TY - JOUR
T1 - Do Jobs Work? Risk and Protective Behaviors Associated with Employment among Disadvantaged Female Teens in Urban Atlanta
AU - Rosenbaum, Janet
AU - Zenilman, Jonathan
AU - Rose, Eve
AU - Wingood, Gina
AU - DiClemente, Ralph
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was funded by T-32 AI050056 from the Sexually Transmitted Diseases Division of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Zenilman) and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute for Child Health and Human Development grant R24-HD041041 (Maryland Population Research Center.) The data collection was funded by R01 MH061210 from the Center for Mental Health Research on AIDS, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland (DiClemente and Wingood).
PY - 2014/4
Y1 - 2014/4
N2 - Adolescent employment research has focused on middle-class rather than disadvantaged adolescents. We identified risks and benefits of adolescent employment in a 12-month study of 715 low-socioeconomic-status female African American adolescents using nearest-neighbor Mahalanobis matching on baseline factors including substance use and socioeconomic status. Employed adolescents were more likely to graduate high school and less likely to depend on boyfriends for spending money, but they were more likely to use marijuana, alcohol, and have sex while high or drunk. Employment may help female adolescents avoid potentially coercive romantic relationships, but increase access to drugs or alcohol.
AB - Adolescent employment research has focused on middle-class rather than disadvantaged adolescents. We identified risks and benefits of adolescent employment in a 12-month study of 715 low-socioeconomic-status female African American adolescents using nearest-neighbor Mahalanobis matching on baseline factors including substance use and socioeconomic status. Employed adolescents were more likely to graduate high school and less likely to depend on boyfriends for spending money, but they were more likely to use marijuana, alcohol, and have sex while high or drunk. Employment may help female adolescents avoid potentially coercive romantic relationships, but increase access to drugs or alcohol.
KW - adolescent employment
KW - adolescents
KW - coercion in relationships
KW - romantic relationships
KW - substance use
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U2 - 10.1080/1554477X.2014.890836
DO - 10.1080/1554477X.2014.890836
M3 - Article
C2 - 25221451
AN - SCOPUS:84900006846
SN - 1554-477X
VL - 35
SP - 155
EP - 173
JO - Journal of Women, Politics and Policy
JF - Journal of Women, Politics and Policy
IS - 2
ER -