Citation

Segawa E, Ngwe JE, Li Y, Flay BR. Eval. Rev. 2005; 29(2): 128-148.

Affiliation

University of Illinois at Chicago, IL, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2005, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0193841X04271095

PMID

15731509

PMCID

PMC2394722

Abstract

This study employs growth mixture modeling techniques to evaluate the preventive effects of the Aban Aya Youth Project in reducing the rate of growth of violence among African American adolescent males (N = 552). Results suggest three distinct classes of participants: high risk (34%), medium risk (54%), and low risk (12%) based on both the participants' initial violence scores and their growth of violence over time. Results further show significant effects (almost 3 times as large as the effect found in the regular one-class analysis) for the high-risk class but not for the medium- or low-risk classes.