@article{c2cb63c988514183bd684833d661be2d,
title = "Prospective relations among low-income African American adolescents' maternal attachment security, self-worth, and risk behaviors",
abstract = "This study examined prospective mediating relations among mother-adolescent attachment security, self-worth, and risk behaviors, including substance use and violence, across ages 13-17 in a sample of 901 low-income African American adolescents. Path analyses revealed that self-worth was a significant mediator between attachment security and risk behaviors, such that earlier attachment security predicted self-worth 1 year later, which in turn, predicted substance use, weapon carrying, and fighting in the 3rd year. Implications for the role of the secure base concept within the context of urban poverty are discussed.",
keywords = "Adolescent, Attachment, Poverty, Self-worth, Substance use, Violence",
author = "Ginger Lockhart and Samantha Phillips and Anneliese Bolland and Melissa Delgado and Juliet Tietjen and John Bolland",
note = "Funding Information: This research was supported by a grant from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Department of Justice (2012-JU-FX-0007) awarded to GL and JB. SP' work was supported by the Undergraduate Research and Creative Opportunity Grant at Utah State University. The collection of the Mobile Youth Survey data was partially supported by the National Institutes of Health Office for Research on Minority Health through a cooperative agreement administered by the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development [HD30060]; the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration [TI13340]; the National Institute on Drug Abuse [DA017428]; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CE000191]; The University of Alabama; the Cities of Mobile and Prichard; the Mobile Housing Board; and the Mobile County Health Department. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017 Lockhart, Phillips, Bolland, Delgado, Tietjen and Bolland.",
year = "2017",
month = jan,
day = "24",
doi = "10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00033",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "8",
journal = "Frontiers in Psychology",
issn = "1664-1078",
publisher = "Frontiers Research Foundation",
number = "JAN",
}