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- Title
Community violence exposure and substance use: cross-cultural and gender perspectives.
- Authors
Löfving-Gupta, Sandra; Willebrand, Mimmie; Koposov, Roman; Blatný, Marek; Hrdlička, Michal; Schwab-Stone, Mary; Ruchkin, Vladislav
- Abstract
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 (<italic>N</italic> = 4537), Russia (<italic>N</italic> = 2377) and US (<italic>N</italic> = 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.
- Subjects
CZECH Republic; RUSSIA; UNITED States; COMMUNITIES; MENTAL health; SEX distribution; SUBSTANCE abuse; VIOLENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL exposure
- Publication
European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2018, Vol 27, Issue 4, p493
- ISSN
1018-8827
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00787-017-1097-5