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Species | C T HalpernSummaryAffiliation: University of North Carolina Country: USA Publications
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Affirmation of a developmental systems approach to geneticsCarolyn Tucker Halpern
Department of Maternal and Child Health, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
Behav Brain Sci 35:367. 2012....
Sexual timetables for oral-genital, vaginal, and anal intercourse: sociodemographic comparisons in a nationally representative sample of adolescentsCarolyn Tucker Halpern
Department of Maternal and Child Health, Gillings School of Global Public Health and Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 8120, USA
Am J Public Health 102:1221-8. 2012..We documented the prevalence and relative timing of oral-genital, vaginal, and anal intercourse during adolescence and examined whether these timetables varied by sociodemographic factors...- Challenges of measuring diurnal cortisol concentrations in a large population-based field studyCarolyn Tucker Halpern
Department of Maternal and Child Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill UNC CH, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Psychoneuroendocrinology 37:499-508. 2012..This study evaluates issues related to consent, collection, and protocol adherence for a low-burden saliva collection protocol... - Patterns of intimate partner violence victimization from adolescence to young adulthood in a nationally representative sampleCarolyn Tucker Halpern
Department of Maternal and Child Health, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 24599 8120, USA
J Adolesc Health 45:508-16. 2009..To determine the prevalence of patterns of intimate partner violence (IPV) victimization from adolescence to young adulthood, and document associations with selected sociodemographic and experiential factors... - Effectiveness of web-based education on Kenyan and Brazilian adolescents' knowledge about HIV/AIDS, abortion law, and emergency contraception: findings from TeenWebCarolyn Tucker Halpern
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Soc Sci Med 67:628-37. 2008..Future intervention should focus on teen's purposeful searching for health information when they are in personal circumstances of unmet health needs... 
Gene-environment contributions to young adult sexual partneringCarolyn T Halpern
Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, CB 8120, 27599 7445, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599 7445, USA
Arch Sex Behav 36:543-54. 2007..These findings underscore the necessity of using more comprehensive multiple gene-multiple life experience approaches to investigations of complex behaviors such as sexual patterns...- Adolescent predictors of emerging adult sexual patternsCarolyn Tucker Halpern
Department of Maternal and Child Health, Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599 8120, USA
J Adolesc Health 39:926.e1-10. 2006..The second purpose is to determine adolescent biopsychosocial factors that predict membership in these adult groups... - Effects of body fat on weight concerns, dating, and sexual activity: a longitudinal analysis of black and white adolescent girlsC T Halpern
Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 27516 3997, USA
Dev Psychol 35:721-36. 1999.... - Perceived physical maturity, age of romantic partner, and adolescent risk behaviorCarolyn Tucker Halpern
Department of Maternal and Child Health, CB 7445, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7445, USA
Prev Sci 8:1-10. 2007.... - Partner violence among adolescents in opposite-sex romantic relationships: findings from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent HealthC T Halpern
Department of Maternal and Child Health, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7400, USA
Am J Public Health 91:1679-85. 2001..This report examines (1) the prevalence of psychological and minor physical violence victimization in a nationally representative sample of adolescents and (2) associations between sociodemographic factors and victimization... - Associations between stress reactivity and sexual and nonsexual risk taking in young adult human malesCarolyn Tucker Halpern
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27516, USA
Horm Behav 42:387-98. 2002..Findings are discussed in terms of cross-situational consistency of stress responses, the utility of stress reactivity for understanding individual differences in risk taking, and the interpretive limitations imposed by study design... - Prevalence of partner violence in same-sex romantic and sexual relationships in a national sample of adolescentsCarolyn Tucker Halpern
Department of Maternal and Child Health, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
J Adolesc Health 35:124-31. 2004..To present the first national prevalence estimates of psychological and physical intimate partner violence between adolescents in same-sex relationships... - Implications of racial and gender differences in patterns of adolescent risk behavior for HIV and other sexually transmitted diseasesCarolyn Tucker Halpern
School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
Perspect Sex Reprod Health 36:239-47. 2004..Prevalence of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) differs according to race and gender, yet few studies have systematically investigated risk behavior patterns by subgroup, particularly with nationally representative data... - Correlates of condom use among sexually experienced secondary-school male students in Nairobi, KenyaM Yotebieng
Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
SAHARA J 6:9-16. 2009..76 times. Interventions to increase awareness about the role of condoms in preventing HIV, delay sexual initiation, and teach proper condom use among secondary-school students in Nairobi are needed... - Gender differences in associations between depressive symptoms and patterns of substance use and risky sexual behavior among a nationally representative sample of U.S. adolescentsM W Waller
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA
Arch Womens Ment Health 9:139-50. 2006.... - Continuity of adolescent and early adult partner violence victimisation: association with witnessing violent crime in adolescenceA L Spriggs
Department of Maternal and Child Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
J Epidemiol Community Health 63:741-8. 2009..Although exposure to peer and family violence is a documented risk factor for adolescent dating violence, less is known about the relationship between violent crime exposure and dating violence victimisation... - Adolescent depression and suicide risk: association with sex and drug behaviorDenise D Hallfors
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27514 2812, USA
Am J Prev Med 27:224-31. 2004..Although both health problems have been associated with drug use and early sexual intercourse, the relationship has not been systematically studied in a nationally representative sample... - Sexual behavior and drug use among Asian and Latino adolescents: association with immigrant statusJon M Hussey
Department of Maternal and Child Health, School of Public Health, and Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
J Immigr Minor Health 9:85-94. 2007..The results indicate that among Asian and Latino adolescents, assimilation to U.S. risk behavior norms occurs rapidly and is evident by the second generation... - Young age at first sexual intercourse and sexually transmitted infections in adolescents and young adultsChristine E Kaestle
Department of Maternal and Child Health, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7400, USA
Am J Epidemiol 161:774-80. 2005..11, 95% confidence interval: 0.88, 1.39). Thus, earlier initiation of sexual intercourse is strongly associated with STIs for older adolescents but not for young adults over age 23 years... - Sexual intercourse precedes partner violence in adolescent romantic relationshipsChristine E Kaestle
Department of Maternal and Child Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599 7400, USA
J Adolesc Health 36:386-92. 2005..To examine whether psychological or physical violence between adolescent romantic partners is associated with the sexual intercourse status of the couple... - Parenting quality, DRD4, and the prediction of externalizing and internalizing behaviors in early childhoodC Propper
Center for Developmental Science, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, CB 8115, 100 East Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 811, USA
Dev Psychobiol 49:619-32. 2007..The data indicate that children may be differentially susceptible to different aspects of parenting depending on their genotype, and it is important to consider differences in racial composition when studying these relationships... - Which comes first in adolescence--sex and drugs or depression?Denise D Hallfors
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 27514, USA
Am J Prev Med 29:163-70. 2005..This study tests whether gender-specific patterns of substance use and sexual behavior precede and predict depression or vice versa... - Correlates of exchanging sex for drugs or money among women who use crack cocaineJessica M Edwards
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, Chapel Hill, NC 27514 2812, USA
AIDS Educ Prev 18:420-9. 2006.... - Sexual activity among adolescents in romantic relationships with friends, acquaintances, or strangersChristine E Kaestle
Department of Maternal and Child Health, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 159:849-53. 2005.... - A relational view of causality in normal and abnormal developmentGilbert Gottlieb
Center for Developmental Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 27599 8115, USA
Dev Psychopathol 14:421-35. 2002..Finally, we discuss future possibilities and potential stumbling blocks in the implementation of a more fully realized bidirectional, coactional perspective in developmental psychopathological research... - Mass media as a sexual super peer for early maturing girlsJane D Brown
School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599 3365, USA
J Adolesc Health 36:420-7. 2005..Does puberty also stimulate interest in sexual media content that is seen as giving permission to engage in sexual behavior?.. - What's love got to do with it? Sexual behaviors of opposite-sex couples through emerging adulthoodChristine Elizabeth Kaestle
Department of Human Development, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA
Perspect Sex Reprod Health 39:134-40. 2007..Nonetheless, representative information about young adults' sexual activities in long-term relationships and the emotional context of such relationships is rare... - The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) twin dataKathleen Mullan Harris
Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 123 W Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC 27516, USA
Twin Res Hum Genet 9:988-97. 2006..Add Health has an enlightened dissemination policy and to date has released phenotype and genotype data to more than 3000 researchers in the scientific community... - Risk and protection in the development of problem behaviors in adolescentsRobin Bartlett
School of Nursing, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC 27412-6170, USA
Res Nurs Health 29:607-21. 2006..These results suggest that approaches to preventing problems may differ from those required to help adolescents who are already manifesting problems... - Social scripts and stark realities: Kenyan adolescents' abortion discourseEllen M H Mitchell
Ipas USA
Cult Health Sex 8:515-28. 2006..The need for factual information, dispassionate dialogue and improved contraceptive access is considerable... - Music videos, pro wrestling, and acceptance of date rape among middle school males and females: an exploratory analysisChristine Elizabeth Kaestle
Department of Human Development, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
J Adolesc Health 40:185-7. 2007.... - Comparison of self-reported and test-identified chlamydial infections among young adults in the United States of AmericaBonita J Iritani
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, 1516 E Franklin St, Ste 200, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27514, USA
Sex Health 3:245-51. 2006..The extent of bias from using self-reported STI data, and whether bias varies by sex and race, is largely unknown. This gap is addressed using a large, nationally representative sample...
Research Grants
- Sexual Behavior Trajectories from Adolescence to AdulthoodCarolyn T Halpern; Fiscal Year: 2010..Achievement of this project's aims will provide evidence to guide the development of public health policy and programs. ..
- Sexual Behavior Trajectories from Adolescence to AdulthoodCarolyn T Halpern; Fiscal Year: 2010..Achievement of this project's aims will provide evidence to guide the development of public health policy and programs. ..