected risk behaviors were examined through a series of one-way AN…
Life Satisfaction and Student Engagement in Adolescents
Life Satisfaction and Peer Victimization Among USA Public High School Adolescents
A dual‐factor model of mental health: Toward a more comprehensive understanding of youth functioning
Traditional mental health models focus on psychological problems and distress; accordingly, health is viewed as the absence of illness or disability. In contrast, a dual-factor model of mental health incorporates both indicators of positive subjective well-being (SWB) and measures of psychopathological symptoms to comprehensively determine an individual's psychological adjustment. This study used such a dual-factor model to measure the mental hea…
Differentiating Between Precursor and Control Variables When Analyzing Reasoned Action Theories
A Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Life Satisfaction and Parenting
Mass Media as an HIV-Prevention Strategy: Using Culturally Sensitive Messages to Reduce HIV-Associated Sexual Behavior of At-Risk African American Youth
The evidence base and theoretical frameworks for mass media HIV-prevention campaigns in the United States are not well-developed. We describe an intervention approach using culturally sensitive mass media messages to enhance protective beliefs and behavior of African American adolescents at risk for HIV. This approach exploits the potential that mass media messages have, not only to reach a large segment of the adolescent population and thereby s…
Condom Failure: Examining the Objective and Cultural Meanings Expressed in Interviews With African American Adolescents
The purpose of this study was to explore the meaning and context of self-reported "condom failure" among sexually active African American adolescents. Semistructured interviews regarding methods of protection from pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease (STD) with 124 youth (ages 14-19 years) were content analyzed. The findings suggested three meanings of condom failure. First, condom failure represents a legitimate and important risk related …
Withdrawal (Coitus Interruptus) as a Sexual Risk Reduction Strategy: Perspectives from African-American Adolescents
Associations Between Depressed Mood and Clusters of Health Risk Behaviors
Objectives: To examine the association between depressed mood and clusters of health risk behaviors. Methods: A nationally representative sample of adolescents (N=15,214) was utilized to construct 10 pseudocontinuous health risk behaviors. Cluster analysis was performed to group adolescents, and subsequent multivariable logistic models were created. Results: Compared to non-risk takers, belonging to risk clusters significantly increased the odds …
Exposure to Violence in Early Adolescence: The Impact of Self-Restraint, Witnessing Violence, and Victimization on Aggression and Drug Use
This study examined the relation between self-restraint and exposure to violence (witnessing violence and victimization) in predicting increased frequencies of aggression and drug use among an ethnically diverse sample of sixth graders attending four rural middle schools ( n = 913). Lower levels of self-restraint predicted higher rates of witnessing violence and victimization, but neither witnessing violence nor victimization was related to chang…
Correlates of Self-Regulation for Physical Activity Among Older Adults
A Review of the Brief Multidimensional Students’ Life Satisfaction Scale
Opportunity for Adult Bonding/Meaningful Neighborhood Roles and Life-Satisfaction among USA Middle School Students
Predicting Adolescent Risk Behaviors Based on an Ecological Framework and Assets
Taking an ecological approach to the measurement of adolescent health behaviors contributes to our understanding of these risk behaviors
Adolescent health-related quality of life and perceived satisfaction with life
Preliminary Validation of the Brief Multidimensional Students' Life Satisfaction Scale (BMSLSS)
Life Satisfaction and Student Engagement in Adolescents
An Investigation Of A Brief Life Satisfaction Scale With Elementary School Children
Aggression, substance use, and suicidal behaviors in high school students
OBJECTIVES. We sought to analyze the frequency and correlates of suicidal behaviors in a community sample of adolescents. METHODS. Information concerning suicidal thoughts and acts, aggressive behaviors, substance use and physical recklessness were collected with the 70-item self-report Youth Risk Behavior Survey from a statewide sample of 3764 South Carolina public high school students. RESULTS. Seventy-five percent of students reported no suici…
A Latent Growth Curve Analysis of the Structure of Aggression, Drug Use, and Delinquent Behaviors and Their Interrelations Over Time in Urban and Rural Adolescents
Latent growth curve analysis was used to examine the structure and interrelations among aggression, drug use, and delinquent behavior during early adolescence. Five waves of data were collected from 667 students at three urban middle schools serving a predominantly African American population, and from a more ethnically diverse sample of 950 students at four rural middle schools. One set of models focused on changes in individual behaviors; the o…
Life Satisfaction and Suicide among High School Adolescents
A Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Life Satisfaction and Parenting
Exposure to Violence in Early Adolescence: The Impact of Self-Restraint, Witnessing Violence, and Victimization on Aggression and Drug Use
This study examined the relation between self-restraint and exposure to violence (witnessing violence and victimization) in predicting increased frequencies of aggression and drug use among an ethnically diverse sample of sixth graders attending four rural middle schools ( n = 913). Lower levels of self-restraint predicted higher rates of witnessing violence and victimization, but neither witnessing violence nor victimization was related to chang…
A Cross-cultural Comparison of the Dimensions of Child and Adolescent Life Satisfaction Reports
Life Satisfaction and Peer Victimization Among USA Public High School Adolescents
Social Coping and Life Satisfaction in Adolescents
Mass Media as an HIV-Prevention Strategy: Using Culturally Sensitive Messages to Reduce HIV-Associated Sexual Behavior of At-Risk African American Youth
The evidence base and theoretical frameworks for mass media HIV-prevention campaigns in the United States are not well-developed. We describe an intervention approach using culturally sensitive mass media messages to enhance protective beliefs and behavior of African American adolescents at risk for HIV. This approach exploits the potential that mass media messages have, not only to reach a large segment of the adolescent population and thereby s…
Opportunity for Adult Bonding/Meaningful Neighborhood Roles and Life-Satisfaction among USA Middle School Students
Safer Sex Media Messages and Adolescent Sexual Behavior: 3-Year Follow-Up Results From Project iMPPACS
Objectives. We estimated the long-term (36-month) effects of Project iMPPACS, a multisite randomized controlled trial of mass media and small-group intervention for African American adolescents. Methods. We collected 6 waves of longitudinal data on program participants aged 14 to 17 years (n = 1139) in Providence, Rhode Island; Syracuse, New York; Columbia, South Carolina; and Macon, Georgia, 36 months (December 2009–December 2010) after the inte…
Condom Failure: Examining the Objective and Cultural Meanings Expressed in Interviews With African American Adolescents
The purpose of this study was to explore the meaning and context of self-reported "condom failure" among sexually active African American adolescents. Semistructured interviews regarding methods of protection from pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease (STD) with 124 youth (ages 14-19 years) were content analyzed. The findings suggested three meanings of condom failure. First, condom failure represents a legitimate and important risk related …
Withdrawal (Coitus Interruptus) as a Sexual Risk Reduction Strategy: Perspectives from African-American Adolescents
Étude bibliographique sur les Rapports de l’Association de la Propagation de la Foi à Montréal
Étude bibliographique sur les Rapports de l’Association de la Propagation de la Foi à Montréal. Un article de la revue Revue d'histoire de l'Amérique française (Volume 4, numéro 4, mars 1951, p. 465-617) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Rectification: Rapports de l’Association de la Propagation de la Foi
L’École des Chartes
L'cole des Chartes, ne pour former des archivistes et des bibliothcaires, s'entoure, depuis plus de cent ans, d'un prestige qui ignore aussi bien les attaques ouvertes ou sournoises, les allusions piquantes ou drles, que les compliments les plus flatteurs et les plus mrits
The State of Americaʼs Children 1991
Assistant Professor, Department of Health Promotion and Education, School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina
Aggression, substance use, and suicidal behaviors in high school students
OBJECTIVES. We sought to analyze the frequency and correlates of suicidal behaviors in a community sample of adolescents. METHODS. Information concerning suicidal thoughts and acts, aggressive behaviors, substance use and physical recklessness were collected with the 70-item self-report Youth Risk Behavior Survey from a statewide sample of 3764 South Carolina public high school students. RESULTS. Seventy-five percent of students reported no suici…
Childrenʼs Literature for Health Awareness
Associate Professor, Department of Health Promotion and Education, School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina
Predictors of Alcohol Use Among Rural Adolescents
There is increasing evidence that alcohol use is becoming more common during childhood and early adolescence. However, little is known about alcohol use among rural youths. This article reports a study of alcohol use among 367 fifth‐grade students in two rural South Carolina school districts. More than one third (n=131) of the fifth graders reported having used alcohol. Of these, 34 percent (n=44) reported drinking during the previous month; 8 pe…
The Frequency and Correlates of Violent Behaviors in a Statewide Sample of High School Students
This is a study of the frequency and correlates of selected violent behaviors in public high school students using the 1993 South Carolina Youth Risk Behavior Survey. The percentage who reported carrying a weapon in the last 30 days varied from 9% among white females to 50% among white males. Over 37% of the students reported being in a fight in the last month. About 12% reported someone had forced them to have sexual intercourse, and 6% reported…
The Structure of Self-Reported Aggression, Drug Use, and Delinquent Behaviors During Early Adolescence
Examined the structure of self-report scales designed to assess the frequency of adolescent problem behaviors. Urban (n = 988) and rural (n = 1,895) middle school students completed the Problem Behavior Frequency Scale (Farrell, Danish, & Howard, 1992a) and measures of other relevant constructs. Confirmatory factor analyses supported a model that included specific factors related to aggression, drug use, and delinquent behaviors, and a higher ord…
Levels and Demographic Correlates of Adolescent Life Satisfaction Reports
This study assessed the levels and demographic correlates of adolescents' perceptions of their overall life satisfaction and satisfaction with five specific domains of their lives (i.e. family, friends, school, self, living environment). Data were collected from 5545 students in public high schools in South Carolina, USA as part of the Youth Risk Behavior Survey of the Center for Disease Control. Similar to findings in studies of adults, the resu…
Severe dating violence and quality of life among South Carolina high school students
Nutrition and Weight Management Behaviors: Public and Private High School Adolescents
Relationship between perceived life satisfaction and adolescents’ substance abuse
Physical Activity Behaviors of Adolescents in Public and Private High Schools
Significantly different physical activity behaviors exist between PVTHS and PUBHS students in South Carolina
Relationship Between Life Satisfaction and Violent Behaviors among Adolescents
Measures of life satisfaction as a component of comprehensive assessments of adolescent violence/aggression in field-work, research, and program-evaluation efforts should be considered
Risk Behavior Data Analysis: Ordinal or Dichotomous the Choice Is Yours
Clinically relevant conclusions might be the same even when drawn from any of several different analyses of the same risk-behavior data
Covariations of Adolescent Weight-control, Health-risk and Health-promoting Behaviors
Results have relevance for developing multicomponent programs for adolescents
Impact of the Ripp Violence Prevention Program on Rural Middle School Students
Preliminary Validation of the Brief Multidimensional Students' Life Satisfaction Scale (BMSLSS)
Brief Multidimensional Students' Life Satisfaction Scale: Sex, Race, and Grade Effects for a High School Sample
Preliminary normative data for the total score of the Brief Multidimensional Students' Life Satisfaction Scale were collected from 5,034 adolescents in Grades 9 through 12 at public high schools in South Carolina. The statistically significant mean differences by race were of small magnitude. Mean total scores did not differ by sex or grade in school
Life Satisfaction and Suicide among High School Adolescents
A Cross-cultural Comparison of the Dimensions of Child and Adolescent Life Satisfaction Reports
Predicting Adolescent Risk Behaviors Based on an Ecological Framework and Assets
Taking an ecological approach to the measurement of adolescent health behaviors contributes to our understanding of these risk behaviors
Adolescent health-related quality of life and perceived satisfaction with life
A Latent Growth Curve Analysis of the Structure of Aggression, Drug Use, and Delinquent Behaviors and Their Interrelations Over Time in Urban and Rural Adolescents
Latent growth curve analysis was used to examine the structure and interrelations among aggression, drug use, and delinquent behavior during early adolescence. Five waves of data were collected from 667 students at three urban middle schools serving a predominantly African American population, and from a more ethnically diverse sample of 950 students at four rural middle schools. One set of models focused on changes in individual behaviors; the o…
Psychology (46 works) · Medicine (37 works) · Clinical Psychology (21 works) · Developmental psychology (21 works) · Social Psychology (21 works) · Environmental health (19 works) · Public health (19 works) · Demography (18 works) · Social Psychology (18 works) · Life satisfaction (17 works)