ArticleJournal of youth and adolescence2014
Testing pathways linking exposure to community violence and sexual behaviors among African American youth.
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20 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Conceptualizing the Effects of Continuous Traumatic Violence on HIV Continuum of Care Outcomes for Young Black Men Who Have Sex with Men in the United States.AIDS and behavior · 2021Review
- Violence Exposure, Drug Use and HIV/AIDS Risk Taking Behaviors: The Role of Gender.Journal of the National Medical Association · 2020Article
- Mediation of Firearm Violence and Preterm Birth by Pregnancy Complications and Health Behaviors: Addressing Structural and Postexposure Confounding.American journal of epidemiology · 2020Article
- Integrating Individual and Contextual Factors to Explain Disparities in HIV/STI Among Heterosexual African American Youth: A Contemporary Literature Review and Social Ecological Model.Archives of sexual behavior · 2020Review
- Social Networks Moderate the Syndemic Effect of Psychosocial and Structural Factors on HIV Risk Among Young Black Transgender Women and Men who have Sex with Men.AIDS and behavior · 2020Article
- Exposure to Community Homicide During Pregnancy and Adverse Birth Outcomes: A Within-Community Matched Design.Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2019Article
- "Running Trains" and "Sexing-In": The Functions of Sex Within Adolescent Gangs.Youth & society · 2019Article
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- Exploring masculinities, sexual health and wellbeing across areas of high deprivation in Scotland: The depth of the challenge to improve understandings and practices.Health & place · 2018Article
- Mapping the Intersections of Violence on Black Women's Sexual Health within the Jim Crow Geographies of Cincinnati Neighborhoods.Frontiers · 2018Article
- Neighborhood Crime and Sexual Transmission Risk Behavior among Black Men Living with HIV.Journal of health care for the poor and underserved · 2018Article
- At the intersection of criminal justice involvement and sexual orientation: Dynamic networks and health among a population-based sample of young Black men who have sex with men.Social networks · 2017Article
- Neighborhood context, psychological outlook, and risk behaviors among urban African American youth.Cultural diversity & ethnic minority psychology · 2017Article
- Mediators of the Relation Between Community Violence and Sexual Risk Behavior Among Adults Attending a Public Sexually Transmitted Infection Clinic.Archives of sexual behavior · 2016Article
- Addressing Unmet Sexual Health Needs among Black Adolescents with Mental Illnesses.Journal of black sexuality and relationships · 2016Article
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Abstract
Exposure to community violence and HIV sexual risks are two major public health concerns among youth. This study tests various pathways linking exposure to community violence and sexual behaviors among African American adolescents. Using a sample of 563 (61% females) African American youth attending high school we examined whether problematic psychological symptoms, low school engagement, and/or negative perceptions of peer norms about safer sex functioned as pathways linking exposure to community violence and sexual behaviors. Major findings indicated that, for boys, the relationship between exposure to community violence and sexual début and sexual risk behaviors were linked by aggression. In addition, the relationship between exposure to community violence and sexual risk behaviors were linked by negative perceptions of peer attitudes about safer sex. For girls, the relationship between exposure to community violence and sexual début was linked by aggression and negative perceptions of peer attitudes about safer sex. These findings provide support for pathways linking exposure to community violence to sexual behaviors.
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