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The Impact of a Culture-Gender Specific Brief Intervention in Decreasing Academic Risk Factors and Increasing Protective Factors for Urban Adolescent Girls

Jones, Bianca M

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2012, Doctor of Psychology (Psy.D.), Xavier University, Psychology.
African American females are confronted with several risk factors as they progress through adolescence including barriers to their academic success (Crosnoe & Elder, 2004). Thirty-three adolescent girls from an impoverished neighborhood volunteered to participate in a study to assess the effectiveness of a culture-gender specific intervention. Participants were randomly assigned into either the intervention (a brief version of Sisters of Nia originally created by Belgrave et al., 2004, which was modified for this pilot study to emphasize the importance of education), or the comparison group that focused on health. Results from the 21 girls who completed the study revealed that the intervention group evidenced a decrease on the academic risk factor, school disengagement, while academic protective factors did not change for both groups. Also, racial identity (public regard) increased for the comparison group, though these results were likely confounded due to baseline differences. The findings are considered preliminary due to the small sample size, and future studies are recommended with larger samples that aim to replicate these findings.
Anna L. Ghee, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Cathy McDaniels-Wilson, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Lisa Mills, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
132 p.

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  • Jones, B. M. (2012). The Impact of a Culture-Gender Specific Brief Intervention in Decreasing Academic Risk Factors and Increasing Protective Factors for Urban Adolescent Girls [Doctoral dissertation, Xavier University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=xavier1396354303

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Jones, Bianca. The Impact of a Culture-Gender Specific Brief Intervention in Decreasing Academic Risk Factors and Increasing Protective Factors for Urban Adolescent Girls. 2012. Xavier University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=xavier1396354303.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Jones, Bianca. "The Impact of a Culture-Gender Specific Brief Intervention in Decreasing Academic Risk Factors and Increasing Protective Factors for Urban Adolescent Girls." Doctoral dissertation, Xavier University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=xavier1396354303

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)