National Survey of American Life - Adolescent Supplement (NSAL-A), 2001-2004

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Label

National Survey of American Life - Adolescent Supplement (NSAL-A), 2001-2004

Creator

• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor]
• Jackson, James S., (James Sidney)

Contributor

• Caldwell, Cleopatra H.
• Antonucci, Toni C.
• Oyserman, Daphna R.

Author

• Antonucci, Toni C.
• Oyserman, Daphna R.
• Caldwell, Cleopatra H.
• Jackson, James S., (James Sidney)

Contributor

• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor]

Subject

• Mental health services
• Mental illness
• Teenagers
• adolescents
• after school programs
• alcohol consumption
• beliefs
• child care
• church membership
• crosscultural differences
• depression (psychology)
• discrimination
• doctor visits
• drug abuse
• family relationships
• friendships
• identity
• mental disorders
• mental health
• psychiatric services
• racial attitudes
• African Americans
• school attendance
• school dropouts
• self esteem
• social support
• suicide
• survey
• religion
• Black community
• Drinking of alcoholic beverages
• Dropouts
• Families
• Identity (Philosophical concept)
• Identity (Psychology)

Genre

• survey

Summary

The National Survey of American Life Adolescent Supplement (NSAL-A), 2001-2004, was designed to estimate the lifetime-to-date and current prevalence, age-of-onset distributions, course, and comorbidity of DSM-IV disorders among African American and Caribbean adolescents in the United States; to identify risk and protective factors for the onset and persistence of these disorders; to describe patterns and correlates of service use for these disorders; and to lay the groundwork for subsequent follow-up studies that can be used to identify early expressions of adult mental disorders. In addition and similar to the NSAL adult dataset (<a href="http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/studies/20240">Collaborative Psychiatric Epidemiology Surveys (CPES), 2001-2003 [United States] (ICPSR 20240)</a>), the adolescent dataset contains detailed measures of health; social conditions; stressors; distress; racial identity; subjective, neighborhood conditions; activities and school; media; and social and psychological protective and risk factors. Numerous variables from the adult dataset have been merged into the adolescent dataset, as the NSAL adult and adolescent respondents reside in the same households. Some of these variables apply to the entire household (i.e. region, urbanicity, and family income), while others apply specifically to the NSAL adult respondent living in the adolescent's household (i.e. adult years of education, adult marital status, and adult nativity [foreign-born vs. US born]). The immigration measures were asked of Caribbean black adult respondents only. No comparable measures assess the immigration and generational status of the Caribbean black adolescent respondents. The adult dataset measures are merged into the adolescent dataset to assist in approximating these measures for adolescent respondents. The NSAL adolescent dataset also includes variables for other non-core and experimental disorders. These include tobacco use/nicotine dependence, premenstrual syndrome, minor depression, recurrent brief depression, hypomania, and hypomania sub-threshold. Demographic variables include age, race and ethnicity, ancestry or national origins, height, weight, marital status, income, and education level