Date of Award
5-2010
Document Type
Honors Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Social Welfare
Advisor/Committee Chair
Barry Loneck
Abstract
This study seeks to evaluate the relationship between monitoring and adolescent deviant behaviors, with a specific focus on adolescent alcohol use. It is hypothesized that when community safety and support are low; after-school programming will serve as a protective factor and lower levels of alcohol use will be reported. Data were collected on a sample of 373 using the Student Success Profile. Because research shows that adolescent-report of friend behaviors is actually more reflective of their own behaviors (adolescents project their beliefs about own behaviors onto their peers), this study used adolescent-report on peer behaviors as an indicator of self-use. This study seeks to determine whether adolescent alcohol use is impacted by adolescents’ participation in after-school programming and their perceived level of neighborhood safety and support.
Recommended Citation
Moonan, Kimberly, "The Impact of After-School Programming, Neighborhood Safety, and Neighborhood Support on Adolescent Alcohol Use" (2010). Social Welfare. 1.
https://scholarsarchive.library.albany.edu/honorscollege_sw/1