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Published in: European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 4/2018

Open Access 01-04-2018 | Original Contribution

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

Authors: Sandra Löfving-Gupta, Mimmie Willebrand, Roman Koposov, Marek Blatný, Michal Hrdlička, Mary Schwab-Stone, Vladislav Ruchkin

Published in: European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry | Issue 4/2018

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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 (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.
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Metadata
Title
Community violence exposure and substance use: cross-cultural and gender perspectives
Authors
Sandra Löfving-Gupta
Mimmie Willebrand
Roman Koposov
Marek Blatný
Michal Hrdlička
Mary Schwab-Stone
Vladislav Ruchkin
Publication date
01-04-2018
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry / Issue 4/2018
Print ISSN: 1018-8827
Electronic ISSN: 1435-165X
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-017-1097-5

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