Long-term Impacts of Civic Engagement during Emerging Adulthood: A Nationally-representative Study.

Purpose: We examined if civic engagement during emerging adulthood positively impacted a broad array of outcomes in middle adulthood, and if associations varied based on race, gender, age, and urban-rural status.

Design: Prospective design used to determine if civic engagement during emerging adulthood ( age = 21.81) predicted outcomes 15 years later.

Empathy as a moderator of sexual violence perpetration risk factors among college men.

: This study examined if empathy was a significant moderator of several empirically established risk factors for sexual violence perpetration among college men. : Data are from 544 college men who participated in a longitudinal study from 2008 to 2011 at a large, public university. Participants completed a self-report survey in their first through fourth years in college.

Promoting Informal and Professional Help-Seeking for Adolescent Dating Violence.

The present study examined factors that differentiate adolescents with varied intentions of informal and professional help-seeking for dating violence. Help-seeking intentions among 518 ethnically diverse adolescents from a rural, southern county who participated in a longitudinal study of teen dating violence were categorized into three groups: adolescents unlikely to seek any help, adolescents likely to seek only informal help, and adolescents likely to seek informal and professional help. Multinomial logistic regression found that gender, family functioning, problem-solving competency, dating status, having an adult to talk to about a dating relationship, and acceptability of family violence significantly predicted membership in the help-seeking groups.