High School Youth Research Articles

Interpersonal and Intimate Violence in Mexican Youth: Drug Use, Depression, Anxiety, and Stress during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

The COVID-19 pandemic may have increased interpersonal and intimate violence, harmful use of alcohol and other drugs (AODs), and mental health problems. This study uses a valid path model to describe relationships between these conditions of young Mexicans during the second year of the pandemic. A sample of 7420 Mexicans ages 18 to 24-two-thirds of whom are women-completed the Life Events Checklist, the Alcohol, Smoking, and Substance Involvement Screening Test, the Major Depressive Episode Checklist, the Generalized Anxiety Scale, and the Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Checklist. Young Mexicans reported higher rates of victimization and perpetration of interpersonal and intimate violence and mental health symptomatology than those noted pre- and in the first year of the pandemic. The harmful use of AOD rates were similar to those reported by adolescents before. The findings suggest asymmetric victimization and perpetration of intimate violence by gender (with women at a higher risk). More men than women have engaged in the harmful use of AODs (except for sedatives, which more women abuse). More women than men were at risk of all mental health conditions. The path model indicates that being a victim of intimate violence predicts the harmful use of tobacco, alcohol, cocaine, and sedatives, depression, anxiety, and specific PTSD symptoms (such as re-experimentation and avoidance symptoms). Being a victim of interpersonal violence resulted in severe PTSD symptoms (including avoidance, negative alterations in cognition-mood, and hyperarousal signs). The harmful use of sedatives predicted depressive symptoms. Men's victimizing intimate violence model contrasted with that of women, which included being the victim of interpersonal violence and severe PTSD symptoms. The high school youth model had three paths: victimizing intimate violence, victimizing interpersonal abuse, and sedative use, which predicted depression. Our findings could serve as the basis for future studies exploring the mechanisms that predict violence to develop cost-effective preventive programs and public policies and to address mental health conditions during community emergencies.

Edukasi Bahaya Napza (Narkotika, Psikotropika, dan Zat Adiktif) bagi Remaja SMA Muhammadiyah Sumbawa

Adolescence is a transitional period between childhood and adulthood, which begins at the time of sexual maturity between the ages of 11 or 12 years to 20 years. The stages of adolescent development have tasks that must be completed. Drug abuse is becoming a problem that is increasingly concerning and a huge concern for all parties, including the academic community, government, and parents. Cases of narcotics abuse among high school youth have entered a critical stage, for this reason it is necessary to take preventive measures in the form of education. The purpose of this community service is to increase and develop youth knowledge about the dangers of drug abuse for health. The planned outcome is to increase the knowledge, understanding and awareness of adolescents about the dangers of drug abuse for adolescents.
 

CYBERBULLYING DI MEDIA SOSIAL TIKTOK TERHADAP REMAJA SMP

Abstract
 Internet use among adolescents, especially junior high school is very risky. Children of this age often assume that the virtual world they use is the same as the real world. The act of insulting or ridiculing on social media is an act that is often known as cyberbullying. The research approach used in this study was a qualitative approach, in which researchers conducted interviews with informants from junior high school youth. This research method uses the spiral silence theory which aims to find out information about the occurrence of cyberbullying on TikTok, the responses of victims of bullying, and analyzing existing data. Cyberbullying is a form of behavior that is carried out by a person when he feels that he is superior in several ways so that he dares to take hurtful actions both physically and mentally, where the application is usually carried out on TikTok. This action comes from the aggressive attitude or apathy of individuals who feel superior so they consider other individuals weak or inferior. The psychological and emotional impact of cyberbullying can trigger the victim's mental shock. However, cyberbullying has the potential to cause more depressive disorders because this bullying material or information will be stored and spread quickly on the internet and can leave digital footprints, anytime and anywhere. As a good internet user and wise in using social media, you should be able to control yourself to not take actions that harm other people. Comments especially on someone whether intentionally or not because all of that can have fatal consequences in the future. With this, junior high school teenagers still need supervision from parents, in which the role of parents is to keep an eye on all their actions, especially those who are moving into junior high school teenagers.
 Kata Kunci: Cyberbullying, social media, Junior High School Teenagers, TikTok

THE IMPORTANCE OF SOCIAL SUPPORT FOR ADOLESCENT’S ADJUSTMENT CAPABILITIES OF INDONESIAN MIGRANT WORKER FAMILY

Adjustment is an ability to make satisfying relationships between individuals and the surrounding environment. The purpose of this study was to analyze the relationship and influence of parenting style and social support on adolescent adjustment to Indonesian Migrant Workers (PMI) families. This research method uses non-probability sampling method with convenience sampling technique at 10 schools in Kesugihan District, Cilacap Regency, Central Java. This study involved 160 junior high school youth whose parents were migrant workers abroad. The index of the average parenting style of the mother is better than the index of the average parenting style of the father and the substitute caregiver. The social support from peers and teachers received by adolescents is in the low category. Adolescent adjustment to migrant worker families is in the moderate category. The results showed that the parenting styles of fathers, mothers, substitute caregivers, peer social support, and teachers had a significant positive relationship with adolescent self-adjustment as well as a significant positive effect on adolescent self-adjustment in PMI families.

How do I work this? A mixed‐methods evaluation of relationship education for high school youth

AbstractObjectiveGuided by social exchange theory, we used mixed methods to examine youth romantic relationship concerns, perceived gains from a relationship education curriculum, and the extent to which the curriculum addressed adolescents' concerns.BackgroundAdolescents' relationships influence the health of their future romantic relationships. Relationship education is increasingly offered to youth in the United States, but few studies examine how well these programs address youth concerns.MethodsPhenomenological content analysis was used to analyze short‐response qualitative data (n = 267) about romantic relationship concerns (pretest) and programmatic gains (posttest). Themes were then compared to examine how well the curriculum addressed youth concerns. Quantitative pretest–posttest outcomes were also examined among a larger sample (n = 9,130). Complementarity was used to consider qualitative and quantitative findings together.ResultsParticipants' pretest concerns included relationship knowledge (i.e., how, with whom, and when to have a relationship), and relationship risks (e.g., cheating, coercion). Posttest themes suggested that program content largely addressed participants' concerns (i.e., increased knowledge, ability to discern healthy and unhealthy relationships). Quantitative analyses yielded significant changes in four measures of participant attitudes pretest to posttest, with increased relationship knowledge and healthier attitudes.ConclusionsYouth perceived that relationship education gave them tools that addressed their stated concerns; quantitative data suggest the program had its intended effect.ImplicationsYouth relationship education is a positive preventative intervention.

Latent profile similarity of middle and high school youth risk and needs

Research concerning school success and completion has grown increasingly complex with the number of proposed associated risk and needs domains. As the number of domains expands, various data analytical techniques have been employed to understand them, including the modeling of latent profiles, to better understand how risks and needs aggregate at the level of individual persons. Latent profile analysis helps identify individuals' subgroups based on salient combinations of characteristics. The present study used latent profile analysis and a systematic profile similarity approach to examine the profiles across middle and high school student cohorts. The study replicates the profiles of previous work with high school students and extends this to middle school students. We used two independent cohorts to replicate a 3-profile solution for middle and high school samples. Results supported a similar 3-profile solution for both samples, with minor discrepancies. Results are discussed with respect to the replication and extension of the 3-profile model and its application to efforts to improve outcomes for youth in both grade level cohorts.

GAWAD LAGUNA (GFTSL): IMPLICATION IN DEVELOPING SOCIAL AWARENESS AND LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL COMPETENCIES OF THE OUTSTANDING YOUTH OF LAGUNA

This extensive studys major goal is to ascertain the effect that the Gawad Laguna program—previously known as GFTSL or Gawad Felicisimo T. San Luis—has had on the outstanding youth of Lagunasd evelopment of social awareness and linguistic and cultural competence. The research used a descriptive method. The respondents involved in this study came from twenty-four (24) towns and six (6) cities in the province of Laguna. They were drawn from four (4) categories such as Out-of-School Youth, High School Youth, College Youth, and Professional Youth with a total number of one hundred and twenty (120). Purposive Sampling was used in this study. The responses were tallied as a foundation for statistical calculation following the recording, organization, and analysis of the acquired data. The researcher first employed Mean and Standard Deviation to determine the participants level of perception and agreement regarding Immersion and Edification as components of the Whole Process of Gawad Laguna (GFTSL). Second, the researcher also employed Mean and Standard Deviation to gauge participants levels of agreement with Program Benefits including Social Awareness and Linguistic and Cultural Competencies. The Pearson Correlation Coefficient was lastly used by the researcher to determine the significant effects of Immersion and Edification as components of the Whole Process of Gawad Laguna (GFTSL) on the level of Social Awareness and Linguistic and Cultural Competencies of the Outstanding Youth of Laguna.

Centering Youth of Color Activism and Knowledge in the Critical Race Theory Debates

Background/Context: Leah Boveda, a sophomore at Brown University, collaborated with her mother—Mildred Boveda, an intersectional studies scholar situated in special education and teacher education—to make sense of her high school community activism in Arizona. They retrace how Leah’s experiences eventually shaped her understandings of and participation in adult-centered conversations about critical race theory bans. This daughter–mother authorial team offers lessons learned from Leah’s youth mobilizations and how they may inform education research about youth activists of color. Research Design: Using an intersectionally conscious, collaborative approach and a daughtering analytical framing, the authors revisited Leah’s high school youth activism. In addition to their memories, they returned to written documents, such as a 2019 interview between Leah and a correspondent at The New York Times, her notes from a 5-minute speech presented at a CRT summit, and shared files for a panel presentation that Leah gave as an assistant “faculty” member for the July 2021 CRT Summer School. The authors consider how Leah’s youth mobilization may inform how adults—whether educators, researchers, or policymakers—engage youths of color in the CRT debates. Conclusions/Recommendations: The authors analyzed how the adults Leah collaborated with engaged youth voice, including at events where student perspectives about CRT bans were invited. In her daughtering role, Leah both appreciated and pushed the nurturing adults in her life. The authorial team unveils how youth activists of color must deal with not only racialized oppression, but also the pressure to achieve proximity to adults in order to be heard and respected.

Comparative Study of Knowledge Level with HIV/AIDS Transmission Prevention Behavior in Junior High School Adolescents in 2022

The problem of HIV/AIDS is still a global health problem, including in Indonesia, which is a country with a high prevalence of HIV/AIDS. Adolescents are one of the groups at risk of contracting HIV/AIDS. The provinces of West Java and DKI Jakarta were provinces that contributed the most cases of HIV/AIDS in recent years. It is necessary to study the level of knowledge and behavior of junior high school youth groups in Depok and Jakarta regarding the prevention of HIV/AIDS transmission. The comparative study method with a cross sectional approach is the research design carried out in this study. by comparing two different groups. The characteristics of the 2 different groups of respondents in this study consisting of age, gender and parental education are the same. The level of knowledge of the respondents in this study had a low level of knowledge equality. The low level of knowledge among junior high school adolescents in Jakarta dominates (64%) compared to junior high school adolescents in Depok (50%) as evidenced by high risk behavior more in junior high school adolescents in Jakarta. The results of the Chi-Square test show that there is a relationship between the level of knowledge and the behavior of preventing HIV/AIDS transmission, because the p value = 0.000 (p value 0.05. In order to increase knowledge about adolescent health, especially HIV/AIDS, which is one of the phenomena prioritized diseases in the world and in Indonesia Health education needs to be included in the education curriculum in schools so that adolescents have good health information and are expected to influence good behavior for adolescents in the future.

Preventing sexual violence among high school students through norms correction and bystander intervention: A school-based cluster trial of Your Voice Your View.

Risk for sexual violence begins early in the lifespan; thus, interventions are needed to decrease the risk for sexual violence among high school youth. The current study evaluates the Your Voice Your View (YVYV) sexual violence prevention program using a school-based cluster trial among 26 high schools in the Northeastern United States. YVYV, includes: 1) a series of four classroom workshops designed to engage students as allies in violence prevention through bystander intervention skills training, address risks for sexual aggression, and reduce risk for victimization; 2) a Lunch and Learn teacher training workshop; and 3) a 4-week social norms poster campaign based on normative data from the school. Schools were matched based on size and demographics and randomly assigned to the intervention group or a wait-list control group. A sample of 2685 10th grade students enrolled in the research and completed assessments at baseline, 2-month and 6-month follow-up periods. The magnitude of the difference in sexual aggression did not vary by condition at either follow-up period. The magnitude of 6-month differences in experiencing unwanted sexual intercourse varied significantly by condition (IRR = 0.33 [0.14-0.76]), demonstrating a small protective effect favoring intervention schools (Cohen's f2 = 0.012). These findings highlight the promise of multicomponent interventions grounded in bystander intervention skills training, risk reduction, and social norms theory as a promising, comprehensive approach for sexual violence prevention among youth.

Keterampilan Menulis Dan Bercerita Untuk Membangkitkan Kecintaan Sejarah Bagi Generasi Muda

This research aimed to develop a Community Service Program that focuses on improving the reading and writing skills of elementary and junior high school youth regarding local history in the East Bandung area. The program addressed issues such as the need for more understanding of local history, low interest in historical topics, and limited writing and storytelling skills among adolescents in the area. The program began with delivering material on writing and storytelling skills and local historical concepts to the participants. Although initially hesitant and embarrassed, the participants gradually became enthusiastic about sharing their stories. The program then continued with the practice of historical storytelling through objects in East Bandung, starting with the Bandros bus tour. The young educators within Bandros supported the program by hosting visits to Teras Sunda and Tugu Perjuangan. The program laid the foundation for habitual action to write and tell stories about local history among teenagers. The participants demonstrated their ability to tell stories with simple narrative formulations, such as what, where, when, who, why, and how. However, the program faced challenges in terms of timeliness, and the young participants were still hesitant to write down ideas related to historical places in their surroundings. Overall, the Community Service Program can potentially improve historical awareness and writing skills among the millennial generation in the East Bandung area.Keywords: Historical awareness, writing skills, millennial generation.

Hubungan pengungkapan diri dengan pemaafan pada remaja

Forgiveness to others can be given when self-disclosure has been made. This study aims to determine the relationship between self-disclosure and forgiveness in adolescents. The research design uses a non-experimental quantitative type of correlational study. Subjects were 199 high school (SMA) youth and equivalent. The sampling technique uses accidental sampling. The measuring tool uses the Conceptualizing and Measuring Self-Disclosure scale and the Transgression-Related Interpersonal Motivation scale (TRIM-18). Results Analysis of the data using Spearman's rho showed a negative relationship between self-disclosure and forgiveness (r=-0.487; p<0.001). This means that adolescents who are more open in expressing themselves will tend to find it more difficult to forgive others. Thus, explaining oneself broadly and deeply is done by adolescents because they have not forgiven other people who are in conflict with them. Keywords: Adolescences, forgiveness, self-disclosure

Pengaruh Pelatihan Resusitasi Jantung Paru Menggunakan Video Terhadap Sikap Kesiagaan Pertolongan Pertama Remaja Pada Pasien Henti Jantung

Adolescents need to know the main action to be given to OHCA (out-of-hospital cardiac arrest) patients because people who were close to cardiac arrest patients have an essential role in performing the resuscitation. The rapid resuscitation in the first few minutes will increase the chance of survival by double to triple. Increasing the ability of nonexpert people to perform resuscitation can be performed by providing training using standardized American Heart Association resuscitation videos. The study aimed to determine the change in resuscitation attitudes among adolescents after receiving the training video. The quasi-experimental design was used within a pretest-posttest group. The population of this study was 160 adolescents, and 94 respondents were recruited using a purposive sampling technique according to the inclusion criteria for high school youth who had never received cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training inside or outside of school. The variables in this study were training videos and attitudes to the practice. Data were analyzed using the Wilcoxon test. The results showed the attitudinal variable (p=0.0000.05). Among 94 respondents whole had a positive attitude (100%) before and after receiving the CPR training video. The attitudes are increasing after the implementation of the CPR training video compared to before the intervention. Providing first aid training to help cardiac arrest patients using training videos to the adolescent by healthcare team needs to be increased.

What Motivates High School Youths to Want to Teach? Narratives of Homegrown Aspiring Teachers

This qualitative study examined how a group of aspiring teachers who had completed a Grow Your Own (GYO) teacher program in high school explained their motivations for teaching. Findings revealed that homegrown aspiring teachers attributed their initial teaching aspirations to their own inequitable schooling experiences and societal perceptions of the teaching profession and explicitly described their decision to teach as a way to improve educational equity for socially and culturally marginalized students in their communities. Learning about teaching in the GYO program with caring and culturally responsive GYO teacher mentors embraced and affirmed their community-oriented, equity-focused teaching motivations.

Risk factors for perpetrating sexual aggression among adolescents: Differences by gender and sexual orientation.

Although anyone-regardless of gender or sexual orientation-can perpetrate sexual aggression, most studies examining risk factors for engaging in sexual aggression include samples of boys and men, and do not consider the sexual orientation of the respondent. The current study addresses this gap in the literature by examining how risk factors for sexual aggression vary as a function of gender and sexual orientation in a sample of 1782 high school youth. Participants completed surveys evaluating engagement in consent behaviors, rape myth acceptance, perception of peer rape myth acceptance, perceived peer engagement in violence, and perceived peer support for violence. A one-way MANOVA found that constructs varied as a function of gender and sexual orientation. Specifically, heterosexual boys reported lower engagement in consent behaviors, higher rape myth acceptance, and higher perceived peer support for violence compared to heterosexual girls and sexual minority girls. The results highlight the importance of considering gender and sexual orientation when designing sexual aggression prevention programs.

Adolescent risk and protection profiles for violence perpetration: Insights for family- and community-based prevention.

Youth violence continues to be a major developmental and health concern. Preventative resources at individual, family, and community levels may reduce risk, yet the extent to which youth violence perpetration differs by patterns of risk and protective factors remains unknown. Using data from the Florida Youth Substance Abuse Survey (N = 4630; 49% female; Mage = 14.69), we conducted person-centered, latent profile analyses to identify four patterns for risk of violence perpetration among middle and high school youth. Youth in the Low Risk-High Protection profile (37%) had low likelihood of violence perpetration. Youth in the Low Risk-Low Protection profile (4%) were characterized by poor family functioning, low school belonging, and low community protection. These youth had similar odds of violence perpetration as youth in the Moderate Risk-Moderate Protection profile (44%), which were elevated compared to the Low Risk-High Protection profile. Youth in the High Risk-Low Protection profile (15%), which had the highest levels of risk factors and lowest levels of protective factors, had the highest likelihood of violence perpetration. The High Risk-Low Protection profile was expected based on past research, but the emergence of the Low Risk-Low Protection profile is a unique contribution to the research. Findings contribute to the literature by going beyond a cumulative risk model, identifying subgroups with various patterns of risk and protection in the population, and highlighting the importance of selected prevention for subgroups of youth with high risk or challenging family and community environments.

Multilevel Risk and Protective Factors for Frequent and Nonfrequent Past-30-Day Marijuana Use: Findings From a Representative Sample of High School Youth.

Research has identified many factors associated with past-30-day (P30D) marijuana use among youth but has not assessed factors that may differentiate youth who use frequently from youth who do not. We took a multilevel approach to identify and compare risk and protective factors associated with frequent and nonfrequent P30D marijuana use among high school students. Individual-level data were obtained from the 2019 Nevada Youth Risk Behavior Survey (completed by 4,980 high school youth from 99 schools); school-level data were obtained from the state's Department of Education. A multinomial, multilevel model was used to estimate the association between risk and protective factors at the individual and school levels and a three-level frequency of use outcome: no P30D use (0 times), nonfrequent P30D use (1-19 times), and frequent P30D use (≥20 times). At the individual level, other P30D substance use, exposure to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), perceived ease of access, and perceived risk were associated with both frequent and nonfrequent use, but the relationships were generally stronger for frequent use. P30D nonprescription drug use and school connectedness were associated with frequent use only. At the school level, number of students with individualized education programs, number of incidents involving possession of controlled substances, and school type were associated with frequent use only. Individual and school-based interventions designed to address the factors uniquely or strongly associated with frequent marijuana use may prevent escalation from occasional use to more frequent use among high school youth.

UPAYA PENINGKATAN PENGETAHUAN TENTANG KESEHATAN JIWA PADA REMAJA MELALUI PENYULUHAN DI SMA KOTA KUPANG

Mental health problems are a matter of concern. Mental health problems in adolescents is one of them. Teenagers must be mentally healthy. In recent years, adolescent mental health has become a growing concern. There is an increasing prevalence of mental health problems in adolescents. One of the prevention efforts is prevention by educating adolescents about mental health. This activity aims to increase the knowledge of high school youth (SMA) about mental health. This activity was carried out by lecturers and students of STIKes Maranatha Kupang. Schools that become partners are schools that are willing to provide health education to their students. This activity was carried out in four senior high schools (SMA) in Kupang City. The results show that there is a good increase in students' knowledge about mental health. It is hoped that with this activity, youth will know about mental health and be able to prevent students from experiencing mental health problems

Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Capacity Building Training for High School Students in Martapura, Banjar Regency

The Banjar Regency area is prone to flooding and is one of the disaster areas that can cause casualties and stress that triggers an increase in cardiovascular disease sufferers. This condition requires community preparedness for emergencies. The purpose of this community service activity is to train partners skills in cardiopulmonary resuscitation skills to be able to help victims of cardiac or respiratory arrest. The first implementation of this community service activity is carrying out an initial test to recognize emergency signs in heart and lung attacks, then providing an introduction to the concept of heart and lung emergency through lecture methods, discussion, and sharing related to real events of cardiopulmonary arrest in the community, then the final stage is evaluation of student abilities. The target of this community service activity was 40 students who are members of the High School Youth Red Cross in Martapura City, Banjar Regency. The results of this community service activity students understand material related to cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and providing basic life support counseling has a significant effect on student knowledge. Through this activity, students are expected to be able to provide a pre-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation simulation, and students can disseminate information to those closest to them.

Can biomechanics turn youth sports into a venue for informal STEM engagement?

A common pitfall of existing Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) outreach programs is that they preferentially engage youth with a preexisting interest in STEM. Biomechanics has the unique potential to broaden access to STEM enrichment due to its direct applicability to sports and human performance. In this study we examine whether biomechanics within youth sports can be used as a venue for STEM outreach, and whether recruiting participants through youth sports programs could broaden access to the STEM pipeline. We created a four-hour sports science clinic that was performed as part of National Biomechanics Day and invited two groups of student participants: youth recruited through local high school sports programs (“Sports Cohort”, N = 80) and youth recruited through existing STEM enrichment programs (“STEM Cohort”, N = 31). We evaluated interest in STEM, Sports Science, and Sports using a pre-post survey. Somewhat expectedly, youth recruited through sports programs (Sports Cohort) had a lower baseline interest in STEM and a higher baseline interest in sports, compared to those recruited through STEM programs (STEM Cohort). The Sports Cohort exhibited a statistically significant increase in STEM interest following participation in the clinic, while youth in the STEM Cohort maintained their high baseline of STEM interest. These findings provide evidence that youth sports programs can serve as an attractive partner for biomechanists engaged in STEM outreach, and that situating STEM within sports through biomechanical analysis has potential to introduce STEM interest to a wider audience and to broaden access to the STEM fields among diverse youth.