ArticleThe Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine2018
Links Between Childhood Exposure to Violent Contexts and Risky Adolescent Health Behaviors.
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- Bereavement & mental health: The generational consequences of a grandparent's death.SSM. Mental health · 2022Article
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- Associations between childhood maltreatment and psychiatric disorders: analysis from electronic health records in Hong Kong.Translational psychiatry · 2022Article
- Indirect Associations between Middle-Childhood Externalizing Behaviors and Adolescent Substance Use through Late-Childhood Exposure to Violence.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2022Article
- Contributions of the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study to Child Development.Annual review of developmental psychology · 2021Article
- Structural relationships among adolescents' peer attachment, career-related self-efficacy, parents' attitudes and health risk behaviours.Nursing open · 2021Article
- Adolescent Exposure To Deadly Gun Violence Within 500 Meters Of Home Or School: Ethnoracial And Income Disparities.Health affairs (Project Hope) · 2021Article
- Neighborhood Disorder, Family Functioning, and Risky Sexual Behaviors in Adolescence.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2020Article
- Violence exposure and social deprivation is associated with cortisol reactivity in urban adolescents.Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2020Article
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Abstract
purposeTo assess whether childhood exposure to violent contexts is prospectively associated with risky adolescent health behavior and whether these associations are specific to different contexts of violence and different types of risky behavior.
methodsData come from 2,684 adolescents in the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a population-based birth cohort study of children born between 1998 and 2000 in 20 large American cities. Using logistic regression models, we evaluate whether exposure to 6 indicators of community violence and 7 indicators of family violence at ages 5 and 9 is associated with risky sexual behavior, substance use, and obesity risk behavior at age 15.
resultsControlling for a range of adolescent, parent, and neighborhood covariates, each additional point on the community violence scale is associated with 8% higher odds of risky sexual behavior but not substance use or obesity risk behavior. Alternatively, each additional point on the family violence scale is associated with 20% higher odds of substance use but not risky sexual behavior or obesity risk behavior.
conclusionsChildhood exposure to violent contexts is associated with risky adolescent health behaviors, but the associations are context and behavior specific. After including covariates, we find no association between childhood exposure to violent contexts and obesity risk behavior.
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