Ohio State is in the process of revising websites and program materials to accurately reflect compliance with the law. While this work occurs, language referencing protected class status or other activities prohibited by Ohio Senate Bill 1 may still appear in some places. However, all programs and activities are being administered in compliance with federal and state law.

AHDC - Major Questions

Core questions are integrated by a central theme: the contextual embeddedness and interdependence of developmentally relevant processes within and across “levels”. Illustrative questions include: 

  1. Do characteristics of youth activity spaces—i.e., the actual spatial and social exposures youth experience in their daily routines—influence behavioral and health outcomes net of other contexts such as immediate residential areas and schools?
  2. To what extent does day-to-day variability in exposure to potentially stressful environments explain within-individual variability in risk behavior and emotional well-being?
  3. Do peer influences on behavior depend on characteristics of the settings in which youth and their peers interact?