Purpose This study explores the relationship between rural residency, selected protective
factors (family and school connectedness along with prosocial peer attitudes), and health …

ABSTRACT BACKGROUND Our aim was to identify sex‐and location‐specific risk factors for
suicide ideation/planning and attempts among American Indian youth. METHODS Biennial …

Context Understanding the interplay of multiple contexts of adolescents' sexual risk
behaviors is essential to helping them avoid pregnancy and STDs. Although a body of …

This study reports results of a life course study conducted with Inuit in Nunavik to obtain
information on the life adversities and cumulative burden of adversity for three groups: those …

PURPOSE: To examine the likelihood of weapon-carrying among urban American Indian
young people, given the presence of salient risk and protective factors. METHODS: The …

On a primary webpage of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the term
protective factors is defined and discussed vis-a-vis suicide. In terms of a definition of …

A goal of the United States Affordable Health Care Act is to move the nation a step closer to
health equity, a priority of the Healthy People 2020 initiative (1, 2). If health equity, or …

The current study tested the full model of the Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT; Lent,
Brown, & Hackett, 1994, 2000) using a longitudinal sample of 1,314 Native American, Asian …

Background. Mäori adolescents, indigenous to New Zealand (NZ), have among the highest
rates of depression and suicide in the industrialized world. Fortunately, resilience research …