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| Sonya S BradySummaryAffiliation: University of California Country: USA Publications
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Adolescents' reported consequences of having oral sex versus vaginal sexSonya S Brady
Department of Psychiatry, Health Psychology Program, University of California, San Francisco, 3333 California St, Box 0848, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA
Pediatrics 119:229-36. 2007..The present study examined whether adolescents' initial consequences of sexual activity differ according to type of sexual activity and gender...- Young adults' media use and attitudes toward interpersonal and institutional forms of aggressionSonya S Brady
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143, USA
Aggress Behav 33:519-25. 2007.... 
Adaptive coping reduces the impact of community violence exposure on violent behavior among African American and Latino male adolescentsSonya S Brady
Department of Psychiatry, Health Psychology Program, University of California, San Francisco, 3333 California St, Ste 465, P O Box 0848, San Francisco, CA 94118 0848, USA
J Abnorm Child Psychol 36:105-15. 2008..Interventions targeting the enhancement of coping skills may be an effective method of reducing the impact of CVE on adolescent violent behavior...- Effects of media violence on health-related outcomes among young menSonya S Brady
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 160:341-7. 2006.... - Lifetime community violence exposure and health risk behavior among young adults in collegeSonya S Brady
Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
J Adolesc Health 39:610-3. 2006..Findings were independent of gender, ethnic minority status, personality characteristics, aggression, family socioeconomic status, family support, and neighborhood collective efficacy... - Violence involvement, substance use, and sexual activity among Mexican-American and European-American adolescentsSonya S Brady
Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
J Adolesc Health 43:285-95. 2008..This study examined longitudinal associations between violence involvement, substance use, and sexual activity... - Mechanisms linking violence exposure to health risk behavior in adolescence: motivation to cope and sensation seekingSonya S Brady
Health Psychology Program, University of California, San Francisco, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 45:673-80. 2006..CONCLUSIONS: Clinical interventions should promote adaptive coping strategies that emphasize maintaining healthy behavior, effective problem solving skills, and stress management techniques... - Chronic stress influences ambulatory blood pressure in adolescentsSonya S Brady
University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Ann Behav Med 31:80-8. 2006..The latter association persisted after controlling for clinic BP, suggesting that males may be more vulnerable to chronic stress as a determinant of BP regulation than females early in life... - Cardiovascular reactivity to stress predicts future blood pressure in adolescenceKaren A Matthews
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Psychosom Med 65:410-5. 2003..This study evaluated the prospective relationship between cardiovascular reactivity to psychological stress and increases in resting blood pressure across a 3-year period among a multiethnic pediatric sample (N = 149)... - Adolescents report both positive and negative consequences of experimentation with cigarette useSonya S Brady
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA
Prev Med 46:585-90. 2008..To examine the physiological and social consequences that 9th and 10th grade adolescents experience as a result of experimenting with cigarette use, and whether consequences vary by level of experimentation and gender... - The influence of socioeconomic status and ethnicity on adolescents' exposure to stressful life eventsSonya S Brady
University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
J Pediatr Psychol 27:575-83. 2002..Correlations between socioeconomic indices were not so high as to suggest redundancy, and different SES indicators were of importance in predicting exposure to different types of life events... - Social and emotional consequences of refraining from sexual activity among sexually experienced and inexperienced youths in CaliforniaSonya S Brady
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Am J Public Health 98:162-8. 2008..We examined the social and emotional consequences among adolescents of refraining from sexual activity (oral or vaginal sex) and whether these consequences differed over time and by gender and sexual experience... - Individual versus neighborhood socioeconomic status and race as predictors of adolescent ambulatory blood pressure and heart rateJennifer J McGrath
Concordia University Montreal, QC, Canada
Soc Sci Med 63:1442-53. 2006..These results have important public health implications as they suggest individual and neighborhood SES and race are linked to cardiovascular risk disparities as early as adolescence... 
Lifetime family violence exposure is associated with current symptoms of eating disorders among both young men and womenSonya S Brady
University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, Minneapolis, MN 55454 1015, USA
J Trauma Stress 21:347-51. 2008..Findings suggest that depression and anxiety may play a role in the development and maintenance of eating disorder symptoms subsequent to repeated incidents of family violence exposure...