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ERIC Number: EJ576066
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1998
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ISSN: ISSN-0012-1649
Predicting Risk for Pregnancy by Late Adolescence: A Social Contextual Perspective.
Scaramella, Laura V.; Conger, Rand D.; Simons, Ronald L.; Whitbeck, Les B.
Developmental Psychology, v34 n6 p1233-45 Nov 1998
Assessed several factors for parents and adolescents over a seven-year period. Found that adolescents' risk-taking behavior mediated the influence of parental warmth and adolescents' affiliations with deviant peers on involvement in pregnancy by grade 12, and that adolescents' academic achievement mediated the relationship between parental warmth and involvement in pregnancy by grade 12. (BC)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescent Behavior, Affection, Early Parenthood, Longitudinal Studies, Parent Child Relationship, Parents, Peer Relationship, Pregnancy
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Risk Taking Behavior
Note: Special Section: Longitudinal Studies of Intergenerational Continuity and the Transfer of Psychosocial Risk.