Buffering Effects of a Family‐Based Intervention for African American Emerging Adults
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socioeconomicCreator:
GenYi-SteKar
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This study focused on the buffering effects of Adults in the Making (AIM), a family‐centered preventive intervention, on the link between life stress and increases in risk behaviors among 347 rural, southern African Americans as they left high school. Of the families, 174 were assigned to the prevention condition and 173 to a control condition. Emerging adults reported risk behaviors at pretest, posttest (7 months after pretest), and long‐term follow‐up (10 months after posttest). A significant Life stress × Prevention condition interaction emerged: Increases in risk behaviors were significantly greater among emerging adults in the control condition who experienced high stress levels than among those in the prevention condition who experienced equally high stress levels.
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