Yan Guo, Yinmei Yang, Lynette Deveaux, Veronica Dinaj-Koci, Elizabeth Schieber, Carly Herbert, JungAe Lee, Bo Wang
Adolescents experiment with risk behaviors, including delinquency, substance use, and sexual activity. Multi-level social factors, such as having high-risk peers, neighborhood risks, and parental monitoring, influence adolescents' behaviors. We modeled transition patterns in Bahamian adolescents' risk behaviors across three high school years and examined the effects of multi-level factors. We collected data from 2,564 Bahamian adolescents in Grade 10 and follow-ups through Grade 12. We used latent transition model to identify adolescents' risk statuses...
May 2023: International Journal of Behavioral Development