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| BETH MOLNARSummaryAffiliation: Harvard University Country: USA Publications
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Association between neighborhood safety and overweight status among urban adolescentsDustin T Duncan
Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
BMC Public Health 9:289. 2009....- Neighborhood predictors of concealed firearm carrying among children and adolescents: results from the project on human development in Chicago neighborhoodsBeth E Molnar
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 158:657-64. 2004..Previous studies of concealed firearm carrying among children and adolescents have focused on individual risk factors... - What girls need: recommendations for preventing violence among urban girls in the USBeth E Molnar
Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, 6th Floor, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Soc Sci Med 60:2191-204. 2005..Violence prevention programs should focus on enhancing girls' relationships with mothers, older girls, and friends their age... - Violent behavior by girls reporting violent victimization: a prospective studyBeth E Molnar
Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard Youth Violence Prevention Center, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 159:731-9. 2005..To assess the relationships between individual victimization and neighborhood-level violence on subsequent violent perpetration by adolescent girls in a community-based sample... - Effects of neighborhood resources on aggressive and delinquent behaviors among urban youthsBeth E Molnar
Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Sixth Floor, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Public Health 98:1086-93. 2008..We sought to identify neighborhood-level resources associated with lower levels of aggression and delinquency among youths aged 9-15 years at baseline after accounting for risk factors and other types of resources... - Neighborhood predictors of dating violence victimization and perpetration in young adulthood: a multilevel studySonia Jain
Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Am J Public Health 100:1737-44. 2010..We examined whether social processes of neighborhoods, such as collective efficacy, during individual's adolescent years affect the likelihood of being involved in physical dating violence during young adulthood... - Unsafe to play? Neighborhood disorder and lack of safety predict reduced physical activity among urban children and adolescentsBeth E Molnar
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Am J Health Promot 18:378-86. 2004..Neighborhood interventions to increase safety and reduce disorder may be efficacious in increasing physical activity, thereby reducing risk of overweight and cardiovascular disease... - Emotional distress among LGBT youth: the influence of perceived discrimination based on sexual orientationJoanna Almeida
Northeastern University, School of Health Professions, Institute on Urban Health Research, Stearns Building, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Youth Adolesc 38:1001-14. 2009..Perceived discrimination is a likely contributor to emotional distress among LGBT youth... - Sexual risk in "mostly heterosexual" young women: influence of social support and caregiver mental healthHeather L Corliss
Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Children s Hospital, and Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Womens Health (Larchmt) 18:2005-10. 2009..Research is needed to identify factors responsible for health disparities in this population comprising the majority of youth who report a minority sexual orientation... - A multilevel analysis of social ties and social cohesion among Latinos and their neighborhoods: results from ChicagoJoanna Almeida
Institute on Urban Health Research, Bouve College of Health Sciences, Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115 5000, USA
J Urban Health 86:745-59. 2009..Contrary to the assumption that Mexican immigrant enclaves beget social cohesion, we did not find this to be true in Chicago neighborhoods... - Ethnicity and nativity status as determinants of perceived social support: testing the concept of familismJoanna Almeida
Institute on Urban Health Research, Northeastern University, Stearns 503, 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115 USA
Soc Sci Med 68:1852-8. 2009..Effect modification by SES suggests that Latinos of lower and higher SES may differ with regard to the traditionally-held value of familism... - A multilevel study of neighborhoods and parent-to-child physical aggression: results from the project on human development in Chicago neighborhoodsBeth E Molnar
Department of Maternal and Child Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Child Maltreat 8:84-97. 2003..The article's conclusion is that neighborhood characteristics may influence the amount of PCPA used by families. Neighborhood intervention strategies hold promise... - Sexual violence victimization history and sexual risk indicators in a community-based urban cohort of "mostly heterosexual" and heterosexual young womenS Bryn Austin
Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Children s Hospital, 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Public Health 98:1015-20. 2008.... - Social and environmental contexts of adolescent and young adult male perpetrators of intimate partner violence: a qualitative studyElizabeth Reed
Department for Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Am J Mens Health 2:260-71. 2008..Efforts to support young males regarding a broad array of concerns should be included in programming to reduce IPV perpetration... - Are increased worker caseloads in state child protective service agencies a potential explanation for the decline in child sexual abuse? A multilevel analysisJoanna Almeida
Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Child Abuse Negl 32:367-75. 2008
Research Grants
- Community-level Prevention of Child Abuse & NeglectBETH MOLNAR; Fiscal Year: 2007..This work will result in more effective community-level prevention of child abuse and neglect and better emotional/behavioral development of children and adolescents. ..
- Child Psychopathology, Adversity & Developing Drug AbuseBETH MOLNAR; Fiscal Year: 2004..abstract_text> ..