Community violence and health risk factors among adolescents on Chicago's southside: does gender matter?
We assessed community violence, school engagement, negative peer influences, mental health problems, and human immunodeficiency virus risk among 563 black adolescents. Boys reported higher rates of community violence exposures and gang involvement, while girls reported higher mental health distress. In the presence of multiple risk factors, negative peer norms were the strongest correlate of human immunodeficiency virus risk behaviors.
Voisin
Dexter R
DR
School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA. d-voisin@uchicago.edu
Neilands
Torsten B
TB
D000293:Adolescent; D001741:Black or African American; D002641:Chicago; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008603:Mental Health; D010379:Peer Group; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D012307:Risk Factors; D012737:Sex Factors; D014754:Violence / Q000208:ethnology*
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