Association of Teen Dating Aggression With Risk Behavior and Academic Adjustment

2020 ◽  
pp. 088626052095130
Author(s):  
Pooja Datta ◽  
Dewey Cornell ◽  
Tim Konold
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Risk Behavior ◽  
Risk Behaviors ◽  
Fixed Effects ◽  
Academic Adjustment ◽  
School Level ◽  
Dating Aggression ◽  
High Risk Behaviors ◽  
The Past ◽  
Teen Dating

This study constructed a six-item Teen Dating Aggression (TDA) scale, investigated the prevalence of TDA in a statewide sample, and identified associations between TDA and high-risk behaviors and academic adjustment. Based on a review of literature, TDA included physical harm, threats to harm, verbal aggression, forced sexual contact, coercion to use alcohol or drugs, and harassment after the relationship ended. The sample consisted of 32,428 students (Grades 9–12) in 320 Virginia high schools who completed a statewide school climate survey. Participation rates were 99% for schools and 80.5% for students. Confirmatory factor analysis and hierarchical regression analyses investigated the associations between TDA and high-risk behaviors and poor academic adjustment. School fixed-effects analyses accounted for school-level influences in student responses. Nearly four in 10 students (39%) reported experiencing at least one form of dating aggression in the past year. The 12,596 students who experienced TDA (40%) in the past year reported more marijuana use (26% vs. 13%), alcohol use (40% vs. 22%), fighting (13% vs. 5%), suicidal ideation (31% vs. 13%), and suicide attempts (17% vs. 5%), as well as lower school engagement, educational aspirations, and grades than 19,832 students who dated without TDA. The current study emphasized the need for dating aggression to be a focus of secondary school prevention programs due its associations with poorer academic performance, high-risk behavior with potentially serious mental health consequences. Accurate assessment of TDA can also guide the evaluation of intervention programs that target TDA.

Sex Differences in Adolescent High-Risk Sexual and Drug Behaviors

1998 ◽  
Vol 82 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1312-1314 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harriett Light
Keyword(s):  
Sex Differences ◽  
High Schools ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Risk Behavior ◽  
Risk Behaviors ◽  
Sexual Behaviors ◽  
Youth Risk Behavior Survey ◽  
High Risk Behaviors ◽  
Youth Risk Behavior

The Youth Risk Behavior Survey, administered to 545 girls and 551 boys in 18 high schools in a midwestern state during spring of 1997, indicated few statistically significant differences between boys and girls in high-risk sexual behaviors and drug use; however, significantly more girls reported engaging in several high-risk behaviors.

High-Risk Behaviors Among High School Students in Massachusetts Who Use Anabolic Steroids

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 96 (2) ◽  
pp. 268-272
Author(s):  
Amy B. Middleman ◽  
Annie H. Faulkner ◽  
Elizabeth R. Woods ◽  
S. Jean Emans ◽  
Robert H. DuRant
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Risk Behavior ◽  
Risk Behaviors ◽  
Anabolic Steroid ◽  
Drinking Alcohol ◽  
School Students ◽  
High Risk Behaviors ◽  
Steroid Use

Objective. To assess the association between the frequency of anabolic steroid use and the frequency of other health risk and problem behaviors among high school students in Massachusetts. Methods. The 1993 Massachusetts Youth Risk Behavior Survey was conducted on a random sample of 3054 high school students (49% male; mean age, 16 ± 1.2 years). The frequency of lifetime anabolic steroid use was measured on an ordinal scale from 1 to 6, representing "0" to "40 or more times." Other health risk and problem behaviors measured were sexual behaviors, suicidal behaviors, frequency of not wearing a passenger seat belt, riding a motorcycle, not wearing a helmet while riding a motorcycle, driving after drinking alcohol, riding with a driver who had been drinking alcohol, fighting, and carrying a weapon. The associations between the frequency of anabolic steroid use and other high-risk behaviors were determined using the Spearman correlation coefficient for ordinal data and the Kruskall-Wallis analysis of variance for categorical data. Representative indicators of each risk behavior significantly associated with anabolic steroid use were then analyzed using a stepwise multiple-regression analysis. Results. The frequency of anabolic steroid use was associated with all of the other high-risk behaviors analyzed. Using multiple-regression analysis, driving after drinking alcohol accounted for 12.5% of the variance of the model. Carrying a gun, the number of sexual partners within the past 3 months, not using a condom during last intercourse, injury in a physical fight requiring medical attention, history of a sexually transmitted disease, not wearing a helmet on a motorcycle, not wearing a passenger seatbelt, and a suicide attempt requiring medical attention accounted for an additional 9.0% of the variance. The full model accounted for greater than 21% of the variation. Conclusions. The frequency of anabolic steroid use among adolescents is associated with other high-risk behaviors, thus supporting the hypothesis that anabolic steroid use is part of a "risk behavior syndrome" rather than an isolated behavior. This finding emphasizes the need for comprehensive high-risk behavior screening and counseling among teens who use anabolic steroids.

High-Risk Behaviors in Women Who Use Crack: Knowledge of HIV Serostatus and Risk Behavior

2007 ◽  
Vol 17 (7) ◽  
pp. 533-539 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toye H. Brewer ◽  
Wei Zhao ◽  
Lisa R. Metsch ◽  
Amanda Coltes ◽  
Jonathan Zenilman
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Risk Behavior ◽  
Risk Behaviors ◽  
High Risk Behaviors ◽  
Hiv Serostatus

scholarly journals Correlates of perceived risk of HIV infection among persons who inject drugs in Tijuana,Baja California, Mexico

2015 ◽  
Vol 57 ◽  
pp. 107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steffanie A Strathdee ◽  
Richard F Armenta ◽  
Daniela Abramovitz ◽  
Remedios Lozada ◽  
Alicia Vera ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Hiv Infection ◽  
Risk Behaviors ◽  
Perceived Risk ◽  
Access To Health Care ◽  
High Risk Behaviors ◽  
Persons Who Inject Drugs ◽  
The Past ◽  
Access To Health ◽  
Hiv Test

Objective. We identified correlates of perceived risk of HIV infection among persons who inject drugs (PWID) in Tijuana. Materials and methods. PWID ≥18 years of age who injected drugs in the past month were recruited between 2006-2007 and completed risk assessment interviews and serologic testing for HIV, syphilis, and tuberculosis. Logistic regression was used to determine factors associated with high-perceived risk of HIV infection. Results. Among 974 PWID, HIV prevalence was 4.4%; 45.0% of participants perceived themselves to be more likely to become HIV infected relative to other PWID in Tijuana. Participants who reported high-perceived risk of HIV infection participated in high-risk behaviors such as injecting with used syringes, transactional sex, and were less likely to have had an HIV test. Conclusions. Recognition of HIV infection risk was associated with high risk behaviors and markers of vulnerability. Findings support efforts to encourage HIV testing and access to health care for this vulnerable population.

The SRM Approach to Family Assessment

2005 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 216-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
William L. Cook
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Risk Behaviors ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Family Dynamics ◽  
Family Assessment ◽  
High Risk Behaviors ◽  
Analysis Group ◽  
The Social ◽  
Direction Of Effects

Abstract. In family systems, it is possible for one to put oneself at risk by eliciting aversive, high-risk behaviors from others ( Cook, Kenny, & Goldstein, 1991 ). Consequently, it is desirable that family assessments should clarify the direction of effects when evaluating family dynamics. In this paper a new method of family assessment will be presented that identifies bidirectional influence processes in family relationships. Based on the Social Relations Model (SRM: Kenny & La Voie, 1984 ), the SRM Family Assessment provides information about the give and take of family dynamics at three levels of analysis: group, individual, and dyad. The method will be briefly illustrated by the assessment of a family from the PIER Program, a randomized clinical trial of an intervention to prevent the onset of psychosis in high-risk young people.

Depression Rates and Its Relation to High-Risk Behaviors Among Women Street-Sex Workers

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lyllymar Colon ◽  
Vivian Tamayo-Agrait ◽  
Isaedmarie Febo ◽  
Paola Piovanetti ◽  
Michelle Pico ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Risk Behaviors ◽  
Sex Workers ◽  
High Risk Behaviors

Correlation between attachment style and mental health with high risk behaviors in adolescences

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 114-121
Author(s):  
Mohammad Reza Asadi ◽  
Zeinab Saeediaee ◽  
Mehdi Mohammadi ◽  
Mahdi Kheradmand
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Risk Behaviors ◽  
Attachment Style ◽  
High Risk Behaviors

scholarly journals The predictor role of Internet addiction in high- risk behaviors and general health status among Alborz students: A structural equation model

Heliyon ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. e06987
Author(s):  
Azam Toozandehjani ◽  
Zohreh Mahmoodi ◽  
Mitra Rahimzadeh ◽  
Alireza Jashni Motlagh ◽  
Mahnaz Akbari Kamrani ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Status ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Risk Behaviors ◽  
Structural Equation Model ◽  
Internet Addiction ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
General Health Status ◽  
High Risk Behaviors

scholarly journals Use of multiple recreational drugs is associated with new HIV infections among men who have sex with men in China: a multicenter cross-sectional survey

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiang Mao ◽  
Sequoia I. Leuba ◽  
Qinghai Hu ◽  
Hongjing Yan ◽  
Zhe Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Hiv Infection ◽  
Risk Behaviors ◽  
Sexual Behaviors ◽  
Hiv Infections ◽  
Recreational Drugs ◽  
Limited Information ◽  
High Risk Behaviors ◽  
Sex With Men ◽  
Recent Hiv Infection

Abstract Background There is limited information about the types of recreational drugs used by men who have sex with men (MSM) in China or the consequent impact on sexual health and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) acquisition. Methods We recruited MSM from seven cities in China between 2012 and 2013 using multiple approaches including advertisements on gay websites, collaborating with local MSM community-based organizations, peer referrals, and venues such as gay bars and bathrooms visited by MSM. We divided participants into four subgroups based on the number of recreational drugs (RDs) used in the previous 6 months. We defined use of multiple RDs as use of ≥2 types of RDs. Demographics and HIV-related high-risk behaviors were collected, and blood samples were tested for recent HIV infection by the HIV-1 subtypes B, E, and D immunoglobulin G capture enzyme immunoassay (BED-CEIA). We used multivariable logistic regression adjusted for sociodemographics to determine the adjusted odds ratios (aORs) and associated 95% confidence intervals (CIs) of the subgroups of RD use for recent or established HIV infection. Results A total of 4496 Chinese MSM participated; 28.4% used RDs, and 5% used multiple types of RDs. The prevalence of each RD use was as follows: poppers (25.9%), ecstasy (2.4%), ketamine (1.2%), amphetamine (0.6%), tramadol (0.4%), methamphetamine (3.8%), and codeine (1.9%). Users of multiple RDs commonly used poppers combined with one or more other types of RDs. Multiple RD users were likely to be aged 26–30 years (vs. 18–25 and > 30 years), live in non-local cities (vs. local cities), never married (vs. married), have a high monthly income (vs. no income and 1–599 USD), use versatile positions during anal intercourse (vs. top or bottom), and have inadequate HIV-related prevention knowledge (vs. adequate). As the number of RDs used in the previous 6 months increased, the prevalence of HIV-related high-risk behaviors increased (P < 0.05 for all). The odds of recent HIV infection were higher among those who used one type (aOR = 2.2, 95% CI: 1.5–3.0) or two types of RD (aOR=2.3, 95% CI: 1.0-5.2) in the previous 6 months compared to the odds among those who did not use RDs. Conclusion The level and pattern of multiple RD use among Chinese MSM were different from high-income countries. MSM who used more RDs are more likely to engage in high-risk sexual behaviors, and these behaviors may be associated with increases in new HIV infections.

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