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07-06-2019 | Empirical Research

Externalizing Behaviors Exacerbate the Link between Discrimination and Adolescent Health Risk Behaviors

Auteurs: Alexa Martin-Storey, Aprile Benner

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Youth and Adolescence | Uitgave 9/2019

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Abstract

Discrimination based on race/ethnicity, sexual minority status, and gender is associated with higher rates of drinking, drug use and risky sexual behavior during adolescence. The current study explored variation in the link between these three types of discrimination and health risk behaviors by focusing on how this association differed according to externalizing problem behavior status. Participants in the Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development were asked about discrimination and their drinking, drug use and risky sexual behavior (age 15; 50% female, 82% White, n = 939). The association between discrimination and health risk behaviors varied according to both externalizing problem status and the type of discrimination, suggesting that individual-level characteristics (i.e., externalizing behaviors) shape variation in the consequences of discrimination for adolescent health outcomes. Ultimately, these findings point to the need for future research to better understand which adolescents are the most vulnerable to the consequences of discrimination, and when these vulnerabilities are most likely to occur.
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Metagegevens
Titel
Externalizing Behaviors Exacerbate the Link between Discrimination and Adolescent Health Risk Behaviors
Auteurs
Alexa Martin-Storey
Aprile Benner
Publicatiedatum
07-06-2019
Uitgeverij
Springer US
Gepubliceerd in
Journal of Youth and Adolescence / Uitgave 9/2019
Print ISSN: 0047-2891
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-6601
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-019-01020-3