Fighting Among America's Youth: A Case Study
In this “fighting among America’s youth: a risk and protective factors approach” author, Kevin Fitzpatrick purpose of this research to apply the risk and protective factors model for understanding a health-compromising behavior, fighting, among different development age groups.. In addition, the interplay between risk and protective factors is explored in an attempt to specific their precise role in acting as either mediators or buffers in the risk taking process. The risk and protective factor approach included social developmental theory with social control and social learning theories to help explain risk taking among the youth. The research sample and method was conduct during the spring of 1994 and consisted of three samples of youth in
grades 3 through 6 (n=813), 7 through (n=692), and 10 through 12 (n=813) with a total of 2,595 Chicago Public Schools student throughout the United States. The three national probability samples were based on a stratified, two stage cluster design. The instrument used was measures and questionnaires that were also constructed for the three samples with consistent set of questions for all age groups. These questionnaires were also self-administered by students under supervision of teachers. The major findings indicated that protective factors are minimally important in predicting fighting behavior. But in the three samples the risk factors indicated had exposure to violence, is strongly associated fighting behavior. The findings also states that the more youth talking to their parents about their problems and the more they perceive that the teacher is paying the m attention, they are likely to be reported fighting. The major conclusions suggest that it take a village to raise a child due to the significant need for social resource in determine positive behavior among the youth. This was this was concluded through the findings that suggest that certain protective factors show that the more the youths talk to their parents about their problems and the more they perceive that teachers are paying attention to them, the less likely they are to be reported fighting.
grades 3 through 6 (n=813), 7 through (n=692), and 10 through 12 (n=813) with a total of 2,595 Chicago Public Schools student throughout the United States. The three national probability samples were based on a stratified, two stage cluster design. The instrument used was measures and questionnaires that were also constructed for the three samples with consistent set of questions for all age groups. These questionnaires were also self-administered by students under supervision of teachers. The major findings indicated that protective factors are minimally important in predicting fighting behavior. But in the three samples the risk factors indicated had exposure to violence, is strongly associated fighting behavior. The findings also states that the more youth talking to their parents about their problems and the more they perceive that the teacher is paying the m attention, they are likely to be reported fighting. The major conclusions suggest that it take a village to raise a child due to the significant need for social resource in determine positive behavior among the youth. This was this was concluded through the findings that suggest that certain protective factors show that the more the youths talk to their parents about their problems and the more they perceive that teachers are paying attention to them, the less likely they are to be reported fighting.