Predicting sexual behaviors from mid-adolescence to emerging adulthood: The roles of dating violence victimization and substance use.

ABSTRACT: The purpose of the present study was to determine whether dating violence victimization (psychological, physical, and sexual) and substance use (alcohol and marijuana) predicted sexual behaviors that increase risk for poor outcomes from ages 15-19. Adolescents (N = 1042; 56% female) were recruited from high schools in Southeast Texas in 2010 and followed annually for six years. The mean age of the sample at baseline was 15.09 (SD = 0.79). Participants primarily identified as Hispanic (31.4%), White (29.4%), and Black/African American (27.9%). Participants completed measures of dating violence victimization, substance use, and sexual behaviors annually. We examined unique and interactive associations between substance use and dating violence victimization with sexual behaviors that increase

SUBMITTER: Shorey RC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6892170 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature