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ArticleSocial psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology2022

Far from a monolith: a typology of externalizing behavior among African American youth.

Trenette Clark Goings, Christopher P Salas-Wright, Kamilah Legette, Faye Z Belgrave, Michael G Vaughn

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Trenette Clark GoingsSchool of Social Work, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 325 Pittsboro St, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA. ttclark@email.unc.edu.
Christopher P Salas-WrightSchool of Social Work, Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Ave, Chestnut Hill, MA, 02467, USA.
Kamilah LegetteFrank Porter Graham Child Development Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 100 E. Franklin St, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA.
Faye Z BelgraveDepartment of Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University, 820 W. Franklin St, Richmond, VA, 23284, USA.
Michael G VaughnDivision of Prevention Science and Community Health, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA.

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Substance Use among Biracial Adolescents and Emerging Adults: The Double Jeopardy HypothesisR01DA051578 · NIDA · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI GOINGS, TRENETTE CLARK · 2020 to 2024
$1.8M
Substance Use Trajectories and Health Outcomes for Monoracial and Biracial BlacksK01DA035895 · NIDA · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI GOINGS, TRENETTE CLARK · 2013 to 2017
$829k
Preventing Alcohol and Other Drug Use and Violence among Latino YouthK01AA026645 · NIAAA · BOSTON UNIVERSITY (CHARLES RIVER CAMPUS) · PI SALAS-WRIGHT, CHRISTOPHER PATRICK · 2018 to 2022
$794k
NIAAA NIH HHS K01AA026645NIDA NIH HHS K01DA035895NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA051578NIDA NIH HHS R01DA051578
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purposePrevious studies have examined externalizing behaviors among African American youth using variable-centered approaches that study aggression and delinquency separately. However, aggression and delinquency often operate together in shaping adolescent behavior. For this reason, person-centered approaches are essential for identifying subgroups of African American youth using multiple indicators of aggression and delinquency to model the behavioral heterogeneity within this population. We examined the relationship between interpersonal, school, and parenting factors and externalizing behaviors among African American youth.

methodDrawing from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health 2015-2018, we conducted latent class analysis based on 5 externalizing behavior indicator variables (i.e., serious fight, attack to harm, stealing, drug selling, handgun carrying) using a sample of 7,236 African American adolescents, aged 12-17.

resultsWe identified a three class solution: Class #1-No Involvement (74.4%), characterized by very low levels of involvement in all of the externalizing behaviors examined; Class #2-Serious fight (23.3%), which is characterized by near-universal involvement in a serious fight, far lower levels of attack to harm, and negligible levels of stealing, drug selling, and handgun caring; and Class #3-Multidimensional externalizing (2.3%), characterized by very high levels of involvement in all of the externalizing variables examined.

conclusionMost African American youth are not involved in externalizing behaviors. It is vital to support both the large majority of African-American youth who are abstaining from externalizing behaviors and to develop/implement programs to address the contextual and interpersonal needs of youth at elevated risk for consequences related to externalizing.

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Adolescent BehaviorSubstance-Related DisordersAdolescentAggressionBlack or African AmericanHumansParentingAdolescentsAggressionBlackChildrenPerson-centeredSubstance use

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