Social support as a factor in African-American adolescents' sexual risk behavior

JS St. Lawrence, TL Brasfield… - Journal of …, 1994 - journals.sagepub.com
African-American adolescents (N= 295) reporting high or low levels of social support
completed measures of AIDS knowledge, health locus of control, attitudes toward condoms …

Self-esteem enhancing reasons for having sex and the sexual behaviors of African American adolescents

ML Robinson, GN Holmbeck, R Paikoff - Journal of youth and adolescence, 2007 - Springer
A sample of 146 African American adolescents living in impoverished neighborhoods with
high HIV rates participated in the Chicago HIV Prevention and Adolescent Mental Health …

African-American adolescents' knowledge, health-related attitudes, sexual behavior, and contraceptive decisions: implications for the prevention of adolescent HIV …

JS St Lawrence - Journal of consulting and clinical psychology, 1993 - psycnet.apa.org
Abstract African-American adolescents (N= 195) completed measures of knowledge related
to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), attitudes toward condoms, health locus of …

Reductions in HIV risk-associated sexual behaviors among black male adolescents: effects of an AIDS prevention intervention.

JB Jemmott 3rd, LS Jemmott… - American journal of …, 1992 - ajph.aphapublications.org
BACKGROUND. The number of reported cases of acquired immune deficiency syndrome
(AIDS) is increasing disproportionately among Blacks in the United States. The relatively …

The impact of AIDS on an urban population of high-risk female minority adolescents: Implications for intervention

KJ Overby, SM Kegeles - Journal of adolescent health, 1994 - Elsevier
Purpose: This study's purpose was to describe acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)-
related concerns, risk behaviors, and psychosocial/situational determinants of condom use …

Predictors of African American adolescents' condom use and HIV risk behavior.

D Reitman, JS St Lawrence, KW Jefferson… - AIDS education and …, 1996 - europepmc.org
This study evaluated predictors of risky and safer behavior in a sample of low-income
African American adolescents, assessed their perceptions of the risk associated with their …

HIV risk among homosexual, bisexual, and heterosexual male and female youths

MJ Rotheram-Borus, WD Marelich… - Archives of Sexual …, 1999 - Springer
Variations in sexual risk acts and thesocial-cognitive mediators of sexual acts were
examinedamong young homosexual, bisexual, and heterosexual malesand females (N …

Reducing HIV risk-associated sexual behavior among African American adolescents: testing the generality of intervention effects

JB Jemmott III, LS Jemmott, GT Fong… - American journal of …, 1999 - Springer
This randomized controlled trial tested the effects of a theory-based culture-sensitive HIV risk-
reduction intervention among 496 inner-city African American adolescents (mean age= 13 …

Social influences on the sexual behavior of youth at risk for HIV exposure.

D Romer, M Black, I Ricardo… - … journal of public …, 1994 - ajph.aphapublications.org
OBJECTIVES. Adolescents are increasingly at risk for infection with human
immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and other sexually transmitted diseases, especially in poor …

Correlates and predictors of HIV risk among inner-city African American female teenagers.

TF Locke, MD Newcomb - Health Psychology, 2008 - psycnet.apa.org
Objective Design: For human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-related prevention initiatives to
be most effective, they should be broad-based and incorporate multiple domains of …