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Volume
3:
No. 2, April 2006
ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Exploring Stress and Coping Among Urban African American Adolescents: The Shifting the Lens Study
Source of Stress |
Approximate Percentage of Teens |
Experience Stress Sometimes or Often |
Worry About Stress Sometimes or Often |
School work |
68 |
75 |
Parents |
57 |
68 |
Friends' problems |
52 |
64 |
Boy-girl relationships |
48 |
64 |
Drugs in neighborhood |
48 |
60 |
Nosy neighbors |
40 |
57 |
Pressure to fight |
40 |
37 |
Teacher respect |
40 |
48 |
Younger siblings |
40 |
63 |
Litter in neighborhood |
37 |
48 |
Pressure from within to have sex |
32 |
20 |
Opposite sex issues |
32 |
43 |
Pressure from friends to have sex |
32 |
23 |
School |
31 |
16 |
Older siblings |
28 |
28 |
Body changes |
26 |
48 |
Figure 1. Percentage of teens who reported experiencing
or worrying about different sources of stress, Shifting the Lens study.
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Type of Coping Strategy |
Percentage of Teens |
Males |
Females |
Active |
33.3 |
44.4 |
Support seeking |
17.2 |
22.2 |
Distraction |
25.3 |
13.5 |
Avoidance |
24.3 |
19.9 |
Figure 3. Percentage of teens reporting use of coping
strategies, by sex, Shifting the Lens study.
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