Contextualizing the Realities of Ethnic Minority Adolescents During the Great Recession

• Family Economic Stress From 2006-2010 in Mexican-origin Female Adolescents
  Presented by: Mayra Y. Bámaca-Colbert, Jessica Heckert, and Emile Tilghman-Osborne

• Latino and African American Adolescent Boys' Reports of Parenting, Neighborhoods, and Peers on Both Substance Use (Study 1) and Academic Achievement (Study 2)
  Presented by: Bobby L. Kern, Carolyn S. Henry, Lavona Gorham, Mayra Y. Bámaca-Colbert, Andrew O. Behnke, Scott W. Plunkett

• Do Mother and Father Involvement Differentially Effect Age of First Drug Use?  A Multi-Level Mediational Analysis of Peers and Youth Aspiration by Ethnicity
  Presented by: Ronald B. Cox, Martha Zapata Roblyer, Michael Merten, Ketevan Danelia

• Contexts of Risk, Connectedness, and Minority Adolescent Delinquent Behavior During the Great Recession
  Presented by: Canaan R. Crane, Carolyn S. Henry, Scott W. Plunkett, Andrew O. Behnke
  

Abstracts

Contextualizing the Realities of Ethnic Minority Adolescents During the Great Recession

Presented by: Andrew O. Behnke, Scott W. Plunkett, Carolyn S. Henry, Mayra Y. Bamaca-Colbert, Ronald B. Cox, Canaan R. Crane, Jessica Heckert, Emile Tilghman-Osborne, Martha Zapata Roblyer, Michael Merten, Bobby L. Kern, Lavona Gorham, Ketevan Danelia

Symposium Overview
The costs of adolescent maladaptive behaviors are of growing national concern, especially among ethnic minority youth. Understanding the factors that help youth stay resilient in the face of hardship can assist educators, practitioners, and researchers in determining strategic areas where preventative and intervention based work can have the greatest impact. Guided by Bronfenbrenner's bioecological framework and resilience perspectives, this symposium examines the roles of contextual risks (neighborhood risk, economic stress, negative school climate, etc.) and protective factors (family cohesion, parental support, peer support, etc.) in relation to four unique outcomes: Delinquent Behavior, Depressive Symptomology, Substance Use, and Academic Achievement.