Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author McLoyd, Vonnie C

Title Studying Minority Adolescents : Conceptual, Methodological, and Theoretical Issues
Published Hoboken : Taylor & Francis Ltd., 1998

Copies

Description 1 online resource (361 pages)
Contents Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; PART I: The Imperative for Research on Minority Adolescents and Families; CHAPTER ONE: Changing Demographics in the American Population: Implications for Research on Minority Children and Adolescents; CHAPTER TWO: Racial and Ethnic Differences in Patterns of Problematic and Adaptive Development: An Epidemiological Review; CHAPTER THREE: High-Risk Behaviors in African American Youth: Conceptual and Methodological Issues in Research
PART II: Advancing Our Understanding of the Influence of Race and Ethnicity in Development: Conceptual Models and Research ParadigmsCHAPTER FOUR: Research Paradigms for Studying Ethnic Minority Families Within and Across Groups; CHAPTER FIVE: Multiple Selves, Multiple Worlds: Three Useful Strategies for Research with Ethnic Minority Youth on Identity, Relationships, and Opportunity Structures; CHAPTER SIX: Adolescents From Immigrant Families; PART III: Responding to Methodological Challenges in the Study of Ethnic Minor
Summary In the burgeoning research literature on adolescents, the relative paucity of work examining ethnic variations in developmental processes is a glaring gap, particularly because approximately one third of American young people now come from an ethnic minor
Notes Print version record
Subject Adolescent psychology -- Research -- United States
Minority teenagers -- United States -- Attitudes
Adolescent psychology -- Research
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Steinberg, Laurence
ISBN 9781410601506
1410601501