Category: Coös Youth Study
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Comparing Teen Substance Use in Northern New Hampshire to Rural Use Nationwide Using data administered in 2011 from the Carsey Institute’s Coös Youth Study and the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, this brief compares teen substance use patterns in New Hampshire’s most rural county to patterns among rural youth nationwide.
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New Hampshire, Vulnerable Families Research Program | Coös Youth Study, Health, New Hampshire, Young Adults | Publication |
Coös County Teens’ Family Relationships This fact sheet examines Coös County, New Hampshire teens’ perceptions of their family relationship experiences using data from the Coös Youth Study collected in 2011 from 418 eleventh graders in all Coös County public schools. Authors Corinna Jenkins Tucker and Desiree Wiesen-Martin report that Coös older adolescents feel close to their parents and siblings but also argue with them. A small group of youths report perpetrating violence on a family member.
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New Hampshire | Coös Youth Study, Family, New Hampshire, Young Adults | Publication |
Coös County Youth and Out-of-School Activities - Patterns of Involvement and Barriers to Participation This fact sheet draws from surveys administered to a cohort of 416 participants in 7th grade in 2008, again when they were in 8th grade in 2009, and most recently as 10th graders in 2011 to look at patterns of participation in structured activities over time and whether male and female students differ in these patterns of participation.
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New Hampshire | Coös Youth Study, Education, Health, New Hampshire, Young Adults | Publication |
Coös County’s Class of 2009: Where Are They Now? This brief reports on the first follow-up survey of the Coös Youth Study participants beyond high school. The focus of the Coös Youth Study, a ten-year panel study following the lives of youth in Coös County, New Hampshire, is the transition of Coös youth into adulthood.
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New Hampshire | Coös Youth Study, New Hampshire, Young Adults | Publication |
Coös Teens’ View of Family Economic Stress Is Tied to Quality of Relationships at Home Family economic hardship during adolescence affects family relationships and the social, emotional, and behavioral development of a substantial number of American youth.
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New Hampshire | Community, Coös Youth Study, Family, New Hampshire, Wages, Young Adults | Publication |
Coös Youth with Mentors More Likely to Perceive Future Success This fact sheet explores whether Coös youths’ mentor experiences and their academic attitudes and well-being are linked. Authors Kent Scovill and Corinna Jenkins Tucker analyze data from the Coös Youth Study collected in 2008, focusing on seventh and eleventh grade students from all public schools in Coös County, New Hampshire.
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New Hampshire | Community, Coös Youth Study, New Hampshire, Young Adults | Publication |
Help in a Haystack: Youth Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services in the North Country A new brief from Nordblom Fellow Meghan Mills at the Carsey Institute finds that youth in New Hampshire's North Country have challenges in accessing support for substance abuse and mental health issues. Mills also finds that the providers face unique challenges, from getting referrals to hiring professionals, all while working without a functional network.
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New Hampshire | Coös Youth Study, Health, New Hampshire, Young Adults | Publication |
It Takes a Community: Civic Life and Community Involvement Among Coös County Youth This brief explores the extent to which Coös County youth are involved in a variety of civic-related activities, with particular attention to the demographic and attitudinal factors associated with such participation. Author Justin Young reports that approximately 75 percent of Coös County youth report involvement in at least one type of civic-related activity.
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New Hampshire | Civic Engagement, Community, Coös Youth Study, New Hampshire, Young Adults | Publication |
Key Findings and Recommendations from the Coös Youth Study In this brief, authors Michael Staunton and Eleanor Jaffee review the key findings and recommendations from research conducted in the first half of the Coös Youth Study, which began in 2008 and is planned to continue through 2018.
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New Hampshire | Community, Coös Youth Study, Education, Health, New Hampshire, Young Adults | Publication |
Levels of Household Chaos Tied to Quality of Parent-Adolescent Relationships in Coös County, New Hampshire In this brief, author Corinna Tucker examines Coös County adolescents’ reports of household chaos using data from the Coös Youth Study and discusses whether socio-economic and parenting differences are related to adolescents who experience household chaos.
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New Hampshire | Coös Youth Study, Family, Health, New Hampshire, Young Adults | Publication |
Mental Health Among Northern New Hampshire Young Adults: Depression and Substance Problems Higher Than Nationwide This brief uses data on depressive and substance abuse symptoms from two surveys administered in 2011—the Coös Youth Study and the National Survey on Drug Use and Health—to compare mental health patterns among young adults in Coös County, New Hampshire, to patterns among rural young adults nationwide.
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New Hampshire | Coös Youth Study, Health, New Hampshire, Young Adults | Publication |
Navigating the Teen Years: Promise and Peril for Northern New Hampshire Youth This report provides a snapshot of how youth are doing in Carroll, Coos, and Grafton counties and describes some of the difficulties they and their communities face as they negotiate the transition to adulthood. The study is based on data from several agencies that collect county- and community-level information about youth, as well as from interviews with individuals working with youth in each of the three counties.
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New Hampshire | Community, Coös Youth Study, Health, New Hampshire, Young Adults | Publication |
No Place Like Home: Place and Community Identity Among North Country Youth This brief explores the link between rural youths’ identification with their community, their self-esteem, and their future plans. The panel study of New Hampshire’s Coos County youth offers a snapshot into the dynamics of a population that is developing its identity in a region that is undergoing an identity transformation of its own. Place identity may be influential in how individuals think of themselves and their futures, particularly for youth in the process of forming an identity. The study reveals the importance of developing community programs and activities for youth that create social ties to form a positive identification with the place they live and consequently improve their self-esteem and the likelihood for staying or returning to their communities in later adulthood.
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New Hampshire, Vulnerable Families Research Program | Community, Coös Youth Study, New Hampshire, Rural, Young Adults | Publication |
Northern New Hampshire Youth in a Changing Rural Economy The Coös Youth Study was a ten-year research project about growing up in a rural county undergoing transformative economic and demographic changes. The study addressed how these changes affected youths’ well-being as well as their plans to stay in the region, pursue opportunities elsewhere, permanently relocate, or return to their home communities with new skills and new ideas.
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New Hampshire | Coös Youth Study | Publication |
Out-of-School Time Matters: Activity Involvement and Positive Development among Coos County Youth This brief looks at the connections between how youth spend their free time and positive or negative attitudes about themselves and their future plans. Family studies assistant professor and Carsey faculty fellow Erin Hiley Sharp used data from the Carsey Institute's Coos County Youth Survey to show differences by activity level and students' expectations for positive outcomes in their future.
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New Hampshire | Community, Coös Youth Study, Family, Health, New Hampshire, Young Adults | Publication |
Sixty Percent of Coös Youth Report Having a Mentor in Their Lives In this brief, authors Kent Scovill and Corinna Jenkins Tucker describe Coös youths’ mentor relationships using data from the Carsey Institute’s Coös Youth Study collected in 2007. They report that, in 2007, a majority of Coös youth in seventh and eleventh grade (60.2 percent) report having a mentor.
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New Hampshire | Coös Youth Study, Health, New Hampshire, Young Adults | Publication |
Stay or Leave Coös County? Parents' Messages Matter When it comes to deciding whether to stay in New Hampshire's rural Coös County or leave for other opportunities, young people are listening to their parents. Surveying 78 percent of all seventh and eleventh graders in public schools in Coös County, researchers found that young peoples' future intentions to migrate from Coös in search of economic or educational opportunities or to remain in Coös to pursue a future close to home are closely aligned with the messages their parents deliver to them.
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New Hampshire | Coös Youth Study, Family, Migration, New Hampshire, Young Adults | Publication |
Teachers Matter: Feelings of School Connectedness and Positive Youth Development among Coös County Youth Students who feel positively about their education, have a sense of belonging in school, and maintain good relationships with students and staff generally feel connected to their schools. In fact, 63 percent of Coös youth report feeling this way.
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New Hampshire | Coös Youth Study, Education, Health, New Hampshire, Young Adults | Publication |
Teen Stress and Substance Use Problems in Coös: Survey Shows Strong Community Attachment Can Offset Risk This brief explores how social stress and community attachment are related to problem alcohol and drug use for girls and boys in Coös County, New Hampshire.
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New Hampshire | Community, Coös Youth Study, Health, New Hampshire, Young Adults | Publication |
The Importance of Outdoor Activity and Place Attachment to Adolescent Development in Coös County, New Hampshire This brief discusses the rates of participation in structured and unstructured outdoor activities as Coös County youth age, along with the relationship between outdoor activity involvement and indicators of place attachment throughout this period. The analysis is based on data collected between 2008 and 2013 as part of the Carsey Institute’s Panel Study of Coös County youth.
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New Hampshire | Community, Coös Youth Study, Health, New Hampshire, Young Adults | Publication |