Gender differences in body consciousness and substance use among high-risk adolescents.
This study explores the association between private and public body consciousness and past 30-day cigarette, alcohol, marijuana, and hard drug use among adolescents. Self-reported data from alterative high school students in California were analyzed (N = 976) using multilevel regression models to account for student clustering within schools. Separate regression analyses were conducted for males and females. Both cross-sectional baseline data and one-year longitudinal prediction models indicated that body consciousness is associated with specific drug use categories differentially by gender. Findings suggest that body consciousness accounts for additional variance in substance use etiology not explained by previously recognized dispositional variables.
Black
David Scott
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University of Southern California, Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research, Alhambra, California 91803-4737, USA. davidbla@usc.edu
Sussman
Steve
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Unger
Jennifer
J
Pokhrel
Pallav
P
Sun
Ping
P
D000293:Adolescent; D001828:Body Image; D002140:California / Q000453:epidemiology; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012737:Sex Factors; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires