Community violence exposure and substance use: cross‑cultural and gender perspectives

0486724 - PSÚ 2019 RIV US eng J - Článek v odborném periodiku
Löfving‑Gupta, S. - Willebrand, M. - Koposov, R. - Blatný, Marek - Hrdlička, M. - Schwab‑Stone, M. - Ruchkin, V.
Community violence exposure and substance use: cross‑cultural and gender perspectives.
European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. Roč. 27, č. 4 (2018), s. 493-500. ISSN 1018-8827. E-ISSN 1435-165X
Institucionální podpora: RVO:68081740
Klíčová slova: community violence exposure * substance use * gender * adolescents
Obor OECD: Psychology (including human - machine relations)
Impakt faktor: 3.740, rok: 2018
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00787-017-1097-5

The negative effects of community violence exposure on child and adolescent mental health are well documented and exposure to community violence has been linked both to a number of internalizing and externalizing symptoms. Our aim was, therefore, to investigate cross-cultural and gender differences in the relationship between community violence exposure and substance abuse. A self-report survey was conducted among 10,575, 12–18 year old adolescents in three different countries, Czech Republic (N = 4537), Russia (N = 2377) and US (N = 3661). We found that in all three countries both substance use and problem behavior associated with it increased similarly along with severity of violence exposure and this association was not gender-specific. It was concluded that in spite of the differences in the levels of violence exposure and substance use cross-culturally and by gender, the pattern of their association is neither culturally nor gender bound.
Trvalý link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0281475