Telling the future : a qualitative examination of the career preparations and expectations of African American high school seniors

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Traice A. Webb
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
African American ◽  
High School Seniors ◽  
The Future

scholarly journals Regional Effects of Perceived Risks of Harm on Cigarette Smoking among U.S. High School Seniors: Evidence from Monitoring the Future

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (17) ◽  
pp. 9120
Author(s):  
Jorge Medina
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Perceived Risk ◽  
Fixed Effects ◽  
High School Seniors ◽  
Smoking Behavior ◽  
Fixed Effects Model ◽  
Perceptions Of Risk ◽  
Regional Effects ◽  
The Future ◽  
Monitoring The Future

Overall, there has been an increasing trend in the perceived risk of harm from smoking among U.S. high school seniors. However, these perceptions of risk have been falling in recent years. This study uses regional-level panel data from the Monitoring the Future survey and a fixed effects model to estimate the effect of perceived risk on three regional measurements of smoking behavior: consumption, lifetime prevalence, and daily smoking prevalence. Elasticity measurements at regional levels show that an increase in perceived risk decreases these regional measurements of smoking behavior. Moreover, the results show that, at regional levels, these measurements of smoking behavior are more responsive to changes in the perceived risk associated with smoking than to changes in the price of cigarettes.

Small Groups and First-Generation College Goers: An Intervention with African American High School Seniors

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-39
Author(s):  
Stacey Havlik ◽  
Krista Malott ◽  
Jose Diaz Davila ◽  
Denzell Stanislaus ◽  
Sarah Stiglianese
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
African American ◽  
Small Groups ◽  
First Generation ◽  
High School Seniors ◽  
First Generation College

Alcohol Control Policies and Youth Alcohol Consumption: Evidence from 28 Years of Monitoring the Future

2007 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher S Carpenter ◽  
Deborah D Kloska ◽  
Patrick O'Malley ◽  
Lloyd Johnston
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Fixed Effects ◽  
High School Seniors ◽  
Drunk Driving ◽  
Heavy Episodic Drinking ◽  
Reduced Form ◽  
The Future ◽  
Monitoring The Future ◽  
Historical Comparative

Abstract We provide the first historical comparative analysis of the effects of Minimum Legal Drinking Ages (MLDA), beer taxes, and "Zero Tolerance" (ZT) underage drunk driving laws on the drinking behaviors of high school seniors using confidential area-identified data from the 1976-2003 waves of the Monitoring the Future (MTF) Surveys. We estimate reduced form models of drinking participation and heavy episodic drinking that account for state and year fixed effects. Our findings confirm that nationwide increases in the MLDA in the late 1970s and 1980s and adoption of ZT laws in the 1990s both significantly reduced alcohol consumption by high school seniors, with larger effects for the MLDA than for ZT laws. Higher beer taxes are also estimated to reduce youth drinking participation. Overall, the results confirm that a variety of types of government intervention can have important effects on youth alcohol consumption.

Adolescents’ Future Orientation in Time and Place: The Case of the Israeli Kibbutz

1998 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 151-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Seginer ◽  
Ronit Schlesinger
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Military Service ◽  
High School Seniors ◽  
Future Orientation ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
The Future ◽  
Urban Boys ◽  
Israeli Kibbutz ◽  
Over Time

This study examined the effect of changing social circumstances on adolescents’ future orientation. Focusing on the recent kibbutz crisis, the future orientation of two cohorts of kibbutz and urban boys and girls ( N 438) who were high school seniors in 1984 and 1992 was analysed. Results partly supported cohort, gender, and cohort by setting effects in adolescents’ future orientation, indicating that: (1) the 1992 cohort invested more in constructing prospective domains pertaining to adulthood ( work and career, marriage and family) and less in military service; (2) the tendency of Israeli adolescents to construe a sex-typed future orientation was stable over time; and (3) that the 1992 kibbutz cohort increased its investment in work and career more than did the 1992 urban cohort. Results were explained in terms of the adaptability of adolescent future orientation to changing social circumstances, and in terms of Heckhausen’s (1977) principle of least necessary expenditure.

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