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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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