Kathryn A Urberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 768708 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathryn A Urberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathryn A |
| FAMILY NAME | Urberg |
| SIGNATURE | URBERG K A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wayne State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 316 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Supportive Relationships as a Moderator of the Effects of Parent and Peer Drinking on Adolescent Drinking
The goal of this study was to explore whether supportiveness from a parent or a friend moderated the effects of the supportive person's drinking on the trajectory of adolescent alcohol abuse/dependence symptoms. High‐risk adolescents recruited from shelters and a matched sample of adolescents recruited from the sheltered adolescent's former neighborhood completed assessments at baseline, 6, 12, and 18 months. Measures included the Social Network …
Research Articles: Church attendance and well‐being among adolescents
The aim of the present study was to understand the relationship between church attendance and well‐being among adolescents. Measures of well‐being included happiness and depressed mood. Results showed that adolescents frequently attending church were happier and less depressed than those adolescents who were not attending church frequently. Results are discussed in the light of the literature and suggestions for future research are made
Adolescent Social Crowds: Measurement and Relationship to Friendships
This investigation examined several aspects of the construct social crowd in 489 White 7th, 9th, and 11th graders. The goals of the study were to examine (a) the congruence between self- and peer-nominated crowd membership and (b) the extent to which social crowd serves to channel adolescents’ friendships. Self- and peer-nominated crowd were reasonably congruent and both related in the same way to delinquency, substance use, and grade point avera…
Adolescent Friendship Selection and Termination: The Role of Similarity
We examined friendship selection and termination on a wide variety of variables using longitudinal data from 1183, 6th, 8th and 10th graders in two school systems. To control for the effects of peer influence on similarity, adolescents were matched at Time 1 with the persons they would become friends with by Time 2. Adolescents were significantly similar to Time 1 about-to-be friends on minor delinquency and cigarette and alcohol use, the number …
Close friend and group influence on adolescent cigarette smoking and alcohol use
The relative influence of adolescents closest friends and their friendship group on their cigarette smoking and alcohol use was investigated in a short-term, longitudinal study of 1,028 students in the 6th, 8th, and 10th grades in 2 school systems. The amount of influence over the school year was modest in magnitude and came from the closest friend for initiation of cigarette and alcohol use. Only the friendship group use predicted transition int…
The structure of adolescent peer networks
Structural aspects of school-based peer networks of adolescents in 6th to 12th grade were mapped in 3 school systems. Female students were more connected to the peer network than were male students, and peer networks became more exclusive with increasing grade. The results also suggest that numeric minorities usually are less connected to school peer networks than the majority group. There was mixed evidence for hierarchical organization of the p…
Similarity between Adolescent Best Friends
The present study examined similarity between adolescents and their best friends on a variety of attributes. All 8th and 11th graders from several public and private schools completed a questionnaire that asked about their smoking behaviors, smoking attitudes, dispositional compliance, the importance offour activities, and parental socioeconomic status. They were asked also to identify their best school friend. Eighty-five percent of the adolesce…
Locus of peer influence: Social crowd and best friend
Age Differences in Adolescent Decision-Making: Pregnancy Resolution
Differences between older and younger adolescents on variables theoretically related to the decision-making process were studied in the context of a naturally occurring problem requiring a decision; the resolution of a problem pregnancy. The starting point of the study was a consideration of decision-making theory in a developmental context. Older adolescents compared to younger adolescents were hypothesized to: (a) generate more alternatives for…
The development of the concepts of masculinity and femininity in young children
Adolescents' perceptions of the costs and benefits associated with cigarette smoking: Sex differences and peer influence
Conceptualizations of sex roles: A life span developmental study
Development of role-taking skills in young children
A role-taking hierarchy was developed based on analysis of the H. Borke (see record 1972-00686-001), the N. Burns and L. Cavey (1957), and the M. J. Chandler and S. Greenspan (see record 1973-02093-001) role-taking tasks, and on 2 new tasks constructed by the authors, all of which deal with the same
Close friend and group influence on adolescent cigarette smoking and alcohol use
The relative influence of adolescents closest friends and their friendship group on their cigarette smoking and alcohol use was investigated in a short-term, longitudinal study of 1,028 students in the 6th, 8th, and 10th grades in 2 school systems. The amount of influence over the school year was modest in magnitude and came from the closest friend for initiation of cigarette and alcohol use. Only the friendship group use predicted transition int…
The structure of adolescent peer networks
Structural aspects of school-based peer networks of adolescents in 6th to 12th grade were mapped in 3 school systems. Female students were more connected to the peer network than were male students, and peer networks became more exclusive with increasing grade. The results also suggest that numeric minorities usually are less connected to school peer networks than the majority group. There was mixed evidence for hierarchical organization of the p…
Conceptualizations of sex roles: A life span developmental study
Adolescent Friendship Selection and Termination: The Role of Similarity
We examined friendship selection and termination on a wide variety of variables using longitudinal data from 1183, 6th, 8th and 10th graders in two school systems. To control for the effects of peer influence on similarity, adolescents were matched at Time 1 with the persons they would become friends with by Time 2. Adolescents were significantly similar to Time 1 about-to-be friends on minor delinquency and cigarette and alcohol use, the number …
Locus of peer influence: Social crowd and best friend
Similarity between Adolescent Best Friends
The present study examined similarity between adolescents and their best friends on a variety of attributes. All 8th and 11th graders from several public and private schools completed a questionnaire that asked about their smoking behaviors, smoking attitudes, dispositional compliance, the importance offour activities, and parental socioeconomic status. They were asked also to identify their best school friend. Eighty-five percent of the adolesce…
Development of role-taking skills in young children
A role-taking hierarchy was developed based on analysis of the H. Borke (see record 1972-00686-001), the N. Burns and L. Cavey (1957), and the M. J. Chandler and S. Greenspan (see record 1973-02093-001) role-taking tasks, and on 2 new tasks constructed by the authors, all of which deal with the same
Supportive Relationships as a Moderator of the Effects of Parent and Peer Drinking on Adolescent Drinking
The goal of this study was to explore whether supportiveness from a parent or a friend moderated the effects of the supportive person's drinking on the trajectory of adolescent alcohol abuse/dependence symptoms. High‐risk adolescents recruited from shelters and a matched sample of adolescents recruited from the sheltered adolescent's former neighborhood completed assessments at baseline, 6, 12, and 18 months. Measures included the Social Network …
The development of the concepts of masculinity and femininity in young children
Adolescent Social Crowds: Measurement and Relationship to Friendships
This investigation examined several aspects of the construct social crowd in 489 White 7th, 9th, and 11th graders. The goals of the study were to examine (a) the congruence between self- and peer-nominated crowd membership and (b) the extent to which social crowd serves to channel adolescents’ friendships. Self- and peer-nominated crowd were reasonably congruent and both related in the same way to delinquency, substance use, and grade point avera…
Adolescents' perceptions of the costs and benefits associated with cigarette smoking: Sex differences and peer influence
Age Differences in Adolescent Decision-Making: Pregnancy Resolution
Differences between older and younger adolescents on variables theoretically related to the decision-making process were studied in the context of a naturally occurring problem requiring a decision; the resolution of a problem pregnancy. The starting point of the study was a consideration of decision-making theory in a developmental context. Older adolescents compared to younger adolescents were hypothesized to: (a) generate more alternatives for…
Conceptualizations of sex roles: A life span developmental study
Development of role-taking skills in young children
A role-taking hierarchy was developed based on analysis of the H. Borke (see record 1972-00686-001), the N. Burns and L. Cavey (1957), and the M. J. Chandler and S. Greenspan (see record 1973-02093-001) role-taking tasks, and on 2 new tasks constructed by the authors, all of which deal with the same
Adolescents' perceptions of the costs and benefits associated with cigarette smoking: Sex differences and peer influence
The development of the concepts of masculinity and femininity in young children
Age Differences in Adolescent Decision-Making: Pregnancy Resolution
Differences between older and younger adolescents on variables theoretically related to the decision-making process were studied in the context of a naturally occurring problem requiring a decision; the resolution of a problem pregnancy. The starting point of the study was a consideration of decision-making theory in a developmental context. Older adolescents compared to younger adolescents were hypothesized to: (a) generate more alternatives for…
Locus of peer influence: Social crowd and best friend
Similarity between Adolescent Best Friends
The present study examined similarity between adolescents and their best friends on a variety of attributes. All 8th and 11th graders from several public and private schools completed a questionnaire that asked about their smoking behaviors, smoking attitudes, dispositional compliance, the importance offour activities, and parental socioeconomic status. They were asked also to identify their best school friend. Eighty-five percent of the adolesce…
The structure of adolescent peer networks
Structural aspects of school-based peer networks of adolescents in 6th to 12th grade were mapped in 3 school systems. Female students were more connected to the peer network than were male students, and peer networks became more exclusive with increasing grade. The results also suggest that numeric minorities usually are less connected to school peer networks than the majority group. There was mixed evidence for hierarchical organization of the p…
Close friend and group influence on adolescent cigarette smoking and alcohol use
The relative influence of adolescents closest friends and their friendship group on their cigarette smoking and alcohol use was investigated in a short-term, longitudinal study of 1,028 students in the 6th, 8th, and 10th grades in 2 school systems. The amount of influence over the school year was modest in magnitude and came from the closest friend for initiation of cigarette and alcohol use. Only the friendship group use predicted transition int…
Adolescent Friendship Selection and Termination: The Role of Similarity
We examined friendship selection and termination on a wide variety of variables using longitudinal data from 1183, 6th, 8th and 10th graders in two school systems. To control for the effects of peer influence on similarity, adolescents were matched at Time 1 with the persons they would become friends with by Time 2. Adolescents were significantly similar to Time 1 about-to-be friends on minor delinquency and cigarette and alcohol use, the number …
Adolescent Social Crowds: Measurement and Relationship to Friendships
This investigation examined several aspects of the construct social crowd in 489 White 7th, 9th, and 11th graders. The goals of the study were to examine (a) the congruence between self- and peer-nominated crowd membership and (b) the extent to which social crowd serves to channel adolescents’ friendships. Self- and peer-nominated crowd were reasonably congruent and both related in the same way to delinquency, substance use, and grade point avera…
Research Articles: Church attendance and well‐being among adolescents
The aim of the present study was to understand the relationship between church attendance and well‐being among adolescents. Measures of well‐being included happiness and depressed mood. Results showed that adolescents frequently attending church were happier and less depressed than those adolescents who were not attending church frequently. Results are discussed in the light of the literature and suggestions for future research are made
Supportive Relationships as a Moderator of the Effects of Parent and Peer Drinking on Adolescent Drinking
The goal of this study was to explore whether supportiveness from a parent or a friend moderated the effects of the supportive person's drinking on the trajectory of adolescent alcohol abuse/dependence symptoms. High‐risk adolescents recruited from shelters and a matched sample of adolescents recruited from the sheltered adolescent's former neighborhood completed assessments at baseline, 6, 12, and 18 months. Measures included the Social Network …
Developmental psychology (13 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works) · Peer group (5 works) · Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression (4 works) · Clinical Psychology (4 works) · Friendship (4 works) · Adolescent development (3 works)