This study assesses how variations in heteronormative culture in high schools affect the well-being of same-sex-attracted youth. The authors focus on the stigmatization of same-sex attraction (rather than identity or behavior) to better understand how heteronormativity may marginalize a wide range of youth. Specifically, the authors use data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent He...

This article explores the continuing involvement in youth music and style cultures of older participants through examination of the case study of the goth scene. It does so in the context of a widespread neglect, until recently, of what happens to participants of 'youth cultures' as they move beyond adolescence and also of a growing consensus about the broadening of youth itself as a life cours...

ThroughoU[ this volume, we have emphasized the need to consider carefully the role of ethnicity and culture in the etiology and prevention of youth violence in the United States. As we have discussed, in many cases factors that increase or decrease risk for youth violence are shared across ethnic groups; however, the life circumstances of ethnic minority youth can increase the likelihood that r...