Links Between Childhood Exposure to Violent Contexts and Risky Adolescent Health Behaviors.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To 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.

Methods

Data 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.

Results

Controlling for a range of adolescent, parent, and neighborhood covariates, e

SUBMITTER: James S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6084799 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature